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Sony Pictures Classics Big Christmas Movie Trailer Online! Chow Yun Fat! Gong Li! Zhang Yimou! Holy Crap!!

Steven white for president! by DrRumpledink	Aug 30th, 2006 05:28:28 AM
Looks good!
Foist! by DOGSOUP	Aug 30th, 2006 05:30:53 AM
er..second?
no. not foist.. by DrRumpledink	Aug 30th, 2006 05:35:41 AM
That's what happens when you try and get first before reading the news, sucker!
... sweeeeet ... by Rearden	Aug 30th, 2006 05:36:16 AM
Now that's what I call a trailer.
Sigh... by ELGordo	Aug 30th, 2006 06:07:26 AM
I got my fill of Zhang Yimou's pointless films after seeing House of flying daggers. He should take his talent for making flamboyant art pieces and direct musical theatre.
I don't know... by Darth Kong	Aug 30th, 2006 06:12:02 AM
...Im not very excited. looks like more of the same shit.
Darth Kong by Evil Hobbit	Aug 30th, 2006 06:17:07 AM
I agree
Crap title. by Cash Bailey	Aug 30th, 2006 06:38:00 AM
Crap trailer. Even for a teaser there's no sense of story.
Bird on a wire... by LR12	Aug 30th, 2006 06:56:59 AM
Let's just say that i'm fed up of that kind of movie (always the same artifacts, wires everywhere, same narration, same actors, same boring stories...). For how long ?
There doesn't seem to be much story... by mattyholmes	Aug 30th, 2006 07:01:35 AM
but the trailer looks so beautiful. Hero was one of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen so i'm exicted for this. www.obsessedwithfilm.com
Nothing Special.. by Khan89	Aug 30th, 2006 07:02:06 AM
That wasnt anything special...just people screaming for a couple of mins, mite've been the format...i was one of those people who didnt think hero or HoFD wasnt nehting special...I prefer The Banquet to this at the moment.
For how long? by Zarles	Aug 30th, 2006 07:08:09 AM
Who talks like that? Anyway, is this the only movie coming out from the directors of Hero? Thought I heard about another one somewhere.
Meh... by The Wrong Guy	Aug 30th, 2006 07:14:33 AM
I agree with Khan89. Looks decidedly average. And not a Chow fan myself.
. . and miami vice by reckni	Aug 30th, 2006 07:19:07 AM
a goal in life is to have gong li as my own . . and i will succeed, more than likely with charm, but possibly with passions never documented.
..and Miami Vice, is like saying by c4andmore	Aug 30th, 2006 07:36:16 AM
Oscar Winner Ben Affleck
phantoms by reckni	Aug 30th, 2006 07:37:50 AM

I have no clue what that's about... by rbatty024	Aug 30th, 2006 07:48:06 AM
but I'm still excited to see it. Hero and House of Flying Daggers weren't perfect, but they were beautifully shot films with some truly great moments. Here's hoping for Yimou's masterpiece.
same old one trick pony by turk128	Aug 30th, 2006 09:01:23 AM
Wow, another high production historic romance disquised as a soul-less 'epic' martials arts film. You'd think HK learn/emulate the positive aspects of Hollywood instead of it's worst characteristics. Thank Jebus for Kungfu Hustle and Fearless.
This looks less than inspired. by Nate Champion	Aug 30th, 2006 09:06:30 AM
The reason Hero and House of Flying Daggers worked as well as they did was they actually had a story to go with the costumes and action... this trailer is too costume and sword and "from the director of..." to be convincing. If they actually had a movie that was worth more than the sum of its parts, wouldn't they want to let us know?
Here is the plot... by Kampbell-Kid	Aug 30th, 2006 09:14:04 AM
SPC's press release stated.. "the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, pitting King against Queen and father against sons". Sounds like a dysfunctional royal family story to me. I love Yimou's films, it is like he channels the visual styles of A. Kurosawa.
I RIKE IT by jackinitraw	Aug 30th, 2006 09:38:09 AM
And the fact that ACIN talksmackers don't only makes me more excited to see it because since when are any of you ever right? This looks amazing. Better than a three way suicide pact between Kevin Smith, PTA, and Wes Anderson.
They cut it to make it look like a martial arts flick by veritasses	Aug 30th, 2006 10:19:08 AM
to get the Crouching Daggers Hero crowd but I doubt that it is. Great cinematography though. The story sounds like it can be really great or very boring.
And I am equally tired of your posts, El Gordo. by IAmJack'sUserID	Aug 30th, 2006 10:49:09 AM
I bet you've never seen Happy Times, Raise the Red Lantern, Walking Alone for Thousands of Miles, etc. Those movies are complete 180s from the "flamboyant" movies of his you've seen.
Yawn by CaptDanielRoe	Aug 30th, 2006 11:01:19 AM
How many damn times can you see armies of garishly clad asian people slamming into each other with stern looks and shiny objects and still care? The problem with these movies is that they so blatantly defy all laws of physics and odds in the conflicts that there is no tension. Sure, good guys may die but they will say and do every last thing they need to do before they actually expire. In other news my script Curse of the Jaded Bastard is still not optioned.
Yuuuush! by Cumlauncher	Aug 30th, 2006 11:04:56 AM
Looks pretty snapdragontastic! Too bad you had to watch a piece of shite like Art School Confidential to see it.
Gong Li looks bored by S.Lowrey	Aug 30th, 2006 11:07:21 AM
They put Miami Vice under her name....could be good though, Hero was fun.
Hero was great... by Jar Jar 4 Prez	Aug 30th, 2006 11:21:28 AM
and House of Flying Daggers was even better. I can't wait for this one. Fuck the ignorant haters.
Zhang Yimou's films always look so fuckin beautiful! by Johnno	Aug 30th, 2006 11:39:49 AM
For that alone I'll check him out. I haven't seen 'Raise the Red Lantern' and only seen Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Hero was awesome! House of Daggers kinda disappointed me, but had its moments. And how can any of you idiots judge a story based on a trailer that tells you nothing about it? Like, holy shit! If anything it's a bad trailer, and probably an early teaser at best to get the action loving crowd hyped up... The other film Zarles might be wondering about that he did before this is 'Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles' and no, it's not a martial arts film.
Hero, House Of Flying Daggers and now this shit by tHEmOOG	Aug 30th, 2006 11:51:28 AM
This guy only thinks of cool names for movies that's it. His movies suck.
Office? by tHEmOOG	Aug 30th, 2006 11:53:31 AM
Moriarty is Jim and Harry is Pam.
IamJack's ID by ELGordo	Aug 30th, 2006 12:12:47 PM
I have seen all of his films and it's true they are totally different and much much better but these last few in which he caught the worlds attention he's just recycling his same stuff over and over again. Sadly because Hero and Flying Daggers were so popular hordes of similar films have flooded the marked. Lush in design and execution but empty in the story department.
all these movies are starting to look the same by chickychow	Aug 30th, 2006 12:33:51 PM
fuck all these historical, mystical, flyin around martial arts weepy fuckin movies begging for a cinematography oscar. i want Yimou to make a movie about three guys who kidnap roosters off of farms and sell them to Chinese whorehouses where they get cornholed by rich international business types until one such visitor, an american diplomat, falls in love with one of the roosters and engineers - along with some seedy but gentle-spirited street hoodlums- to break said rooster out of the house of whores where he can quietly introduce it to a life outside of being asspoked and fetish tickled, until he slowly learns that the farm from whence it came is where it truly belongs, that it cant just be dressed up in ladies undergarments and lathered with $200 a bottle perfumes, that it ultimately must live a quiet life of solitude where it struts around a dirty driveway and darts its head into the dust for nibblets and small insects..he makes THAT fuckin movie, i'll go see it.
Stop Your Bitching! by Rearden	Aug 30th, 2006 03:06:43 PM
Seriously. Zhang Yimou is a brilliant filmmaker and you little pricks should feel fucking lucky that you even get to hear about movies that are this stunning and epic-cool. Shut up and go back to your Plane full of snakes and your Donnie Darko you unoriginal fanboys.
Chickychow, that movie's in the works! by Uncapie	Aug 30th, 2006 03:13:06 PM
Its called, "Rooster Express" and its due out in 207. I shit my pants when I heard that! pardon me, while I go change my pants.
Whhaaaat??? by chickychow	Aug 30th, 2006 03:53:17 PM
No no, it can't be! well, at least the year 207 is very far off if the theory that history is cyclical holds firm.
Curse of the Golden Flower by minderbinder	Aug 30th, 2006 05:22:47 PM
There, now the title of the movie will actually show up on the page. This article doesn't mention the title at all, what the fuck is up with that? Trailer doesn't give much away, but still looks pretty cool. At this point I'll pretty much go see anything he directs based on Hero and HOFD.
undecided... by ephor	Aug 30th, 2006 05:51:45 PM
I kind of like trailers that evoke a mood and don't reveal too much. It's better than some gravelly voiced narrator explaining the story with cliches. It's particularly annoying when it's a foreign film and they try to disguise that fact but not having any dialogue in the trailer, and just have some american guy explain it. I liked Hero, HOFD was meh. At least this one doesn't have Ziyi Zhang (Zhang Ziyi?) with her emotionless, cute tough-girl schtick.
Zhang Yimou pwns!! by HavokJD	Aug 30th, 2006 06:04:13 PM
I love his films and look forward to this one.
Well, that was a shitty trailer. by Harry Weinstein	Aug 30th, 2006 06:58:03 PM
Zhang Yimou's HERO - great movie. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS was way, way too full of itself - if it was an old Shaw Brothers martial arts flick, it would have been fine, but given the (admittedly gorgeous) Zhang Yimou "epic" treatment it just felt overblown. This, well, I have no idea, because other than the cinematography, that trailer was totally worthless. No sense of the story at all. And was it really necessary to have TWO sets of title cards for Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li, in a row? Did I forget what I read 15 seconds ago? And if you need to be reminded of who Chow Yun-Fat is, then you have almost certainly never heard of THE KILLER, and thus making that association accomplishes nothing except making Sony Classics look desperate and clueless about how to market this film. And the producers never should have changed the name of this from CITY OF GOLDEN ARMOR, which was a good title that certainly would have fit just fine with the film. CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER sounds like a sequel to CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION. Funny that the Weinstein Company FINALLY gets its shit together with Asian movies at the same time that Sony Classics goes totally clueless.
Yes, the year 207 is correct. by Uncapie	Aug 30th, 2006 07:00:29 PM
It happens to fall in the trans-interdimensional vortex of sub-atomica time and space. According to Al Einstein who told me so.
i'd watch Yimou's "Harry takes a slimy Dump." by chickychow	Aug 30th, 2006 11:08:31 PM
it would be filled with beautiful flute music and have a glowing, picturesque beauty that only Chris Doyle can provide.
No story? by HoichiTheEarless	Aug 30th, 2006 11:33:05 PM
It's a trailer. It's a trailer for a foreign language film. Ever notice how they don't like to have people talking in foreign languages in trailers? It's because they don't want to piss off morons. They want people pay for their ticket then turn to their spouse and say "uh, betty sue, you didn't say nothing about no readin'". Usually foreign film trailers got the Voice of God narrator spouting off cliches to let you know there's a story. This one didn't use that. Read this next sentence very carefully. That doesn't mean there is no story.
That sentence should say... by HoichiTheEarless	Aug 30th, 2006 11:51:18 PM
They want to piss off morons.
well, i'm not an ignorant hater... by bonkers	Aug 31st, 2006 12:45:49 AM
i was watching this stuff when you brats thought Transformers were cool, and i feel no embarassment at saying Hero and Flying Daggers blow. Beautiful cinematography does not make up for dull storytelling. I've seen Raise the Red Lantern, it doesn't blow, but i don't want to see this guy go back to that well, either. Though, Gong, Li is some kinda beautiful...anyways, i'll see it on DVD just to groove on the sets

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