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The Weird Man first, not Chinese Super Ninjas?


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Guest Ching li

I always wondered why celestial pictures released The Weird Man first, a rather obscured film instead of the well known Chinese Super Ninjas. Any thoughts?

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Guest venomchamber

Other than the inaugural releases, it appears they randomly remastered whatever reels they found in no particular order other than the order they retrieved them from the vault.

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Guest silver hermit

what i hear from celestial is "we cannot give out the good titles first"

alot of people think they don't have a clue, they know what we want and they do they know exactly what they are doing and why. >:

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Guest venomchamber

I like it, but it is not one of my personal favorite Chang Cheh films from the period like 5 Element Ninja, Crippled Avengers and Flag Of Iron are.

(I'm biased because I like all Shaw films regardless...you gotta love those sets!) ;)

More interesting that exciting and definitely worth a look if you've never seen it.

It serves as Chang's evolutionary missing link between his wu-xia and "venom-fu" stuff like Ode To Gallantry & 5EN and his supernatural stuff like The 9 Demons and Attack Of The Joy Goddess

It appears he used mysticism as a way to clear the pallet so to speak as he did this earlier when he went from David Chiang/Ti Lung capers of the early '70s to Na-Cha & The Fantastic Magic Baby in the mid-70s to Fu Sheng/Venoms mob kung-fu movies in the late '70s.

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Guest Feng Gang

After I saw Weird Man I was pissed. All I knew was that it was based around "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and it had a nice cover (lol... don't laugh). I loved the movie til Ricky came jumping around in his draws (read:underwear). I think it could have been decent if they switched around some characters, changed some costumes, and cut out that red light green light @#%$.

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