Jul 15, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 10 segments
There's regular martial arts and there is the dream of martial arts. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon definitely encompasses the latter. Watching combatants fly through the air with ease as they run…
Stephen AdamsHostSteven, you got some reviews, couple, couple of, uh, quick reviews of this that we found.
Yes! I went, I went scouring Rotten Tomatoes, and I found some critics' reviews for this movie that are, that are somewhat positive.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the best film of the year, one of the precious few that give you the primal delight of movies, the feeling that what you are seeing is somehow magic."
I like that.
And I thought that encapsulated the feel of the movie really well, uh, that, that magic of having a movie and stuff you, you don't see in real life that's happening that you kinda wanna believe 'cause you're watching.
Yeah
I-
I-
I think I saw, I, I saw a quote from Ang Lee saying that, uh, that this movie was a, a dream of China, um-
... without being actually China.
Uh, which I thought was-
... an interesting quote.
Uh, we have another positive one that actually calls out another one of our martial artists-
Oh?
Steven, you got some reviews, couple, couple of, uh, quick reviews of this that we found.
Yes! I went, I went scouring Rotten Tomatoes, and I found some critics' reviews for this movie that are, that are somewhat positive.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the best film of the year, one of the precious few that give you the primal delight of movies, the feeling that what you are seeing is somehow magic."
I like that.
And I thought that encapsulated the feel of the movie really well, uh, that, that magic of having a movie and stuff you, you don't see in real life that's happening that you kinda wanna believe 'cause you're watching.
Yeah
I-
I-
I think I saw, I, I saw a quote from Ang Lee saying that, uh, that this movie was a, a dream of China, um-
... without being actually China.
Uh, which I thought was-
... an interesting quote.
Uh, we have another positive one that actually calls out another one of our martial artists-
Oh?
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