Holy Sh*t Play have killed off HKL's website! ;-)

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 26 Mar 2005, 17:28

thelostdragon wrote:The HKL films Rikki was involved in are TTLS and FoF and that's it? Why should his interview be put on an HKL DVD of a film he was not involved with at all?

Yeah, LD, you get what I'm saying. Finally someone.

But I'm not so sure Riki was in Twinkle, Twinkle... was he? Did you spot him?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Mar 2005, 18:23

Like I said HKL will have a reason for interviewing him! Maybe Mark you don't know as much as you thought you did :mrgreen:

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 26 Mar 2005, 18:25

Markgway wrote:
Kronik wrote: They're re-releasing Way of the Dragon? Whats new about it?
I think Grim is referring to the IVL release...?

Yeah, thats it

I was..

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 27 Mar 2005, 00:17

Regarding Riki...

You say HKL are rereleasing WOTD ? maybe the BL part of the interview will be in this. And the JC part in one of the many JC being released in future.

And wasnt a Casanova Wong interview included on the GOD2 DVD ? im sure he wasnt in the movie, although dont quote me on that :p

It would be good to see new releases of the BL movies just to know there are better transfers available. But i wont be upgrading, im perfectly happy with my curent HKLs. And watching BL in a language other than canto is no-no for me, so inclusion of a mandarin soundtrack doesnt bother me.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 27 Mar 2005, 00:40

jimmyscab wrote:You say HKL are rereleasing WOTD ?

No one said that. Grim was talking about the upcoming HK release.

And wasnt a Casanova Wong interview included on the GOD2 DVD ? im sure he wasnt in the movie, although dont quote me on that :p

His footage from Game of Death was used in the International prints of Game of Death II.

And watching BL in a language other than canto is no-no for me, so inclusion of a mandarin soundtrack doesnt bother me.

Why's that?

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 27 Mar 2005, 00:50

I see and I see

as for cantonese track, just a personal preference. Its what i always listened to. Mandarin would just sound wrong to me, despite it being the original soundtrack (if you can call it that).

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 27 Mar 2005, 00:55

jimmyscab wrote:as for cantonese track, just a personal preference. Its what i always listened to. Mandarin would just sound wrong to me, despite it being the original soundtrack (if you can call it that).

I'll resist the urge to comment... except to confirm that the Mandarin tracks are the original ones... oh, and the Cantonese track on The Big Boss is a travesty of shiteness... But to each his own.... 8)

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 27 Mar 2005, 02:07

I know you have been through this many times on here, so no need comment

hey whats wrong with pink floyd ?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 Mar 2005, 05:47

jimmyscab wrote:hey whats wrong with pink floyd ?

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION. TEACHERS, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE.

I wanted to get HKL Full Contact from cd-wow, but by I the time I finally got a credit card sorted out, they had sold out

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bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Mar 2005, 14:29

EvaUnit02 wrote:by I the time I finally got a credit card sorted out, they had sold out .

I really really hate when that happens. If you're in luck they'll get it back in stock. I suggest e-mailing them.

p.s - It's good to see someone from your part of the world not afraid of importing! Probably a bad comparison but so many members of at Madman are so anal about importing.

They'd rather moan no decent R4 DVD is available instead.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 28 Mar 2005, 11:52

Mark where did you hear about a Big Boss re-release? Wasn't there a rumor fluing round that the other Bruce titles would be released as Platinums in order to tie them in with WOTD/GoD?

Also on ADVDG, Scott (Chen Lung) says Fox (or HKL?) Duel To The Death will contain Mono also.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Mar 2005, 17:46

Is there any/much Bruce Lee footage left? IMO the people who knew Bruce could talk forever about him it doesn't mean HKL needs to keep recording it.

As for DTTD it must be the HKL as the Fox DVD has been out since 2003 but wait I missed this completely, check out this official DVD Times press release:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=56439

If HKL start doing this for all their DVDs finally everyone should be happy. I'm starting to believe the Mono Master news

Strangely Mono isn't mentioned on the DVD Times COF or Master press release.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Mar 2005, 08:06

bradavon wrote:
EvaUnit02 wrote:by I the time I finally got a credit card sorted out, they had sold out .
I really really hate when that happens. If you're in luck they'll get it back in stock. I suggest e-mailing them.

I fired off an email to them before the Easter break, they replied saying that they've forwarded my inquiry to their buyer James Marsh and that he should reply shortly (whenever he's back from the Easter break I guess).

I really hope they get Full Contact back in stock, cuz I don't want to buy to from Amazon-uk for £13+ (about $37NZD). Non-Platinum HKL's aren't worth it for that much IMO.

p.s - It's good to see someone from your part of the world not afraid of importing! Probably a bad comparison but so many members of at Madman are so anal about importing.

They'd rather moan no decent R4 DVD is available instead.

Hahaha. Fools, especially with the US economy being down the crapper. Ordering online is safe as long as one is educated properly on the dangers and workarounds.

I try to get the best globally available English-friendly version of a movie as often as possible, as long as the price is reasonable. Eg If I were to buy Hero, I'd get the R3 HK Edko release. Since for the low price you get a transfer that's reportedly superior transfer to all the Di$ney releases (R1,2,4) which are rife with edge enchancement and a full-bitrate DTS-ES (dunno if it's discrete of matrix) track (whereas the R1 Di$ney release is only DTS 5.1 and probably half-bitrate).

Recently I managed to get the Tartan UK Infernal Affairs (my favourite non-John Woo HK film I've seen thus far) release for £12/$31NZD (from cd-wow), only a $1 more expensive than the NZ price for the inferior Eastern Eye release. The Tartan release is 2.35:1 OAR (EE cropped to 2.30:1) and has the subbed commentary track.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Mar 2005, 20:01

Exactly I like your thinking.

Full Contact is £16 before postage from Amazon.co.uk but I was thinking there must be more than two choices for you (CD WOW or Amazon.co.uk) and found these which ship to NZ (not as many as the other way around):

1. Benson's World - £12.24/NZ $32.28 (including £1 postage): http://www.bensonsworld.co.uk/v2/dvd-9/ ... 092109.asp
Delivery Info: http://www.bensonsworld.co.uk/v2/commerce/aboutus.asp
2. Sendit - £14.59/NZ $38.45 (including £1.60 postage): http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000092109
Delivery Info: http://www.sendit.com/help/help_postage
3. Choices Direct - £19.44/NZ $51.24 (including a whopping £5 postage): http://www.choicesdirect.com/templates/ ... uid=666960
Delivery Info: http://www.choicesdirect.com/include/he ... ostage.asp

Even if you find these three to much you've now got some more options for the future. I've used all three and recommend them. I'd say while not as good as CD WOW could do £12.24 is pretty good.

Do you buy from the UK CD WOW and use the £2 vouchers? or the Aussie (I don't think there is a NZ CD WOW) CD WOW? I'm guessing the UK one as you can be billed in NZD and I'm not aware of many Aussie vouchers.

I do the same regarding English friendly versions. I don't tend to buy to many R4 DVDs though. I suspect you own much more R2 ones.

Also exactly regarding Infernal Affairs. It's a pity Tartan didn't do such a good job with the sequel. They didn't bother to include lots of the extras from the HK DVD (including the commentary) and gave it a god awful Photoshopesque style cover.

I own the Tartan DVD for IA but ended up getting the HK DVD for IA2, which has an English subtitled Making Of. I'm holding out for IA3 hoping they fix the sync issue which incidentally I barely noticed but still . . .

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Mar 2005, 21:31

Cheers. I've used sendit.com before, since they were the only ones who seemed to stock the sweet Anchor Bay UK Evil Dead trilogy boxset and Army of Darkness SE w/ DTS (I bought AOD SE cuz the trilogy boxset AOD disc was only a shitty version of the DC mastered from a VHS source).

Majority of those sites you listed seemed awfully pricey. *Shakes fist at high GBP exchange rate*

bradavon wrote:Do you buy from the UK CD WOW and use the £2 vouchers? or the Aussie (I don't think there is a NZ CD WOW) CD WOW? I'm guessing the UK one as you can be billed in NZD and I'm not aware of many Aussie vouchers.

I only used cd-wow for the first time recently, I used a £1 e-voucher I found on the net. Do cd-wow send £2 vouchers with their goods? If so then schweet. My copy of IA hasn't actually arrived yet.

I suspect you own much more R2 ones.

Not really, I only have about eight R2's those far (not counting dual R2/4 encoded movies I bought locally). I probably have far more R1's.[/quote]

Also exactly regarding Infernal Affairs. It's a pity Tartan didn't do such a good job with the sequel. They didn't bother to include lots of the extras from the HK DVD (including the commentary) and gave it a god awful Photoshopesque style cover.

Yeah, heard about that when I read the dvdtimes (or was it dvddebate?) early review of it. I'll prolly get the R3 IA2 from cd-wow. I can't be bothered waiting to see what EE do with IA2. If the IA1 featurettes (I rented the EE disc) are anything to go by then they're probably your typical back-slapping commercial fluff with no real insight into the production; so meh if the majority of the extras have no subs.

That Tartan IA2 coverart is shocking. Tartan's IA1 is bollocks too IMO; that's the only department where the EE trumps the R2. The EE IA1 coverart rocks IMO, I wish I could find a hi-res scan online to replace the shitty R2 cover. Does the R2 have a slipcover? I know Tartan's Oldboy SE does (damn good DVD BTW, I highly recommend it. Well worth the $40NZD I paid for it).

I'm holding out for IA3 hoping they fix the sync issue which incidentally I barely noticed but still . . .

Heard about that. I'll also wait and see what Tartan does, if that sucks then I'll hang out for the EE disc.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 29 Mar 2005, 22:56

I bought the HKL DVd of Full Contact the other week from HMV for £8.99 in their World Cinema sale. It's a great film...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Mar 2005, 13:17

The thing is Eva the cheapo sites don't ship internationally I'm afraid. I don't often buy from the ones I listed as you're right they're not that cheap, most of the time. The R1 IA cover art is vastly worse than Tartan's IA cover art. The R1 is truly god awful. It looks like a bootleg.

p.s - If you're lucky you'll get a measly 50p voucher with the parcel. The e-tailors vouchers thread is your friend.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 30 Mar 2005, 14:16

bradavon wrote:The thing is Eva the cheapo sites don't ship internationally I'm afraid.

Ok.

The R1 IA cover art is vastly worse than Tartan's IA cover art. The R1 is truly god awful. It looks like a bootleg.

I know, inserting a chick onto the cover that's barely even in the movie. Bloody awful, still the Tartan IA coverart is fucking ugly IMO.

p.s - If you're lucky you'll get a measly 50p voucher with the parcel. The e-tailors vouchers thread is your friend.

I have like 12x £1 e-vouchers, it can be used with a physical voucher (eg it's 50p) plus this totalling a £2 discount.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 31 Mar 2005, 01:07

The best vouchers I've found are one £1 voucher link (like the one you link to above but £1) plus a £1 voucher code. FYI to save confusion generally members refer to them as a voucher link or voucher code.

I take it you mean a £1 voucher code you paste in when you check out when you say e-voucher? and when you say physical voucher you also mean 50p voucher you paste in (but I'm guessing ther other box). You then use this 50p link.

Is that right?

I ask as that means:

A. 3 Different vouchers, there are vouchers on the e-tailors thread which means you only need 2 vouchers.
B. AFAIK you can paste in more than 1 voucher per order.

Please explain???

Does the R2 have a slipcover?

Yes

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 31 Mar 2005, 08:13

bradavon wrote:I take it you mean a £1 voucher code you paste in when you check out when you say e-voucher? and when you say physical voucher you also mean 50p voucher you paste in (but I'm guessing ther other box). You then use this 50p link.

Is that right?

In theory, it could work.

Apply Link voucher first then add items to cart, then at the check-out: e-voucher code + WOW! voucher code (what I was calling a physical voucher before) pasted in their respective fields.

Every penny pinched is a big help to me cuz of the high GBP exchange.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 31 Mar 2005, 13:25

I see, so you were just guessing it would work?

There is no point tbh as there are seperate £1 codes and links that give you £2 from 2 vouchers instead of 3.

Thanks though.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Apr 2005, 13:05

bradavon wrote:I see, so you were just guessing it would work?

Yup/

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Apr 2005, 01:08

OMG NOT good news guys. The latest HKL newsletter (and to think HKL finally gave us Mono but now this):

Tom Yum Goong, Tony Jaa’s big-budget follow-up to Ong Bak, is just about to wrap in Thailand. The action is nothing short of amazing, and we are very, very excited about the final product. Coming Soon on Premier Asia!

We have just finished our brand-new music score for Ong Bak, and are making final preparations for our UK theatrical release on May 13th. Please make sure you check it out; we think it sounds great! The Ong Bak theatrical trailer has also been completed, and be will showing in cinemas during April and early May. Please let us know what you think.

The only good news I can see is there is no mention of cuts. I guess they think Ong-Bak has a to much Thai orientated score. To me that bollocks it sounded fine

. There is more:

Sifu Dan Inosanto and world-acclaimed action-director, Jeff Imada, have both appeared in front of the HKL cameras recently to record two fascinating interviews on the life, philosophy and fighting techniques of the late, great Bruce Lee.

For christ sake I'm getting fed up with HKL spending more money on BL. Sure I love the guy but come on! It's sounding like Mark was right and I was wrong (go figure

). It's looking like a BL film is set for a further PE.

I'm sure they have something against their Premier Asia label and it making money??? Bar The Grudge, Bang Rajan, Champion and Bichunmoo AFAIK all their releases have been tampered with in one way shape or form.

I've e-mailed HKL on feedback@hongkonglegends.co.uk. I've never done this before but it does ask for feedback.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 Apr 2005, 01:55

bradavon wrote:The only good news I can see is there is no mention of cuts. I guess they think Ong-Bak has a to much Thai orientated score. To me that bollocks it sounded fine .

I strongly believe this to be an April Fool. Even HKL wouldn't do something that moronic. 8)

It's sounding like Mark was right and I was wrong (go figure ).

Surely you can't be surprised...?

It's looking like a BL film is set for a further PE.

PLEASE... The Big Boss!!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Apr 2005, 03:11

Markgway wrote:I strongly believe this to be an April Fool. Even HKL wouldn't do something that moronic. 8)

I never thought of that. Are you being serious?

Markgway wrote:PLEASE... The Big Boss!!

Please be FOF. I'm not a particulary huge fan of TBB.