Tai Chi Master - What's with the current Hype?

[thelostdragon]

Hey,

everybody seems to be talking about this recently, with people lookind desperately for subs. At YesAsia it ranks 2nd place of the HK DVD bestsellers. It's an old DVD release, though (1999).

Anything I have missed and should know?

[tom2681]

Fearless has been compared to Tai-Chi Master in lots of reviews.

While I believe that Fearless is nothing compared to the masterpiece that is TCM, there might be a connection there.

[Yi-Long]

Personally I thought Tai Chi Master was good but not great. It started out brilliantly at the temple, with both fun and fights... but at the end it had deteriorated to a so-so movie, and the wire-fu really ruined it a bit. It's still one of the better new-wave movies, but it's nowhere near as good as Fist of Legend...

Havent seen Fearless yet so cant comment on which is better (waiting for an uncut version)

[dragonhero005]

I think quite the same about The Tai Chi Master. A good movie, but not as good as the Fong Sai Yuks or OuatiCs. What I didn´t like was that you could see a lot the wires in the end fight and the ridiculous "Jet looses all confidence in himself" - sub-plot.

Maybe the DVD ranks 2nd place cause it is so cheap...
There is nothing special about the DVD... The subs are, well... not free of grammatical errors and the picture quality isn´t something special...

[bradavon]

You've not missed anything LD other than me asking where I can source decent subs to create my own DVD. I have the French DVD to work from.

HungFist is creating new ones at the moment (only a few posts down ):

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=1708

Personally I don't reckon we'll see decent English friendly DVDs of all those Disney Jet Li films until HD DVD takes of now.

Maybe the DVD ranks 2nd place cause it is so cheap...
There is nothing special about the DVD... The subs are, well... not free of grammatical errors and the picture quality isn´t something special...

For me easily the worst part is the 5.1 remix. Man it's awful.

It's "the" reason I've not watched the film yet.

[HungFist]

It's pure coincidence I'm doing the subs right now. Someone at asiandvdguide asked me for a bunch of subs and I decided to do a little quality check. I noticed my Tai Chi subs weren't that good (it was the first script I ever timed) so I started doing some re-timing. A few days later brad said someting about the french dvd and I mentioned I'm just subbing it...

For me easily the worst part is the 5.1 remix. Man it's awful.

It's "the" reason I've not watched the film yet.

Hehe, I actually watched that dvd in mandarin (techically a better option). But it was so bad that I decided to buy the french dvd (along with Fist of Legend), even though I didn't know how to add subs to a dvd back then.

I personally love the film. I think it's one of the last great films from the golden age of HK cinema.

[bradavon]

I have a subbed DVD of that from the French print. It's a sorry state of affairs when "my" DVD is better than the official English friendly DVDs.

[EvaUnit02]

Brad, can't you're receiver downmix 5.1 to stereo?

[bradavon]

Yep but it still sounds awful. Better than the utter disaster in 5.1 but still awful.

The new foley affects in it make the added foley affects in Terminator look like a genius added them. Besides now I've seen the lovely French DVD it's hard to go back.

Please continue talk at:

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=1708