Five Venoms IVL Reg.3 Vs DD Reg.1

[saltysam]

R3


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[grim_tales]

R1 looks sharper.

[saltysam]

R3 Is on a 6.78gb disc,R1 is on a 3.78gb one.

[grim_tales]

Really? Looking at it again, R3 has better colours.

[Shingster]

Are you trying to do an ironic impression of Brad there Grim? The colours are identical!

[grim_tales]

R3 is fuzzy looking (interlaced)?

[saltysam]

R3 is a pal-ntsc standards conversion.(i think)

[grim_tales]

Ah OK

[HungFist]

R3 is a pal-ntsc standards conversion.(i think)

All of them are.

[romerojpg]

Yeah but some look far worse than others, some you can tell instantly, some no way you can tell, which is odd.

[chenlung]

Indeed, all R3s are PAL>NTSC.

R1 is correctly progressive and mono. The best release available, but it still doesn't improve on subtitles.

[Markgway]

Apart from the progressive transfer they look identical to me.

Still, that and original mono has me sold.

[Killer Meteor]

Yeah but some look far worse than others, some you can tell instantly, some no way you can tell, which is odd.

Some of the early ones ran too fast for some reason. Challenge of the Gamesters looks sped up like a Keystones Kops short.

[romerojpg]

Hey I have not even seen 5 Venoms (amazingly) and I have a shedload of the Shaw discs, but for some reason it always seems a bit dodgy to me (not even sure why and I took the chance on some real crappy Shaws). Still I need to see more Shaws, it seems like eons since I last bought any, and I did notice the other day loads of new releases are still flooding the market! may buy this and see whats what

[Shingster]

It's probably the most over rated of the classics, and I don't mean that in a Brad way! Never seen the massive appeal of the film meself.

[romerojpg]

Yup I think I have seen most of the so called Classics (that were released up until about a year ago) it may have been the gimpy wrestler maskes that put me off haha
If I can get it for a few quid it may be worth a try, no way I would pay loads for Shaws anymore, they are so uneven in quality and style you can love and hate so many, I ended up getting rid of a fair few as they just were so poor (and some so good).

[Markgway]

I think The Five Venoms is great fun and the best of Chang Cheh's late period (post 1977). Also worth a look form this era are Invincible Shaolin, Crippled Avengers, Two Champions of Shaolin, and (his last genuinely good movie) Five Element Ninjas.

[Killer Meteor]

I find it OK but too slow and drab for its own good. It does have some marvellously gruesome moments though. The only standouts of the Venoms films for me are Crippled Avengers and Masked Avengers.

And the masks are in the film very briefly, so don't worry!