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Summary: My fave movie
Review: I don't usually go for martial art-type movies, and went into this one prepared to be bored. I was pleasantly surprised, though. This movie is wonderful!!
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Summary: A brilliant and Beautiful movie
Review: This movie has everything, a compelling love story, brillaint action sequences, top-notch acting, gorgeous art direction and cinematography, and, as an added bonus, martial arts!The DVD is gorgeous, with stunningly clear picture, great sound, and some nifty extras, including the Bravo making-of-special and a commentary by Ang Lee (director) and James Schamus (co-writer, co-exec. producer)
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Summary: Trite, old, and politically correct
Review: An oft-repeated and worn-out story with shoddy special effects - that's what's waiting for the crouching tiger in this film. We've seen this many times before but never presented in such a sublimely ridiculous fashion. The female characters are laughable stereotypes, and since they are the only characters of any substance in the film, be prepared for a comedy of major proportions. This movie has been hyped to the heavens. Might political correctness have had anything to do with it?
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Summary: NICE OUT OF THE ORDINARY FILM, A GREAT MOVIE
Review: I liked this movie, a lot, finally, this is a very artistic and different film, this film, it has great special effects, amazing martial arts, plus the thing the thing that makes it great, a good story, with great performances, customs, and the nicest soundtrack. The story is beautiful, the characters are believable, the actors did great, as well as the director and I did not mind that much that people could fly with out a proper explanation. It actually gives it a nice touch, specially in the fight in the forest. What really surprised me the most was Zhang Ziyi who played Jen, she was great, not to mention beautiful, she was a perfect character, believable and alluring, plus mysterious, funny, everything you could want from a character. This plus everything else makes this movie a great experience, I don't mind that it is in Mandarin, actually I liked that, makes it unique. The DVD is fairly good, some featurretes, trailers, music videos, comments, the least you expect from a regular edition. The sound and picture are good. Plus, this beautiful love story, which is weird since most of the times I can't find good love stories, is strong, real and beautiful, with a strong and sad but fulfilling ending, at least to me. But see for yourself, if you don't know what to see, and want a good love story plus action with great special effects, don't search Titanic(BAD), search for Crouching Tigger, Hidden Dragon(GREAT) You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Waste of two hours of my life
Review: This movie was horrible. There was absolutely no basis in reality. The entire thing was about a sword that they characters were fighting over. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: English voice over actually enhanced enjoyment
Review: I can not expand on the other reviews other than to say that, at least for me, the English dubbing truly enhanced my enjoyment of the picture. There was so much visual beauty throughout the picture, I was sometimes annoyed that the screen was cluttered with subtitles and I spent more time reading than being immersed in the story.
The dub was actually the best I have ever heard (I mostly watch asian films in their native languages, anyway), and at no point was I bothered by the lack of synchronicity between mouths and voices. In fact, I watched many parts repeatedly, confused by the way the voice over seemed to match their facial articulations so perfectly. While I still enjoy the movie in Mandarin, the English version allows me a greater level of immersion and wiling suspension of disbelief. I highly recommend watching it in this format at least once, and would advise first-time english viewers to watch it this way to give greater attention to the visuals.
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Summary: A good example of the genre, but not the best
Review: Credit where credit is due. This film reintroduced Hong Kong style Martial Arts to the western world in a big way. It is not perfect and maybe slightly overlong. The DVD is very good with ample extras and sumptious picture and sound quality. There are better examples of the genre though.
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Summary: Great filmmaking!
Review: Beautifully photographed, well-acted period piece set in China. To call this film a "martial arts" flick is really missing the point, as it also offers a very compelling love story that has none of the sap you'd find in other, lesser Hollywood films. The DVD presentation is also solid, and it has both the original Mandarin language track, and an English dubbed track. While the English dubbed track isn't the worst I've heard, you really don't want to watch the film this way. Watching the film in its original Mandarin language with subtitles captures the full essence of the film. If you really hate subtitles and don't want to spend 2 hours reading lines on a screen, then go for the English dubbed version, but the loss will be yours. Otherwise, this is an exceptionally made film that richly deserved its 4 Academy Awards.
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Summary: One of the all time great films
Review: I approached Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with great trepidation; after all it was a martial arts film, right? It turned out to be one of the best films I have ever seen. The cinematography, the cast, the plot, the dialogue, the fight scenes, and the acting were first class. Normally I do not enjoy movies with subtitles, but in this case the subtitles seem to add to the mystic of the film. There has been much debate about the floating effect of the fight scenes, and for the first few seconds when I saw it I was first taken aback. Then as the film progressed, this special effect just added to the mystic of the film, and it seemed to fit naturally as any other special effect. Pay-per-view ran a dubbed version of the film and I watched it for about half and hour before giving up. Believe it or not, the version with the subtitles is better. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a truly remarkable film.
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Summary: CROUCHING STORY, HIDDEN MEANING
Review: THE WORST MOVIE...EVER...JUST LIKE THE TITANIC.
I have seen a lot of asian movies, chinese, korean, japanese, etc.,,,but this is sooooooooo bad....
In fact in china this movie didn't do that well...but here in america it did so well...very surprised...perhaps because americans are not use to seeing people act like their flying wizards...
WELL...I DONT MIND THE FLYING AND EVERYTHING...WHAT I DID MIND WAS THE RIDCUOUSE STORY, UNDERDEVELOPED CHARACTERS, AND CHOW YOUNG FATS WORST ACTING IN HIS LIFETIME... The story would have been much better if they had focused on the characters more than on that stupppid green sword...they should have just focused on a story of a young women just trying to break away from the "norms" demanded of her as a women...her liberation found from kung fu...but noooooooo the stupid stupid director...or whoever ...had to bring in the sword...dumb... IF YOU WANT TO SEE REAL GOOD ASIAN MOVIES...WATCH THESE...
chinese: ANYTHING BUT CROUCHING...ETC...
korean: JOINT SECURITY AREA, PROMISE, ANARCHIST, FRIENDS, LETTER, SHIRI (koreans are known in Northeast asia for making good movies given the very meager budget...amazing..hollywood should learn from them...
japanese: SAMURAI FICTION (hilarious), KUROSAWA'S SEVEN SAMURAI, THE DANCING INVESTIGATOR (very funny), RING (the scariest movie ever)
BUT I DOUBT YOU FIND THESE MOVIES UNLESS YOU LIVE IN NEY YORK, CALI, OR SEATTLE...SORRY...
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