Hey Guys,
Just got back from seeing "Hero" and wanted to know what your thoughts were on the film?

I personally loved it, and that means a lot considering I really haven't gotten into the 'beat 'em up karate' movies.

I saw the special on FX last night, which was tarantino and lee, reviewing some of the best kung fu movies of all time, and also talked about "Hero" itself.

The movie was 100% pure eye candy. It seemed as if every scene or fight sequence had a color scheme that went along with it.

Anyways, PLEASE if you are a filmmaker that likes an artistic film, or maybe someone who loves a good story...

HERO IS FOR YOU!
go check it out!

-cheers

The cinematography and imagery was amazing, yes. But some of the plot and dialogue were corny and cliche. I don't know. I liked it I guess. But I still think Crouching Tiger is better.

Durden is corny and cliche

Watson, settle down dude. Everyone has their own opinion.

Here's my opinion, Watson, your response was immature... Don't bother posting stuff like that anymore!

(And Durden is far from either )

You know watson, most would consider it unwise to insult the moderators of the forums. Your posts could suddenly start vanishing for no apparent reason!

the dialogue is supposed to be "corny" and "cliche" for the simple fact that it's trying to convey a "corny" and "cliched" message.

for example, i don't think you have to consider a plot corny and cliche because it involves a good guy trying to save the world from an evil force that wants to destroy it right? because just about every epic poem of early civilizations is about that subject.

so of course they're going to use metaphors about the sword and calligraphy, and about friendship and honor and love. these are important things in chinese culture, and other cultures as well.


but here's what i wanted to say about it. this movie gives you a good idea about the differences between Digital Color Grading andt raditional Color Grading.

the reds and yellows in the forest seen were Digitally color graded. they had an almost TOO saturated look. like when the leaves turn red. it was almost too red. and it'd be interesting to see if the DVDs can hit that same color on a television.

but in the blue scenes, you notice that it almost looked desaturated. that was done with traditional colo grading of the print, where they print down the green and blue lights to get a more blue cast on the print. but when you turn down these lights, of course, you get less of a strong light to make the prints with, and it ends up looking a little desaturated, as if the negative was too thin, when in fact it was the light. it gave the film the blue cast the film makers wanted, but you can see it was as vibrant as the digital color grading.

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Originally posted by RFranco:
it'd be interesting to see if the DVDs can hit that same color on a television.

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The DVD I saw was fairly true to the print (Although I saw them in reverse order, so it's hard to say). The only part that caught me when watching the DVD as being a bit too comic-bookish im terms of color was the green section, which you can read about here. It looked much better on print. The blue section also looked better on print. It felt far more washed out and almost foggy on the DVD, but the print I saw had quite a lot of pop in that section. The fleshtones reproduced much better as well.

I thought the dialogue was appropriate considering the film straddles folklore and history. The script certainly had it's small moments as well.

Nota "Our board" Mono

Beautiful movie for the most part, but i didnt really like it. there are some spoilers here so if you dont want to see tehm dont read:
1:The wireFu was a little too over the top, expecially the moments where they would jump up then fly across the screen, sword pointed out.
2: The editing on the sword play didnt match up, Jet would thrust forward and they would cut to hm slicing with the sword.
3: My biggest gripe, the message that he delivers to the emporer in the end is basically to keep on doing what he's doing. Everyone dies, all that Rashomon, different sides of the story stuff, and basically he tells the emporer to unite the lands...hmm. I guess the emporer learns to unite them in order to bring peace and harmony and not jsut to expand his empire, but still seemed pointless to me.

-Just got the "our board" comment by Nota, funny stuff.

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what? r u talking about the last samaurai? are these two films adsactly the same?

I have no opinion on this movie, I just think it's funny in the commercials they say "Quentin Tarantino Presents" because that tricks the general people into thinking he directed it.

I was tricked --i thought quentin tarantino directed it.

That's actually a REALLY effective marketing ploy. That movie was first at the box office this weekend. And I have a feeling that it definitely wouldn't be had they excluded the "Quentin Tarantino Presents" from the trailer.

If any of you remember, Cabin Fever did somewhat of the same thing when they had a quote from Peter Jackson in the trailer. Everyone thought Peter Jackson directed it, so it did well in the box office.

Those marketing strategists are always thinking.

Yeah I know, it was very smart.

But nothing comes close to the marketing masterpiece that was The Passion of the Christ. They truly found every way to squeeze money out of that.

-It was released at a very controversal time.
-It was about religion and jesus, which made it:
a.controversial
b.epic
c.Spiritual
-It apparently made people pass out, cry, die and freak out because it was so brutal, which added to the controversey.

All this together attacthed to someone like Gibson made it one of those movies you HAD to see, evn if you didn't really want to.

PLus, they positioned the release of it in a way that it would die down, but then spring back up to number one for easter weekend.

On top of this, they apparently sent out notices that urged every chuurch to support the movie, and tell everyone in their church to buy it. How amazingly greedy.

Ahat surprised me the most about the Passion is that Mel Gibson started selling shirts, books, and nails just as the movie came out.

He said that the nail was a stronger symbol of the pain that Christ went through than the Cross. And I saw quite a few people wearing them too around the time that they came out.