Burning Paradise on DVD....

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 19 Sep 2007, 15:52

After seeing talk of this movie in another thread i decided to pull out my never watched dvd

(i had seen the movie ages ago on an mihk vhs) anyway i was blown away by how good it was,great story,decent action and a cool red lotus temple full of traps! though the tone of the movie is pretty bleak it's definitely an underrated gem.unfortunately the dvd is pretty gash-quality not much better than vhs (in fact it may be a tape transfer judging by some line damage i spotted) it's an odd dvd as it appears to be german (german audio option) but has no german subs but does have english and dutch ones

at one point near the end the english subs go into dutch for about half a minute. i know Eva mentioned a R4 dvd,has anyone seen it and is it an improvement? below are some caps from the dvd i have.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 19 Sep 2007, 15:53

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 19 Sep 2007, 16:33

I've never gotten round to buying this DVD.

The lack of 16:9 always put me off shelling out the cash.

I have an uncut print taped from TV.

The MIHK tape is cut.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Sep 2007, 16:48

I presume Full Uncut Version on the MIHK tape means the uncut HK version (which was "cut").

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 19 Sep 2007, 17:47

What was cut from the HK/MIHK version?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 19 Sep 2007, 23:53

grim_tales wrote:I presume Full Uncut Version on the MIHK tape means the uncut HK version (which was "cut").

MIHK thought it was uncut because the BBFC passed it without cuts; they apparently didn't realise at the time that it had already been cut by the HK censors.

I can't think of all the cuts; but the one I remember most is near the beginning when a guy gets chopped in half whilst riding a horse.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Sep 2007, 00:26

That wasnt on the MIHK VHS? I thought it was...

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 20 Sep 2007, 13:18

It was missing the goriest shots.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Sep 2007, 13:24

Aw oki.

Any sex-scenes removed?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 20 Sep 2007, 21:26

Lol, no.

Except the one where Carman Lee strips off in the hot tub and pleasures herself with a bar of soap.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Sep 2007, 22:51

Damn.... I was really hoping on seeing some guy-on-guy action, after all the sexual tension between Chow Yun Fat and Simon Yam in that other Ringo lam classic, Full Contact.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 20 Sep 2007, 23:34

Yeah, Ringo cut the scene where Simon Yam puts butter on Chow Yun Fat's anus and..... oh wait, wrong movie!!!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 22 Sep 2007, 22:43

what a movie this is

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Oct 2007, 10:36

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/forums/showth ... post510789

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 02 Oct 2007, 11:07

Thanks Hung. Party time!

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 02 Oct 2007, 11:24

Let's hope they dont fuck up the release.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Oct 2007, 13:35

Yi-Long wrote:Let's hope they dont fuck up the release.

Their Ebola Syndrome dvd was terrific (great transfer, good audio, new subtitles, deleted scenes, commentary by Herman Yau and Anthony Wong, interview etc.) so I'm hopeful for this release, too.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 02 Oct 2007, 14:08

Wow.... that sounds good.

Really hope they will do this movie justice so we will finally see those guy-on-guy sexscenes

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 Oct 2007, 15:10

Good stuff.......... 8)