Jet Li's Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia)

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Apr 2008, 21:00

What ratio is that Hung?

It's not on 'Fixed Pixel Ratio', but I still don't know about 720x540.

It's not how Fearless would look on a 4:3 TV when the DVD Player is set to 16:9 Enhanced. The black bars for one are too big.

It is how it looks on a 4:3 TV that way because the ratio is scope (2:35:1). It would have no black bars if the ratio was 1:78:1.

How do you mean?

On a CRT monitor, you can squish the image down to it's correct ratio as opposed to outputting at square pixels which loses quality.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Apr 2008, 21:17

The 2.35:1 black bars are much thinner, as you say they're there but they're not that fat.

Thanks for the other info.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Apr 2008, 22:07

Do you guys want me to split this thread in two?
You can have "Fearless" on one side and "random aspect ratio discussion" on the other.

That's only if you have more things to say on the subject.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Apr 2008, 22:38

I don't.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 29 Apr 2008, 22:43

good, then lets end this nonsense

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Apr 2008, 23:30

I wasn't one to talk last week, but there seems to be a bit of hostility going on at the forum

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Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 29 Apr 2008, 23:38

Nah, just The People vs Our Former Mod

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Apr 2008, 00:23

chenlung wrote:but there seems to be a bit of hostility going on at the forum .

Compared to how it has been, this is nothing. Seriously it's just a healthy debate. No "real" hostility.

Ivan Drago wrote:Nah, just The People vs Our Former Mod

That would be "person x2 vs. our former mod"

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 30 Apr 2008, 01:42

Na, it was a few other forum members too.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Apr 2008, 01:55

It was, but it's now only 2-3

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grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Apr 2008, 09:41

Brad, yeah I mean 16/9 on a W/S TV.
I think when I tried 16/9 on a 4/3 TV everything looked "stretched".

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Apr 2008, 18:14

It is stretched but then on a small TV in particular it's hard to work out what's going on with such huge black bars. There is no decent way to display WS on a 4:3 TV.

Thanks for bringing it all up again too Grim

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 30 Apr 2008, 18:32

You could get a bigger 4:3 set

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 30 Apr 2008, 19:02

Why not use binoculars?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Apr 2008, 19:16

Have Edko Hong Kong released on BD yet?

I don't think they have but a Fearless DC BD would be good.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 02 May 2008, 12:43

bradavon wrote:Have Edko Hong Kong released on BD yet?

I don't think they have but a Fearless DC BD would be good.

I don't know if Edko have released anything on BD.

If they fixed their subtitles (grammar and proper sentencing etc), they would be worthy of a purchase in my eyes.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 May 2008, 16:58

Thanks Chen.

I'd buy an Edko Fearless DC BD even with the same subs. I've don't recall any major problems.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 14 Jul 2008, 20:22

Saw this posted over at Kung fu Cinema,what a fuck up by universal

‘Fearless’ Director’s Cut ships with defective disc

By Mark Pollard • July 11, 2008

It has been confirmed that JET LI’S FEARLESS: DIRECTOR’S CUT, Universal’s highly anticipated re-release of Ronny Yu’s Huo Yuanjia biopic promising nearly 40 minutes of additional footage is missing the director’s cut. Released July 8th, it promised three versions of the movie, one of which was supposed to be the complete two hour and 21 minute director’s cut. However, upon inspecting the two-disc release purchased from Walmart today both discs contain only 103-minute international and theatrical versions. Other readers have been e-mailing and posting messages on this site stating the same problem which suggests this defect is widespread.

Additionally, both discs appear to function erratically in my player. Disc two displays nothing but pixels and disc one periodically will not start up. I was only able to confirm the contents of disc two by using a disc burning tool. Both discs appear to be identical and the director’s cut is no where to be found despite what the back cover clearly states.

Universal was unavailable for comment at the time of writing and an e-mail sent Thursday has so far gone unanswered.

At this point I would suggest that anyone who is considering buying this release to not do so until Universal releases corrected discs and issues a statement, preferably along with a recall.

For those who have already purchased the defective FEARLESS discs and are unable to return them to the store, try contacting Universal direct during normal, weekday business hours. You may also want to notify your local retailer.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 Jul 2008, 21:08

Numpties!

No doubt they'll fix this asap.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 15 Jul 2008, 16:44

bradavon wrote:Numpties!

No doubt they'll fix this asap.

Yeah, just like how they fixed R2/R4 Blues Brothers 2-disc SE that was supposed to have both the TC and Extended cut, but instead featured the Extended cut on both discs. Oh wait, they never did anything about that.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 Jul 2008, 18:06

The UK 2-disc had the TC on it.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Jul 2008, 18:28

I didn't know that. That's shocking. They usually fix these cock ups.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 15 Jul 2008, 19:12

And they never fixed those numerous DVD-18 sets like The Bela Lugosi, Hammer, Invisible Man etc sets, which had numerous playback problems on many sets