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Also saw the sequel to Wim Wenders' On Wings of Desire (which was monumental and poetic), and I didn't think very much of it. Didn't even finish it. |
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genre. The fight scenes were amazing, and how about the scene where Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh are having tea, with the bamboo swaying in the wind? Pure beauty. |
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wtf? *shakes head to make sure he read that right* Eri. do you enjoy being so closed minded? Its a good damn film. Try and expand your pallet a little bit eh? |
Besides, since where is there a law saying you have to watch movies that don't appeal to you? It is a movie, who cares? |
Do you get some kind of perverse pleasure out of calling someone who does not agree with your views of the world closed minded? |
"and how about the scene where Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh are having tea, with the bamboo swaying in the wind? Pure beauty." That was such a nice scene. I enjoyed the look on her face when he took her hand and pressed it to his cheek. |
bored me to death. it was the kind of movie that my mom would cry over with my aunt, and then call me heartless if i giggled at them. Just like when they watched Patch Adams. Except this one had some swords. but pretty? yes. |
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but i won't go see a movie where people drown either. eaten by a shark, ok, but no drowning. |
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Crouching had only a few scenes, other then the fantastic fight scenes, good yes, that really grabbed my attention: besides the tea scene, the fighting lovemaking of Lo in the cave, as well as the wonderfully fantastic and probably metaphorical but I can't figure it all out yet scene of sword fighting at the top of the trees, yahoo! woo hoo! bring me a springy tree anytime. My friend in CA tells me I should listen to Malena and watch Cinema Paradiso...and the reviewers m=panned the former and raved about the latter. Seems like Wenders efforts too: a great Wings (and so much different from City of Angels which ripped off plot and twisted the ending), and a poor sequel when the angel turns out badly... Poor angel. would have been different if Silent Bob directed and Matt Damon were in it....Peter Falk looked pretty old. maybe it's just that Wenders poetry in Wings is so monumental. Even the subtitles were wonderful. Crouching Dragon's subtitles sucked by comparison. What crappy interpretations. The movie may well be at the top of its genre, but the subtitles sucked. |
Think of all the great movies that are sitting around waiting to be rescued. A good case in point was "The Abominable Dr. Phibes", starring Vincent price as the disfigured mad doctor who visits the biblical curses of the pharaohs on the surgical staff he blames for the death of his wife. In the original theatrical release, Vincent Price sings "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as the credits roll. Because of copyright uncertainties, and royalty problems, the VHS version was released with the music dramatically altered, and the infamous "over the rainbow" completely excised. It took over 20 years to fix that. This past year, the DVD release finally came out, and they restored the original soundtrack in its entirety. It really changes the whole tone of the film. I cut my teeth on Vincent Price movies, and still have a big place in my heart for him. I was SOOO happy when the DVD was done the right way. I hope that I can look forward to seeing remastered versions of alot of the creature features that I grew up on, but I don't think its likely. I may well have seen films that will never see the light of day again... |
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