reviews: bowling for columbine, twilight samurai, warriors of heaven and earth
michael moore’s other award-winning documentary aside from the more popular fahrenheit/911. while the film is basically about gun violence in america, it takes the viewers on other related issues such as u.s. foreign policy, corporate greed, government-sponsored paranoia, and media-bias against african-americans and other minorities. this is a film every concerned american should watch.
rating: 4.5/5
an award-winning film by yoji yamada about a low-ranking samurai named seibei iguchi who just lost his wife to consumption and must live a life of austerity with his two young daughters and old mother.
the development of the characters is brilliantly done you could almost feel their humanity. add to that the film’s great cinematography and accurate depiction of the period during the meiji restoration. this is a film, i’d recommend to anyone interested in japanese culture.
rating: 4.75/5
set in the gobi desert during the tang dynasty, the story is about two warriors, lai xi and lt. li, who are on opposite sides of the law but are forced by circumstances to protect a caravan carrying a sacred relic from falling into the hands of invading turks and bandits.
i won’t call this film brilliant or anything - there were some aspects of the plot i think they missed out on. (maybe i was expecting spectacular kung-fu scenes instead of swordfights and horseriding or perhaps just more screen-time for vicki zhao 
).
rating: 3/5
{or perhaps just more screen-time for vicki zhao} exactly!
Comment by berger — December 22, 2004 @ 2:11 pm
matt! kita ko anang warriors of heaven and earth. Ü wala lang ko ka sugod. hehe. i’m not sure why i liked it. maybe because ive been starting to appreciate japanese/chinese films. ambot. im not yet a film connoisseur, hehehe! but i think i know good movies from bad fairly well enough. basta, sharing lang my thoughts…
Comment by leelai — February 15, 2005 @ 12:48 pm
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matt! kita ko anang warriors of heaven and earth. Ü wala lang ko ka sugod. hehe. i’m not sure why i liked it. maybe because ive been starting to appreciate japanese/chinese films. ambot. im not yet a film connoisseur, hehehe! but i think i know good movies from bad fairly well enough. basta, sharing lang my thoughts… there was something anticlimactic though…ang ending kay dali2x..pero na intriga ko…and beh…tungod siguro kay gnahan ko sa costumes! hahaha! babaw kaayo. convincing pud ang commander sa mga turks, kalimot ko sa iyang name. hehe.
Comment by leelai — February 15, 2005 @ 12:56 pm