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

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 15 Oct 2008, 07:59

OT but - http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/904659/S ... oduct.html

HOW MUCH????

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Oct 2008, 10:14

Ivan do you reckon Dragon Fist is worth getting despite all that?

I thought the original language was Cantonese.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 15 Oct 2008, 12:58

Ivan Drago wrote:OT but - http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/904659/S ... oduct.html

HOW MUCH????

Wow... seems a bit steep.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Oct 2008, 14:00

WTF at that price.

Markgway wrote:To show Yuen Biao how "crazy" his character is.

WTF! What a lame reason.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Oct 2008, 14:35

£379 WTF!

I think I'll get some of those cheap HKL's, is Magnificent Bodyguards any good? Thats only £3. I thought I'd get that with Dragon Fist/Shaolin Wooden Men and Last Hurrah for Chivalry,

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 15 Oct 2008, 16:16

Magnificent = Downmix, wrong language and an enjoyable film personally

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Shaolin Wooden Men = Wrong Language.

Last Hurrah For Chivalry = Might be the best subtitles around, although it does have some competitors like Megastar which are also said to be good (a possible port of Tai Seng's?). However, Dragon Dynasty has a few extras.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 Oct 2008, 16:23

£379? That was the film's budget!!

grim_tales wrote:Ivan do you reckon Dragon Fist is worth getting despite all that? I thought the original language was Cantonese.

Shot in Korea with the Chinese actors speaking Mandarin. Although it was released in HK after a delay with a Cantonese dub.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 15 Oct 2008, 16:47

Markgway wrote:Shot in Korea with the Chinese actors speaking Mandarin. Although it was released in HK after a delay with a Cantonese dub.

I disagree about determining the language based on lip-sync only (although if the language was intended to be Mandarin, then fair enough). It's the studio's decision IMO. Include both if you want to satisfy both arguments.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Oct 2008, 16:51

Theres also a "Spiritual Kung Fu" DVD, 2.35/1, Cantonese etc, release year is given as 1978. I thought it was released in 1980?
I'll buy a few movies and see if I like them, Fearless Hyena was quite good.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 15 Oct 2008, 17:07

Spiritual Kung Fu is also a Mandarin film - HKL's DVD doesn't include mono at all.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Oct 2008, 17:20

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 15 Oct 2008, 18:03

grim_tales wrote:Ivan do you reckon Dragon Fist is worth getting despite all that?
I thought the original language was Cantonese.

It is downmix so I'd say don't bother

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 15 Oct 2008, 18:05

chenlung wrote:I disagree about determining the language based on lip-sync only (although if the language was intended to be Mandarin, then fair enough). It's the studio's decision IMO. Include both if you want to satisfy both arguments.

Dragon Fist was produced by Lo Wei and all of his films with Jackie Chan were Mandarin with the sole exception of The Fearless Hyena.

The reason Dragon Fist was released in HK with a Cantonese dub is because it came out about a year after Drunken Master even though it was filmed many months before that film.

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow was Jackie's first Cantonese film.

Dragon Fist his last Mandarin one.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 15 Oct 2008, 22:34

Theres' also a DVD of Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin - 2.35/1. Cantonese (should be Mandarin I guess), bound to be a step up from the fucking awful EH disc), any good?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 16 Oct 2008, 04:48

grim_tales wrote:Theres' also a DVD of Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin - 2.35/1. Cantonese (should be Mandarin I guess), bound to be a step up from the fucking awful EH disc), any good?

Actually the DVd is Mandarin but again a dowmix

The Columbia was 2.35:1 and proper Mandarin but cut by 5min - not censored, just missing random bits of footage

Fearless Hyena was the only HKL Jackie Chan/Lo Wei DVD to have genuine mono. I reccomend renting the others first to judge whether you can cope with the remixes - I know I can't!

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 17 Oct 2008, 16:41

Are the AUS releases exactly the same as the UK DVDs?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 17 Oct 2008, 16:50

Yes, censor cuts and all

ONE exception I know of. Dragon Inn Australia has an optional English dub, HKL just has Mandarin audio.

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 17 Oct 2008, 16:55

Ok cool. What about stuff like Original Mono tracks?

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 17 Oct 2008, 17:45

Same as HKLs so depends entirely on what the UK disc has.

Those goddawful layer changes are in the same places too, according to one Aussie sight, with the exception of Dragon Inn, which from reviews seems to have a better layer change than HKL's UK disc, which was slap bang in the middle of a shot of people charging towards the camera

jimmyscab · Post by **jimmyscab** » 17 Oct 2008, 19:30

Ok thanks

They should have added the Cantonese track not the english one :shock:

Anyway coincidently I received Dragon Inn today through the post (R3 version). Nice picture, but don't remember the tint being that extreme. Well Canto track at least, 5.1 + Original!

The HKL trailer for it is still one of my favs though.

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 17 Oct 2008, 22:10

Yeah I love that trailer too! HKL made some really impressive ones back in the day - heck, they made Black Sheep Affair look like the best film EVER!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Oct 2008, 23:46

I loved the haunting music they used on the Fist of Fury CE trailer, and the Story of Ricky one that made it look like a serious prison drama (!)

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 14 Dec 2008, 21:28

Seems more and more HKLs are now out of print. Just a few still avaliable cheap - notably the Bruce Lee films.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 Dec 2008, 21:54

Back to shite HK DVDs then

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Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 09 Feb 2010, 23:52

This year is HKL's 10th anniversary and I kinda miss them.

Bullets 'n' Babes

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