I don't understand.
When you say you never cared for "these films", what do you mean? You could not be referring to just the two crouching tiger hidden dragon films, because you haven't seen the second one, it's not out yet. Are you referring to Chinese films made for American audiences in general, or something else?
If you mean Crouching Tiger specifically, I'll disagree with that opinion. I thought Crouching Tiger #1 was great, and I also quite enjoyed House of Flying Daggers, which was a bit similar to me.

That said, my first choice of Chinese fantasy action films (that I've seen) would be Holy Weapon aka Hopy Weapon aka Holy Shit! Now that was some good insanity Kung Fu, and included a flying all virgin Kung Fu version of 'crippletron' (a bit like Voltron, but instead of a giant robot made of spaceships or other smaller robots, it's a giant person made out of regular people) and a human Cuisinart named Super Sword. Now THAT was some insane awesomeness.

>> ^Enzoblue:

Hopi's didn't have cows. The first cow came to the Jamestown colony (Virginia) in 1611.


JESUS CHRIST! Haven't we put those poor people through enough Genocide, Rape, Torture, Murder and stealing their land that you have to go and take their COWS from them too?! You sick bastard!

>> ^Enzoblue:

Hopi's didn't have cows. The first cow came to the Jamestown colony (Virginia) in 1611.


Bisons then

Hopi's didn't have cows. The first cow came to the Jamestown colony (Virginia) in 1611.

Thanks kulpims, I got some nice stuff in the Queues jazzy and hip hopy stuff.

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*promote

Depending on conditions this kind of building could last a while. It would hold up well in dry climates but one with a lot of precipitation or without proper drainage on the lot won't last very long at all. It's the same principle Hopi Indians use to make adobe brick.

This doesn't really focus on Hopi prophecy. It's more history than prophecy.

I love this movie.

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance is a 1982 documentary film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The documentary contains neither dialog nor narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the music that accompanies them. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble have toured with the film, playing music live in front of the film screen.

The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between man and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. Still, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

I didn't really want to comment on this because people usually would take it the wrong way. I come from a family of doctors and I must say that in reality this is manifestation of a self indulgent way of trying to understand the world due to autism. That doesn't mean it's necessarily bad or good. It's simple a different form of adaptation to the world around us.

Language and communication only derive their power through one ability, that of being transferable and commonly understood by larger group of people. For example if we all could not agree on one definition of the truth we could not readily be able to discuss it. Because language is simply meant for one group of individuals to understand another.

However I will state that languages differ wildly in how they contextualize the world for example Benjamin Lee Whorf, a well-known linguist, used the Hopi language to exemplify his argument that one's world-view is affected by one's language and vice-versa. In an article, "An American Indian Model of the Universe", he writes:

"The metaphysics underlying our own language, thinking and modern culture... imposes upon the universe two grand COSMIC FORMS, space and time; static three-dimensional infinite space, and kinetic one-dimensional uniformly and perpetually flowing time."

Whorf says that the Hopi language expresses a different metaphysic altogether:

"It imposes upon the universe two grand cosmic forms, which... we may call MANIFESTED and MANIFESTING, or, again, OBJECTIVE and SUBJECTIVE"

Other linguists and philosophers are skeptical of Whorf's argument, either in general, or in its particular application to the Hopi language.

And such the movie In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means 'life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance', and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.

Basically in hopi a entire idea or way is captured in one word. The same is for people of the Innuit North who because of their life have over a dozen different ways of reffering to snow. It can be hard-snow, fallen-snow, sliding-snow and so on and so on.

Other languages differ in other ways, some having no concept of time, just seasons. There is no before or after, actions are acted upon. So language is a tool for expressing and contextualizing the world to be shared with others. So in regards to this aren't we simply delving into the mind of someone's unique way of precieving the world?

- durnk

Agreed rickegee, the realities of the worlds' most watched and editorialized events, (snuff is not war-dead or dying) should be witnessed, if the means are there-beheadings included.

Daniel Pearl?? remember him?? His widow and surviving family do….
-Again, to keep true to the theme here, the paradigm,- we live in a world driven by money. The power is in the hands of the well-insulated leftovers of who knows, the Roman Empire?? It sure ain’t fuckin’ Genghis Khan!!!

Military Industry, Pharmacueticals, Fossil Fuels, Banking, Insurance, This is why we fight. Masses are bred, fed, and led, by assumptions and desires, which the archetects of this boardgame understand fully, and exploit skillfully and completely.

The cracks in the ediface, showing and growing for years, are ignored and go unexploited, through diversion and misdirection, by giving the worker-bees what they desire…..pollen comes in new and improved colors and textures nowadays, with lots of flashy lights and cozy warm feeeeeeelings.

Hmmmmm.? Isn’t there a Colesium-like structure in every major city in the world???
And if sports aint yer diversion, then eye-candy, blow-jobs, Allah, Jesus, or mini empire- building is. What’s yours?? A holy crusade against drunk driving, or save the freekin snow beavers’ from wobal glorming!!!???

Collective heads in in asses is why the world chugs along the path of chaos….enjoy the wonder years while you can, the change will be abrupt, and all-encompassing.
Hopi you’ll aaalllllllll make it….
You will, we will.