House of Flying Daggers

October 25, 2006 in life with 7 Comments

Row and I just finished watching House of Flying Daggers. She gave it to me in a 3-pack (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon + Kung Fu Hustle) for my Birthday. Visually it was stunning and the cinematography was very good. I used to be a fan of ‘D’ grade Kung Fu for the gratuitous fight scenes! However, since the choreography of Yuen Woo-ping in The Matrix and CTHD, I appreciate the A-grade, big-budget, well-rehearsed sequences in martial arts movies.

There were two options for watching tonights movie:
1) Spoken Language: Mandarin. Subtitle: English.
2) Spoken Language: English. Subtitle: None.

I normally go for option #1 – but tonight we went for option #2. This made the movie less authentic than when I watched it at the movies.

Question: Is it possible to enjoy watching it in English? Or is it always better to have to read the subtitles?

7 Responses to “House of Flying Daggers”

  1. John Dekker October 25, 2006 at 9:31 am #

    Sure! Why don’t you drink some *instant* “coffee” while you’re at it???

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  2. David October 25, 2006 at 11:23 am #

    hey john… i take you like the subtitles?!?!

    good.

    (hey coffee people – you’re more than welcome to join john and make this post coffeeified like yesterday’s post – andy, guthers, dan, and the like)

    peaceout

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  3. Nixter October 25, 2006 at 12:26 pm #

    I often like to practise my kung fu moves while drinking my a great coffee ;)

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  4. Nixter October 25, 2006 at 12:27 pm #

    ps David, I have got all the gif files to upload one of those blogger templates but I had two left over I believe this is not good. Have to start over :(

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  5. David October 25, 2006 at 1:22 pm #

    nixter – what you have to do is upload all the gif files in the template.

    so i uploaded mine to googlepages… it was very quick and easy.

    and then you find that image
    let’s say “bg.png”
    an insert “http://whereyourphotoishosted.com/bg.png”

    so for mine it would look like this:
    http://davidnmiers.googlepages.com/bg.png

    then i find all the images in the template and paste in davidnmiers.googlepages.com each time

    does that make sense??

    it’s not too hard… i think…

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  6. Christopher October 25, 2006 at 4:38 pm #

    I like subtitles because they make me feel that I have learnt the language by the end of the film

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  7. Nixter October 26, 2006 at 10:52 am #

    I tried that and it kind of worked but all a lot of the info (profile/recent posts/friends links etc) ended up at the bottom of the page instead of next to my blog entries. Weird. I was tryin to do the rounded blue one.. I tried a few times and then gave up :(

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