Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: Jade Fox, who was really an embittered old woman abandoned who felt betrayed by her protege (Jen) at the end.
• Adaptation Displacement: Started out as the fourth book in a pentology Wuxia novel series, written by Wang Dulu.
• Award Snub: Gladiator? Really?
• Broken Base: Wuxia fans were quite divided on it. Some thought it was excellent, while others thought it paled in comparison to other films in the genre.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Asian audiences mostly found it overrated and not outstanding in terms of wuxia stories. Western audiences loved it to death.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • "I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side...as a condemned soul...than enter heaven without you. Because of your love...I will never be a lonely spirit."
  • The scene where it was just Mu Bai and Shu Lien sitting together and Mu Bai taking her hand and pressing it gently to his face. That small, simple gesture spoke volumes about how he felt for her and the look on her face said the exact same thing.
  • Also, the brief scene of the two minor characters, the servant Bo and the police inspector's daughter May, after Jade Fox had killed her father. Bo was standing on guard at her house in case Jade Fox returned. May came out and quietly told him to come inside because since both of them are scared, at least they could be scared together.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A governor's willful daughter meets a charming, goofy rogue with long hair, almost modern fashion sense, has a habit of singing, and swordplay is involved... didn't they do this story a few years later?
• Memetic Mutation: "Crouching X, Hidden Y".
• Straw Feminist: Jade Fox. She basically comes off as a low-level misandrist after Li Mu Bai's teacher refused to actually teach her, since apparently women can't train at Wudan. It seems, however, that Shu Lien is at least somewhat Wudan experienced as well, as she is the only character other than Mu Bai that can defeat Jen. She can also do the gravity-defying Wire Fu that only people that learned at/stole technique books from Wudan can do. More concretely, Mu Bai says that for Jen, they would surely make an exception, and he (literally) fights to get her to be his student. Maybe Mu Bai's teacher saw that Jade Fox was less than scrupulous, rather than just passing her over due to sex. Seems like sour grapes on her part. Or maybe that's really why she wanted to kill Jen, instead of the fact that she hid her skill and kept Fox from improving.
• Tear Jerker: Li Mubai's last words and Last Kiss with Shu-Lien; Jen's final act.
• Too Cool to Live: Li Mubai
• Unfortunate Implications: Women probably shouldn't rebel and resist being shoehorned into pre-ordanied roles in society, as it will ruin their lives.