Top 3 mainland movies:
1. Battle at Lake Changjin
2. Moon Man
3. THis.
The first Chinese Ghost Story was done by Hong Kong cinema, it was one of those hong kong movies that mainlander been passing around a lot. (others are like Once upon a time in China, Stephen Chow movies, etc).
They been redoing a lot of Hong kong movies, they sell good most the time pretty good within China. I seen a bunch of them, most of them, Technologically beautiful, but NO heart...
This one, is may be I guess its exception, they follow pretty deeply from the old movies, it did bring me back to past memory a little, its good thing. The main theme song they translated from cantonese to mainlander are great, the actors are good look, the main guy even look a bit like Lesley Cheung.
The problem for most Mainland movies often times they feel like good, just not good enough.
Art is about one thing Ive learned in many years, if you havent gone wild at, you havent succeeded yet.