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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1723093" data-attributes="member: 812">Good point, hong. And if I ever claim that other aspects of the filmmaking art are redundant, you be sure to point it out, will you?Who's pigeonholing? I said it felt flat. It lacked exuberance. I said one of the actors is terrible, while noting that the others were really good.I think these are true things. And I think a film that feels flat is a problem.It doesn't mean that a film can't be slow and measured and STILL work. I love slow and stately films -- if they're good. I didn't mark Hero down because it was slow -- I marked it down because it was dull. My comparision with HK films from ten years ago is that there are so many pictures from those days that, whatever else their qualities, are never dull. I'm talking less about the action choreography (though I think that has suffered in recent years, too) and more about the story-telling -- which doesn't have to be frenetic, but has to be laden with tension. Hero lacked tension for me.I freely admit, possibly because I couldn't follow what anyone was saying. But I remember watching Dragon Inn and Chungking Express and Swordsman II in exactly the same way and being blown away. Hero didn't blow me away. Is all I'm saying.You disagree?I'm not going there. I love them both too much to decide. I'm just saying, watching Maggie impersonate Brigitte was immensely entertaining. I would never interfere with another man's love of Brigitte Lin. No sir.Shaolin Soccer, anyone? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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