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I excused myself after forty torturous minutes. So far Duncan Shepherd has said it best for me:House of Flying Daggers
Martial-arts bodice-ripper about a blind showgirl (the jug-eared China doll, Zhang
Ziyi) who is neither blind nor a showgirl, but an agent of an underground movement
(and, evidently, a 9th-century forerunner of Zatoichi) opposed to the tottering Tang
Dynasty. Zhang Yimou's follow-up to his Hero dispenses essentially more of the
same -- more, that is, of the sameness -- more of the monotonousness. And the
addition of more and more and more ultimately equals less. What's done has been
done. To death. A lot of wonderful work went into the color, the fabrics, the sound
effects in the opening brothel episode, but once the initial impression has been made,
once the viewer can be presumed to be in the palm of the filmmaker's hand, there is
a falling-off in those departments. Always, the splendor of the settings -- the birch
forest, the bamboo grove, the flower meadow, the red and yellow tapestries of
autumn leaves, the climactic snowstorm -- overpowers the whimsicality of the action.
(The weapons for which the rebels are named are not just "flying" daggers; they're
"smart" daggers, changing direction in midflight like guided missiles.) To put it a
different way, the variety of the settings overpowers the repetitiveness of the
action. With Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau. 2004.
Follow Ups:
That's about all it had going for it, but for me it was just enough. Very similar to Hero in that way. The cinematography was often stunning.
I have crouching tiger and it's still sealed.Chris
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but hey...what do I know?Chris
> > > .what do I know? < < <
Not much, but thats OK. :-)
So, when are you moving to DC? I hear the new team is going to turn that town into a new paradise.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
enjoy,
Jack
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Umm, Clark... this movie just opened up in theaters... how did you watch it on video, pirate copy?
Clark, why are you being such a HORSE'S ASS? All I did was ask a innocent question; I just read the movie review of "House of Flying Daggers" in the local paper 4 days ago (1/14/05) and because I enjoyed the very similar "HERO" I planning to see "HOFD" in the THEATER this week. How does that make my LEGITIMATE QUESTION a "feeble, puerile accusation"? And why does it give you licence to tell me to crawl into a "cramped nasty hole"? If you have a copy from another region where it is already released why don't you simply say so instead of responding with venom? Or DID you watch a PIRATED COPY and your only defense is to ATTACK ME publically for busting you?As I've suspected for some time, you are a nasty, rotten individual; you contribute nothing to this forum; and in fact your very presense on Audio Asylum is questionable at best (follow this link to learn more about what some have called Clark's "hidden agenda":
http://www.AudioAsylum.com/forums/critics/messages/6257.html
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I think Tarantino helped line this one up for release.I enjoyed it. Just a frivilous lark like the rest of the "Tigers".
----Be right there, Mom.
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Its been available as a region 2 disc for quite a while now. I saw it months before it showed in theaters here.
I liked it.
Jack
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