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A nasty retort to this booorrring flick!

posted 17 years ago by teamdoug2002
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I wish I had a concubine while I was watching this boring flick. Then maybe I would have fell asleep happy!!! This movie had so much hype behind it. Everytime I looked into asian cinema this flick came up as a must see. I have to say I was not impressed. It had all the qualities of an epic but it had no soul. It never ended. I could have cut this movie into an hour and a half or at least an hour and 45 minutes easily. NOT ALL LONG MOVIES DESERVE EXCELLENT RATINGS PEOPLE! I loved the cinematography, acting, props and even the story could have worked (if the director and writers didn't drop the ball) but the screenplay dragged on foreverrrrrrrrrrr. I found myself hoping that they would move to Hiroshima or Nagasaki sometime during WW II just so I could see this piece of "candied crap apples" end with a bang! However I am sorry to say that they didn't move and now I must regret (for the rest of my life) the 3 hours I wasted watching Farewell,My Concubine. Farewell?----- more like get the hell out! DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME UNLESS YOUR TIRED!

LAST MOVIE SEEN: "Farewell my concubine" Rated by me:4

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[–] prplayer 8 years ago

while i agree the movie could have been a little shorter, but i wasn't bored by it

mind you, i didn't love it either, i'm just glad i watched it atleast once

so many movies, so little time

[–] karenleung081231 8 years ago

that film should be done in 90 mins, the ending is really stupid, and the film is full of plot holes, all traitors in ww2 are executed death penalty but the leading role survives without any dents in his reputation and he can go back to stage continue his show, and then he is betrayed by his senior during the cultural revolution and he survives again intact.
well i can tell you most of people were claimed as traitors were tortured to death during the cultural revolution.
i even can't feel his obsession in beijing opera, i just feel he is a victim of his messed up childhood and fell into a wrong man like a moth surge to fire.