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I rented this DVD last night, eager to see what the critics were raving about. I must be a real Philistine because I thought this flick was BORING! The socio-economic overtones and the psycho-political undercurrents must have blown right by me. It was dubbed in English and the effect was that of a cheapie Japanese horror flick. Tonight's entertainment is "Pay it Foreward". Let's hope for better results.
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you would have needed to see this film at a large screen Movie Theater to really be able to appreciate it IMO. That was also prior to all the oscars and hype and it was pretty incredible and i very much wanted it to win awards when the time came.
it's a decent film. It's also an independent, foreign film. In some way, you have to like it in order to like it. It can't be judged by the same cultural standards as those you see every day.
I too, was really looking forward to seeing this movie having heard so much about it. My wife, myself and three friends who came over to watch it with us all agreed, it was pretty lame. Maybe we expected too much, with all the hype and whatnot.
i was also very disappointed. too much flying around. and the main character was kind of a crumb. g
By the way, we called it "Crouching Gerbil, Hidden Hamster. Made the film easier to watch.
We called it "Napping Tiger, Sleeping Dragon".
I watched this on DVD about a month ago and I was able to choose from English, Mandarin and Cantonese soundtracks. This was technically a gray-market Malaysian import DVD, but I have to assume that the US DVD release has multiple soundtracks, too.
The one I rented had 5.1 English, 5.1 Mandarin, and French Prologic soundtrcks.Didn't do me any good cause I still didn't like it. Very predictable story and what's with all that flying around crap?
The wife did like it though.
MiKe
I was not aware they had dubbed the DVD release of the film. This is unfortunate, as I have yet to see a dubbed release myself that was fully successful. I can remember turning a couple of films off in annoyance over dubbing that basically ruined the films ('Mephisto' and 'Fitzcarraldo' come to mind). I imagine that this lent 'Crouching Tiger' a 'bad-kung-fu-film' quality, although Bruce from DC is on-the-mark with his observation that the Das Boot dubbing was not too bad. People seem to be lauding 'Crouching Tiger' as revolutionary and unique. While I did like the film quite a bit, it really is a highly stylized, big-budget version of a film genre that has been around for quite some time. If it didn't grab you, think about checking out some of the more frenzied, over the top productions that preceded this film. The 'Chinese Ghost Story' series is great as is 'Bride with White Hair'. You'll probably never find a copy, but the lo-fi, gonzo kitsch/mysticism epic 'The Boxer's Omen' is pretty crazy and fully entertaining provided you have an affinity for the type of films that Psychotronic would recommend.
Saw it in the theater with English subtitles and liked it. Maybe something is added by the large image size. Maybe something is taken away by a bad English dub. There is a certain exotic quality to the film, which, perhaps is enhanced by the Mandarin dialogue.Sorry you didn't care for it.
The only really satisfying dub I've ever seen is the dub version of "Das Boot," which I saw after the subtitled version in the original German.
I rented it on DVD also for the weekend and it put me to sleep twice. It took me three sessions to get through it. Nice landscapes, but nothing special. Silly flying by wire, typical magic sword theme done many times before, and weak story. Gosh, some of those Kung Fu fighting scenes never seem to end, and then everybody runs away. Whew!drobo
was surprised to see a lot of Seniors coming in to see a 'kung fu' flick. I've yet to see it, but I would ask them about it when they left and they all said it was a pretty good storyline. I may buy the DVD.Over the past few days I finished watching a batch I bought last week: Hamburger Hill, Pacific Heights, Traffic, Reservoir Dogs, Chasing Amy and tonight--Boxing Helena. I still have The Crying Game, The Hitcher and Vertical Limits to view. I need to get Blue Velvet and maybe the other Lynch film The Lost Highway. I also want the one with Meg Tilly and Gina Gershon, but I can't remember that title off hand. I like the quirky stuff.
I get all of these movies at my place, but never really go and see them, although I did watch Pearl Harbor the other night after work. I want to see Swordfish maybe Tuesday night.
Chris
The film with Meg & Gina is "Bound", great flick and the ladies are fine in it too. Saw Swordfish tonight, thought the film was good, great action and Travolta usual strong self. Halle Berry made the film quite enjoyable.
"Travolta usual strong self"
Guess you havn't seen battleship earth, Travolta was terrible in that one.
MiKe
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