I came across this review of Zhang Yimou's "HERO" by some dude name John Derbyshire Here the link:
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbys...0409150606.asp
Is it just me or this review is a bit racist, I mean I never really like "HERO" but some of the coments by this dick I find really rude!!!
-"I hated the endless swordfight scenes. To call them "swordfight scenes" is in fact a stretch, as they bear as much relation to actual swordfights as The Flintstones does to family life in the Upper Paleolithic.The swordspersons (two of them are female) fly through the air upside down, walk on water, and run up walls, mainly in slow motion (see below). I first saw a Chinese sword movie when they were all the rage in Hong Kong back in 1971. At that time I thought it was a tiresome fad that would soon disappear. No, it is still going strong, apparently having some deep appeal to the Chinese psyche. Not to me."
So what the fu-ck you call a swordfight scenes?? some thing like in the three musketeer??? where they wave their sword around like an idiot trying to poke each other in the heart!!! So you don't get the chinese wuxia culture so you don't like it, (American culture is the best!!) nothing new there typical white guy!!!
-"I hated the extravagant sets and shooting locales. The built sets look like no buildings that ever existed anywhere, populated by myriads of people all moving and speaking in unison, in a way no human beings ever did except in the stands of a Pyongyang sports stadium."
WTF so you been to ancient China?? I guess to him all Chinese buildings should look like a Chinese restaurant with lanterns everywhere!!! He don't even know that those buldings in the film are still standing in China today DUMBASS!!
-"I hated the look-at-this! coloring of far too many of the scenes. If you like your Chinese food smothered in MSG to pump up the flavors, you'll love what director Zhang Yimou does with color."
The only thing he understand about chinese culture is the chinese food and MSG, typical white guy!!!! If we say somting like that about the blacks or jews we would of been called a racist, but to the asian is alright!!!
-"I hated the bogus spirituality. Philosophical Taoism is not my cup of tea, for reasons I've explained at length elsewhere. What we have in Hero is a sort of vulgar Taoism, in about the same relation to the real thing as a Superman comic would be to the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Determined efforts to still the mind and apprehend the universal Way will lead (we are told) to supernatural powers, clairvoyance, and the complete mastery of both calligraphy and swordsmanship."
Again he don't understand something so he hate it, how the hell did this dick get to become a fuken film critic!!!
-"This film is, among other things, a Sino-fascist propaganda vehicle."
Yeah and its also been on top of the US box office for two week!!! hahahaha
-"It's a shame to sign off without saying anything at all positive about a movie, so here is one point in Hero's favor: I think Zhang Ziyi is a total babe."
Yeah a typical white guy the only thing he like about asians are the babe, to all the asian chicks going out with a white guy this is the type person you are going out with!!! He only like you for your exotic looks and body but hate your culture!!