Cannes Trailer For Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet In Quicktime!

LOL that Mr Trailer Voice sounds even more ridiculous when saying the Chinese names...how dramatic does "Ge You" have to sound? But other than that the visuals look nice...let's hope is good...and not the vacant splatter of cinematography that "The Promise" was...

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Okay, that just went right up near the top of my Must See list, for visuals if nothing else. Christ, it's even more gorgeous than I was expecting so far. Cautiously excited, if that's not an oxymoron. I doubt it'd turn out to be another Promise, but you never can tell, I guess...

Although yes, the Mr Trailer voice does sound... odd.

I just had a Promise-Deja vouz watching the trailer.

Oh dear god. Do we really need another over-bloated martial-arts-tragic-romance-epic with pretty scenery, Zhang Ziyi gets banged by another hot dude, wire-fu fights, and a tragic ending where EVERYONE dies???

Then again, I'm probably gonna see it -____-

^^^^Considering that there hasn't been a very good martial-arts-tragic-romance-epic with pretty scenary in a while, I'm looking forward to this and hoping it doesn't suck.

Then again, I'm a fan of the genre. I hope this movie is a lot better than The Promise.

I love Zhang...

No, sorry, I loveD Zhang, now she f...' bores me!

you know I will eagerly see it BUT 1) I am officially sick of Zhang Ziyi -- The Road Home was good though -- and 2) I am sick of these movies. Now of them have been as good as Tsui Hark's Dragon Inn or as much fun as Brigitte Lin's weaker films.

It's like watcing Hollywood remake B-movies -- the Roger Corman/drive-in movies were more exciting and entertaining with half the effort, twice the creativitiy and far less $.

Christ, it doesn't take much for Twitchers to get sick of someone, does it? Then again, I never watched Memoirs Of A Geisha - simply doesn't interest me - so had I done perhaps I'd be singing a different tune.

Me, I like her - she can act, she looks easy on the eye, she can do wire-fu - I like Feng Xiaogang, or at least I thought A World Without Thieves was efficiently made and looked beautiful in places (if a little too much like a string of adverts back-to-back), after Suzhou River and Perhaps Love I pretty much worship the ground Zhou Xun walks on and I'll watch just about anything Yuen Wo Ping turns his hand to. On top of that Daniel Wu's not untalented and the trailer looks gorgeous, so... I can see why people would be very wary of yet another megabudget, photogenic Chinese wire-fu epic but I simply can't shake my optimism. I'm sure you'll all laugh and say "told you so" when it turns out to be awful, but until then... :P

China's really starting to disappoint me with their movies. They are becoming just like hollywood, milking out a franchise until the audience gets sick of it. With more than one billion people in China, how come Zhang Ziyi seems to be their only female lead? I had high hopes for the Chinese movie business.

Although they aren't as rich as China (and money means nothing when you produce crap like The Promise) Korea has come out with some of the most intriguing movies lately. Look foward to the Korean films being released here in the future.

Feng has said in the Chinese press that he's doing this style because it's the only thing American audiences want to see from China. The choice of Zhang is also for the American appeal.
All of these pretty but boring Wuxia films since Crouching Tiger have been made for export, Chinese audiences don't much care for them. It's sad, because Feng's a brilliant comic director, and most of his films have been fabulously funny, albeit in ways that don't translate well outside of China, since Americans don't bother to understand the context and references. I'm sorry to see Feng jumping on the made for export bandwagon, but at least it's certain to be better than the crap that Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have made.