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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1503615" data-attributes="member: 3570">Nah that's cool.  Its a fair question.  My familiarity comes from a combination of:1.  Two Chinese friends in high school (1988-1992) that had a sizeable collection of Hong Kong VCD's that they enjoyed sharing.  I wasn't too big on the stuff from the 70's, but I loved Jet Li's old flick "New Legend of Shaolin" (can't remember the Chinese translation.)  Oh man, the scenes where he fought off all the mooks alternating between his staff and the little baby as melee weapons was priceless.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />   Doing the same with Aliyah in Romeo Must Die and the midget vs. the ultimate fighters in Cradle 2 the Grave just didn't have the same charm.I mostly liked those old flicks for the comedy factor, but it also gave me an idea of what kind of high flying wuxia action my Chinese friends sometimes incorporated into D&D.  One thing my group learned early on, is that often times bad movies = great D&D scenarios.   <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=":)" /> Which brings us to:2.  I went through a "too cool for Hollywood" Hong Kong/Tarantino phase back in the early to mid 90's as an alternative to the James Cameron-dominated Hollywood flicks after a friend showed me a bootleg VHS of John Woo's Hard Boiled.  Even then I found Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and True Romance to be a little too unpleasant for my tastes (I still can't watch Patricia Arquette getting her ass kicked in True Romance), but, as I said in an earlier post, I was really stimulated by the visceral rush of not knowing how Tarantino's characters would end up in the story.  And I was all over John Woo's old stuff.  (Side note: I even got to briefly speak with him at a film festival in Seattle where I attended a special screening of Bullet in the Head.  One of the nicest, most humble guys you'll ever meet.)The 70's martial arts flicks kind of worked their way in at that period of my life in addition to the films mentioned above.Yes, I do call the Passion a "worthy concept."  I wouldn't say Gibson's film is a "perfect distillation", I don't think any movie ever will be of the Gospels, but I rank it very, very highly.Because to me its cinematic junk food, whereas LOTR and The Passion actually tell a story and create an experience that enriches my life.  So that's why I didn't rate KB higher.  For me, movies that "taste great and are good for you" will always rank higher than movies that only "taste great."</blockquote>

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