The Official "Dragon Dynasty" Thread!

RickyTheDragonSteamboat · Post by **RickyTheDragonSteamboat** » 27 Jun 2008, 21:11

The person in charge of TCM's special features obviously had a very hard job to do. I'm not gonna hold that against them. I'm just glad it's no longer a two disc release with 2 hours of Bey and Brett "celebrating" the film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Jun 2008, 21:32

There is that to be thankful of. I'd rather have 1 disc of decent extras than 2 discs of rubbish ones.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 27 Jun 2008, 21:41

I'm curious to know why Jet, Michelle and the Yuen Clan don't feature.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Jun 2008, 21:43

DD/HKL rarely seem to get the main stars to contribute.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 27 Jun 2008, 22:19

They don't have to speak English to conduct an interview - subtitled commentaries have happened too

. Aside from that, it can be a money issue with the contributors and/or they are happy to talk, but not appear themselves (or not at all).

On Brett's appearance (I imagine like last time, he has volunteered his time): the commercial appeal is good and does work to an extent, but it can't be stretched too far as it'll be evident he's being milked when the film has to healthily stand out on it's own too (especially if he's not worked with the stars before, or isn't associated with the film) - the only one that makes it on is Chin Siu Ho sadly. I'm curious about Yuen Cheung Yan, Yuen Woo Ping, Fennie Yuen, Jet and Michelle.

If the role is too small to 'qualify' as a standalone interview, they could do a making-of featurette featuring snippets of everyone (like HKL did with 'Warriors Two').

RickyTheDragonSteamboat · Post by **RickyTheDragonSteamboat** » 27 Jun 2008, 23:20

Bey mentioned on one of his earlier blogs that big HK film "stars" never grant interviews, sighting time as a main factor. I think it's just because they hate Americans / westerners. Plain and simple.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Jun 2008, 08:39

chenlung wrote:They don't have to speak English to conduct an interview - subtitled commentaries have happened too .

Of course.

Do the main public know how Ratner is? I doubt it. He's not got to the level of Tarantino or Spielberg in people knowing who he is.

RickyTheDragonSteamboat wrote:Bey mentioned on one of his earlier blogs that big HK film "stars" never grant interviews, sighting time as a main factor.

That's a pity. Donnie Yen has done some. I cannot be that hard to find time for a 20 minute interview. It's a shame as they're the ones most people want to see on the extras.

RickyTheDragonSteamboat wrote:I think it's just because they hate Americans / westerners. Plain and simple.

I doubt that's why. Many of them have starred in Hollywood films, it must bring them major cash, they won't see back home.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 28 Jun 2008, 15:01

Li and Yeoh are more Hollywood stars than HK nowadays anyway, but either way they're simply too high profile for DD. They've also been filming The Mummy 3 and are about to embark on a no doubt lengthy publicity campaign for that.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 28 Jun 2008, 15:06

To big for their boots is one way to say it, why bother with a crappy dvd thats gonna sell a few thousands copies when you can get massive cash for doing other things. I am sure they all get asked to do dvds and the sort from all over the world every week, no way they would have time for them all.

Esspecially if the films shit and they want to forget it

RickyTheDragonSteamboat · Post by **RickyTheDragonSteamboat** » 04 Jul 2008, 19:53

I can understand if they can't speak English or are dead (or both), but even someone as busy as Simon Yam, who makes 2 or 3 movies at once, grants interviews on a regular basis. Michelle Yeoh has appeared in only 2 or 3 movies in the last 5 years!

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 04 Jul 2008, 21:40

RickyTheDragonSteamboat wrote:Bey mentioned on one of his earlier blogs that big HK film "stars" never grant interviews, sighting time as a main factor. I think it's just because they hate Americans / westerners. Plain and simple.

What makes you say that? Thats a rather stupid accusation to make

I wager they want too much money these days - there are plenty of pre-98 low-rent Western interviews with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Lau Kar Leung

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 04 Jul 2008, 23:24

Simon Yam appears very unpretentious and an all round nice guy (he adopts foreign orphans!!)

Lau Ka-Leung is a different story and I don't know what the deal is there - but the like of Jackie, Jet, Michelle, etc, are too rich and too busy to bother with DVD releases of OLD movies.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 04 Jul 2008, 23:24

Can we really compare Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li to Simon Yam though? As i've said in my earlier post, Lee and Yeoh are now more Hollywood stars than Chinese, and how many Hollywood stars do you see on DVDs not released in conjunction with big film studios these days?

I wager they want too much money these days - there are plenty of pre-98 low-rent Western interviews with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Lau Kar Leung

Exactly, before they cracked Hollywood. I'd wager it's more that their Hollywood agents just won't bother booking time for them with small independant labels anymore. Part of the reason for that (probably a big part) has got to be the money.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 04 Jul 2008, 23:30

Oh, I wasn't really comparing them as such, I realise that Yam has more to gain in promoting older movies than the Hollywood stars. If Jet has to divide his time between promoting The Forbidden Kingdom and Tai Chi Master, which do you think he's gonna bother with?

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 04 Jul 2008, 23:46

Ah sorry Mark, the comment was aimed at Ricky's last post. You hadn't made your post when I started writing it!

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 10 Jul 2008, 23:49

Artwork for:
THE REBEL
&
FIST OF LEGEND

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Jul 2008, 00:16

Great FOL cover art, cheers.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 11 Jul 2008, 04:03

hey,

it's super low res obviously but does that FOL cover say "a Yuen Woo Ping Film" ?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 11 Jul 2008, 08:31

Knetan wrote:it's super low res obviously but does that FOL cover say "a Yuen Woo Ping Film" ?

Indeed it does.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 11 Jul 2008, 14:48

I bet Gordon Chan'll be pissed!

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 11 Jul 2008, 15:13

lol, I think that is a new low in desperate casual buyer attention grabbing!

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 11 Jul 2008, 15:17

Just sold my old Fist of Legend, so will upgrade

would be nice to get a HD version, but hell I dont expect that any time soon, and in HD I am sure the stunt doubles would be even worse, saying that they cannot get much worse.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Jul 2008, 20:35

Which DVD did you own Romero?

Hopefully this will at least match the wonderful French disc, which looks great.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 11 Jul 2008, 20:37

Tai-chi master shipped from pacific yesterday

DangerousLeeHandsome · Post by **DangerousLeeHandsome** » 12 Jul 2008, 02:21

Knetan wrote:hey,

it's super low res obviously but does that FOL cover say "a Yuen Woo Ping Film" ?

I bet the final artwork will change slightly. Hopefully.