Curse of the Golden Flower

[DotCommunist]

Just about to watch this as It looked good from the write-ups. My opinion will be posted afterwards, but have any of you lot seen it?

 

[electroplated]

sorry... thought it said golden shower

 

[Reno]

Saw it a while ago. Thought it looked beautiful in a Studio 54 meets the Tang Dynasty sort of way, but it left me somewhat cold. Gong Li was great but for once Chow Yun-Fat didn't leave much of an impression and seemed miscast. I prefered House of Flying Daggers.

 

[DotCommunist]

Well I'm twenty minutes from the conclusion of the film and unless the end is epically good, then this is an exercise in style over substance. Very well shot indded, the palace and the colours are very well done. The plotline is slow however, and there are no way near enough fight scenes. That is to say the non-fight scenes have been overlong and in no way well enough acted to justify the length.

If it was any good I wouldn't be taking a 'time-out' for a ciggie and a post.

Nice visuals though. shame about the tedious plotting, and the score, well it's not varied enough. To much of the same music and little thought to it's approprietness (propriety?) to the film.

Unless these last 20 mins are fantastic its getting a 6 out of ten. If the visuals were not so stunning it'd be a 4 out of ten

 

[DotCommunist]

nah they weren't that good. Battle scene was ok but not great. And the story wasn't as tragic as it wan't to be. I felt no real sympathy or connection to any of them. meh. All beauty to look at and no real skill in the plotting.

 

[marty21]

bit underwhelmed by tbh, it looked fantastic, had the elements of a shakepearian tragedy, but it just didn't wow me

 

[Jim2k5]

hmm ive been looking forward ot this and was gonna watch ti tonight, reading this now though don't seem to be so eager to watch it.

 

[wishface]

Well I'm twenty minutes from the conclusion of the film and unless the end is epically good, then this is an exercise in style over substance. Very well shot indded, the palace and the colours are very well done. The plotline is slow however, and there are no way near enough fight scenes. That is to say the non-fight scenes have been overlong and in no way well enough acted to justify the length.

If it was any good I wouldn't be taking a 'time-out' for a ciggie and a post.

Nice visuals though. shame about the tedious plotting, and the score, well it's not varied enough. To much of the same music and little thought to it's approprietness (propriety?) to the film.

Unless these last 20 mins are fantastic its getting a 6 out of ten. If the visuals were not so stunning it'd be a 4 out of ten

could say the same about Flying Daggers.

Hero, on the other hand is stunnign.

 

[blossie33]

Went to see it last night - agree pretty much with what everyone has said.
It was visually sumptuous but the story content was a bit lacking and not a great ending.
Yes, I think Hero was best too.