Style and substance.

My husband and I watched a film last night called "The Storm Warriors". It's a Chinese epic martial arts movie and it is beautifully made. The sets are stunning, the fight scenes amazing and the special effects are superb, however, it's not a very good film.

• Firstly, it's a sequel and totally fails to reintroduce the characters.


• Secondly the plot is so thin it's virtually non-existent.


• Thirdly, what plot there is doesn't actually make any sense; not even a little bit.

The whole film is a triumph of style over substance and hence falls flat as far as I am concerned. We watched half of the final fight scenes in fast forward because, by then, we were that bored of them. They were beautiful, but we just wanted to know what the hell was going to happen.

A little more talking and less fighting and it might have been a film worth watching a second time.

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Blogspot - Tasha's Thinkings

I have a newish blog over on Blogspot: Tasha's Thinkings.

It's for my book stuff and my deeper thoughts without the random ravings of a deranged mind you sometimes get here :). The reason I'm posting about it it because I'm looking to network and I wondered if any of my flist have blogs and would like to friend and link up.

I've hooked up to NetworkBlogs and I have follow by email and the normal follow on Blogspot. It's all in the sidebar of the blog.

I'm also looking for recs on blogs to follow.

Thank you for any links :D