I really, really like that film. There's a very good copy out there but I never found out if it was an official release. There is now a HD copy from some streaming service but it seems to be cut. I think a lot of remastered versions are cut and that's a shame. Unless they get a bluray release, those used to be upscaled but there's better scans now. A lot of lesser known films will get lost. People are making some money by adding subs themselves and selling them.
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Originally posted by shinobi7000 View PostI really, really like that film. There's a very good copy out there but I never found out if it was an official release. There is now a HD copy from some streaming service but it seems to be cut. I think a lot of remastered versions are cut and that's a shame. Unless they get a bluray release, those used to be upscaled but there's better scans now. A lot of lesser known films will get lost. People are making some money by adding subs themselves and selling them.
So I can watch them on the tablet, during the horrible Nightshifts
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That's cool, TA, there's no legit way to buy this film now it seems. QC. did you mix up two films there? BTW you should get Licence to Steal because Yuen Biao plays a character very similar to Dragons Forever. It has at least 2 great fights and has that classic look, 90s / late 80s thing. It is a bit overrated but good still. And No Problem 2, very nice film with spoofs of famous films. The first film is crap. You might have seen this? Prinny, thanks for all the films you helped me get, sadly I lost all but a couple. Don't even remember the titles.
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Speaking Of Yuen Biao I also watched A Kid from Tibet (which I do actually have on DVD as well) . Don't like the film, but there is some nice action in it and Yuen Wah is in it
I wish more films made better use of Yuen Wah mind. In Jackie Chan book, he says he was was up there with Yuen Biao for acrobatics and could hold his pose for the longest.
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Kid from Tibet used to be the film Biao liked the most... Yes, they all said Yuen Wah was the most acrobatic of them all. It comes down to looks and he was never going to be given starring roles. I think it was during the filming of Human Lanterns, he had to do a stunt (in a gorilla type costume?) and he landed on a piece of wood that pierced his body, almost killing him. The stuntsmen made those films, they never get their real credit. Yuen Wah is good in Bury Me High...
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Originally posted by shinobi7000 View PostKid from Tibet used to be the film Biao liked the most... Yes, they all said Yuen Wah was the most acrobatic of them all. It comes down to looks and he was never going to be given starring roles. I think it was during the filming of Human Lanterns, he had to do a stunt (in a gorilla type costume?) and he landed on a piece of wood that pierced his body, almost killing him. The stuntsmen made those films, they never get their real credit. Yuen Wah is good in Bury Me High...
Yuen Biao even said no one could do flicks or a summersault as good as Yuen Wah. I think praise doesn't come any better than that
Thank you so much Master Yu Jim-yuenLast edited by Team Andromeda; 20-12-2019, 13:41.
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So before the year was out, I managed one more trip to the cinema to see Ip Man 4: The Finale, and I saw it with [MENTION=11673]shinobi7000[/MENTION]!
The films are pretty formulaic now, with Ip Man coming up against his fellow Chinese, then a foreign threat unites them and only he can take everybody down!
The first two films had the action directed by Sammo Hung and the latter two were by Yuen Woo-ping, so there's a different flavour to them. Personally, I though the implementation of 3D in the third film was really well done, so it's a shame there's no home release of the 3D version.
The film itself is a mixed bag. There's a lot of English, as it's set in America, but everybody speaks quite slowly and deliberately as the main market won't be primarily English-speaking. The bad guys are really shallow and the racism is incredibly unsubtle.
It must have been awkward for Scott Adkins to say things like "yellow Chinks" or for Chris Collins, who has suffered racism in real life, to play a racist.
However, the fights in this one are great, and the bad guys seem SOLID. Adkins, Collins and Mark Strange make great opponents, looking like brick outhouses compared to Yen and the others. There's a great fight between Mark Strange and Danny Chan who plays Bruce Lee in this (and Ip Man 3 and Shaolin Soccer), but the finale between Adkins and Yen is also tense.
I posted this on Twitter and both Mark Strange and Danny Chan liked it!
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I enjoyed Ip Man 4 more than I thought I would. I'd say the earlier fights are a bit better than the end, always weird when they don't close with the best but it's down to taste and opinion. When I did think about it later, the story is put together very simplistically - like having a school yard, the army and immigration services come into the plot. I thought we were watching Cobra Kai at one point with a battle of school cheerleaders. Still enjoyed it thoroughly but will avoid most online reviews, some of those guys are a bit confused.
Oh yeah, these elderly european women asked Quality Chimp for autographs and pictures. It was all a bit confusing, they kept calling him Marco. Later I had to ask, he said he starred in some euro action films in the mid 1990s. I asked him if I could see these rare films, he said they were only shown on satellite channels. I asked if it was Sky, he said it was Dutch and South African channels only. No tapes or dvds exist as they are banned in the UK, apparently the action was too much...
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