Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[La_Serpiente]

Is on FX right now. One of my all time favorite movies.

I don't like the dubbed version. Only the one with the subtitles.

[soleft]

1. Movie critic Denby (David? Ricard?) was comparing CT/HD to Kill Bill

last night. Saying if 13 girls needed a role model for empowerment, it was Michelle Yeoh, not Uma THurman.

[LynneSin]

2. ew - it's dubbed on FX??!!

Figures Fox would do something icky like that.

I love the book "Like Water for Chocolate" but I can never find the movie on TV where they use subtitles instead of dubbing. Thing is the movie would have been great if they stuck to subtitles.

[Gato Moteado]

4. fox has to dub the movies....

...because freepers can't read.

i love foreign films and i rent them rather than watch them on tv, because the rentals always use subtitles.

[Brewman_Jax]

3. The subtitled version

I've found, in some cases, to be the complete movie. I have the 2 versions of Fist of Legend, and the dubbed version has at least 2 scenes cut short.

I agree, the subtited version is better. :thumbsup:

[Khephra]

5. I love Asian & Martial Arts movies

But I couldn't stand CTHD. Give me Jet Li in his prime anyday over CTHD.

[Forkboy]

6. I'm with you

I thought it was boring and silly.The wire stuff was waaaaay overdone imo.Give me an old Jackie Chan flick anyday (not any of his new ones though...you can keep those :) ).

[Khephra]

7. Yeah, the wire work ruined it for me

And I LOVE wire work when it is done right like in Li's Once Upon a Time in China movies.

[bif]

8. I'd put this one in the "Movies I just didn't get" category

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[DrGonzoLives]

9. I'll second that

An overhyped kungu-fu flick, nothing more. Give me Bruce Lee any day.

[Cleve Steamer]

10. Add me to the list of the underwhelmed

Over the past few months, I've started digging into the martial-arts genre by watching dozens of classic kung-fu and wuxia movies. Only recently did I see Crouching Tiger for the first time. I wasn't impressed. It seems like all it had going for it were great production values ($$$). Nothing else was particularly original, and the wirework was cheesy as sin.

The "teenaged swordswoman prodigy" was pioneered by a young Cheng Pei-Pei (the middle-aged Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger) in a series of movies beginning with the groundbreaking Come Drink With Me (1966; directed by King Hu; produced by Shaw Brothers). The teenaged Pei-Pei had no martial arts background, but years of training in dance allowed her to carry off the beautifully choreographed fight sequences. Pei-Pei became a huge star for Shaw Brothers and headlined some of their Hollywood-style musicals (!) in addition to wuxia films.

Come Drink With Me is now out on DVD in Hong Kong (Region 3, NTSC), and I recommend it for anyone with a region-free DVD player and an interest in the genre. Here are two reviews:

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/hyde/drinkwith.asp
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/come_drink_with_me.htm