The House of Flying Daggers

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does anyone else sing the title in their head to the tune of the rapture song?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 30 December 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

The Ratpure should have called the song this.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), December 1st, 2004.

;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

crouching tiger was a really good film. i'm tired of people using the "real" east asian films (the "real" kung fu films, the "real" wu xia pian, the "real" action movies) as a stick with which to beat ang lee's film. the virtues of lee's film aren't the same as those of other films that it pays homage to (or is reminiscent of), but that's ok.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link

and

does anyone else sing the title in their head to the tune of the rapture song?

yes! too bad it wasn't used over the closing credits.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

crouching tiger was a really good film.
Crouching Tiger is NOT a really good film. You don't need to know anything else about films in general or aAsian films in particular to know this. Raise the Red Lantern, Tampopo, Ong Bak, The Untold Story are just a few Asian gems that put Crouching Tiger in its rightful place in Asian cinema.... absolutely nowhere.

― kabukicho jones, Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, but what if people liked it anyway?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Raise The Red Lantern is a little overrated. I'd like to see Crouching Tiger again.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Hero, Crouching Tiger, and House of Flying Daggers are all very good films.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Crouching Tiger is NOT a really good film. You don't need to know anything else about films in general or aAsian films in particular to know this. Raise the Red Lantern, Tampopo, Ong Bak, The Untold Story are just a few Asian gems that put Crouching Tiger in its rightful place in Asian cinema.... absolutely nowhere.
-- kabukicho jones (hinodech...) (webmail), December 30th, 2004 8:27 PM. (link)

this post seems a little self-contradictory to me...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Not as good as Iron Monkey, Drunken Master II, The Blade, Once Upon a Time In China I-III, and some others, but good nonetheless.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

nothing is as good as the blade

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

What about The Blade III: Trinity?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I hear it's got an awesome scene where Parker Posey gets impaled.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

that reminds me that my mom used to have a habit of adding articles to things that didn't have them.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Ratpure should have called the song this.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), December 1st, 2004.

The Ratpure? never heard of them.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 14 January 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link

complaing about kung fu movies having unrealistic plots is kinda pointless.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 14 January 2005 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link

though when she came back to life, it reminded me of the onion article about archduke ferdinand being found alive in 1918, and WWI consequently being over.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 14 January 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

This film appears to be a diverting and beautiful (the bamboo scene alone was worth the price of entry) method of convincing me that opera is not my thing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i loved this movie. even the fake death kind of ties in to what is going on in the rest of the movie.

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I thoroughly enjoyed it. The colors were amazing (as others have said). I guess you could say one weakness is the way the love story is so central and yet so undeveloped, and to me, not too convincing. I'm not sure it really was all about the love story. I think it was all about the uncertainty about who knew what about whom, who was acting, who was in control of the situation, etc. The love story almost seems to exist to further that focus. The official outfits for House of Flying Daggers members were awesome, and I wish there had been even more flying daggers.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.ifrance.com/hkcinemagic/images7/house_of_flying_daggers4.jpg

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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