House of Flying Daggers

[Nick M]

Rented It.

Right on par with "Hero", not quite as good as "CTHD" though.

The colors and cinematography are beautiful. Drama is that of your typical Kung Fu film. I enjoyed it and plan on picking it up.

:35: out of :5:

[audioqueso]

I absolutely love CTHD for the story, picture, sound, everything.. but there have been too many sad attempts at taking their crown at that style of movie. Hero was pretty good, but I think I only liked it because I wanted to like it. I really liked the grace that CTHD had and Hero seemed to over do it just a little bit. I will give House od Flying Daggers a try just cause Ziyi is just hot!

[Stoney]

I rate them 1) CTHD 2) HOFD 3) Hero. Nothing but praise on the effects, the colors, the soundtracks, the relationships between the characters etc. Consider all three as being top in their genre but wish the stories weren't so tragic. I'm one of those happy endings-good guys always win kind of guys.

[Shane Martin]

I saw it last Monday. It was good but dragged in several places and was overdone a bit. I preferred CTHD over it by a little.

Cinematography, story ,acting etc were all good.

I wouldn't buy it though. The PQ was awful. Soft, No detail. I expect a Superbit release knowing its Sony Tri Star.

[Nick M]

I enjoyed it enough to pick up my own copy.

Definetly not as good as CTHD though.

[Bing Fung]

Although the story was not as compelling as other stories, I found it enjoyable.

Probably my favorite part of the show was the Echo Game scene.

I don't know if I agree that the PQ was awful. While the picture may have been soft in some points, it was still very beautiful to behold, and beautifully filmed I thought. I would buy this DVD on picture alone.

[Burke Strickland]

We watched several scenes from this movie at our local HT meet this past Saturday (April 30, 2005) and both the cinematography and the sound were sensational. The picture quality was just fine on a calibrated plasma screen. Didn't see enough to get any real sense of the story, but with the lush colors, carefully choreographed martial arts action (and a gotta-see-it-to-believe-it dance sequence that turns into martial arts action) and vivid soundtrack, that may not be the point.

Actually, I plan to buy the DVD at some point to see the whole movie. Even if the overall film doesn't get your pulse rate up, there's enough material here to make another great demo disk.

Burke

[cobbpa]

Has anyone bought a DTS version? It doesn't appear to be available in Region 1, but I'm curious as to how / where anyone got it, as I would like to purchase it.

[june]

cobbpa,

Check out www.dddhouse.com for a DTS version of this film. By the way, the DTS version "frackin" rock the system.

[Chris D]

Aha, another BSG fan!

[june]

Hello Chris,

BSG is one of my favorite shows. My only issue is the Sci Fi channel doesn't broadcast in HD or 5.1. But the DVDs are in 5.1. It's very hard to wait until the series is on DVD. I'm DVR them every Friday night.

[Chris D]

Yeah... I think reruns are played on Universal HD or some channel like that, too, on DirecTV. HD, 5.1.