Movie Polls

Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

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Thanks again to tadiv for the idea for this one.  Again I'm always open to suggestions for future polls.

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Fearless
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
The Warlords
The Warrior (Musa)

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

I've only seen House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, and of the two, the latter was far superior in almost every way. It was deep as shit and still had kick-ass wuxia fight scenes.

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

Sadly, I've only seen the one...Crouching Tiger.  But I surely liked it! :-)

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

pippin06:

Sadly, I've only seen the one...Crouching Tiger.  But I surely liked it! :-)

Tough call between Crouching Tiger and Hero. I love them both, but the colors and twists of Hero won my vote.

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

I have not seen The Warlords or The Warrior (Musa), but it's tough to think that either is better than Hero, so it gets my vote.

Tom

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

These are all excellent movies.  Most of them are just visually stunning.  The cinematography is just breathtaking.  This was a hard decision and I have to say it's a tie between House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden flower and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.  But I also loved Hero...

MOst of them Heartbreaking too. 

Risselada:

Please reference this thread for the rules of this group.

Thanks again to tadiv for the idea for this one.  Again I'm always open to suggestions for future polls.

 

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Fearless
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
The Warlords
The Warrior (Musa)

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

EGonzalez:

pippin06:

Sadly, I've only seen the one...Crouching Tiger.  But I surely liked it! :-)

Tough call between Crouching Tiger and Hero. I love them both, but the colors and twists of Hero won my vote.

I went with Hero as well.  The different bright color schemes is what stands out most in my memory, but I remember the story and action overall just being exceptional as well.

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I went with Hero as well..

Did you realize that of the 7 films you listed, 3 are Zhang Yimou films? I noticed this because I just watched To Live (not a martial arts movie) yesterday and was pretty blown away by it.

Of those 3, I thought Hero was the best.... Lots of eye candy.

I think I would have liked to have seen Tony Jaa included in this poll. I liked Ong-Bak and loved The Protector!!!!

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

leeroy711:

I went with Hero as well..

 

Did you realize that of the 7 films you listed, 3 are Zhang Yimou films? I noticed this because I just watched To Live (not a martial arts movie) yesterday and was pretty blown away by it.

Of those 3, I thought Hero was the best.... Lots of eye candy.

 

I think I would have liked to have seen Tony Jaa included in this poll. I liked Ong-Bak and loved The Protector!!!!

Yeah I almost thought about just making this a Zhang Yimou poll, but it didn't then encompass all of the movies Tom suggested.

I don't know if Ong-Bak really fits the rest of them or not.  For one, Ong-Bak is from Thailand and the rest are pretty much Chinese.  I think the rest of them are really period pieces too, where although Ong-Bak had a lot of tradition in it, it seemed like it was set in modern day.  I don't know much about The Protector.

But I will concur that Ong-Bak kicks a lot of ass!!!!

Re:Which of these recent Chinese period martial arts movies is your favorites?

Risselada:

leeroy711:

I went with Hero as well..

 

Did you realize that of the 7 films you listed, 3 are Zhang Yimou films? I noticed this because I just watched To Live (not a martial arts movie) yesterday and was pretty blown away by it.

Of those 3, I thought Hero was the best.... Lots of eye candy.

 

I think I would have liked to have seen Tony Jaa included in this poll. I liked Ong-Bak and loved The Protector!!!!

Yeah I almost thought about just making this a Zhang Yimou poll, but it didn't then encompass all of the movies Tom suggested.

I don't know if Ong-Bak really fits the rest of them or not.  For one, Ong-Bak is from Thailand and the rest are pretty much Chinese.  I think the rest of them are really period pieces too, where although Ong-Bak had a lot of tradition in it, it seemed like it was set in modern day.  I don't know much about The Protector.

But I will concur that Ong-Bak kicks a lot of ass!!!!

Ooops, my bad. I guess I didn't really read the full title of the poll.. Somehow I missed the whole Chinese period part of the question.