{"id":576,"date":"2006-08-26T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2007-02-27T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:14:07","slug":"house-of-flying-daggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"House of Flying Daggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385004\/\">House of Flying Daggers<\/a> on DVD when I got home, as I&#8217;d borrowed it off my sister and it had been sitting around unwatched for ages! After the previous DVD, this was a bit of a let down. Yes, the cinematography was astoundingly beautiful, the action sequences were breathtaking, but the story was a veiled love story, under the pretext of an adventure, with the usual twists and turns and even a rather silly &#8216;if I can&#8217;t have you, then nobody can&#8217; within it. If the story was a little more compelling and possibly slightly more complex, the film would be so much better. More chill out than outstanding.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"vwcMpDgeVBf hEu\"><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also saw House of Flying Daggers on DVD when I got home, as I&#8217;d borrowed it off my sister and it had been sitting around unwatched for ages! After the previous DVD, this was a bit of a let down. Yes, the cinematography was astoundingly beautiful, the action sequences were breathtaking, but the story was&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=576\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}