Well well well, what do you know? It's the Ang Lee movie poll!!! (ca. 2007)

I'm going to say Brokeback.

gay cowboys all the way

I went with Eat Drink Man Woman, but that could just be me. I really liked the gay cowboy film except I agreed with this person's comments:

I saw this on Friday, and let me just say: their jeans were way too baggy and pre-finished (a process which did not exist at the time).
Hello, jeans in the 60s were butt-tight!

Go to your local vintage store and try on a pair of 60s jeans if you don't believe me.

-- Iko komojin (Steve Shasta), Monday, January 30, 2006 11:26 AM (1 year ago)

Shasta, you should be a jeans consultant to Hollywood.

anyway, i go for The Ice Storm, despite my hatred of Rick Moody. great film.

I believe the jeans thing was just a 'no sterility' clause in the contracts of the two main stars, but I do agree that the lack of authenticity in that movie did make me a cutter for several weeks.

I haven't seen them all, but "The Wedding Banquet" has that amazing fight between the husband, the pregnant wife, and the husbands boyfriend right in front of the uncomprehending parents that kills me every time. So, that.

I have to go for The Ice Storm, even though Brokeback and Wedding Banquet are almost as good. That Jumping Dragon, Pumping Tiger film was one of the most overrated films of the last 10 years, it felt like the critics loved it only because they could finally watch an HK martial arts movie on the basis of it being directed by a serious filmmaker. Does anyone still think it's great?

just for that I voted for it

i've only seen the incredible hulk and the ice storm, so i was voting blind. wasn't overly impressed by hulk, but i loved the ice storm.

I wound up voting for Wedding Banquet. But Sense and Sensibility was surprisingly good.

Eat Drink

I said Ice Storm, but Ride With the Devil was a fairly close second.

i voted for ride with the devil because it has jewel's titties in it. this poll just made me realize how much i hate ang lee!! seeing them all in a row like that is like WOW for me.

Sense & Sensibility is pretty solid. Oilyrags OTM on the argument in The Wedding Banquet.

Brokeback Mountain, cuz it's got his best and worst work.

It's okay.

Ice Storm, because it's funny to imagine him directing the Christina Ricci preteen butt cleavage scene.

I guess "preteen" should be modifying Christina Ricci, not butt cleavage, sorry.

I'm with Morbs.

who will vote for the hulk? and is it true that the hulk is already basically being remade, as if lee's never happened?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

This thread = the drawbacks of auteurism! =p

Its sad that I think Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (a strangely un-fun HK "homage" flick that is nonetheless pretty and occasionally affecting) the best out of this list. what an awful director.

iow Ally OTM!

I like the first three the best and Eat Drink is probably the best of the three. I don't get why Lee elicits so much hate.

lol @ Iko komojin

I don't hate Ang Lee, I just don't care about him at all. What a random bunch of films though.

Yes, I thought this would be a good poll because aside from the first 3 you'd never know that the same director was behind the camera.

Yeah he's gotten uh varied since coming to Hollywood.

ice storm
sense and sense
rugburn mountain

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

no love for teh hulk! hulk angry. hulk sad.

is it true that spike lee and ang lee were college roommates?

I am shocked and amazed that the Ice Storm has so many fans here.

ah, here you go: While attending NYU, worked on Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), Spike Lee's well-renowned student film.

bfd @ this fucking guy, seriously. 'sense and sensibility' is best, followed by 'ice storm'. third prize is none of them.

Lust Caution is very good. Under no circumstances watch it with your mother, though.

why – she might get wet?

i don't get serious critics. stock reaction to apatow: 'we must return to the hays code forthwith!' stock reaction to breillat/ang lee: 'searing honesty.'

I thought the stock reaction to Apatow was: "Preston Sturges is back!"

i caught hulk on dvd, was unimpressed. wouldn't watch any of his other movies, look very boring.

Of the four films of his I've seen, three are excellent. The fourth one was Hulk.

i thought Lust, Caution was super boring.

I wonder if I missed this and didn't vote for the Ice Storm. I love that movie.

I finally watched "Lust Caution" after having it out on Netflix for about 4 months. The laughs are few and far between, and the sex is not quite as erotic as it appears in the trailers, but it's a pretty good, serious historical drama, beautifully shot, with good acting and a gripping story.

I dread all 136 minutes of Lust Caution.

the life of poo

So this looks like it will probably be quite bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ohxUUd5XQ

(I'm guessing Ang had nothing to do with it, but couldn't find a CTHD thread)

planning to reinvent the cinema for... an Ali-Frazier III film?

(James) Schamus stated: “The film will be 3D, shot at 120 frames per second, in 4K. Our actors in the ring will be matched with digital avatars and single-set edited. It will be a whole leap in sensorial [experience].”

However, as is the case with Lee’s upcoming Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, cinemas will need to upgrade their venues to show the film as the director intends it to be seen.

“There is no theatre in the world except Ang’s editing room in which you can actually see that film,” said Schamus, who has spoken to Screen previously about the Ali project.

“I’m actually super-excited,” the long-time independent producer said of working with new technologies. “It’s been four years that Ang and I have been developing this. We’ve done extensive testing. It is something completely new, but not in the ways you’d think - it’s not superhero movie stuff. When you get to that level of visual data, it’s not cinema as you know it but it is very immersive and very intimate.”

Schamus, who said they are hoping to shoot the project in 2017 (Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 came on board in December), admitted the new technologies required new ways of thinking about production: “You have to change your assumptions about everything: lighting, editing, acting styles… You have to reinvent.”

http://www.screendaily.com/news/james-schamus-talks-muhammad-ali-movie/5104580.article

120 FPS 3D 4K is pretty amazing

i loved gemini man, which is basically ang lee taking a shitty ‘90s action thriller script and turning it into total visual splendor

Poll winner checks out.