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Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (2006)
Yet another drama without a point by Zhang Yimou
Don't expect to get carried away by the story here. As usual with Zhang Yimou, you get a drama without much of a point. Just people running around being unhappy and committing suicide or killing someone else.
The story serves only as the setting for the film, and although the movie (slowly) moves to a conclusion, it ends without resolving much of what happens and the watcher is left to interpret the ending to the rather uninspiring fragment of a story.
Beautifully filmed as usual with Zhang Yimou, but the movie itself was about as filling as a large helping of hot air.
If you like Zhang Yimou and want something with even less of a story than Hero and House of Flying Daggers, then this is the movie for you. If either of those movies felt less than perfect to you, or you want something more like Ang Lee's movies my recommendation is to stay clear of this one.
Modern Vampires (1998)
Sooo bad
I'm used to low level on vampire movies, but this one is easily picked out as one of the worst of it's class. The only thing that keeps me from giving it a 1 is that the climax was pretty funny in a "this movie is so stupid I gotta laugh" sort of way.