Remember when Wuxia was all the trend in cinemas in the early 2000s? What happened to that stuff.
Also Hero was the best of those movies, fact.

>>213788628 (OP)
Slow mo martal arts on wires is boring now
Just cgi everything with a thousand cuts

>>213788628 (OP)
>blows its load on the fantastic first duel
>it's all downhill from there
House of Flying Daggers is better

Imperial China had impeccable aesthetics

Then the Brits and Mao destroyed it all

>>213788628 (OP)
Because in 2025 people would rather watch Crouching Faggot Hidden Hamster

I wish the West had a similar genre, glorifying say Arthurian times, and just having big beautiful arthurian epics.
For some reason in the West, everything ancient/medieval has to look grim and shit.

>>213788969
Qing basically were running everything into the ground to begin with.
Peak chinese aesthetics is either Tang or Song.

>>213788628 (OP)
No, i literally don't remember anything but Crouching Tiger.
I do remember the Matrix knock-offs and LOTR knock-offs.