Asian Movies in HD!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Oct 2008, 14:00

I imagine it will be their own disc, instead of a copy of Universal's.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 28 Oct 2008, 15:04

A BD with all three cuts is obviously the best option. I think the US DVDs contain dubtitles though.

I've only seen the UK theatrical cut (proper subs) aka Unrated and was very happy with the film.

Not sure I'd want it to be 40 mins longer.

eon · Post by **eon** » 29 Oct 2008, 00:36

The Director's Cut is a far better movie - has better pacing than the theatrical cut imho... and the action is spread throughout rather than being in clumps (I thought the theatrical cut was very uneven).

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Oct 2008, 15:20

But is there 40 mins worth of additional story? Or is it the same story padded out? The amount of self-indulgence among directors these days is a concern to me. I don't subscribe to the more is more or longer is greater school of film criticism.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Oct 2008, 16:13

It's additional story.

I agree though that many films are way, way longer than they need to be. Quantum of Solace is an unusual 104 minutes.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Oct 2008, 19:20

What's added, roughly?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Oct 2008, 19:34

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34185/je ... ctors-cut/

I've never seen any Theatrical Cut and haven't seen The Director's Cut fully to say for sure.

eon · Post by **eon** » 30 Oct 2008, 03:35

I think the main additional scenes are when Huo Yuan Jia is in the Village "recovering"... there's an additional fight that was only in the Thai cut, and a few of the scenes are moved to different parts of the movie (I can't remember the specifics, but the start of the theatrical cut isn't seen until much later in the director's cut).

I too am not always a fan of "extended" or "director's" cuts... however the Director's Cut is the only version of Fearless I'll watch now. It took the movie from being a good movie, to a great movie... up there with some of the best "epic" martial arts movies I've seen.

Edit: Just read the review posted above - yup, I agree with the reviewer there - I didn't feel much for the HYJ character in the theatrical cut, but in the director's cut you really do get to understand the character.

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 22 Nov 2008, 08:42

Deltamac will release The Promise (Wu Ji) on December 5, 2008.
http://www.buyoyo.com/buyoyo/eng/Produc ... 5&prtype=0
http://www.asianblurayguide.com/detail/ ... ong_china/

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Nov 2008, 18:24

Thanks, one for Tom then

. Keep up the great work.

I'll pass. I've still not seen my HK LE DVD.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 24 Nov 2008, 13:10

Typical bullets; guys guessing what's new in the longer cut... when the different cuts have already been compared on this board... and discussed through... by the same people...

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=3142

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 24 Nov 2008, 13:43

Correction, that should read:

Typical bullets; guy guessing what's new in the longer cut

Only Mark was discussing it, Eon didn't contribute to the previous thread and I wasn't trying to find out.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 24 Nov 2008, 22:14

Clueless_Monkey mentioned these over at Import Forum:

UK - Artificial Eye:

* Chungking Express (26/01/09): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chungking-Expre ... B001L4I2B8
* Ashes of Time Redux (26/01/09): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Redux-Blu ... 001L4I1VE/

USA - Criterion:

* Chungking Express (16/12/08 ): http://www.amazon.com/Chungking-Express ... B001EOQCKS

These maybe fake but here is the cover art from DVD Profiler (Criterion cover on Amazon.com):

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Nov 2008, 21:29

Where's the cheapest place to get The Infernal Affairs BD box set to The UK, customs safe?

I cannot find it at Yes Asia and it's 610HKD/£51.11 from DDDHouse. Which is a fortune and of course not customs safe.

Thanks.

luckystars · Post by **luckystars** » 28 Nov 2008, 18:45

Check it out dude

http://www.yesasia.com/gb/infernal-affa ... /info.html

£53.81 ish

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 28 Nov 2008, 19:28

got the usa blu-ray of Fearless today.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Nov 2008, 00:30

Thanks Lucky Stars. They're customs safe, cool.

Is it any good? I guess so Salty. I'm waiting for the UK version, much better cover art. It's as good a reason as any.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Nov 2008, 15:40

saltysam wrote:got the usa blu-ray of Fearless today.

How are the subs? The UK DVD had decent subs whilst the R1 had SDH dubtitles.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 29 Nov 2008, 16:38

i'm no subtitle expert but they seemed fine to me.will check them against the region 3 version.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Nov 2008, 16:49

The UK BD will be a port of the USA one, so lets hope they're fine.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Nov 2008, 20:04

saltysam wrote:i'm no subtitle expert but they seemed fine to me.will check them against the region 3 version.

Sam, I'm talking about the International aka Unrated version of the film. The US DVD had dubtitles, the UK release subtitles.

Please check out this thread for details...
http://adg.invisionzone.com/index.php?s ... =0&start=0

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Nov 2008, 20:27

I'm pretty sure Salty got that

. I did.

The "unrated" version is exactly the same as the Asian versions released.

Wrong.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 30 Nov 2008, 02:48

bradavon wrote:UK - Artificial Eye:

* Chungking Express (26/01/09): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chungking-Expre ... B001L4I2B8
* Ashes of Time Redux (26/01/09): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Redux-Blu ... 001L4I1VE/

USA - Criterion:

* Chungking Express (16/12/08 ): http://www.amazon.com/Chungking-Express ... B001EOQCKS

I'd wait until both Chungking BDs are released and we've got comparisons. Criterion may've fucked with the colours.

P.S. Cheers for the post, Brad.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Nov 2008, 11:29

Good point.

I am mainly waiting as the Criterion is as expected expensive and the UK BD is probably going to be cheaper. That and it would be nice to have matching CE/AOTR covers.

That's another good reason to wait though.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 01 Dec 2008, 10:45

You can see Criterion SD caps here:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompar ... xpress.htm

Zatoichi AE BD:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRevie ... lu-ray.htm

Zatoichi BD looks a bit ugly

But keep in mind it's beaver.