Enter the Dragon (1973) (40th Anniversary Edition) (Remastered)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by cmac

It's been moved to August to give us some more time.

And y'all had better get it right*, or Bruce Lee's ghost will nunchuk your asses right into the bargain bin.

*Unless Fortune Star have given you a bunch of upscaled masters, in which case you're ****ed before you've even got out of the starting gate. Sorry.

[OldPangYau]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

And y'all had better get it right*, or Bruce Lee's ghost will nunchuk your asses right into the bargain bin.

*Unless Fortune Star have given you a bunch of upscaled masters, in which case you're ****ed before you've even got out of the starting gate. Sorry.

Good call Thankfully, upscales haven't really been much of an issue with The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, or Way of the Dragon (except the French blus, apparently, which allegedly were upscales for BB and WOTD). But Game of Death has been guilty of being an upscale.

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by cmac

It's been moved to August to give us some more time.

Not trying to sound ungrateful, seriously -- some incredibly wonderful things coming out of Shout! Factory, and you do the best with what you can get -- but, having reviewed the Bruce Lee Double Feature DVDs you guys are putting out at the end of the month (for DVDTalk), I sincerely hope "more time" includes "time to include the original audio" because all English dubs is a bummer.

[Geoff D]

To paraphrase Judge Dredd: no Chinese audio is an automatic fail.

Even the shitty fortune star 5.1 remixes would be better than nothing.

[skeprod224]

FYI, While the English version of ETD did not have the "restored" scenes, the original Hong Kong release (in Mandarin) did. In 1974 (I think) I saw ETD at the Sing Lee theater in L.A.s Chinatown. I was blown away to see this footage for the first time. My sifu (whom I saw it with) did some research and told me that WB thought that non-Asian audiences would not get the meaning behind it. I don't mind the extended version but it does move along more smoothly in it's original English version.

Two things I don't understand about the DVD/Blu-Ray versions are why they did not use Lee's voice (instead of John Little's) as it was available and why did they remove the sound of Bolo being hit in his fight with Roper. In the original version the Camera cuts to Han watching the fight and we hear the strike but don't see it, leaving the final blow that kills him to our imagination.

One more bit of trivia, the import DVDs of Longstreet has bonus footage of just Bruce Lee's scenes from Marlow on one disc and a episode of Ironside that Lee appears in (with a fight scene). Pretty cool!

[Ill_Be_Back]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

And y'all had better get it right*, or Bruce Lee's ghost will nunchuk your asses right into the bargain bin.

*Unless Fortune Star have given you a bunch of upscaled masters, in which case you're ****ed before you've even got out of the starting gate. Sorry.

+1

[cmac]

Originally Posted by tylergfoster

Not trying to sound ungrateful, seriously -- some incredibly wonderful things coming out of Shout! Factory, and you do the best with what you can get -- but, having reviewed the Bruce Lee Double Feature DVDs you guys are putting out at the end of the month (for DVDTalk), I sincerely hope "more time" includes "time to include the original audio" because all English dubs is a bummer.

Those two double features were originally created as WalMart budget releases and were never intended to be released to all retailers, but then the sales department made it available to all.
The deluxe box set will have multiple audio tracks to choose from.

[drees5761]

Originally Posted by cmac

Those two double features were originally created as WalMart budget releases and were never intended to be released to all retailers, but then the sales department made it available to all.
The deluxe box set will have multiple audio tracks to choose from.

Thats good to hear...
Will you include the original mono?...because all of the Blu ray releases elsewhere have 5.1 remixes with awful added sound effects which spoil the films completely.

[tylergfoster]

Originally Posted by cmac

Those two double features were originally created as WalMart budget releases and were never intended to be released to all retailers, but then the sales department made it available to all.
The deluxe box set will have multiple audio tracks to choose from.

Thumbs up.

[Cactus]

And let that be the ORIGINAL mono, not a downmix of the new 5.1 as some Shaw Bros discs have had.

[OldPangYau]

Originally Posted by cmac

Those two double features were originally created as WalMart budget releases and were never intended to be released to all retailers...

Ah, so they were meant for the crowd that would normally go "Ewww, subtitles! I don't want that!" It's sad how many people I know who get scared away by subtitles... in fact, last year, I was telling someone about The Raid, and they thought it sounded awesome. But the moment I told them it was in Indonesian with English subtitles, I cost Sony Pictures Classics one movie ticket

But I guess even if the disc had both language tracks, some of the more short-attention-spanned people would probably only see "Chinese" listed predominantly and put it back. Ugh.

Oh well, bring on the proper blu-rays... and PLEASE with proper mono tracks (well, 2.0 stereo for Game of Death, the only one that was meant to have a Dolby 2-channel stereo track, as present on Fox's "Master Collection" DVD).

[Cactus]

Originally Posted by OldPangYau

Ah, so they were meant for the crowd that would normally go "Ewww, subtitles! I don't want that!" It's sad how many people I know who get scared away by subtitles... in fact, last year, I was telling someone about The Raid, and they thought it sounded awesome. But the moment I told them it was in Indonesian with English subtitles, I cost Sony Pictures Classics one movie ticket

But I guess even if the disc had both language tracks, some of the more short-attention-spanned people would probably only see "Chinese" listed predominantly and put it back. Ugh.

Oh well, bring on the proper blu-rays... and PLEASE with proper mono tracks (well, 2.0 stereo for Game of Death, the only one that was meant to have a Dolby 2-channel stereo track, as present on Fox's "Master Collection" DVD).

The Raid was actually dubbed too. So tell them again.

[newgen2005]

Just pre-ordered this from Amazon.com, a little more expensive than I thought it would be! $41 delivered to the UK!

[OldPangYau]

Originally Posted by Cactus

The Raid was actually dubbed too. So tell them again.

Not in theaters, which was the only way to see it when I told them about it

But yeah, if they rented the DVD/blu, then they can watch it dubbed. But DAMN is it a wretched English dub! But I digress...

[gates70]

Unless I missed it, is there any news as to a new master or anything ? This thread isn't exactly hopping with news lol

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by gates70

Unless I missed it, is there any news as to a new master or anything ? This thread isn't exactly hopping with news lol

Yup. It's a remastered edition.

The film, which helped bring interest in the Asian martial arts genre to mainstream Western cinema, has been re-mastered for its 40th anniversary..

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Yup. It's a remastered edition.

Thank you sir!

[Rz_Samurai]

Wow i just found out about this release.....

what is the difference from the one currently out? PQ or AQ

[madlost1]

Originally Posted by Rz_Samurai

Wow i just found out about this release.....

what is the difference from the one currently out? PQ or AQ

The three posts right above yours:

Originally Posted by gates70

Unless I missed it, is there any news as to a new master or anything ? This thread isn't exactly hopping with news lol

Originally Posted by Akijama

Yup. It's a remastered edition.

Originally Posted by gates70

Thank you sir!

[pedromc69]

Will Dragon the Bruce lee story be coming out on Blu ray its the 20th Anniversary i need this with dts hd