Sometime in 1992, I found myself at my grandma's house in Davenport, IA. Davenport reached its cultural zenith in around 1941, so there's nothing to do there, aside from bowling (I average about 126) and cinema. Since I was too young to drink away the boredom, I was taken to see this movie, Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman and Geena Davis. It was pretty forgettable.
I bring this up because I have now been asked, twice in the past few days, about whether or not I've seen Hero, to which I reply, 'the Dustin Hoffman movie?' Both times, I've gotten blank stares. No, they say, the 2002 Chinese martial arts film, directed by Zhang Yimou with music by Tan Dun. Starring Jet Li, of course.
I don't doubt this is the superior film, but for all the lousy crap I've rented through Blockbuster online, I've never included it on my list. And why, suddenly, has it arisen in two seperate conversations?
It's kind of embarrassing, since the Hero that I saw really sucked, but I always get overly enthusiastic about it, like I'm hoping to find a kindred spirit who too spent a long, tedeous summer night watching a straight-to-video in an Eastern Iowa movie theater with his parents.
Did anybody else in the world see this movie, and if they did, would they remember having seen it?
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