: : yaks of a movie critic

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the name is curse of the golden flower.

somehow, the golden flower gives a positive picture to the whole thing but curse says otherwise. for me, the curse kind of swallowed all the pretty flowers in the title. yeah, after watching the movie, the curse really did a good job.

our national newspaper's movie freak rated the movie c+.
it wasnt that good, but wasnt that bad either (for me-lah).

okay the plot's like this:
the king was bad. the empress was bad-der. he tried mental-ing her. she got mental-ed. then she and the princes died.

lol. nah im not going to tell you the plot. blame me for telling later you all will. =P

personally feel that gong li didnt do a good job acting. i mean her body language and facial expressions. even in other movies she was like that.
chow yun fat's a classic. didnt move much of his face muscles this time. like his facial hair though. ><
jay potrays a good boy this time. loyal and filial. a bit too small for the oversized armours though.

95% of the movie happened in one particular place, the palace - typical oversized old chinese emperor home. same gold background with lots of gold dangling ornaments throughout the movie only. that very once they went out to the greens.



some fighting scenes were alright but seriously, the amount of ribena-red concoctions they used as blood can flood johor. too much of unnecessary bloodspills id say.

im not horny or anything, but you see, those women in the movie are kind of exposed. agreed? all of them have different outfits but same top designs. like a very tight push ups (or whatever they call it) they were wearing. yeah-lar, very sexy-lar. =P



the choreography of the movie was good. =) and that's what matter most in this LOTR like movie. oh and the golden flowers looked really pretty.

hehe too much a comment.
guess i should try directing next time myself a movie. =P

signing off,
movie-critic-today-jim.