Posts Tagged ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’
Score Your Week | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The movie that stole the title of my favorite film in the year 2000 away from Gladiator was Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The appeal may have been that I hadn’t ever seen anything like it before (I was 16). Or, maybe it was the tragic love story at it’s center (I didn’t have a girlfriend). More simply, the action represented what then amounted to an anti-Gladiator style (cool wirework etc…).
In hindsight I still love both films, but find myself revisiting them less and less. Perhaps I’d rather remember them as a 16 year-old, but nevertheless Dragon is a expertly crafted tale that includes some truly haunting elements. Chief among them is Tan Dun’s (Hero) Oscar winning score. Read the rest of this entry »
The Filmdogs Podcast: Episode 20 – Podcast 2000
The Filmdogs Podcast is back and it’s our Twentieth Anniversary! This week we discuss the end of the Star Wars live action TV show and Kevin Smith‘s new horror flick Red State in the News. Then our episode takes a look back into the year 2000…It’s Mission to Mars vs. Red Planet in VS. In our Featured Topic we discuss the films from the Millennium and end with a One-Liner of the Week from one of it’s best. So wish us a Happy Anniversary and listen in.
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