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[dchenes]

Wow. I think Hero is the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. And I think I might have to obtain the soundtrack if such a thing exists. Taiko drumming and Itzhak Perlman. I like.

I wish they'd quit with the flying, though. I've seen martial artists do amazing things without it, and the whole "suspended in midair" thing just makes it patently faked. Granted, without the flying, Crouching Tiger would have been a completely different movie, but it bothers me all the same. Saying "impressive, but fake" is annoying.

I also wonder if the text at the end exists in the Chinese version. Somehow I doubt it. It felt like something they tacked on for American audiences so there would be at least a hint of a happy ending.

Despite the minor nitpicks, I very much enjoyed it.

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The arrows didn't bother me as much, because I knew they were computer-generated. For some reason I can accept that, but I can't sit there and accept people doing things they absolutely couldn't have done without harnesses.

I also found it interesting that the individual people in the movie walked, or ran, or did whatever they did, but the army and the courtiers all scuttled, mostly. It made me laugh every time they went anywhere en masse (although I think part of that had to do with the silly hats).

Now I want to go see it again, in a different theater. The projector they used last night was slightly out of focus.