Brett Coster wrote:
>
> > Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
> > Having seen Crouching Tiger recently on DVD, I was left wondering
> > what all the
> > fuss was about. I thought the cinematography was excellent, but
> > everything
> > else just on the plus side of average. What did I miss?
> >
>
> Erm, Zhang Ziyi?
Well, yea, she was well beyond the plus side of average. 8^)
>
> > Who can't believe my son's explanation that it would have been
> > better if I'd
> > have read the subtitles rather than listened to the overdub.
>
> I'm told the overdub is quite a different story to the one told when you
> read the English subtitles. Just goes to show we should all be fluent in
> Mandarin.
OK, I'll watch it again, with subtitles and get back to you. To be fair, I'm
not a huge fan of either Kung Fu type movies or for that matter the
action-adventure genre. As a rule, gratuitous violence tends to turn me off.
I am especially underwhelmed by scenes wherein the protagonist overcomes
dozens of attackers. 8^(
Doug
