Member Ronin Posted February 14, 2022 Member Share Posted February 14, 2022 19 hours ago, Graeme Of Death said: Does anyone know if the transfers of the Shaw Brothers films on Apple TV are essentially the same as the ones released by 88 and Arrow Video? I think the Jackie films they've released where it says from a new 2K transfer etc might be different but was hoping the Shaw Brothers ones are just the same. Decided a few years ago to sell my collection of I think 2 to 3 thousand DVDs and blu rays but would like to still have some of the old kung fu classics to watch and Apple TV has a great selection that looks to be all the ones 88 have released and will release. Yes, most of the Shaw Brothers films all use the same older HD transfers, except for a few of the films in the recent Arrow Shawscope set, which Arrow had new transfers done for: "King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Challenge of the Masters, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Dirty Ho and the longer international cut of Chinatown Kid have all been newly restored by Arrow Films in 2021, in collaboration with L'Immagine Ritrovata, Hong Kong Film Archive and Celestial Pictures." 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Graeme Of Death Posted February 14, 2022 Member Share Posted February 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Ronin said: Yes, most of the Shaw Brothers films all use the same older HD transfers, except for a few of the films in the recent Arrow Shawscope set, which Arrow had new transfers done for: "King Boxer, The Boxer from Shantung, Challenge of the Masters, The Five Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Dirty Ho and the longer international cut of Chinatown Kid have all been newly restored by Arrow Films in 2021, in collaboration with L'Immagine Ritrovata, Hong Kong Film Archive and Celestial Pictures." Didn't realise Arrow had re-done a few. Hopefully they'll get them added to Apple TV eventually as well as most of their other releases are available. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ronin Posted February 15, 2022 Member Share Posted February 15, 2022 22 hours ago, Graeme Of Death said: Didn't realise Arrow had re-done a few. Hopefully they'll get them added to Apple TV eventually as well as most of their other releases are available. The new transfers look fantastic and do not suffer from the frame cuts that the older Celestial HD transfers suffered from. I doubt these new transfers will ever show up on iTunes/Amazon/etc. as that would require Celestial to update the existing digital/streaming versions, and they seem to have lost interest in that marketplace in the US. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chemical Lemon Posted February 15, 2022 Author Member Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Ronin said: The new transfers look fantastic and do not suffer from the frame cuts that the older Celestial HD transfers suffered from. I doubt these new transfers will ever show up on iTunes/Amazon/etc. as that would require Celestial to update the existing digital/streaming versions, and they seem to have lost interest in that marketplace in the US. Yeah I’ve been sad that celestial lost interest in updating the movies available on streaming services. Granted the volume of new (kung fu/action/horror) movies that have hd transfers but aren’t already available on iTunes is pretty small. I have noticed an uptick in promoting them (via YouTube videos) lately, but it doesn’t appear to be significant. If the new transfers showed up on iTunes I assume it would be under Arrow and not celestial. Not sure if celestial would have to take down their version of it or if they could co-exist. Volume 2 has a couple movies that have never been released on iTunes, possibly there’s a chance those would show up. now that we’re getting legit blu ray releases at a decent pace in the US/UK I’m not that bothered by the lack of updates. I’d really like to set up a Plex server for streaming my blu rays, just requires time and money I don’t have. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member nahnahnah Posted February 15, 2022 Member Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 2/13/2022 at 6:01 AM, Drunksnake said: By hybrid cut, you mean the "Bentley cut" lol. He's the one who can perform this type of witchcraft. Brandon Bentley just hinted on a different forum that he was working on a hybrid cut for Righting Wrongs, similar to the one done for The Millionaires Express. 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Graeme Of Death Posted February 15, 2022 Member Share Posted February 15, 2022 4 hours ago, Ronin said: The new transfers look fantastic and do not suffer from the frame cuts that the older Celestial HD transfers suffered from. I doubt these new transfers will ever show up on iTunes/Amazon/etc. as that would require Celestial to update the existing digital/streaming versions, and they seem to have lost interest in that marketplace in the US. I'm in the UK and Apple TV has most of the Arrow video and 88 Films releases including the new version of their Jackie releases. Any time Arrow have upgraded their releases to 4k versions etc they've been added to Apple TV so here's hoping the same happens with the Shaw Brothers ones. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DiP Posted February 16, 2022 Member Share Posted February 16, 2022 5 hours ago, nahnahnah said: Brandon Bentley just hinted on a different forum that he was working on a hybrid cut for Righting Wrongs, similar to the one done for The Millionaires Express. Should be interesting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FightingFool Posted February 16, 2022 Member Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) On 2/14/2022 at 4:02 PM, Ronin said: Yes, most of the Shaw Brothers films all use the same older HD transfers " Darn, did not think about that. May need to reconsider do want to upgrade those which already own as r1(shaolin mantis among some other titles in 88 pipeline have good dvds).Now have to consider more careful what to upgrade as more moneypits with eureka! and arrow releasing asian stuff.and 88 has interesting movies besides Shaws. Was TVP planning to release Monkey Kung Fu?I think saw post about it somewhere but can be remember wrong. That would likely be without framecuts.. Edited February 16, 2022 by FightingFool 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted February 16, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 16, 2022 1 hour ago, FightingFool said: Was TVP planning to release Monkey Kung Fu?I think saw post about it somewhere but can be remember wrong. It was mentioned here a year ago - 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IJCDiC Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Is 88's Chinese Boxer the heavily framecut transfer, then? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member nahnahnah Posted February 20, 2022 Member Share Posted February 20, 2022 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member chen lung Posted February 21, 2022 Member Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) I think all remastered releases of ‘Monkey Kung Fu’ will be the same master. 88’s release contains newly translated subtitles that are based on the Cantonese soundtrack, however. Edited May 25, 2022 by chen lung 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member bickle14 Posted February 21, 2022 Member Share Posted February 21, 2022 If anyone in the US hasn't picked up the 88 Shaw films yet, Best Buy is having a sale today where if you buy 2 or more titles, they are 20% off. Includes the March pre-orders. Knocks them down to $15.99 (+ tax). 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kevin Chan Posted February 21, 2022 Member Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, nahnahnah said: Never seen this before, is it good? The artwork looks killer already! Edited February 21, 2022 by Kevin Chan 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted February 21, 2022 Administrator Share Posted February 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Kevin Chan said: Never seen this before, is it good? The artwork looks killer already! Yes, it's a crazy good time. And yeah, that artwork is very cool. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Super Ninja Posted February 22, 2022 Member Share Posted February 22, 2022 12 hours ago, Kevin Chan said: Never seen this before, is it good? The artwork looks killer already! One of my favorite Lam Nam-Choi films and a perfect halloween movie if you ask me. Agreed about the artwork, it couldn't have been better. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member H A S S A N Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 Folks should be getting their sets any day now as 88Films have started shipping BLACK CAT out. The set looks fantastic with its glossy rigid box and fantastic thick booklet along with art cards and poster. Extra features are plenty and should keep you busy for a while, let’s hope the sequel gets a release too. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Super Ninja Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, Drunken Monk said: Another superb @KUNG FU BOB's work! Have Hero on DVD, but I'm definitely getting this. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AslanBey Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 11 minutes ago, Drunken Monk said: Can someone give a shortyshort review to this? Especially to the martialartsissue in it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Ramji Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 (edited) Brilliant film with Yuen Biao in fine form. There's some great choreography from Corey Yuen but there is liberal use of wires throughout, as we saw with most of his 90's work, Fong Sai Yuk etc. Definite thumbs up from me. Plus it's a modern shaw! Edited February 23, 2022 by Ramji 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member WaverBoy Posted February 23, 2022 Member Share Posted February 23, 2022 Not to be confused with HERO (2002) starring Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, and Donnie Yen. That’s the one I have. I hadn’t actually heard of the 1997 film! Really looking forward to it now. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Asmo Posted February 24, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2022 I haven't seen Hero in years, but does that art ever make me feel like giving it a rewatch! 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Master with OK Fingers Posted February 24, 2022 Member Share Posted February 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Asmo said: I haven't seen Hero in years, but does that art ever make me feel like giving it a rewatch! Couldn't agree more. looking forward to this and @KUNG FU BOB has knocked it out of the park again with this one! 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member WaverBoy Posted March 8, 2022 Member Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) So…I hear 88 is teasing a 3D release…MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARDS, anyone? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Edited March 8, 2022 by WaverBoy 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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