tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772174956910420409.post6445983411594735814..comments2024-02-13T11:44:16.780-08:00Comments on HK AND CULT FILM NEWS: King Boxer and 36th Chamber of Shaolin Dragon Dynasty Reviews.IKFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07879526511831397996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772174956910420409.post-30635690133135663292007-06-20T03:39:00.000-07:002007-06-20T03:39:00.000-07:00I appreciate the gentle criticism of my goofs. (A ...I appreciate the gentle criticism of my goofs. (A few other places, people have been tearing me a new one.) For what it's worth, the worst embarrassment on the track -- my "Say wha?" when RZA identified Lo Lieh -- was a combination of a bunch of things. I was trying to find a fact in my notes and wasn't looking at the screen at that moment, and then started gibbering nervously to cover up, since I was kinda starstruck with RZA and had just been really dumb in his presence. (I swear I can ID Lo Lieh at a thousand paces.) I have to say: I was completely bowled over by the thoroughness of his knowledge of this film. I don't think it's so much a matter of him preparing specifically for this session as that his whole life has been preparation. I'm not sure I've ever met someone who knew a film shot by shot, frame by frame, like RZA knows this one. Plus: he was just a total kick to work with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772174956910420409.post-29058197998795533282007-06-18T14:58:00.000-07:002007-06-18T14:58:00.000-07:00Why would these have been converted from PAL at al...Why would these have been converted from PAL at all? While the IVL DVDs were prepared from masters prepared for PAL SDTV broadcast, I can't imagine the Weinsteins didn't have the foresight and the loot (these Shaw titles are carryovers from the deep-pocketed Miramax days) to secure rights to the 24 fps HD masters that were created for many of the top-tier Shaw films. I'd imagine that's what these Dragon Dynasty Shaw releases were sourced from, not the PAL broadcast masters inexplicably used to source most of IVL and Image's Shaw Bros. discs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com