The Killer: R2DE vs R1 vs R2UK vs R2FR vs R2Nordic vs R3HK

[thelostdragon]

e-m-s is releasing it this month. As with their prior Chow Yun-fat DVDs (Full Contact, Hard Boiled, Prison on Fire 1 + 2) this is going to be an HD transfer.

[bradavon]

Cool. It will be interesting to see how it compares.

Does the EMS HB beat the French HB?

[tom2681]

IMO, no.
But you can check it out yourself in the HB BnB comparison.

[bradavon]

Cheers and agreed. The French is still the best.

The German looks nice in some shots but overall the colours have been manipulated too much.

[chenlung]

How about adding my shots ?

[thelostdragon]

Whoa! Just got the new German DVD release from e-m-s (the guys who released "Full Contact", "A Chinese Ghost Story 1- 3" and "Prison on Fire 1 + 2" from HD sources) and the image is stunning. It has the most video information you'll get at the time being and it is sharp as a katana.

For all the Germans here (errr... dragonhero005 who is from Austria ), there is an all new dub, which is way more professional that the old one. The old one is not included, which is a bit of a pitty as it is a classic to me, he he he!

Picture comparison between the IVL/HKL/HK Video/e-m-s:
http://web12.dvd2web.de/killer/killer.htm
http://www.caps-a-holic.com/vergleich.p ... leichID=44

[thelostdragon]

My own screenshots of the e-m-s disc:
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... eems01.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... eems02.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... eems03.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... eems04.jpg
https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... eems05.jpg

[Paradoxon]

Anybody on this board speaking/understanding cantonese?
I ask because of the many different translations from this movie. For example, the sentence translated on the Criterion- and the HKL-Disc as "Easy to pick up, hard to put down" is translated on the old german disc (Laser Paradise) as "This game will some day be my end" ("Dieses Spiel wird eines Tages mein Ende sein") and on the new german DVD (ems) as "I feel like touched by death" ("Mir ist, als hätte mich der Tod berührt").
BTW: The new german disc has good picture quality, but unfortunatly there is one frame missing. Instead of the frame you can see this:




It's just one frame out of many thousands, but it's still a little annoying......

[thelostdragon]

@Paradaxon
In what scene does that occur?

[Paradoxon]

@Paradaxon
In what scene does that occur?

Should be somewhere between 32:35 and 32:37

[tom2681]

French translation: "It's hard to let it go..."
I reckon "Easy to pick up, hard to put down" is the best interpretation.

[Sevket]

Has anyone got The Killer (Joy Sales Remastered Version) ? I wonder if it's worth buying

[EvaUnit02]

Has anyone got The Killer (Joy Sales Remastered Version) ? I wonder if it's worth buying

It should be a direct port of the IVL which is included in this comparison. IMO I'd say that you'd be better off with the HKL, for the vastly superior subtitles.

[DangerousLeeHandsome]

Joy Sales' re-issue of Bullet In The Head carried over the poor subtitles of the IVL disc so I imagine The Killer will too.

[chenlung]

I don't buy Joy Sales shit, unless it's unique.

They are totally out of touch by releasing the old films, especially without anything new.

[Sevket]

Has anyone got The Killer (Joy Sales Remastered Version) ? I wonder if it's worth buying

It should be a direct port of the IVL which is included in this comparison. IMO I'd say that you'd be better off with the HKL, for the vastly superior subtitles.

I already have HKL one so I'll stick to that

[dvdvision]

Just a bumper to add that the french taiwan cut is not from a "workprint", it's from a used "print", ie actual print that was sent to cinemas in Taiwan. Hence the burned in subs.