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signofzeta
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Post subject: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 24 Aug 2019, 07:33 |
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Recently I’ve been on a Jackie Chan kick and while these movies are almost unruinable no matter how bad the dub or the transfer I sure would love to have better copies of some of this stuff. Most of what I have are DVDs from the 90s when this stuff finally got big in the US. I have LDs of some things, Taiseng, US Jackie Chan stuff.
So who can recommend some good movies like this on Blu-ray or even maybe just streaming, something based on a new transfer? Basic priced good deals, not impossible to find $500 things but I want better quality than the multi-packs and other DVDs I have. I know many of these movies are going to be blurry forever due to them just not being in focus when they shot them but it would be nice if they weren’t so dark as some of the stuff I have. This version of Project A II I’m watching looks like they telecined it at an angle.
Some of my favorite movies of this type:
Pretty much any pre-97 Jackie Chan
Jet Li, New Fist of Legend, Once Upon a Time...
Tsui Hark
Heroic Trio
The Vampire Family (a bit of an outlier here...)
The Killer, The Peace Hotel, A Better Tomorrow, etc.
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deadlegion
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 24 Aug 2019, 11:21 |
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Project A movies are fun, I've only ever seen them on DVD though and never bothered with dubs...I mean the tracks are there but I don't like it. Pretty sure Drunken Master (1978) is on BD now. Jackie Chan movies dubbed sound horrible, the few times I've seen/heard them anyway Not only is the VA bad and inappropriate the sound is messed up. Iron Monkey (1993)...Donnie Yen, you've probably already seen it, I believe the uncut version had a 2k remaster. Maybe I can think of more later...most of what I've seen has been on VHS/DVD and I need to figure out what has been released on BD now (for myself too). A little offtopic here, I wish there was a BD set with English subs of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994). I only have fansubs atm. Edit: Police Story I & II are on BD. I think some versions are low bitrate possibly SD source upscaled.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 01:16 |
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Jackie Chan used to stay with his parents in my town, he used to walk around in a white suit a lot. You'd see him getting in and out of his car Dukes of Hazard style, never used the door handle. He helped build a lot of the houses around where I live too before he was famous, a local brickie I know actually gave him the name Jackie because he couldn't catch his Chinese name. He doesn't visit anymore because his parents are dead but he founded a few kung fu schools and has lots of friends here. This went up a few years ago in my town: basically with all HK actioners I'd recommend an analogue source like Laserdisc or VHS as the ultimate for fluid fast motion seens. Nothing beats analogue in this case.
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 09:25 |
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deadlegion wrote: Police Story I & II are on BD. I think some versions are low bitrate possibly SD source upscaled. Not the Eureka and Criterion ones.
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deadlegion
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 13:12 |
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nissling wrote: deadlegion wrote: Police Story I & II are on BD. I think some versions are low bitrate possibly SD source upscaled. Not the Eureka and Criterion ones. PS II I think the UK (101 mins) and HK (106 mins) versions are low bitrate upscales. Might be older BD remasters...idk, I just thought it was worth mentioning there are lower quality versions out there.
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deadlegion
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Post subject: Re: Recommended Chinese Action Movie Releases Posted: 25 Aug 2019, 23:44 |
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signofzeta wrote: I should get that.
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