Asian Movies in HD!

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 22 May 2008, 19:17

bradavon wrote:Thanks.

An Empress and the Warriors says the 16th of June.

Whoops, edited

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 May 2008, 20:35

bradavon wrote:I can show you were you've said many times "you don't listen to other people's opinions".

I said people's opinions do not influence me in watching a film either way.

I listen and read others opinions all the time which is pretty obvious to everyone. I have said many times, but your so blind you get it wrong every time.

but They do influence you as you are a sheep and you have been put off seeing a film many times becuase of word of mouth and reviews, everyone can tell that Baaaaahdavon.

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 27 May 2008, 05:46

Lust, Caution
Korea
June 15 2008

http://www.dvdfromkorea.com/shop/p_deta ... rch&genre=
http://www.asianblurayguide.com/#223

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 May 2008, 06:09

Cool, thanks Monkey.

Is this the first Korean BD? I'll be picking it up. It's been a long time coming.

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 27 May 2008, 16:14

bradavon wrote:Cool, thanks Monkey.

Is this the first Korean BD? I'll be picking it up. It's been a long time coming.

Jup, first Blu-ray disc from a Korean distributor.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 May 2008, 20:59

Tai Seng's BD of Dragon Tiger Gate is out today.

I'd wait for proper confirmation of this K BD of Lust, Caution being fully uncut + having English subs. This Koreans love their digital blurring censorship.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 May 2008, 21:59

Good point. It should be given that it says Unrated, no? It's a good point though. The link says it has English subs.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 28 May 2008, 20:31

I've just seen that Twins Effect 2 is getting a BD release in Germany.
LD! come here and teach me german, quick!

Twins Effect 2, The Myth, Battle of Wits, Shadowless Sword... you people are getting a lot of good films.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 May 2008, 21:00

Germany does seem to be getting a lot more Asian BDs than other countries. There's also Tom Yum Goong and Born to Fight too.

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 29 May 2008, 06:59

I just hope that the Blu-ray releases from Slendid will be better than their mediocre DVD releases.
Too bad about the German subtitles, I can't stand them even though it's my native language.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 May 2008, 16:32

Others on this forum from the Mainland say the same thing.

I guess you guys are so used to see English subs with Chinese films. I still find it weird because no matter how good your English is as a second language surely it's not as good as your first language. Not that they use rarer words too often.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 May 2008, 16:45

Yi doesn't like to watch movies with dutch subs.
I've always found that weird.

I'll take french subs over english ones any day.
Except with japanese films. English works better when translating from japanese.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 May 2008, 17:17

LD liked German dubs. Nothing short of madness, IMO.

(That's nothing compared to Brad's aspect ratio issues though.)

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 May 2008, 17:34

tom2681 wrote:I'll take french subs over english ones any day.
Except with japanese films.

Yeah, but that's only because you French refuse to accept that English is the superior language.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 May 2008, 21:49

Yi doesn't like to watch movies with dutch subs.
I've always found that weird.

That is weird. Like I said no matter how good your second language is it cannot ever compete to your mother tongue.

I always thought you preferred English subs Tom.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 May 2008, 21:57

That was before I started learning cantonese and japanese.
Now I understand what I'm missing when reading english subs.

French subs tend to be more detailed and precise.
English subs are often dumbed-down.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not a question of difficulty (my english is fine).
It's all about the quality of the translation.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 May 2008, 22:23

tom2681 wrote:That was before I started learning cantonese and japanese.

How good are you? You're learning both at the same time? Is that wise?

tom2681 wrote:English subs are often dumbed-down.

On American and British DVDs?

American English dumbs down the language greatly anyway so I can understand that one. It's all about using the least amount of words and letters as possible in American English. It always annoys me when American says "write me". How exactly do you write someone? It's not even possible. It's "write to me".

And "don't take it so personal", it's "don't take it so personally". You'd be told off if you used English like that at school but in American English it's correct. Does Quebec French dumb down French at all?

tom2681 wrote:As far as I'm concerned, it's not a question of difficulty (my english is fine).

I know it is but I'm sure your French is better. Every language has very rare words in it that are barely ever used but greatly improve your ability to articulate if you know them.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 May 2008, 22:54

How good are you?

My japanese is good, my cantonese not so good.
When you already know 4 or 5 languages, you can learn several at the same time.

On American and British DVDs?

Both. US subs are always dumbed-down.
UK subs tend to be longer and more detailed (HKL's being a good example) but it doesn't mean that the translation is any better.

Does Quebec French dumb down French at all?

Quite the contrary. From what I've heard, they speak some kind of "medieval french", using many complex sentence structures that we've abandoned years ago. We've dumbed-down our french, but they haven't.

Every language has very rare words in it that are barely ever used but greatly improve your ability to articulate if you know them.

Yeah, but since those rare words are never included in subtitles, that's not exactly a problem.

P.S: Sorry for going off-topic. I'll stop now.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 May 2008, 00:04

tom2681 wrote:When you already know 4 or 5 languages, you can learn several at the same time.

Really? What are the other three?

tom2681 wrote:UK subs tend to be longer and more detailed (HKL's being a good example) but it doesn't mean that the translation is any better.

Understood.

tom2681 wrote:Quite the contrary. From what I've heard, they speak some kind of "medieval french", using many complex sentence structures that we've abandoned years ago. We've dumbed-down our french, but they haven't.

Really. That's funny

. I presume you'd understand it still?

I guess Quebec being much smaller than America meant the language had more chance to not get diluted, as happened greatly in America, so many nationalities all "just about" historically speaking English.

tom2681 wrote:Yeah, but since those rare words are never included in subtitles, that's not exactly a problem.

Maybe.

tom2681 wrote:Sorry for going off-topic. I'll stop now.

You'll allow to

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bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 31 May 2008, 02:42

Ong-Bak on French BD in August and Lust, Caution (English subs) on Japanese BD in September:

http://www.theimportforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=13049

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 31 May 2008, 20:38

Amazon.com lists Tai Seng's Perhaps Love as a July 29 release.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001AII4O0

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1198 ... 008zj4.jpg
Perhaps Love is one of the title from the Mega Star announcement, so I hope that Mega Star will soon release the rest as well.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 31 May 2008, 22:48

Me too. The IA box set is out. I'm now waiting on Warlords and maybe DOBW.

Keep up the good work. I'm certainly appreciative.

Clueless_Monkey · Post by **Clueless_Monkey** » 04 Jun 2008, 06:11

Korean publisher KD Media has announced three more Korean Blu-ray Discs for June 16, 2008.
The Host, Welcome to Dongmakgol and Taegukgi

All with English subtitles! :bom:
http://www.madmad.co.kr/hotsale/?event_id=1993

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 04 Jun 2008, 10:08

Okay, I am officially surprised.
Will buy Dongmakgol. That film should look awesome in HD.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jun 2008, 12:23

Taegukgi, cool. It looks to have DTS-HD.