The Official "Dragon Dynasty" Thread!

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 11 Jun 2007, 02:44

First review for 36th Chanber:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdcompar ... hamber.htm

Nice!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 11 Jun 2007, 07:12

Very good transfer on the DD.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Jun 2007, 10:50

Indeed!

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 11 Jun 2007, 14:21

King Boxer's the review I'm waiting for... it was my first Shaw Bros movie, thanks to my dad having me on a "hunt" to find the damn thing when I was about 13! Funny thing was, the old US VHS was indeed titled King Boxer and not "Five Fingers of Death" like he kept having me search for... AND it used a publicity shot from Duel of Fists at the top of the cover! Certainly didn't make things less confusing...

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 11 Jun 2007, 17:31

And to make matters more confusing, there is another film from the same year which is also called King Boxer

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 11 Jun 2007, 20:32

Ivan Drago wrote:And to make matters more confusing, there is another film from the same year which is also called King Boxer

Haha, I didn't even know that! Who's in it?

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 11 Jun 2007, 23:01

Ivan Drago wrote:And to make matters more confusing, there is another film from the same year which is also called King Boxer

Forgot about that... that's the one on DVD with a generic Shaolin Monk image on it, isn't it?

I could be wrong, but isn't Yasuaki Kurata in that one?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 12 Jun 2007, 02:49

Yeah, and Meng Fei.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Jun 2007, 17:58

Not a very good film, but worth it if you're a fan of Kurata - I'm not sure if its his HK debut.

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 13 Jun 2007, 04:36

First review for One Armed Swordsman:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRevie ... rdsman.htm

Well, sounds good... for the most part... 2.0 stereo? Hopefully someone can explain this and that it's actually 2.0 mono.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 13 Jun 2007, 16:46

Maybe EPI's source for 'King Boxer' came from your VHS as it has a new 'Five Fingers of Death' title.

Here's hoping the DD DVD ain't out of synch because of the frame hacking. Hell Celestial could well have kept working at it and were forced to release quickly to IVL.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 13 Jun 2007, 16:48

Old Pang Yau wrote:First review for One Armed Swordsman:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRevie ... rdsman.htm

Well, sounds good... for the most part... 2.0 stereo? Hopefully someone can explain this and that it's actually 2.0 mono.

Don't worry, DVD Beaver are incompetant shits and it's dual mono probably.

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 13 Jun 2007, 23:47

chenlung wrote:
Old Pang Yau wrote:First review for One Armed Swordsman:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRevie ... rdsman.htm

Well, sounds good... for the most part... 2.0 stereo? Hopefully someone can explain this and that it's actually 2.0 mono.
Don't worry, DVD Beaver are incompetant shits and it's dual mono probably.

Yeah, dvdbeaver don't always know their shit.

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 22 Jun 2007, 17:28

Time to breathe some new life to this thread.

DD has updated their coming soon section.

Crime Story's new cover art looks particularly hilarious.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 22 Jun 2007, 18:37

I'm definitely getting DD Hard Boiled.

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 22 Jun 2007, 20:45

Hey everybody, Trailers for Hard-Boiled and Last Hurrah are up. H-B looks more kick-ass than ever!

Hopefully a Crime Story trailer will be up soon.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 24 Jun 2007, 09:57

Great to see HB is 2 Discs but where is Cantonese Mono?

I've already got the HK Fortune Star Remaster of Crime Story so that will do for me. You can pick up all the current DD titles at CD WOW for $15.95 each, except for Seven Swords and Born to Fight which are $14.95 each -

http://www.cd-wow.us/searchresults_dvd. ... on+Dynasty

Those prices are using the $2-8 Voucher Reduction Link + Voucher Code Reduction!

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:13

Too expensive.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:28

bradavon wrote:You can pick up all the current DD titles at CD WOW for $15.95 each, except for Seven Swords and Born to Fight which are $14.95 each.

Thanks. However, the titles they sell are not "all the current DD titles". Where are "Above the Law" and "Shanghai Express". Come on CD WOW!

@Mark:
Too expensive? Is there anywhere that sells DD titles for cheaper or were you talking in general?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:30

No, but I feel $15 is too expensive to upgrade on titles I already have. And there's nothing DD have released (that I want) that I don't already have.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:45

I see. Well, I agree with you in terms of upgrading, but only as far as the quality of the current DVD you own is concerned. If the only DVD I owned of say "Police Story 2" was the HKL one, then I'd upgrade for $15.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:53

I know what you mean... but as it happens DD's Police Story II is flawed in that they use the inferior Japanese cut of the movie. When the Shaw titles come down to under $10 (same price as the HK imports) then I'll reconsider.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 Jun 2007, 23:59

I have the IVL box set of "Police Story"-trilogy, but I never managed to sit down and watch part 2 in full, so I have no clue what the longer version is like. However, I welcome to have additional JC footage as I am a JC collector. While skipping through it though, I noticed that they had the wrong music over the credits (the soundtrack from part 1 actually). How about the DD disc?

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 25 Jun 2007, 00:23

I'm the same as Mark on this issue. I hardly ever spend more then 10 bucks on a DVD. I often rather wait for the dvds to go on sale. 15-16 bucks is too much for a movie.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 25 Jun 2007, 11:03

How about the 40 bucks for a Criterion? OUCH