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review: The Promise
« on: May 10, 2006, 05:26:14 PM »
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2006, 06:03:25 PM »
Looks interesting.  I was surprised at the vehemence against Iron Monkey, a film I actually enjoyed quite a bit.  It's been a while since I saw it, but I thought it was quick, funny and action-packed.

House of Flying Daggers was overhyped.  Cool action, beautiful scenery, awful story.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2006, 06:47:01 PM »
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Looks interesting.  I was surprised at the vehemence against Iron Monkey, a film I actually enjoyed quite a bit.  It's been a while since I saw it, but I thought it was quick, funny and action-packed.

House of Flying Daggers was overhyped.  Cool action, beautiful scenery, awful story.


The last section of "Flying Daggers" was quite lame - I was having a lot of fun with it until it just fell apart and became a very stupid melodrama.  ???

But "Iron Monkey" literally had no good qualities, in my opinion - not skillfull or fun, just a dreadful peice of film making. in fact, that's going far too easy on it. It's quite high on my worst of all time list. That is, of course, just one opinion, though.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2006, 07:05:56 PM »
And an opinion I respect.  I'm just wondering if we saw the same movie.  Iron Monkey 2 was AWFUL.  Any chance you saw that one instead of the first?
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2006, 08:52:09 PM »
I think people don't give enough credit to how much these movies promote literacy. I mean, they only reason I even learned to read was so I could watch kung fu movies and download porn from the internet.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2006, 09:54:45 PM »
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And an opinion I respect.  I'm just wondering if we saw the same movie.  Iron Monkey 2 was AWFUL.  Any chance you saw that one instead of the first?


No, it was the first one, the one that was released theatrically in the U.S. in the fall of 2001.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2006, 10:02:26 PM »
Well, if you REALLY want to know what awful is, then watch the second.  I guarantee it'll make the first look like a work of genius.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2006, 09:08:03 AM »
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I think people don't give enough credit to how much these movies promote literacy. I mean, they only reason I even learned to read was so I could watch kung fu movies and download porn from the internet.

This makes me giggle.

Incidentally, I didn't see Flying Daggers, but I had no problem at all with the suspension of disbelief in Hero. But then, I read Hulk comics.
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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2006, 12:05:00 PM »
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This makes me giggle.

Incidentally, I didn't see Flying Daggers, but I had no problem at all with the suspension of disbelief in Hero. But then, I read Hulk comics.



I love the Hulk, and I loved "Hero" - but deflecting all of those arrows with his sword? That takes some suspension of disblief. But suspension of disbelief is inherrent to many of the best action movies. I hate it when I go to see a Bond flick and someone near me complain because it's silly - what did you think you were watching?

"Daggers" is way over the top, but in a very fun way (I love the fact that an archer fires six arrows in quick succession, and the other five pause, in mid air, mind you, so they can all hit their prospective targets in perfect sync. That being said, I love that shot - "Daggers" is just amazing, action wise - for more impressive than "Hero," though "Hero" is more visually striking in terms of color an cinematography, and has a much better ending. Ultimately, I like both movies enough to own them.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2006, 12:19:45 PM »
I really like the ending of Flying Daggers, though I am increasingly aware that I'm one of the only people in the world who does.

I also like Iron Monkey; it's actually on my "to buy" list, which isn't very large. It's so far removed from the others we're discussing as to be in a different genre, but I thought it was fun.
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2006, 01:34:31 PM »
Remind me what the ending to Flying Daggers was?  I watched it I just can't remember anything substantive about it.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2006, 01:35:35 PM »
The three month long fight.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2006, 01:38:26 PM »
Yes, but what was the closure?
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2006, 02:13:31 PM »
SPOILER:

Closure?  What closure?  Girl dies, both guys might die or not (we never know), and we have no clue what happened in the other main House vs Government plot.
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Re: review: The Promise
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2006, 02:28:09 PM »
Probably becasue they were thinking of making a sequal.
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