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beccaelizabethThis was very good very fun mystery film. I like that you don't know what the rules are any more than the people in the film do, so you don't know how things happen until they figure them out. And the world they live in is lovely, the buildings and the grandeur and the depths of the underneath world. Plus awesome nasty effects for the people bursting into flame parts.
I did not so much like that people kept dying. But it turned out to be one of those times when nobody is a good guy and lots of horrible death keeps happening. I like it better when kick arse women live to see the sequel.
I would have been more annoyed about the treatment of disabilities but it was all clues and red herrings, and then it was one of those times you can't say it's no fair they're evil because everyone ends up being the bad guy from some angles. Same with the women, it's irritating that the Empress keeps going around saying everyone's against her because she's a woman and then turns out to have done a lot of bad things they could reasonably be against. But, she is the one and only female Emperor in Chinese history according to the ending, so it's kind of cool she's in stories. It's pretty much a genre feature that everyone's a bit evil, so I don't specific mind.
But it still turns out that there's only one good guy in the film, and he is indeed a guy.
But they have a fight on the backs of running horses while trying to not burst into flames. That's epic cool. I have trouble being annoyed at films with fights this cool.
I'm having fun with all these martial arts films. Seeing as I buy them basically by finding whatever's in the supermarket, not set in the present day, and not in English, that's pretty good luck.
Maybe I should find some sort of recs list too.
I did not so much like that people kept dying. But it turned out to be one of those times when nobody is a good guy and lots of horrible death keeps happening. I like it better when kick arse women live to see the sequel.
I would have been more annoyed about the treatment of disabilities but it was all clues and red herrings, and then it was one of those times you can't say it's no fair they're evil because everyone ends up being the bad guy from some angles. Same with the women, it's irritating that the Empress keeps going around saying everyone's against her because she's a woman and then turns out to have done a lot of bad things they could reasonably be against. But, she is the one and only female Emperor in Chinese history according to the ending, so it's kind of cool she's in stories. It's pretty much a genre feature that everyone's a bit evil, so I don't specific mind.
But it still turns out that there's only one good guy in the film, and he is indeed a guy.
But they have a fight on the backs of running horses while trying to not burst into flames. That's epic cool. I have trouble being annoyed at films with fights this cool.
I'm having fun with all these martial arts films. Seeing as I buy them basically by finding whatever's in the supermarket, not set in the present day, and not in English, that's pretty good luck.
Maybe I should find some sort of recs list too.