Beauty and magic we have in spades and notrump. Lovely, lovely movie, and I shall be dashing out to buy the DVD when I can. I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more. But the colors... manoman.

I saw Ned Kelly on dvd today and that scene in the bar, where OB speaks in Chinese? I couldn't help but suddenly think OB in BDM3! Silly, I know.

I also saw Big Fish to which I had an unexpectedly intense reaction. I cried my guts out as soon as Will starts telling his dad the story of how he is going to walk into the river. And I couldn't stop. I had been thinking how good it would have been to see this on the big screen -- but now I'm feeling kind of relieved that I didn't.

Ed McMahon (of all people) slapped on a portentious voice over and it was finally released years later as Daughter of Horror.

I've read about this movie! It got a big write-up in the RE SEARCH's book "Incredibly Strange Movies". And they also mention TOUCH OF EVIL in terms of the setting.

I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more.

As a friend of mine said, it's not as much fun as CTHD - everything about the movie is a bit more distanced and abstracted, very deliberately I think. But, oh YEAH! Eye candy deluxe. Beautiful acting, too.

sumi, I pretty much had the same reaction. And it really got me in the heart when the old man said "Story of my life."

Hmm. I thought Hero was supposed to be a Great Patriotic Movie whereas CTHD is explicitly a Great Adventure/Romantic Movie. The patriotic theme of Hero didn't work as well for me; I loved the inner stories, but not the framing stories. I had tears streaming down my face for several of the inner stories.

Hmm. I thought Hero was supposed to be a Great Patriotic Movie whereas CTHD is explicitly a Great Adventure/Romantic Movie.

It may very well have been intended as such (or perhaps, pitched as such so it could get made), but it struck me as a far more universal meditation on the subject of sacrifice

Yes! I want to watch the commentary and the special stories part of the dvd before I return it but I don't think I can watch it again right away.

Just got back from Bourne Supremacy. Highly enjoyable film, with a very yummy Karl Urban on full display. Mom, who only knew the brief plot summary I gave her of the first film, was able to follow it pretty well, although she was ready for the big car chase to end a good three minutes before it did. Barely recognized Martin Czokas, but once he smirked I knew who he was. Joan Allen needs to vary her routine of Ice Princess, and Julia Stiles was just bland enough to make me enjoy her freakout with Bourne.

I did some Googling. Since 1972, Communist China has officially considered the first Qin Emperor a Good Thing. Qin Shi Huang.

I was a little annoyed that in every single version of the backstory Flying Snow was the least enlightened of the bunch. It's all about the guys, really, with the women there to aid or hinder them.

But the movie's not about the plot, for me. It's about the go game in the rain and the battle in the falling leaves and the teardrop falling on Flying Snow's cheek in the pavilion in the lake.