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In Reply to: HK films posted by Dan G. on June 7, 2001 at 13:58:56:
I agree. My first viewing of "Once Upon a Time in China" was a badly copied VHS version, non-widescreen, and the subtitles were chopped off at both the right and left edges and at the bottom! Not only was I clueless as to what was going on (because I couldn't read the mangled subtitles) but the action scenes suffered from the non-widescreen version. Jet Li would kick someone and his legs would fly off-screen. So you don't see his feet nor his victim being kicked! It was almost hilarious.My biggest complaint of Hong Kong films is the absurdity/silliness that seem to make their way into almost every single Hong Kong film ever made. Stupid slapstick to stupid jokes to over-the-top high comedy...except they're not funny...just groanfully silly.
The only time this type of silliness made its way into "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was in the restaurant scene...where Princess Jen kicks butt while reciting (creating??) some Chinese poetry and making fun of Chinese names (e.g., flying shadow monkey Wu). Yeah, it's not a Hong Kong film but Ang Lee was heavily influenced by Hong Kong films and dreamed of making a martial art epic.
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