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by Jim Winstead Jr.

crouching tiger, hidden dragon is a pretty amazing movie. some of the "flying" scenes are a bit silly, but there are more than enough other moments that more than make up for that. but the person who cut the us trailer should be strung up by their toes. the international trailer is beautiful and intriguing. the us trailer is a hack job, complete with painful voiceover by that standard movie trailer voice guy. the marketing genius behind that one deserves some purple yin in their frappucino.

» Monday, July 16, 2001 @ 3:57am » films, wuxia » 1 comment, add yours
« Sunday, July 15, 2001 @ 4:50pm • Monday, July 16, 2001 @ 9:34pm »

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thanks to the alberts (2x), I ended up seeing it opening night in san francisco and some of the flying scenes elicited giggles from the audience even there (where presumably everyone thinks of themselves as experts in asian arts and culture). for the record, my soon-to-be mother in law (weird notion) who is chinese and didn

» fritzkafka (link) » Monday, July 16, 2001 @ 3:41pm

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