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 Curse of the Golden Flower 
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Xia - did you go and see this? If so what did you think? Im planning to see it this week.

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Yes, I did and wrote some thoughts in the review thread. Looking back, the visual is still great, but the weakness in story became more glaring.

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I loved Curse of the Golden Flower (A-). After renting it, I ended up buying it. In my Top 5 of 2006, along with Pan's Labyrinth (A+), Children of Men (A), Babel (A-), and Dead Man's Chest (B+).

Gong Li is one of my favorite actresses, and she's great in this. Easily my favorite character from the film. I didn't like it as much as Hero (A+) or House of Flying Daggers (A) though. Those two films are easily on my top of all time list.

I really like the ending for Curse.

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Zhang Yimou is the Lenbi Riefenstahl of the 21st Century. John Milius looks like a communist against him.


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Quite good, but overall just quite boring. I did learn some useful Chinese though. Gong Li was fantastic, and gorgeous.

Hero was better. Not seen House of Flying Daggers yet.

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