you started this post clearly looking for a fight. At the very least admit that.

I don't get the hostility though. I've seen maybe a third of the more artsy films that people talk about on PTP. I just ignore the posts if I have nothing to add.

As far as asian cinema goes (which is a pretty large umbrella to begin with) the irony is that hero and house of flying daggers are an attempt to bring arthouse sensibilities to a pulp genre. In other words, they *are* artsy movies.