The ingredients for your typical bad english movie either from the US.

• Lots of explosion
• Lots of heavy music
• Lots of pretty ladies to look at
• So you forget how lousy the story is

The ingredients for your typical bad chinese movie from China / HK

• Lots of traditional music
• Filled to the brim with so called artistic flair ala Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
• The story is so convulted that critics will be arguing about for years.
• The director will be talking about accepting awards in various art festivals.

The main similarity in both types of crappy movies is that both of them make you wonder Why the bloody hell did I pay money to watch this crap!?!?!?