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The Monkey King AKA The Lost Empire (2001)

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The Lost Empire is a Hallmark tv movie made in 2001. Somehow they were able to get the actor who played Greg from 'Dharma and Greg.' It received a 5.0 on IMDB which seems pretty generous.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198779/

 

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/...y/vi1794113817/

 

Plot Synopsis (imdb):

American journalist Nick Orton is caught up in the world of Chinese gods and monsters while on a search for the long lost manuscript to 'Hsi Yu Chi' (The Journey to the West) by Wu Ch'eng En. He is accompanied on his journey by a humanoid ape with incredible strength and magical powers, a humanoid pig-man, and his brother-in-arms, an ex-cannibal. Based on one of the greatest stories in Chinese history.

 

How fucking good does that sound? Let me also add that 'Greg' gives a 5-10 minute monologue as a head poorly cgi'd onto a fly's body. There are insane CGI effects throughout the whole movie as well. There is a NUTTY scene where Greg is in the belly of a dragon flying through space while it fights another dragon. I caught this scene on TV one of the first times I tried LSD. I literally thought it was an episode of Dharma and Greg gone wrong. How did these dragons get in their apartment?

 

Weird fly scene:

http://www.youtube.c...HsY0fyiY#t=334s

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Can you ever REALLY be an ex-cannibal, or is it like alcoholism, like you just spend your life as a "recovering cannibal"? I mean, good for them, they were able to beat their addiction, but where's all the praise for the people that grew up in that environment that never took up cannibalism in the first place? Huh? Or do THEY need to start eating people to get attention too?

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