A good movie but not a surprise

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2001)

I can say that the Americans have never seen movies like CTHD before, so they're so surprised. Asian audiences have seen this kind of movie many times, so they only comment it as good or bad/improved or backward/have new ideas or not. So the box office is not outstanding in Asia.
Westerners who don't like it said that the flying is not believable, the fighting is more like dancing, the worst is that they don't like subtitles, so naive. You can choose not to like it, it doesn't matter, just like many Chinese audiences, they don't like it, but their critizing point is not this. To a Chinese audience, they know that flying is impossible, fighting shouldn't be like dancing, but they accept it, since they understand the culture. This culture comes from traditional swordman novels, just like the English understand the world of JJR Tolkens (sort of Dwarfs/Dragons/middle earth).
A Chinese audience could categorize swordman movies (just like CTHD, warriors fly around), kung fu movies in olden days (more realistic fights in the Ching Dynasty) and modern kung fu movies (Jackie Chan movie which have realistic fights). But western audiences mix them up, they take them as one category. Why, because they've never tried to watch these movies or tried to understand others culture. On the other hand, a Chinese audience could accept the JJR Tolkens/Willows style of imagination, not because they believe it, it's because they accept it as a foreign culture. Why do they accept it, because they've seen so much such kind of Hollywood movies (or other foreign movies). They'll critize the movie as good or bad, not laughing at the things they don't believe in.
Asian audiences watch movies from all over the world, and read subtitles in their whole life, and this won't be a barrier to appreciate the movie. American audience have to accept this way of movie watching.