http://slamducky.blogdrive.com/ El Cine Paradiso Wed, 08 Sep 2004 02:36:39 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2004. Arts http://slamducky.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:31:37 GMT First Victim: House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yi Mou) El Cine Paradiso's RATING: Narrative/Plot = POOR This is a cheesy tragi-love-martial arts bonanza about two confused warriors (Andy Lau vs Takeshi Kaneshiro) pining over the love of a juvenile lolita (Zhang Zi Yi) . The plot is painfully predictable; poor little lolita is burdened with too many choices to make and the male rivals engage in a dramatic duel in the finale. (check out the infamous 'bloody' duel which stretches from gorgeous Spring to arctic Winter, hello??? Fatigue???) Poor little lolita would then crawl out from the... (more) http://slamducky.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://slamducky.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:10:27 GMT There is no greater way to celebrate my love for glorious and distasteful cinema with a web blog exhibiting my uneducated thoughts on selected (lucky) films..... Slagging off films can be fun, but I don't want to sound like a well-aged film critic venting her frustration at the stale state of contemporary cinema. Stale? Hardly. As colouful as popular films strive to portray, even some shit films can trigger an outburst of euphoria. By this I mean that some films can be so bad that they are actually worth laughing at. Some films deserve to be immortalised for their... (more) http://slamducky.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1