At 24p

To remain in a group of like minded society keeps us powered up and also helps us to pay attention to details. My perspective of cinema is greatly influenced for similar reasons. I have had the privilege to travel from being a critic; to becoming an explorer, a learner and again being a critic sometime.

"A critic earns the right to analyze the merits and demerits of a film only when he has true understanding of the art. He must know and be able to judge every aspect of film-making, from writing the scenario to editing. In my view, a critic performs a useful purpose only when he is able to build a bridge between the director and the audience. That is his main responsibility."

-- Satyajit Ray

This quote is from his book "Speaking Of Films"...
Some may argue that cinema is no form of an art. If I consider it in a positive sense, I will look into it as "cinema is not only a form of an art; Its a culmination of art, science, imagination and much more..."

If you try to live by the words of the legend before looking into cinema; or try to make a movie by yourself, not only you start wearing a new glass to look into it, but will you become detail oriented too. You also get the benefit of learning the technology and management part of it...

"Naturally our films appeared lackluster in comparison, and it seemed that we still had a great deal to learn" 

 -- Satyajit Ray

At 2010 We may be improving; But, The world of 24p here, definitely needs to travel miles ahead...

chinese martial arts movies

Think of Martial Arts -- You will think about Chinese movie...

Chinese Martial Arts movie may not be that bad (Is there a pun / no pun in what I say?).
Unless you know chinese (cantonese / mandarin) you might not understand what the character speaks in the movie. Well for these kind of movies, you really do not need to understand the language though.. ;-) You very well understand the movie otherwise..

The concept in these movies are kind of weird... Its flying style kungfu, drunken style kungfu, dancing style kungfu, magical kungfu and what not.??
"Martial arts" have a good place in market. People buy the idea of it.
As an effort to make it more acceptable, it gets dubbed in English to reach worldwide audience. These movies are also dubbed in regional languages like Hindi, Tamil, Marathi,Punjabi etc to attract the local audience... and gets telecasted in couple of the TV channels, as 8PM movie shows...

Its worth noticing that the concept of rigorous exercise, standing upside down, stricter chinese government, shaolin temple etc etc gets sold too ;-) (Ex: Lengend of Red Dragon -- starring Jet Li)

It is also known that actual information subsides / gets lost in translation...
Changing the dialogues to suit the local slang, customising the dialogues to new generation audience, is what the movie distributors do to make it more appealing...
If you actually watch these movies in regional language (and have the patience to continue to watch), you will have a good laugh at it...if nothing else...
L-Cube (Laughter Lengthens Life)