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Hero
Posted: 2004-11-01 04:59am
by mantakai
has anyone seen this movie yet? it looks awesome and I cant wait to see Jet Li vs like a million other asians and kicking arse cause he is..... well he is Jet Li and has the help of Qunitin Tarrantino directing his film.
Posted: 2004-11-01 05:05am
by Gandalf
I doubt QT directed it. I think he was attached to the project to make it more appealing to Western folk. I believe it was directed by Yimou Zhang.
Re: Hero
Posted: 2004-11-01 05:07am
by AniThyng
mantakai wrote:has anyone seen this movie yet? it looks awesome and I cant wait to see Jet Li vs like a million other asians and kicking arse cause he is..... well he is Jet Li and has the help of Qunitin Tarrantino directing his film.
oh no, no, NO!
Tarrantino did not have anything to do with directing the film!
Posted: 2004-11-01 05:31am
by The Yosemite Bear
all QT did was finanace the american translation/release of the film.
presents=PRODUCER
see Francis Coppala produced Jeepers Creepers, godfather guy sure as hell didn't direct it.
Posted: 2004-11-01 11:20am
by SyntaxVorlon
The translation is old, all Tarantino did was finance the release to the states. It's not about Jet-li vs millions of asians, it's some of the best cinematic story telling I've ever seen, not your every day sword fighting movie.
Posted: 2004-11-01 11:33am
by Prozac the Robert
I thought it was pretty brilliant.
A lot of the fighting is truly beautiful, and even the over the top bits (Slight Spoilers: martial arts fending off a massive rain of arrows, a flashback to a truly mental assult on an emperers palace with a few thousand guards vs. two assasins) are cool.
The plot is a nice change from your average film as well.
Posted: 2004-11-01 11:52am
by Drooling Iguana
I thought most of it was great, but I didn't like the message it ended with.
Posted: 2004-11-01 12:03pm
by Joe
If you can get past the political context/subtext it's fantastic.