Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by caa on September 02, 2002 at 16:20:09

In Reply to: If One Liked "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" posted by Robertc88 on August 31, 2002 at 05:03:10:

This movies and many others explored a fraction of reallly long stories written by a Chinese author a few decades ago. Those stories were absolutely facinating, and I'm not even Chinese. When some of these stories were adapted into really long films, people stayed all days watching them. Almost all Americans don't really know or understand this, and find CTHD boring or not to their tastes. It's like Lords of the Ring, Star Wars, etc. to other folks. But I found those Chinese stories much more facinating and captivating. The mystiques, the fantacies, and the martial arts from different schools....There is a generation of folks from several countries, growing up with them.

If all you're interested in is swords fighting and some kicking, then Jet Li's and the newer Hollywood movies will probably do. But just to give you a perspective of where it came from.