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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
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A good story, but bad special e ...
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"A Mudan warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sacred, yet blood-tainted sword to his love (Michelle Yeoh) in an attempt to ease his mind after experiencing a vision. He tells her to take it to a friend of his. She, however, decides to keep it for him, and it gets stolen by a ninja. The warrior sets off to get it back, fearing it was stolen by the one who murdered his master. So he sets off to find his sword, and to avenge the death of his master. The movie is beautifully shot, with fast-paced fight scenes. The fight scenes are simply amazing, despite it is quite obvious that the ones doing these gravity-defying stunts are in a harness and propelled by wires. If you ask me, the harness makes much of the movements very awkward and limited. The wardrobes look very authentic, as does the sets. There are mostly earth-tones, and not many bright colors in the sets or clothing. I saw the movie dubbed into English earlier this morning on Starz. If you ask me, the English actors did a good job in ... "
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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Lust, Caution (2007)
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"There was a point when watching Lust, Caution last night when I managed to fall asleep. It was dark, it had been a long day and I was relaxed on the sofa, and I felt my eyes pull shut except this time they took a few minutes to open. When I woke up all of ten minutes later I wound back and realised that the story had not progressed in that ten minutes I was asleep. The purpose of me telling you this is not to say that the film was boring or that I was disinterested (if I was I would not have wound back when I woke again) but to illustrate one of the film's most defining characteristics. This is real slow burn, revelling in beautiful filmmaking and exceptional performances. This is less about the plot and more about the evolving relationships between characters - which is just as well given how slight the plot is. Lust, Caution is the tale of a student who joins a theatre troop and finds herself part of a loyalist plot to kill a top level collaborator, the powerful Mr Yee. As part o ... "
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Chinese Thoughts On Love
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"Spoiler Alert: If you want the ending of Summer Palace to be a surprise, read no further.After watching two hours and twenty minutes of cigarette smoking in yet another Asian movie (see also my comments on the subject in my review of Drifters), I finally bestirred myself long enough to fish up the following news bites:"Guiyang, China — Here's some exciting medical news from the Chinese government: Smoking is great for your health. Cigarettes, according to China's tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency." "With annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese monopoly is responsible for almost one-third of all cigarettes smoked on the planet today. Two-thirds of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that as many as 90 per cent believe their habit has little effect on the ... "
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Panda-monium
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"It's a story as old as Confucius – an outcast finds his true purpose by just believing in himself. The odds against “Kung Fu Panda” were stacked even higher when it announced that Jack Black was to take the lead role of a bear whose hopes are greater than his environment, for it required nuances of humility, humbleness and modesty – not exactly the top of the preening character actor's list of personality traits. Somehow, beneath the mounds of digitized fur and flab, though, the animators managed to make Black's Po a sympathetic, even lovable, lead character. Displeased w "
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Antithesis Through Relational T ...
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"As one of the characters in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon said “When it comes to emotions, even great heroes can be idiots.” Such are the way of things in this film, which quickly became a classic after its theatrical release in 2000. The story follows the adventure of two warriors, Li Mu bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), as they track a criminal, Jade Fox, and a young and talented thief, Jen, who is at a relational crossroad in her own life. As with much of Asian culture, it manages the feature of antithesis on many levels. This is beautifully illustrated in the statement of one of the main characters, Li Mu Bai, when he says “No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.” The tension that is displayed in these character’s relationships not only contributes to the plot structure, but also to the overall theme of antithesis.The relational counterpart to Li Mu Bai is Shu Lien, his ... "
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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"This elegant film lends its mythic heroes a human quality | ????? | IMDb | Spout "
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Couldn't stay awake
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"First let me say that House of Flying Daggers is an incredibly beautiful film. The cinematography is breathtaking. Every time I woke up, I was awestruck at the images on the screen. And therein lay the problem: the languid pace and convoluted plot kept putting me out. I’ve seen plenty of foreign films. I have no problem with subtitles. I own plenty of Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish films. I have never fallen asleep through any of them other than this movie. Just to be sure, the third time I tried to watch this movie, I watched the dubbed version. No help there. It tries to be another Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) but the acting failed and the plot failed. All that was left was special effect and incredible scenery. This movie was hollow to me. "
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Fabulous
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"I think this is one of the all-time best martial arts movies. It is a love story in the truest sense, focusing on the people and not on sex. Passion, ruthlessness, the forces of good and evil.... all here.I give it a jump spinning hook kick! "
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