Well martial arts film in general is a genre about two dimensionalness. Its a bit like Italian opera, imo. Or comic books. There are certain vehicles used to express emotion, one of them being, lets say, that one lover always stabs the other. The heightened sort of "yelling" that sometimes comes with this, etc. Only recently have directors started opening that up to humor, and its bringing mixed results. I'm glad it doing that though, since no genre can stay static for that long. Its one of the problems I have with pure martial arts fanpeople. Its like they're watch the same thing over and over and just be like "Awsome fight scene man." That's going to encourage the movie to not change. But enough people have started saying they don't like one (Thank goodness Jackie Chan broke into American film it actually raised our expectations and ability to be critical towards the martial arts movie). Now I'm hearing great stuff from Some of the new films, and people are returning to the older ones for such things as historic value, rather than placing all martial arts films on one ageless plane.

As no one mentioned this, I have to add The Seven Samurai and as a double feature it's American remake, The Magnificent Seven. That would be interesting getting people to discuss both of these movies.

Anyway, does the Seven Samurai deserve the high praise that it usually recieves - maybe considered one of the 10 greatest movies ever.

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Actually one of the 5 greatest according to IMDB voters:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

Well then, to everyone and anyone - and all of the martial arts fans - is the top 5 correct.

Its not my favorite Kurosawa actually, that title goes to Ran. Seven Samurai could have used a bit of more editting actually. I think part of its notoriety in the states actually is due to The Magnificent Seven.

We did forget to include him in this viewing, but no worries, we'll have plenty more.

edit*** I did just look it up on IMDB and yes, it's got an 8.9 star ranking, which is insanely high.

No problem, just giving my input as there were lots of movies I wanted to add above.

Yeah, we seem to have good participation, so maybe in two or three weeks we can do this again?

The poll will end tomorrow night, just in case anyone was wondering.

i'll have to recruit people to vote for Bloodsport.

Bride with White hair it is. I'll be home tomorrow night, so I'll pick it up and watch it tomorrow night. Have to say, I saw the trailer for this once on another movie, and it's piqued my curiosity for quite some time.

I completely forgot about this. Some host I am, eh?

I'll try and find it this week. Anyone else watching?

i just watched one of my favorite martial arts movies.... bloodsport. aside from some bad acting, it's a really fun martial arts movie. some really intense fights when they are in the kumite.

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Can we do it not this weekend but the next? i have no homework that weekend

So, the weekend of April...1st-3rd?

No the 8 to 10 would be better for me that is if people don't mind.

April 8th-10th it is. Unfortunately Dolce has already seen it, but oh well.

Well Dolce can re-watch it Or hopefully still contribute.

I wonder if my local blockbuster will have it?

I don't know. Try checking Blockbuster.com. I'm going to try there and Hollywood Video.

Both Blockbuster Online and Netflix have it. I'm not sure about local store.

So will anyone be watching with me? Or will I have to do this all alone?

I'll be watching it that weekend! i just hav eto find a copy. no blockbuster in toronto has it, but i'll go to an asian rental place. i hope they have it subtitled.

Count me in Rogue. I'll try to watch it then. So its not this weekend, its the next one correct?

Great. Hopefully Dolce will join us and Xiayun.

Great. Yes, it is next weekend (April 8th-10th).

I should be able to watch it then.