Last Hero in China = Scholar DVD vs PL DVD vs HKV DVD

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Oct 2006, 07:33

Took ages to do this because I wanted to hear Alan Chui's laugh

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Scholar is the longer Taiwanese version. Typical non-anamorphic suspected PAL>NTSC transfer with burnt-in subtitles, Mandarin 2.0 and no extras.

Prism Leisure contains an anamorphic transfer likely ported from the French DVD as it has an orange tone, 2.0 Cantonese and non-removable flubtitles (taken from theatrical print). Title card isn't original (static English one to replace the original Chinese set which came up with 'Wong Fei Hung', then another set of characters that said 'Iron Rooster' and then 'Vs Centipede' - presumably. All on the same screen). Export international English trailer, image gallery and biographies/filmographies are included as extras which is decent enough for a low-priced low-market(ish) DVD.

Scholar = R3 Taiwan.
Prism Leisure = R2 (possibly R0) United Kingdom.
HKVideo = R2 France.

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EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Oct 2006, 08:31

Wow, even Tartan's cheapskate subsidiary Prism Leisure can produce decent DVDs.

What is this movie exactly? A Wong Jing parody of OUATIC?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Oct 2006, 08:37

Strange subtitle font, Prism Leisure is clearly better.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Oct 2006, 13:53

EvaUnit02 wrote:Wow, even Tartan's cheapskate subsidiary Prism Leisure can produce decent DVDs.

Is this what they technically are?

I'm sure they're there own company and specialise in releasing budget (i.e - shit) versions of other companies DVDs. They've released Metrodome stuff before too.

EvaUnit02 wrote:What is this movie exactly? A Wong Jing parody of OUATIC?

Yes

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 29 Oct 2006, 14:25

hey,

part a Wong Jing film and part a Yuen Woo-Ping film. Should tell you a lot. Unfortunately Jet Li is stuck making both films but as I believe he produced the film, you never know if he actually pushed for the rooster outfit at the end.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 29 Oct 2006, 14:27

haven't watched this in ages but it's pretty dire imo

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 29 Oct 2006, 14:31

hey,

the wire action is quite lovely and outrageous, basically the times Wong Jing was not on the set.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Oct 2006, 21:26

I loved this movie, KFC gave it a fair review

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tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Oct 2006, 21:37

I'll be adding HK Vidéo caps in a while.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Oct 2006, 21:42

Cheers Tom!

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 29 Oct 2006, 22:05

*Starts singing in french*

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 29 Oct 2006, 23:22

French wins but some shots are poor and other DVDs may win (say: in colour only).

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 30 Oct 2006, 01:12

bradavon wrote: Is this what they technically are?

Yes, they're owned by Tartan.

I'm sure they're there own company and specialise in releasing budget (i.e - shit) versions of other companies DVDs. They've released Metrodome stuff before too.

Subsidiaries normally have autonomous management from their parent companies for the most part.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 30 Oct 2006, 01:43

That would explain the 'Hard Boiled' Metrodome release.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 04 Nov 2006, 10:42

Tom, can you please redo the French shot of Gordon Liu? It's a frame or two off (look at the fire in the background to help).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Nov 2006, 15:25

Aren't all 3 off on that one, look at the fingers.

TBH I don't think it has to be 100% exact (very few comparison sites can claim this is always the case). The whole point for me anyway is we can tell which is the best so we know what to buy, you don't need "exact" frames to do this.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 04 Nov 2006, 19:07

Ach shut up Brad lol. Look at the fire behind him

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bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Nov 2006, 19:28

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bradavon wrote:Aren't all 3 off on that one, look at the fingers.

chenlung · Post by **chenlung** » 04 Nov 2006, 19:31

Doesn't appear to be any problems that I can see

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