New Celestial and Fortune Star schedules up at the ADVDG

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 04 Mar 2005, 20:00

Click here: http://www.asiandvdguide.com

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 04 Mar 2005, 22:10

Chinese ghost story trilogy.... Check.
Center Stage.... Check.
King of Beggars.... Check.
Armour of God 2.... Check.

Good. Now I just need to find some money

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Mar 2005, 08:55

When is Armour of God II being released? Is it by itself?

I knew A Better Tomorrow and The Killer would be released seperately

Hey Mark, interestingly they have "Way of The Dragon" up for a July release, maybe this means the other Bruce films will be released seperately too?

I may get:

Amour of God 1 and 2
WOTD for image quality and Mandarin audio but keep my HKL for the extras.
I would buy WAY on its own, but not if it is an a boxset with something else. There doesnt seem to be any mention of boxsets.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 05 Mar 2005, 14:53

When is Armour of God II being released? Is it by itself?

August 2005. Probably not.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 05 Mar 2005, 15:26

I ordered Heroes Of The East hope its good

my problem is Shaws I just have no idea what they are like so I just take chances, but I seem to buy nice ones most the time

hope theres some crackers on that list.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Mar 2005, 15:29

Tom2681 wrote:
When is Armour of God II being released? Is it by itself?
August 2005. Probably not.

Merci, Tom

If it isnt I might get the Armour of God 1/2 boxset then

I'm sure, version wise, it will be the HK print on the disc, but you gotta love the US theme song - High Upon High (Flight of the Dragon)

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 05 Mar 2005, 16:25

I hope that the subs on AOG1 will be an improvement over HKL.

I'm sure that lots of people didn't understand the "Snookums / Kuang Sheng" joke between Rosamund and Jackie on the HKL dvd.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Mar 2005, 20:08

Huh?

No you're you're right, I didn't understand the joke.

What was wrong with the subs and what does the joke mean? Do tell?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 05 Mar 2005, 21:02

When she sees him, Rosamund calls Jackie "Kong-Sang" twice.
The subs translate it as "Snookums" once and then as "Kuang-Sheng".

Chan Kong-Sang is Jackie Chan's real cantonese name.

That's why he says: "Only she calls me that".

That's a funny little private joke between Jackie Chan and Rosamund Kwan.

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The same thing happened in Mr Vampire (The "coffee/coke" joke).

As you all know (

), Coffee is pronounced "Gafeh" in cantonese.

In the coffee-house, Ricky Hui sees that everybody is ordering something called "coffee".
He turns to Lam Ching-Ying and says:
-Master, I don't want "gafeh". Can't I have "coffee" ?

In the HKL DUBtitles, he says:
-Master, I don't want coffee. Can't I have a coke instead ?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 05 Mar 2005, 21:52

Cheers Tom

I didnt realise the Mr Vampire gag, I had seen the HKL but I thought he actually said coca-cola in that joke?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 05 Mar 2005, 23:25

Tom's right about those two HKL fuck-ups.

Just to state the obvious: Chen Kuang Sheng in Mandarin would be Chan Kong Sang in Cantonese. Why the subs would use the Mandarin is anyone's guess? And "Snookums" is just silly. But I assume they figured no one would get the reference otherwise. How many people know Jackie's birth name?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Mar 2005, 10:55

I do

I wouldnt have known the Mandarin though

You're right Mark/Tom, that does indeed ruin the AoG joke.
Also I've had a thought about the releases of "Armour of God", "Armour of God II" and "Way of The Dragon".. do we know that these are necessarily remasters? They may not be.

Weren't Deltamac owned by Fortune Star/IVL? Couldnt they just be re-releases of older discs?

I'd love to see a Armour of God II remaster though.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Mar 2005, 12:40

Hey Mark did you notice Shaolin Challenges Ninja from IVL?

I've never seen it but it looks quite good, sounds a bit like the later Ninja In the Dragon's Den from Seasonal Films (the Chinese v Japanese angle).

Is it worth seeing?

http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.533 ... etails.htm

The original language is Cantonese right?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Mar 2005, 13:23

It's great to see separate releases at last.

It's a pity they're not releasing FOF as this is really the only title I want from the box sets (i.e - on it's own. I'd get the OUATIC trilogy).

Great news about "Centre Stage" I hear from Knetan and others it's excellent.

I wonder why BITH isn't getting released but The Killer is, weird.

I wonder if ITLOD4 will differ to the Fox DVD? I'm guessing it will have Cantonese mono but more importantly for me subtitles instead of dubtitles. It would be my third version of this but I'd upgrade/side grade.

Iron Monkey is an interesting one. A FS HD remaster would be tops but in reality I'm more than happy with my PE so I won't be bothering.

Won't City on Fire HKL be also a FS remaster? So I'll get the HKL DVD for that one.

So far I'm interested in ITLOD4 and Centre Stage

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Mar 2005, 13:26

It's also good to see Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Women" getting a decent release.

I see yet another IA box set is coming but minus the last 2 discs. Hopefully it will be much cheaper. The 8 disc box set was bloody expensive.

grim_tales wrote:When is Armour of God II being released? Is it by itself?

I bet very much it's a box set.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Mar 2005, 14:10

I agree about EDMW, excellent film.

Yeah I agree about the Bruce Lee releases but logic dictates (to me anyway) that the others cant be far behind - I mean they havent released Big Boss seperately yet either, which I'd buy again with a Mandarin track (and if they could find the scenes in the Mandarin print

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 08 Mar 2005, 17:46

grim_tales wrote:Hey Mark did you notice Shaolin Challenges Ninja from IVL? I've never seen it but it looks quite good, sounds a bit like the later Ninja In the Dragon's Den from Seasonal Films (the Chinese v Japanese angle). Is it worth seeing?

Just got it this morning. Brilliant film. A must have. Pisses all over Dragon's Den from a great height.

The original language is Cantonese right?

Nope!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Mar 2005, 18:17

Must be Mandarin then!

Wasn't the film also known as Heroes of the East?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Mar 2005, 18:45

grim_tales wrote:Yeah I agree about the Bruce Lee releases but logic dictates (to me anyway) that the others cant be far behind

Me to. We can hope.

It would make more sense to release them in order but there you go.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 08 Mar 2005, 21:25

grim_tales wrote:Must be Mandarin then!
Wasn't the film also known as Heroes of the East?

Yes and yes. Heroes... is the original title.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Mar 2005, 10:29

I may pick up HOTE soon then

Is A Better Tomorrow (IVL) being released by itself as well? Can't think why..

I won't be saving any shelf space by buying the HKLs over the boxset.

Do you have any IVL's to trade?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Mar 2005, 20:03

Huh on the 5th you said this:

grim_tales wrote:I knew A Better Tomorrow and The Killer would be released seperately

And only 10 days later you said this? :

grim_tales wrote:Is A Better Tomorrow (IVL) being released by itself as well?

???

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 15 Mar 2005, 20:11

Are none of you buying SHAW BROTHERS FILMS THEN?

thats a shame, they piss all over most HKL films thats for sure! I have 30 now and am getting 1 a week as they are totally amazing latley

Hero's of the East was totally superb! Stuff Jackie Chan!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Mar 2005, 21:12

i've got about 40 shaws at the moment.sold a few recently that had no rewatch value for me ( lion vs lion, twelve gold medallions,legend of the bat etc.) but yes romero i agree with you there are some absolute belters out there. 8)

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 15 Mar 2005, 23:56

I too have sold a fair few, some just are not to our tastes I guess, but on the whole I am impressed, the last 5 or so have watched have been stunners