Comments on: Martial-Arts Movies: A Primer https://thegoodsreviews.com/martial-arts-movies-a-primer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=martial-arts-movies-a-primer Watching and asking: Is It Good? Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:09:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Andrew Milne https://thegoodsreviews.com/martial-arts-movies-a-primer/#comment-2092 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:27:46 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=9679#comment-2092 D’oh! The SNAFU with the date on “Hero” is my mistake. I think I was getting mixed up with Red Cliff, which *does* take place in the 3rd century C.E.

*Definitely* check out Bride with White Hair – that’s a movie that I’ve evangelised for ever since I saw it a few years ago, it’s amazing.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/martial-arts-movies-a-primer/#comment-2089 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:09:08 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=9679#comment-2089 Wow, that is like a good dozen or more movies I need to watch! I should probably start with the Bruce Lee and Jackie Chans I own but haven’t gotten around to, though Bride With White Hair sounds especially tantalizing. “Cheung like Poe” sounds a lot like Rouge and I love Rouge. Also appreciate the recommendation of Last Hurrah For Chivalry, I’m a decent-sized Woo fan and have wanted to watch it but have not felt an urgent need to. I’ve been wanting to get more into Shaw Bros. stuff too.

Will point out that Hero’s 3rd century *BC.* I also think the extent to which its CCP propaganda is overstated (when Zhang claims the color is just an aesthetic he’s obviously lying to no small degre–red means the same thing everywhere–and the Qin’s historical color was black but that doesn’t explain why everybody looks like Palpatine), and that whole trilogy is just the most hopeless “I live in an autocracy that has no end” kinda thing. Then he apparently drank the kool-aid, because man, when he does CCP propaganda, it’s *really* not subtle.

Night Comes For Us is pretty great, I should watch that again, too.

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