EPTTotal buzz kill. But what I have seen of the film kicks ass.
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[Movie]Red Cliff
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Total buzz kill. But what I have seen of the film kicks ass. | ||
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imBLIND
United States2626 Posts
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Wala.Revolution
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
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Wala.Revolution
7584 Posts
On May 26 2009 16:01 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Sucks for anyone who's not into Chinese history IMO. I always wondered: how do Westerners read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? It's such a good classic; fortunately one of the translator/critic in Korea did a beautiful job - but I just can't see a good English translation as I think it has too much of oriental context. | ||
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Dr.Dragoon
United States1241 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On May 26 2009 16:10 Wala.Revolution wrote: I always wondered: how do Westerners read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? It's such a good classic; fortunately one of the translator/critic in Korea did a beautiful job - but I just can't see a good English translation as I think it has too much of oriental context. Moss Roberts has a good translation up, as well as an abridged version. While the Three Kingdoms contains oriental context, Roberts does a good job with footnoting cultural aspects of the novel for Westerners. Drawback though, I utterly despise the Wade-Giles romanization for Mandarin names. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On May 26 2009 16:24 Roffles wrote: Drawback though, I utterly despise the Wade-Giles romanization for Mandarin names. Amen to that. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On May 26 2009 16:01 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Sucks for anyone who's not into Chinese history IMO. By history, do you mean the novel? The movie is not exactly close to the actual history. | ||
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Hammy
France828 Posts
Great movie, I definitely recommend to anyone who's remotely interested in war movies or strategy in general. PS: I download movies etc... but this is the kind of movie you'd want to watch on a large screen with some great sound. If you've got that at home and can find a dvdrip then go ahead, but don't ruin the movie for yourself by watching it on a crappy laptop screen, or with 2.0 speakers, or in a sloppy divx quality. | ||
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Raithed
China7078 Posts
On May 26 2009 16:10 Wala.Revolution wrote: I always wondered: how do Westerners read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? It's such a good classic; fortunately one of the translator/critic in Korea did a beautiful job - but I just can't see a good English translation as I think it has too much of oriental context. the movie with andy lau is fucking amazing. | ||
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Wala.Revolution
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On May 26 2009 17:44 Hammy wrote: I haven't read the book but I though this movie was great! The only downside was that they kind of overdid the strength of the generals. They should have gone for a more realistc approach, but those fighting scenes were really entertaining! Great movie, I definitely recommend to anyone who's remotely interested in war movies or strategy in general. PS: I download movies etc... but this is the kind of movie you'd want to watch on a large screen with some great sound. If you've got that at home and can find a dvdrip then go ahead, but don't ruin the movie for yourself by watching it on a crappy laptop screen, or with 2.0 speakers, or in a sloppy divx quality. I didn't watch it but how overstrengthen the generals? I don't really know about military psychology, but if I was facing a legendary general as a lowly footsoldier I would be pretty scared. And as the book said, "a clear path was made wherever ______ swept through". | ||
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Monoxide
Canada1190 Posts
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
 To make matters worse, it wasn't as good as I expected it to be when I finally watched it. | ||
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foeffa
Belgium2115 Posts
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broz0rs
United States2294 Posts
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Odeur
Taiwan58 Posts
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R3condite
Korea (South)1541 Posts
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imBLIND
United States2626 Posts
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