Two movies not worth watching

[aphar]

Two movies took America by storm: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
They have a lot in common:

1. Both come from a humongous rapidly developing country which evokes intense curiosity and mild fear


2. Both won quite a few Oscars


3. Both pretend to be at least somewhat high brow, i.e. "not just entertainment"


4. Both enjoy very high (8+!) "IMDB User Ratings", probably because the "Users" feel flattered that they understand a "high brow" movie


5. Both have idiotic plots, lousy choreography, boring dialogs, and more!


6. In my view of a male chauvinist pig, they would have been at least somewhat redeemed had they have a pretty girl, but no, not a single pretty girl in either movie


7. Neither is worth your time

Comments

[ariya.livejournal.com]

And CTHD had awesome fighting... who needs pretty girls when you have people hitting each other with pointy objects?

[aphar.livejournal.com]

fighting choreography was pretty lousy by any standard.
cf. Kill Bill or any other Hollywood or Hong Kong Kung Fu movie.

[ariya.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Kill Bill was AWESOME! But come on, despite the lousy choreography, the fighting in CTHD had a certain charm. :)

[aphar.livejournal.com]

it would have had, had it not been billed as the best thing since sliced bread.
the movie was so overhyped, that I really expected more from it.