Hero

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If you liked Hero, you might consider watching "House of Flying Daggers" as well. Not as well done as Hero, but still way above average IMHO. It's also a slow-paced, atmospherical movie with fantastic (not realistic!) fights in a beautiful landscape.

And if you liked Hero, you should avoid Legend of the Evil Lake at all costs.  :P  A movie trying to jump on the bandwagon without having a clue what made Tiger & Dragin, Hero et al so special.
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Hi Kylearan,

Being a bit of a fan of eastern action flics (some martial arts background here), I went into 'House Of Flying Daggers' a few days after the opening night.
To sum it up - it wasn't comparable to either Hero or Tiger & Dragon, and by that I mean the class of the film. Surely the eastern settings, the cast and the martial arts jumped the same bandwagon, and the film was not bad (my girlfriend liked it - and that says a lot) but there were some nits that annoyed me, for example the excessive and no-good use of computer-animated blood in the final battle. Also to me the story wasn't quite as intriguing as Hero's.
After all I ended up giving it a good 7 at imdb.com, whereas I gave
- Hero -> 10
- Tiger & Dragon ->10

It's in good company though, for 7 is already a rather good rating that I chose for these films as well (excerpt):
- 8 Mile
- Lost In Translation
- Minority Report
- Shaun Of The Dead
- The Ring

I think the bad ratings begin below 6. 6 is still entertaining though somehow flawed, but with 5, things start to get really annoying, e.g.
- Kingdom Of Heaven
- The Ring Two


Oops. Did I get carried away? :ph34r:


Anyways.
Greetings, Fragbait