Dragon Tiger Gate(Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Donnie Yen)

Just finished the HK movie Dragon Tiger Gate.  To be perfectly honest up front: the plotline is bare bones, but I loved it.  And Yes, the fact that Donnie Yen is the only HK movie actor I'm attached to(blame Iron Monkey) influences that.

But the hair...oh, the hair...I think part of the hairstyles here wereto try to make sure that the only guy whose good looks we noticed was Nicholas Tse.  Anyway...

The movie is based on a long running chinese comic about heroism, and is about two brothers, Dragon(Donnie Yen) and Tiger(Nicholas Tse) who had the same father but different mothers. When they're children, Dragon's mother takes him and leaves Dragon Tiger Gate, the martial arts school/bastion of justice where both lived.  AFter his mother dies, Dragon is taken in and raised by Ma Kun, a gangster who works for the (naturally) evil Shibumi.  He's loyal to Ma Kun and protects him and his daughter, Xiaoling but manages to avoid outright breaking the law.  Tiger grows up with a strong hero complex(ok, they say sense of justice, I say hero complex...) and he and Dragon meet again when he defends people being harassed in Ma Kun's retaurant and is saved by Dragon, who instantly recognizes Tiger as his younger brother but thinks the life he's lived makes him unworthy of reclaiming that relationship.  At the same time, the brother's meet Turbo, a nunchuk wielding teen with a hero complex of his own.

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Dragon Tiger Gate(Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Donnie Yen Donnie Yen)

Just finished the HK movie Dragon Tiger Gate.  To be perfectly honest up front: the plotline is bare bones, but I loved it.  And Yes, the fact that Donnie Yen is the only HK movie actor I'm attached to(blame Iron Monkey) influences that.

But the hair...oh, the hair...I think part of the hairstyles here wereto try to make sure that the only guy whose good looks we noticed was Nicholas Tse.  Anyway...

The movie is based on a long running chinese comic about heroism, and is about two brothers, Dragon(Donnie Yen) and Tiger(Nicholas Tse) who had the same father but different mothers. When they're children, Dragon's mother takes him and leaves Dragon Tiger Gate, the martial arts school/bastion of justice where both lived.  AFter his mother dies, Dragon is taken in and raised by Ma Kun, a gangster who works for the (naturally) evil Shibumi.  He's loyal to Ma Kun and protects him and his daughter, Xiaoling but manages to avoid outright breaking the law.  Tiger grows up with a strong hero complex(ok, they say sense of justice, I say hero complex...) and he and Dragon meet again when he defends people being harassed in Ma Kun's retaurant and is saved by Dragon, who instantly recognizes Tiger as his younger brother but thinks the life he's lived makes him unworthy of reclaiming that relationship.  At the same time, the brother's meet Turbo, a nunchuk wielding teen with a hero complex of his own.

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Dear random neighbor

HEAR YOUR STUPID CAR ALARM GOING OFF, GET UP, AND TURN THE BLASTED THING OFF BECAUSE THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN AN HOUR AND A HALF AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER TEN MINUTES THIS TIME!!!!

*Brought to you by a person who is obviously being kept from sleep and will likely either delete this post once she HAS had sleep or for get all about it.  One or the other.*

Dear random neighbor

HEAR YOUR STUPID CAR ALARM GOING OFF, GET UP, AND TURN THE BLASTED THING OFF BECAUSE THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN AN HOUR AND A HALF AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER TEN MINUTES THIS TIME!!!!

*Brought to you by a person who is obviously being kept from sleep and will likely either delete this post once she HAS had sleep or for get all about it.  One or the other.*

cdrama: Seven Swordsmen MVs

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So, I'm going to watch the HK movie Seven Swords either tonight or tomorrow(want more Donnie Yen?  Me?).  It's based on the same novels as my favorite(and first) cdrama, Seven Swordsmen, which I posted about here, and I decided to post some MVs of the series.

Only 3 vids, as the movie has a lot more attention.

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ETA: Looking at my older comments now, some of my opinions have changed.  Nothing really big though, aside from my opinion of Chu Chaonan going up(in that I appreciate where the character comes from now, though he could still stand to be smacked upside the head with his "blindly trust me" act)

cdrama: Seven Swordsmen MVs

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So, I'm going to watch the HK movie Seven Swords either tonight or tomorrow(want more Donnie Yen?  Me?).  It's based on the same novels as my favorite(and first) cdrama, Seven Swordsmen, which I posted about here, and I decided to post some MVs of the series.

Only 3 vids, as the movie has a lot more attention.

( vids )

ETA: Looking at my older comments now, some of my opinions have changed.  Nothing really big though, aside from my opinion of Chu Chaonan going up(in that I appreciate where the character comes from now, though he could still stand to be smacked upside the head with his "blindly trust me" act)