Wow, i really liked this movie. i really got into it, it was a really beautifully shot film. some did not like the spinning, the wire-fu fighting. i think that overstylizing is what you have to expect and i was moved a bit too, i confess. it was only like 90 minutes long, but felt like 2 hours...the pacing is a bit slow but the eye candy made it tolerable.
afterwards, me, simone, david and henry went to korea town and had din-din at this cool restaurant...korean comfort food, as it was pretty damn chilly out. i had soup and tried these pancake type thingys. all of it was good. david cautioned me about the addition of too much salt in the soup, b/c it tastes like stagnant water at first. eventually i could have floated in the soup, there was so much damn salt. i screwed up. i'm sorry, i was a soup virgin.
go 3 hours of sleep last nite. i had a really awesome time with this girl, nancy, who just started working at bellevue last week. she wanted to go to happy hour to celebrate her first week, and no one wanted to go, so it was just me and her. we went to paddy reilly's and then failtes, did the irish thing...and then when were packing a mean buzz...caught some 1/2 price sushi at oyama. don't remember when conversation had just flowed so smoothly...next thing we knew it was after 1am...she need to catch the train to babylon. so i stayed w/ her at penn until a little before 3am to see her off. told her to call me when she got home...we ended up talking until after 5am. nice. anyway, let's see how this turns out.
actually, dragged m'self out of bed to do some tai chi. missed 2 classes and i was pretty out of it. they add a lot more moves and it turns out we're doing this long form that's 1/3 of the basic 24 steps that i've learned before. i think that's why i was into hero a lot, i liked the fluidity of movement in the martial arts and i was thinking tai chi the entire time. i've got to hit the sack early, got pilates at like 8:30am...don't ask me why i'm going. just feel like i should get active again after being sick. blah.
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if you're looking for more of the same (or similar) his new movie should be coming out eventually here in the states (you can get the dvd in chinatown--in fact i think got the dvd to hero last christmas in chinatown). it's not quite as beautiful as hero, however. chris doyle didn't shoot it. (and speaking of doyle, he's the visual consultant on the very good infernal affairs, which is playing i think in one theatre in new york at the moment. i actually bought the dvds for infernal affairs one and two last year in chinatown. haven't see number two yet but number three sucks.
btw, the new movie is called house of flying daggers.
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