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Hero and such
chris lin posted in Movie, Personal, Reviews on August 27th, 2004

I went with a friend to watch Hero today. It was released in 2001 in China and I didn't realize until halfway through the movie that I had already seen it before. Good thing I didn't remember any of it though, it was just some scenes that I remember distinctly since it was so out of the world. For all of you who don't know, Hero was brought over by Quentin Tarintino to the US since it was a China only released. It was a good thing too, since he left it subbed and didn't have any dub the movie. That would've been a crappy experience for me then. Go watch it, it's similiar to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon since both have the same martial arts where you fly around and do some crazy swordplay.

I loved that sorts of movies when I was a kid and just watching it now reminds me of all those other movies I had watched before. We all know it is fake, so who cares? There's no need to express your feelings in the movie theaters, no one really cares. I understand when people where like 'WTF' and that's impossible when they saw Crouching Tiger but there is no need to say it in this one, you saw the commercials and you should have expected. Americans need some more edumakation in old school Chinese movies. For those curious, the plot outline is "A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China" (IMDB).

I have my first essay coming up on Monday for English. Well, it is more of a draft but the final is due Wednesday so I will think of it as a final. It's something about education and I should do good on it aside after filtering out all the grammar problems I have. The joy of English, I spent my entire life learning it yet I can't write a proper essay without it being riddled with grammar.

Hrm, site updates? I won't be doing one bit of coding on this layout anymore as I am working on a new one. This will probably take a month plus since I don't have much time anymore (note lack of blogging…or maybe I'm just lazy) plus I am going graphic intensive on this one and making sure it validates correctly. I will probably make it only xhtml transitional to ease my pain but eventually I want it to be strict also. I don't even know why I code up to standards, it is not my job or anything that makes me money, must be good practice or something.