[merylsilverburg]

Originally Posted by goodman

Visually its beautiful, without a doubt, and i actually like the story and the twists. Its kinda predictable, but then again at the end its really not, and the special effects (not the flying around on wire), but the arrows and some of the other abilities were spectacular. I still give it a thumb way up, i watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and thought it was pretty good, but liked this even more...

Don't get me wrong, I admit that "Hero" is visually pretty...all the colors were bright and dreamy and as you said, the arrow attack was incredibly impressive. But, I didn't like the story at all and I can't help but feel annoyed that the story is excused all because most people enjoyed the visuals (what also irritated me was seeing Zhang Ziyi in this film too...it's like, geez, so she was in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"...all of a sudden, she appears in this film which is supposed to be "CTHD"'s contender. I also just don't like her either). Even though "CTHD" had great actors like Michelle Yeoh and Chow-Yun Fah, I would pick this movie over it anyday. Plus, "Hero" has Maggie Cheung who is pretty cool and Tony Leung as well.

Originally Posted by beserker

I absolutely love the so-called wire-fu movies, kung-fu mixed with fantasy elements does the trick for me.

Again, don't get me wrong...I would love the whole fantasy setting with martial arts, but regarding the wire-work, I personally think it looks better if it was a bit more "realistic". As in, the fighters look like they actually have real skill to make them jump and leap to places not look at their opponent then fly to them with imaginary wings.

Originally Posted by Qjij_jijQ

... are you saying you're 'turned on' by people leaping?

Hehe, you know it.

Sorry if anyone was annoyed I strayed off the topic of the thread. Carry on, carry on.