I’ve been sick with a summer cold recently so I’ve been feeling yucky. There is no better time to indulge in watching martial arts movies! Shaolin Soccer arrived from Netflix a couple days ago, and I watched it, fell into a cold-induced coma, woke up and watched it again. Even though I rented it I know I’ll buy it at some point. I don’t know what Miramax was thinking when they bought, chopped up, and buried the film. It is very nice that the dvd contains the US version and the uncut Chinese version. I will never think about kung-fu and soccer the same way again 🙂 Steven Chow is a cinematic genius. If real soccer games featured balls that turned into fire and levitating players, I’d totally watch it.

I dragged myself out of bed today to see Hero and it was gorgeous. The use of color reminded me of old technicolor movies. When I was driving home thinking about the movie I remembered Funny Face, because of the way scenes were totally dominated by one color. I’m not totally sure about the Rashomon style impressionistic plot, but the movie is so lovely to look at, the plot doesn’t matter. It is the highest quality eye candy. It’s not mere candy, it’s a handmade Belgian truffle. I really liked seeing Jet Li in a Chinese movie as opposed to a formulaic action flick with DMX.