Optimum announce 5 new Martial Arts DVDs!!

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 18 Feb 2005, 22:19

New taken from DVD Times:

"Optimum Asia have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of five Martial Arts titles in April. On the 18th Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs, House of Flying Daggers) and Brigitte Lin (Chungking Express, The Bride With White Hair) star together in the sumptuous fantasy kung fu film The Three Swordsmen. Brigitte Lin also stars in the haunting supernatural thriller Deadful Melody as a martial arts expert who uses the destructive power of a mystical Lyre to seek revenge on the evil masters who have killed her family.

Then the 25th of April sees the release of Drunken Master 3, starring Andy Lau and Gordon Liu (Kill Bill), in the third film from the Drunken Master series, which combines a wacky sense of fun with political intrigue. Iron Monkey 2, the sequel to the hugely popular Iron Monkey, stars Donnie Yen (Hero, Shanghai Knights) and is set a hundred years after the original film with more high jinks and chop-socky action. Lastly the legendary martial arts director Woo-Ping Yuen (Drunken Master, Iron Monkey, fight choreographer on Kill Bill) directs Brigitte Lin as a pyro assassin in the exciting Fire Dragon, which features some remarkable pyrotechnic action sequences."

Nothing special there, except for Fire Dragon, which I'm looking forward to upgrading. Assuming the specs are right. Since my current disc is Ocean Shores it shouldn't be too hard to surpass...

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 19 Feb 2005, 01:55

HAHAHAHAHA they are buying up plenty of quality titles then

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 19 Feb 2005, 07:09

Yeah, it's hard to imagine anyone would choose to release Iron Monkey 2 and Drunken Master III on purpose!?!

But get Fire Dragon that's the ringer in the batch.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 20 Feb 2005, 18:27

Yeah, I just saw that. Fuck's sake. 4:3 in this day and age is a joke.

That said, the Ocean Shores DVD is so poor that even 4:3/1.85 with Optional Subs would be an improvement.

For a non-anamorphic title we should expect to pay budget price (ie. 5.99) ala Vengeance, but these buggers insist on charging us for Special Editions. Greedy cocks!

It's a damn shame UK distributors fail so often. The French make us look miserable.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Feb 2005, 19:40

I imagine it's more likely to be non-anamorphic WS, no?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 21 Feb 2005, 14:17

bradavon wrote:I imagine it's more likely to be non-anamorphic WS, no?

I expect so...