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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon made me cry towards the end. And that had nothing to do with flying people or the martial arts sequences.
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I came in half way through, got bored, laughed at some trite dialogue and walked out of the living room. Maybe I should actually watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon properly some day .
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And Hero is very conventional, but elegant, so I liked it. Crouching Tiger, I don't know, it wasn't just the flying, it was also that I didn't find it all very interesting... be it the characters, the story, or even the overabundance of prettiness. And I got House of Flaying Daggers in DVD (got it for my birthday), but I still need to watch it. Oh, and 7 swords is really bad, too.
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Just got back from Munich. I would add that to the short list of really good movies this year. Certainly far, far, far better than Spielberg's earlier offering of the year...the forgettable War of the Worlds. I still believe Brokeback Mountain and Ang Lee deserve the awards for Best Film and Best Director, respectively. For best actor...it truly is a really tough call between Ledger and Hoffman. Hoffman is so good as Truman Capote that I actually remembered Lionel Twain in Murder by Death (thought I had forgotten that years ago...), played by none other than Truman Capote. He was exactly like him. It's a tough call.
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Has no one else here seen this film yet? Apparently out of the 14 people that want to see it, no effort has been made yet to actually do so. Actually, I know it's a busy time of of year (or a wind down from a busy time of year)... I just wish I could see someone else's opinion on the film, someone that comes to AG. Heh.
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If it ever opens here, I'll happily brave the picket line of angry, repressed Southern Baptists to see it.
Until then, I'll just have to wait on the DVD. Tell you what...if it's playing where I'm on vacation, I'll make a point of seeing it there. Good enough?
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A little update...
Brokeback Mountain is up to $15 million domestically (only cost $13 million to make). So it's already on its way to becoming a very profitable film, and it hasn't even opened wide yet (only 269 theaters). It's making more money per theater every day than Narnia or Kong or anything else playing right now. By the end of its run, this could very well be another $100 million+ film for Ang Lee. |
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Well, after 40 days in release, Brokeback Mountain was finally the #1 movie in America yesterday despite being shown at only 683 theaters so far. $33 million so far, and it will be boosted by the Golden Globe win of Best Picture and Ang Lee for Best Director. Cool stuff.
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You should have seen Larry King Live the other evening. There were these two conservative Christian authorities lambasting it
Amazing how much miserable bigoted inhuman stupidity there still is in this world, and how people go to great lengths to use God as an excuse to pimp their own hatred.
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This movie is not going to make anyone gay that isn't already gay, that's just ludicrous. And to spread hatred this way isn't what God would have intended either. Do these people want their children to grow up looking at homosexuals as less human or something? Do they want them to harbor anger and hatred toward them? Do they want their children possibly committing a hate crime against them (this brutal activity is depicted briefly in the film) and ending up in jail? Because that's all this sort of hate produces. Here's my take on the Christian angle. Some, I'm sure, are more open. My mother is a heavy duty Christian and she went to the film with me when I saw it a second time and enjoyed it very much. In her eyes, it's a story. It's about humanity. It's about the way things are. There are gay people. Get used to it, and don't hate them...how hard is that? The position I think Christians should take is something like this... Does the Bible say homosexuality is wrong? Yes it does. But it doesn't condone all of this hatred. I say, if someone believes in God, they should let him do the judging. Brokeback Mountain is a very realistic, well told story about many things...two homosexual men most of all. That's just a part of the world, a story that rings true for many people. Christians shouldn't spread hate, they should spread acceptance and let God make the final judgement. Hatred here on earth gets nobody anywhere. |
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Hero was OK but beautiful, House of Flying Daggers was ba-a-a-a-a--a-a-a-ad but beautiful, WOTW most certainly didn't suck and was one of the bravest Hollywood sci-fi's released in terms of its inspiration and content, Brokeback I've no intention of seeing in the cinema but will pick it up on DVD, Munich I'm eager to see but have no time of late.
I've got too many other things to watch atm. Including my new copy of Howls Moving Castle I imported from Japan.
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