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Halloween Jack posted:The oddest convention of kung fu movies to me, watching them growing up, was that after the final battle with the chief bad guy BOOM the movie's just over. There's typically no epilogue beyond a "Yay, we did it!" for a happy movie or "Oh poo poo now everybody's dead" for a sad one. And since the credits were done at the beginning of the film the movie is really and truly over right then and there. Lights up, everybody leave. Kind of felt like there was supposed to be no pretense. Here's a bad guy, and now he's done. What more do you want? Funny to think about the reverse of this. Someone who grew up used to the abrupt endings of kung fu movies and then watching other movies. The bad guy is defeated, the viewer gets up to leave but there's still more movie. Just a string of silent what-the-gently caress's over the next fifteen minutes.
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Lobok posted:And since the credits were done at the beginning of the film the movie is really and truly over right then and there. Lights up, everybody leave. Kind of felt like there was supposed to be no pretense. Here's a bad guy, and now he's done. What more do you want? Oh god that would make every movie like ROTK. Those poor poor people.
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moller posted:I hope you mean both the head and the body of the witch, since an exploding witch usually leaves you with an angry, flying head. If seventh curse taught me anything is that you should always be armed with a weird reptilian like baby ghost thing as well as an RPG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLbdJfiabK8
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Halloween Jack posted:The oddest convention of kung fu movies to me, watching them growing up, was that after the final battle with the chief bad guy BOOM the movie's just over. There's typically no epilogue beyond a "Yay, we did it!" for a happy movie or "Oh poo poo now everybody's dead" for a sad one. You are all free now
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Lobok posted:And since the credits were done at the beginning of the film the movie is really and truly over right then and there. Lights up, everybody leave. Kind of felt like there was supposed to be no pretense. Here's a bad guy, and now he's done. What more do you want?
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Halloween Jack posted:The oddest convention of kung fu movies to me, watching them growing up, was that after the final battle with the chief bad guy BOOM the movie's just over. There's typically no epilogue beyond a "Yay, we did it!" for a happy movie or "Oh poo poo now everybody's dead" for a sad one. I wish I could remember what film it was, but I once saw a martial arts film that ended with the main villain being split in half with a sword, and his halves had barely started falling before the freeze frame to credits happened. The hero still hadn't landed from his flip attack.
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Lurdiak posted:I wish I could remember what film it was, but I once saw a martial arts film that ended with the main villain being split in half with a sword, and his halves had barely started falling before the freeze frame to credits happened. The hero still hadn't landed from his flip attack. Basically ending on a comic book splash page. Speaking of comic books, it'd be even better for my imagined person to go see a Marvel movie. "Ok ok, I've finally learned that movies don't usually end as soon as the bad guy is defeated. Anyway, the credits are rolling so we're leaving now I take it?" *whisper whisper* "Wait until the end of the credits? Nah gently caress that, I'll see y'all in the parking lot."
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I was always amused by the ending of Legend of Drunken Master. The dub version has a nice wrap-up of the plot, but Jackie Chan isn't there. This is because, originally,wikipedia posted:the concluding scene of the film [...] showed Wong blinded and mentally crippled as a result of drinking industrial alcohol during the film's ultimate fight. Played for laughs, the scene was considered to be in bad taste by the American distributor, Dimension Films.
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I can never find the first Drunken Master, only Legend of I've seen it on Hulu ages ago, but can never find it anymore. Does Jackie hate it now or something?
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Speleothing posted:I can never find the first Drunken Master, only Legend of It's streaming on Amazon (but not free), but it used to be if you walked into any random Disc Replay or Half Price Books you could find a DVD copy of it. There was a Sony release of it that was pretty common right about the time that we got a region 1 DVD of the second one.
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Edit: ^^Yeah, for as incredible as it is I always only ever saw it given the bargain DVD treatment. Even the first time I saw it, when I rented it on VHS back in the day, the quality was terrible. The image was cropped so poorly we couldn't make out most of the subtitles. Never knew the full story until years later (though it's not any kind of difficult plot to suss out). What's the word on Wolf Warrior? Added it to my Netflix list but haven't seen it yet. Lobok fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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Lobok posted:What's the word on Wolf Warrior? Added it to my Netflix list but haven't seen it yet. I like Scott Adkins, but I didn't stick around long enough to see if he has any badass fights.
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Lobok posted:Edit: ^^Yeah, for as incredible as it is I always only ever saw it given the bargain DVD treatment. Even the first time I saw it, when I rented it on VHS back in the day, the quality was terrible. The image was cropped so poorly we couldn't make out most of the subtitles. Never knew the full story until years later (though it's not any kind of difficult plot to suss out). I'm guessing it doesn't help that the source is bad, every copy of the movie I've ever seen looks like total poo poo which isn't exactly a rarity in this genre.
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Oddly enough, I just installed the Roku Channel at home and they're streaming the first Drunken Master on there... dubbed, ofc
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brocked posted:Oddly enough, I just installed the Roku Channel at home and they're streaming the first Drunken Master on there... dubbed, ofc You're not going to generally see subtitles on TV, for whatever reason. El Rey never shows stuff subbed either, IFC back in ye olden days is the only channel I ever saw do it (when they'd show Zatoichi movies and the like). e: also there was this weird "ImaginAsian" channel for a while that showed some subbed anime but it was never anything particularly good.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:You're not going to generally see subtitles on TV, for whatever reason. El Rey never shows stuff subbed either, IFC back in ye olden days is the only channel I ever saw do it (when they'd show Zatoichi movies and the like). Most of the Shaw Bros. stuff on Netflix is/was in both English and Mandarin with subs. Also, god, I can't even imagine how bad dubbed Zatoichi would be.
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my favorite thing watching the dubbed versions of stuff on Prime is there's always the one guy who seemingly recorded all of his lines in a bathroom.
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Yeah, dubs can be weird/hilarious. I remember watching a German dub of some older Jackie Chan movie (might have been Project A?), which was set in colonial China dealing with the piracy along their coast. So at some point we meet the overlord of these buccaneers, but apparently the guy doing the voice only ever read as far as "pirate" and immediately launched into full-on "arr mateys shiver me timbers thar be a treasure" mode. While hilarious, it was just a tiny bit at odds with the otherwise carefully maintained 19th century China period.
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Is Kung Fu Yoga any good? It just popped up on my Netflix, and I do love me some Jackie Chan....
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is Kung Fu Yoga any good? It just popped up on my Netflix, and I do love me some Jackie Chan.... Just watch the ending credits
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Most of the Shaw Bros. stuff on Netflix is/was in both English and Mandarin with subs. Also, god, I can't even imagine how bad dubbed Zatoichi would be. I said on TV; streaming either has both or just picks one essentially at random. And yeah, I have a feeling IFC mostly showed the subs out of necessity for those movies, because I don't think dubs exist for them.
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The El Ray channel has got me addicted to Shaw Bros movies. They marathon them every Tuesday and Sunday and its great to DVR them and have stuff to watch everynight. The part about the abrupt endings is really true too. Heroes of the East kinda drops the wife character halfway through the movie, and what's the deal with the final battle in 36th Chamber ? E: I'm also realizing how much they reuse certain shots of the Shaolin monastery Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Ok, I hate to double post in a dead thread, but what the gently caress at Kid from Kwangtung? That film is insane, it's marvelous. I fell in love 10 minutes in when the man in the chicken costume fought the human centipede. And then there was that long sequence of those hopping Chinese vampires that came out of nowhere. The final fight is brilliant too.
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Mantis42 posted:man in the chicken costume fought the human centipede. 
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The chicken vs centipede fight also happens in Wong Jings Once Upon a Time a Hero in China aka Deadly China Hero aka Last Hero in China, which is about about Wong Fei Hung accidentally expanding Po Chi Lam into a building that sits next to a brothel.
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moller posted:The chicken vs centipede fight also happens in Wong Jings Once Upon a Time a Hero in China aka Deadly China Hero aka Last Hero in China, which is about about Wong Fei Hung accidentally expanding Po Chi Lam into a building that sits next to a brothel. Also Jet Li doing drunken boxing
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https://www.americangenrefilm.com/agfa-shaw-brothers-studio-team-up-for-theatrical-distribution/AGFA + Shaw Brothers Studio team up for theatrical distribution posted:American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive in the world, is excited to announce a theatrical partnership with Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studio. AGFA will distribute thirty new restorations from the Shaw vaults to theaters in 2018. This is AGFA’s latest collaboration following their distribution partnerships with genre home video labels Arrow Films (DONNIE DARKO), Severin Films (SANTA SANGRE), and Vinegar Syndrome (DOLEMITE).
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Schwarzwald posted:https://www.americangenrefilm.com/agfa-shaw-brothers-studio-team-up-for-theatrical-distribution/ this is the best news of my life that is a STACKED list Plenty of Lau Kar-leung, Chang Cheh, and even a King Hu goddamn
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Oh god a restoration of BOXER'S OMEN. Wish they were doing Bewitched too, but I'm all over that day one. Edit: The print of Boxer's Omen I have that, uh, fell off a truck was already very good. But there's no BluRay and the DVD is $Texas. moller fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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FINALLY restorations of these films. Jesus.
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Who gives a crap, the Battle Wizard isn’t on that list so they might as well not even do any of them.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:If I get to watch Crippled Avengers in a theater I'll die a happy man. Seriously.
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Schwarzwald posted:THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN These are the ones I'd drop everything to see if/when they play near me
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That Shaw Brothers news is awesome, hopefully they show some of them near here. Also the local Alamo is showing something called The Sword and the Claw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmhAw833KY4 I feel like I need to see this.
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Schwarzwald posted:https://www.americangenrefilm.com/agfa-shaw-brothers-studio-team-up-for-theatrical-distribution/ Whenever I see these kinds of posts with the list of classic movies I usually just skim over because I assume it's some re-release for Blu-Ray. But these are going in the theatre?! Holy hot drat. Eight Diagram Pole Fighter on the big screen, restored. Yes please.
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Schwarzwald posted:https://www.americangenrefilm.com/agfa-shaw-brothers-studio-team-up-for-theatrical-distribution/ I saw SuperInframan in the theater back in the '70s. I am so ready to see a version that isn't chopped up in editing and with subs so maybe the plot makes 2% more sense. A vain hope I know, that movie will never make any sense. Also Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu and Holy Flame of the Martial World!!!!! Living in the Bay Area, the likelihood that a theater near me will be showing these is very high. 
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I'm not actually that familiar with the AGFA. Are these restorations eventually going to be made available for purchase? The article seems to suggest that these are only going to be shown in theater and I don't expect any place within driving distance will have them.
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