Beautiful, yes. Bit fucking dull, though, eh? I mean, after the 32nd identical-but-in-different-coloured-silk slo-mo wire-ballet fight didn't you start to wish Jackie Chan would turn up and just twat one of them?
But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
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Jim - Dec 10, 2004 4:25:23 am PST #6986 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Dana - Dec 10, 2004 5:01:50 am PST #6987 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Not so much, no.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 10, 2004 5:03:27 am PST #6988 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
One person's dull is another's mesmerizing I guess.
shrugs
Dana - Dec 10, 2004 5:06:07 am PST #6989 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Also, that Willy Wonka thing is fucking creepy.
Vonnie K - Dec 10, 2004 5:08:43 am PST #6990 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
How does House of Flying Daggers compare to Hero? I know the former has opened in New York. A few reviews I've read weren't as uniformly enthusiastic as the ones about Hero.
Zhang Ziyi has been busy, I see. Gotta say, I'm apprehensive about Memoirs of a Geisha. I love that book, and it feels wrong that movie is going to be in English.
Sean K - Dec 10, 2004 5:10:12 am PST #6991 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t sits in the "mesmerized by wire-ballet" corner with Frank and Dana
How does House of Flying Daggers compare to Hero?
NoiseDesign said he liked it better than Hero.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 5:14:55 am PST #6992 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that book, and it feels wrong that movie is going to be in English.
Well, the book was in English ... by an English guy. I'd find it weird to have that translated into Japanese. And apparently they couldn't get anyone to act in it.
Vonnie K - Dec 10, 2004 5:25:07 am PST #6993 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Well, the book was in English ... by an English guy.
True, but it plays in Japanese in my head. Despite the book being in English, it evokes a specific time and mindset. I can't help but feel it'd be jarring to hear these characters speak in english.
IMDb page [link] says it's in production. Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi together. Hmmm.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 5:27:24 am PST #6994 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not so much weirded out by the language, just that they've cast a Chinese actress in the lead role. I love Ziyi, think she's amazing, but I wonder how that plays in Japan -- a movie about their culture, written by a white guy, starring a Chinese woman.
Sean K - Dec 10, 2004 5:31:57 am PST #6995 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
IMDb page [link] says it's in production.
They were recently shooting at Yamashiro (a so-so sushi place atop a hil at the end of my street, with a great view, and modeled on an old Edo Japan castle). They screwed my whole street out of parking for most of a week, and pissed off all the residents, primarily because they were too cheap to rent the parking from the nearby Magic Castle.