I came back.. for you, my love.

DISCLAIMER: may or may not contain spoilers - I dunno, can't figure it out. yes, yes this post contains spoilers for the movie House of Flying Daggers - there, you were warned. Not that there are very *big* spoilers just.. you know, I don't want to spoil it for you in case you go to the movie and think she's going to live happily ever after or anything. I hate to tell you this *whispers David as the lights dim* but I've seen House of Flying Daggers already oh, I thought you might have.. did you enjoy it? meh, I dunno, I kinda skipped through it and it had subtitles yeh.. thats cos it's Chinese no.. it had *Japanese* subtitles so you watched a Chinese film with Japanese subtitles yeh - I hate subtitles. so, now you've watched the whole movie with English subtitles, what did you think? I thought that was truly *lame* really? you didn't like it? meh, no, it was lame. I want specifics, why do you think it was lame? mum, she died _three times_ well technically she only died *once* she should've died of *hypothermia* if nothing else maybe the snow kept her alive, slowed her heart rate kind of thing _mum_ she is very beautiful. meh. not your cup of tea? nah, not really. There is a lot of breathing in this film. No seriously, you can hear them *breathing*. I thought House of Flying Daggers was beautiful, theatrical, the fight scenes were at times wonderous - my favourite being the *rescue* of Mei by Jai in the forest while she fended off her four attackers. It was overly long, and although I *get* the whole repetitive thing, the movie managed to make that tedious even though it only repeated once. As with Hero, I think we lose a lot in translation - the movie looks like it's script should be more intricate/delicate and maybe it is but we just don't have enough words in the translator's repertoire to express the nuances - or maybe it's just a corny plot and that's what sells in Beijing. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Nice camera-work and computer enhancement. Lovely cinematography and fight choreography. The screen is saturated with colour - it's just damn beautiful to look at. As is Ziyi Zhang and Takeshi Kaneshiro who incidently, has the best_nose_EVA! House of Flying Daggers - view the trailer
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you know when...

you get that ringing in your ears? and there's no *real* ringing *outside* your head but you can still *hear* ringing? well I've had that for most of this afternoon - but it's less "ringing" and more "bagpipes" playing Scotland the Brave. No? you don't have that same thing happen to you? oh right, yeh, neither do I *ahem* ==> added stuff - click to hear what i'm hearing
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