House of Flying Daggers - Cannes
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retro_eidasHouse of Flying Daggers (Shi Mian Mai Fu) is the new martial arts epic from Zhang Yimou (the guy who brought us Hero). It's apparently being screened at Cannes.
I've grown indifferent to the gratuitous use of wire work. Mostly because you'd be hard pressed to find any martial arts movie without it these days. I've become desensitized. Zhang Yimou abuses it like Lucas abuses CGI and things aren't any different in HoFD (You can watch the trailer on the Cannes site I linked at the top. You can also watch it at the Japanese Warner Bros. site here in streaming WMP). I give ZY a slide because he can usually put a decent story behind all the flying around and jumping across roofs. That's more than I can say for the Wachowskis or even Lucas anymore.
In the case of "House of Flying Daggers", the movie looks epic, obviously period (tons of colorful, gorgeous costumes to go with it) but with all the same prod values as "Hero". One thing that held "Hero" back for me is I felt it dragged in some places and it was a bit too long. Then again, I'm also not the biggest Jet Li fan in the world and the movie, like most of his movies, is all about Jet. Eh. The ending kind of makes up for that though. ;) HoFD, however, stars (uhhhnn) Takeshi and also Zhang Ziyi (who is too damn adorable, but can't think about her without thinking of her character in Crouching Tiger. So at once she makes me want to squeel "Kawaiiiii!!!" and smack her. Paradox). I have a funny feeling this may suffer from the same things that bugged me about "Hero", barring Jet (Like HoFD, "Hero" also looked really exciting in it's trailers. "Hero" was good, but I did feel it dragged a little. So I'm being cautiously optimisitc with HoFD). However, Takeshi does count for a lot.
Let's all hope this is better than The Returner... but the array of hot designer clothes TK was wearing in it? ::SQUEE:: It's really sad how easy I am.
I've grown indifferent to the gratuitous use of wire work. Mostly because you'd be hard pressed to find any martial arts movie without it these days. I've become desensitized. Zhang Yimou abuses it like Lucas abuses CGI and things aren't any different in HoFD (You can watch the trailer on the Cannes site I linked at the top. You can also watch it at the Japanese Warner Bros. site here in streaming WMP). I give ZY a slide because he can usually put a decent story behind all the flying around and jumping across roofs. That's more than I can say for the Wachowskis or even Lucas anymore.
In the case of "House of Flying Daggers", the movie looks epic, obviously period (tons of colorful, gorgeous costumes to go with it) but with all the same prod values as "Hero". One thing that held "Hero" back for me is I felt it dragged in some places and it was a bit too long. Then again, I'm also not the biggest Jet Li fan in the world and the movie, like most of his movies, is all about Jet. Eh. The ending kind of makes up for that though. ;) HoFD, however, stars (uhhhnn) Takeshi and also Zhang Ziyi (who is too damn adorable, but can't think about her without thinking of her character in Crouching Tiger. So at once she makes me want to squeel "Kawaiiiii!!!" and smack her. Paradox). I have a funny feeling this may suffer from the same things that bugged me about "Hero", barring Jet (Like HoFD, "Hero" also looked really exciting in it's trailers. "Hero" was good, but I did feel it dragged a little. So I'm being cautiously optimisitc with HoFD). However, Takeshi does count for a lot.
Let's all hope this is better than The Returner... but the array of hot designer clothes TK was wearing in it? ::SQUEE:: It's really sad how easy I am.
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