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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2566050" data-attributes="member: 5171">Shrinkylink: Woohoo for Kenpo! I study a derivative of American Kenpo. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I just watched Swordsman 2 and Once Upon a Time in China for work. Loved the latter. Perhaps the subtitling hurt my enjoyment of the former. "Now you fear my Holland ship!" has become an iconic line in my office, and watching the concubine grovel at the feet of the villain and scream through her tears, "I puzzled now. If you going, I am die," set me howling. The version I'm watching is legal, but English is perhaps fifth out of the seven languages it could be subtitled in.As for Once Upon a Time in China, loved the fighting, loved the story, but was confused by the dubbing. I hate dubbing, generally speaking, and no matter what language I chose to show it in, parts were dubbed. My Chinese buddy suggested that it was due to regional slang or switching between Mandarin and Cantonese, something like that.Ironically, I don't always like Li's kung-fu -- not his ability, but his choreogrpahy. In too many movies, I see his kicks turn into pushes, where it becomes graceful and beautiful but loses the passion that I want to see in a fight. In other movies this isn't a problem, but I'm guessing it's a dancing background or something.Also just recently watched The One. That was a tragedy. A really interesting and good movie trapped inside a really bad movie. I loved the differentiation between good Law and evil Law in the end fight -- good stuff. Loved parts of the story. But somewhere, an editor is laughing uproariously about what he did to the plot of that movie, and how he left the audience to infer lots of important stuff, sometimes in contradictory ways. Ah, well.</blockquote>

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