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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1722514" data-attributes="member: 537">This pigeonholing approach of yours is kinda silly. Just because a movie contains action scenes doesn't mean that other aspects of the filmmaking art are therefore redundant. It certainly doesn't mean that if it decides to take a slower-paced approach, that's automatically a reason to mark it down.While the movies of the 90s may have been full of frenetic action, they often also skipped over things like characterisation, consistency of tone or pacing, production values, etc. Just because certain things may be trademarks of the HK movie industry doesn't mean they're actually desired or desirable: a low-budget B-movie is a low-budget B-movie, whether it's made in Hollywood, HK, Mumbai or wherever.Why, next thing you know, you'll be saying that Pride and Prejudice sucks because they don't get into enough fights.Oh yes.And BTW Barsoom, Brigitte Lin kicks all over Maggie Cheung.</blockquote>