What Chan films are must haves ?.

[Jimmyboy]

As above.;)

[gZa]

Police Story r2
Who am I? r0
Armour of God r2 (tho' newbie fans tend not to like it! :confused: )
<I>Miracles</i> r2

...and I'd wait for HKL to release...

<i>Young Master</i>, <I>Project A</I>, <i>Project A II</i>, <i>Police Story 2</i> and <i>Wheels on Meals</I>. Oh and hopefully :rolleyes: <I>Snake in the Eagle's Shadow</i> and <i>Drunken Master.</i>

[Jimmyboy]

Whats the one where he jumps across 2 skyscrapers ?.

and the one where he gets hit with a chair and tries to pretend it didnt hurt, and then hides behind a wall where you see him in pain, then he comes out from behind the wall acting as if it didnt hurt again ?.

[gZa]

Originally posted by Jimmyboy
Whats the one where he jumps across 2 skyscrapers ?.:confused:and the one where he gets hit with a chair and tries to pretend it didnt hurt, and then hides behind a wall where you see him in pain, then he comes out from behind the wall acting as if it didnt hurt again ?. <I>Project A</i>

[Grumpy]

I like the old ones best like

Drunken Master
and
Snake in the Eagles Shadow

[ggrant]

Is there any chance of Wheels on Meals getting a release in the future?

[silverpenguin7]

Whats the one where he is with a girl in a white Evo being chased by some BMW's?
That reverse park business was superb!! :D

[RichB]

From what I have seen

Drunken Master
Police Story
Young Master
Project A

Have to say I found Armour Of God very boring, and Gorgeous - ugggh :o

[Arch Stanton]

Mr Stanton's must have Jackie Chan films

1: Project A / A 2( coming next year from HKL )
2: Police Story 1, 2, 3: Supercop ( Disney own the rights to 3 but the H K disc is pretty good. )
3: Drunken Master 2/ The Legend of Drunken Master ( R1 or nothing if you want this. )
4: Drunken Master
5: Operation Condor: Armour of God 2 ( AVOID Armour of God 1 )




Plus there's loads more that are worth a watch.

[cirrus888]

Originally posted by silverpenguin7
Whats the one where he is with a girl in a white Evo being chased by some BMW's?
That reverse park business was superb!! :D

That's from Who am I.

I always recommend Thunderbolt because no one else does ;) ... Its a Gordon Chan film (highbinders) and one of HK's better directors.

[RichB]

I always recommend Thunderbolt because no one else does ... Its a Gordon Chan film (highbinders) and one of HK's better directors

Oh yeah I caught that on BBC2, that was great fun

[Jimmyboy]

So are HKL yet to release Chans best films, if at all ?.

[cirrus888]

Well drunken master 2 seems to be what everyone wants but that belongs to disney. Police story is already out and project A is coming out soon ... so HKL has a few great Jackie titles in thier catalogue.

I personally want Gordon Chan's Fist of Legend more than anything else but I don't want a dubbed and edited version.

[Shingster]

They've released Police Story, which could well be his best film. They're releasing Young Master, Police Story 2, Project A 1&2 & Wheels On Meals, so there's a lot to look forward to.
Dimension have the rights to Drunken master 2, so HKL won't be releasing that one. Dragoons Forever has not been slated for R2 release by anyone yet as it? That's as damn shame as this is probably the best "3 brothers" film.

My top 10 Chan (In no particular order) would be:

Police Story 1,2 & 3
Drunken Master 1&2
Project A 1&2
Young master
Dragons Forever
Wheels On Meals

If anyone is tempted to get Thunderbolt, I suggest getting the DVD distributed by Funny, from PokerIndustries, as the HK one is P&S.

[cirrus888]

Originally posted by Shingster

If anyone is tempted to get Thunderbolt, I suggest getting the DVD distributed by Funny, from PokerIndustries, as the HK one is P&S.

Sounds like a dodgy label if you ask me ... if its only pan and scan then you might as well get the cheap VCD version of it.

[tpr007]

The jump between skyscrapers?
not skyscrapers, but i think u mean "Rumble in the Bronx"

the chair one is indeed "Project A"

Must sees:
Police Story 1+2
Armour of God 1+2
Project A 1+2
Who Am I
DM 1+2
SITES
Wheels on Meals
Dragons Forever
Miracles
Gorgeous (r0 - not dubbed version!!!!!)

see Dragons Den for info & reviews & feedback...

[Shingster]

Originally posted by cirrus888


Sounds like a dodgy label if you ask me ... if its only pan and scan then you might as well get the cheap VCD version of it.

Funny distribute it in Taiwan, which means it's been dubbed into mandarin, but apart from that, it looks like the better version by a mile. It maintains the OAR & the pic quality looks better, judging from the review posted on the Asian DVD Guide (http://www.asiandvdguide.com/).
It's definitely NOT a dodgy label!!!

[cirrus888]

Originally posted by Shingster

Funny distribute it in Taiwan, which means it's been dubbed into mandarin, but apart from that, it looks like the better version by a mile.

Is that the ritek version? dubbed in mandarin? I mis-read your original post because I thought you said it was pan and scan.

There isn't a HK version of fist of legend available on DVD?

[yee_har]

(Cough) I've certainly recommended Thunderbolt in the past (seeing as it has a FTO in it....somewhat implausibly dicing with a Skyrine:D )
Thunderbolt is available from www.amazon.de
According to www.bulletsnbabesdvds.com there's a review due there shortly also

Wheels on meals is available from www.amazon.de and www.dvdboxoffice.com

[Mr Vampire]

Get the spanish version of Thunderbolt if you want it on region 2, PAL and with cantonese language and english subtitles. All in a perfectly acceptable anamorphic transfer, as stated by someone that owns it (not me). I think the German version, however, should be the same. Best bet is, you do the maths dvdgo.com (http://www.dvdgo.com/cgi-bin/DVDGO.storefront/3bd5fc8e01f9844c274ed45fd47a070f/Export/products/00831)

[Shingster]

The Asian DVD Guide list the Taiwanese distributor as Funny, who seem to distribute a few more Chan films in Taiwan. There's one review of it posted there & it features side by shots of the Funny DVD & the Chinese Thakral P&S DVD, (which is the one DDD & Coolashop sells). Looking at those shots I'd say the Funny DVD blows the Thakral one out of the water. Poker Industries sell both versions at the same price: £16.83 delivered.

I don't think FOL has ever been released on DVD in HK, only VCD, which is very weird. I own the Ritek version myself, & I think the transfer's good by Asian standards & the Mandarin dubs pretty good too. The extra footage is a bonus as well. Do you have this version Cirrus?

The Spanish version isn't listed on the AsianDVDGuide, you ought to tell them to include it MrVampire. The German version is listed as not having English subs.

[cirrus888]

No I don't have the Ritek version of FOL because it is dubbed in mandarin and I can understand cantonese so that would be a bonus for me.

The Funny Thunderbolt is also dubbed in mandarin and I would never knowingly buy a pan and scan DVD so I guess I will be waiting for another release of that film too.

[Shingster]

Maybe the Spanish version is the one for you then? The Norwegian/Swedish release is also listed as Anamorphic & Cantonese, so maybe you should give that a go?

[cirrus888]

hmmm ... the only reason why I have not bought any of those ghibli releases from Japan is because of the high cost ... are these spanish and swedish versions inc P+P cheap?

[Shingster]

DVDOO have what looks like the Dutch version for £13.37 (I think they do free delivery to the U.K)here (http://www.dvdoo.com/dvdoo/film.asp?Command=2533). The case is the same as the Norwegian/Swedish version. Altrnatively there's the Spanish one at Mr Vampire's link, that's listed as 24euros + 11.72euros = £22, Ouch!! (the 11.72euro P&P is for up to 4 DVDs though).

If you've never used DVDoo before & you're tempted Cirrus, they're well regarded & here's some translations of the Danish terms on the site:

forventet leveringsdato=date of arrival
pris pr.stk. = price per item
køb = buy
til kassen=checkout
ny kunde=new customer
navn=name
adr1=address1
postnummer=postal code
by=city
dit ønskede password=preferred password
indtast dit ønskede passord igen=repeat password
Udløpsdato=expiry date

This was posted in another thread ages ago, & I thought it might come in handy if I copied it to my C drive.

[cirrus888]

Thanks shingster very useful info you have there. :)

[bazkeane82]

Just recieved my R2 wheels on Meals, great release, loads of special features on 2 discs, funny flick and great fights especially with Jackie Chan and Benny the Jet at the end :thumbs:

[TigaSefi]

Hmm The skyscraper fights wasn't on Who Am I ? was it?

When Chan goes to Holland, he slides down a MASSIVE skyscraper and nearly ***** himself in the outtakes. So funny.

I really like any film he does as he got such comedic value. Any fight that involves props being exchange at high speed is amazing to watch.

[KeyserSoze]

The skyscraper fight is Who Am I and a quality fight it is.

Wheels On Meals is hands down my fav Chan movie, while all the other kids wanted the A team van, I wanted the yellow food mobil.

bazkeane82, could you check a few things for me ? Is the opening scene where JC and Yuen Biao are carwashing and get in trouble with the policeman intact ? Also are there outakes at the end of the movie ?

[bazkeane82]

bazkeane82, could you check a few things for me ? Is the opening scene where JC and Yuen Biao are carwashing and get in trouble with the policeman intact ? Also are there outakes at the end of the movie ?


If its the scene where Yuen Biao throws a bucket of water over the policeman then yes its there, there were no outtakes at the end of the movie but i think there is some on the 2nd disc, not checked it out yet.

[bazkeane82]

Have to say I found Armour Of God very boring, and Gorgeous - ugggh

:o


i actually enjoyed gorgeous especially the fights with the small guy called Alan and seeing Tony leung play a gay character was funny, yeh it had its cheesy moments but a lot of Jackie chan movies do , Qi Shu was also :n0rty: in the movie.
I was suprised to learn the the Uk r2 version of the film was cut by 20 mins , anyone know what exactly was cut?

[Jabbitt]

Wasn't wheels on meals originally cut because of a scene where they break into a car with a coat hanger? Or is that another movie?

[Jaime]

Wasn't wheels on meals originally cut because of a scene where they break into a car with a coat hanger? Or is that another movie?

That was My Lucky Stars iirc.

[megatron]

Wheels On Meals is hands down my fav Chan movie, while all the other kids wanted the A team van, I wanted the yellow food mobil.


:lol:

[sammythebull]

no chan film is worthy of purchase. yes, rent them or watch em when they come on tv, but buy? no god damn way.

[angel_eyes]

no chan film is worthy of purchase. yes, rent them or watch em when they come on tv, but buy? no god damn way.

I've just passed on your details to the Internation Jackie Chan Fanclub (current membership ~ 4.31 billion) - you my opinionated friend, have just made a helluva lot of enemies.

Be afraid. Very afraid.

[bazkeane82]

I've just passed on your details to the Internation Jackie Chan Fanclub (current membership ~ 4.31 billion) - you my opinionated friend, have just made a helluva lot of enemies.

Be afraid. Very afraid.

:lol:

[Jorin]

no chan film is worthy of purchase. yes, rent them or watch em when they come on tv, but buy? no god damn way.
I would pay good money to see you say to Chuck Norris that his films were worthless. :dork:

[sleep4ever]

Finally, after years for waiting for it to come down to the right price, Ive got my copy of Drunken Master 2.

Just hope its as good as I remember, when I saw it round a friends house years ago.

[playaslaya]

Winners & Sinners, Police Story, Project A / A2, Wheels On Meals = The best!

[zantarous]

Is there a decent version of Armour of God 2?

[Ricochan38]

Finally, after years for waiting for it to come down to the right price, Ive got my copy of Drunken Master 2.

Just hope its as good as I remember, when I saw it round a friends house years ago.


DM 2 still stands as chans best movie ever, and imho 1 of the best martial arts movies ever made :thumbs:

[Jabbitt]

Is there a decent version of Armour of God 2?

I bought both of the Armour of God films for around £13 from YesAsia.com. There both digitally remastered in both video and sound (new 5.1 mixes on both).

Despite already owning the HKL release of the first, AFAIK this was the only way to get a decent copy of the second.

[sammythebull]

DM 2 still stands as chans best movie ever, and imho 1 of the best martial arts movies ever made :thumbs:

There is no such thing as the best martial arts film. They get boring after a vewing or two (if lucky). The only martial arts dvd I have is Fist of Legend with Jet Li and I hardly ever watch that, even.

[alphatyrant]

There is no such thing as the best martial arts film. They get boring after a vewing or two (if lucky). The only martial arts dvd I have is Fist of Legend with Jet Li and I hardly ever watch that, even.

Strange generalisation :thinking: , realistically you could apply to that any genre. There is no such thing (for example) as the best sci-fi film ever, or the best horror film ever as films progess onwards.

If you mean as a whole that martial arts movies aren't entertaining to you, then fair enough....personally I could watch Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen), Once Upon a Time in China trilogy, Drunken Master and Ong-Bak many times over.

Al.

[sleep4ever]

DM 2 still stands as chans best movie ever, and imho 1 of the best martial arts movies ever made :thumbs:

Yup, it is as good as I remember it, blows his recent stuff (NPS aside) away easily :thumbs:

[Ricochan38]

There is no such thing as the best martial arts film. They get boring after a vewing or two (if lucky). The only martial arts dvd I have is Fist of Legend with Jet Li and I hardly ever watch that, even.


Thats your opinion, you could say that about every genre then.

[alphatyrant]

Thats your opinion, you could say that about every genre then.

Like I said.... :dork:

[PhilG]

No-one's mentioned First Strike (Police Story 4?).
It was the first Jackie Chan film I saw, and his skill blew me away. Maybe not the best of his films, but the scene where he fights using a set of step ladders (and jumps through the rungs!) is worth watching it for alone. Oh, and jumping off a cliff into (actually) freezing water with only a t-shirt on; and getting into a first-floor window from the street in about 3 seconds; and fighting on stilts... The man is amazing. Shame about the recent tat like The Medalion and The Tuxedo. Jackie Chan does not need CGI :(

[Niceguygeoff]

The IVL Police Story boxset (with the first three proper PS movies) is worth getting. Each movie is the uncut asian version with remastered picture and sound, much like the Armour Of God set. There's also a remastered Project A set floating around. And I just got the new HKL DVD of WoM, so I'm a happy Chan fan at the moment! The new R1 release of Thunderbolt looks pretty sweet too.

[bazkeane82]

don't HKL have the rights to police story 3?

i have 1 & 2 and HKL are great for picture quality and extras, whats the extras and picture transfer like for the boxset ?

[Jaime]

There is no such thing as the best martial arts film. They get boring after a vewing or two (if lucky). The only martial arts dvd I have is Fist of Legend with Jet Li and I hardly ever watch that, even.

Weird. I've watched quite alot of my collection alot more than twice.


Finally got round to watching my HKL Wheels on Meals today. Fantastic film. I hadn't seen the scene where they were washing the van before :lol:

I'm pretty sure the scene where Sammo goes to the cathedral (or whatever it is) to meet the butler isn't on my HK DVD either.

[Shingster]

In Alphabetical order:

Dragons Forever
Drunken Master 1 & 2
Police Story 1,2, & 3
Project A
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Wheels on Meals
Young master

Job Done that, he's been in a lot of good films, but not so many "Unmissable" ones. :dork:

EDIT - Just realised this is an old thread resurrected and I'd posted in it yonks back :brickwall :doh:

[Cirrus888]

EDIT - Just realised this is an old thread resurrected and I'd posted in it yonks back :brickwall :doh:

Dragged back from the dead ... we were so naive and innocent then ... :nuts: :)

[Ricochan38]

The IVL Police Story boxset (with the first three proper PS movies) is worth getting. Each movie is the uncut asian version with remastered picture and sound, much like the Armour Of God set. There's also a remastered Project A set floating around. And I just got the new HKL DVD of WoM, so I'm a happy Chan fan at the moment! The new R1 release of Thunderbolt looks pretty sweet too.

I hate thunderbolt because it has chan using a double for most of his fighting and stunts, because he was still injured from rumble in the bronx when they started this one.

[Jaime]

I hate thunderbolt because it has chan using a double for most of his fighting and stunts, because he was still injured from rumble in the bronx when they started this one.

That's what makes it awesome. Half the time he's doing it himself and he's got a broken foot :notworthy

[Shingster]

Dragged back from the dead ... we were so naive and innocent then ... :nuts: :)

The good old days eh Kin? :thumbs: What with this thread resurrection and talk about my HK film poll in the "Ultimate Asian DVD thread" it's bringing it all slowly back to me :D

Can you believe it's been getting on to 5yrs since we all gathered together on IRC to sort out that film poll? :eek: :dork:

[unrealnils]

whatever did happen to that poll ??

[Shingster]

The short story is that I couldn't be arsed to renew my webspace after the year-long subscription ended, so I moved the results over to my blueyonder webspace where it resides now. The poll itself eventually became too big for me to keep re-opening and taking new votes whilst keeping records of who had voted for what in the past - at least, that's my excuse anyway :p .

[Niceguygeoff]

don't HKL have the rights to police story 3?

i have 1 & 2 and HKL are great for picture quality and extras, whats the extras and picture transfer like for the boxset ?
Disney sadly have the UK/US rights to Police Story 3, releasing it as the cut & dubbed 'Supercop'. The IVL box has the uncut, original language version so it's worth buying for that alone! It also features a 121 minute version of Police Story 2 that runs for around 15 minutes longer than the original Hong Kong cut (and by proxy the HKL DVD, which with PAL speed up clocks in at a mere 101 minutes).

The new HD transfers for each film are really good, with lots of detail, and are a stark contrast to the overly-processed HKL efforts. PS 2 is also cropped and matted quite noticably on the HKL version (watch the outtakes reel in the extras then watch the one at the end of the movie) whereas the IVL edition is properly proportioned. The remixed 5.1 dolby/dts audio tracks aren't very good though, so it's great that the original mono tracks also accompany each film.

There aren't many extras. Each film has old & new trailers plus a photo gallery. PS 1 has a short reel of Jackie outtakes from many movies; PS 2 bizarrely has the interview with Benny Lai that HKL did for their DVD; PS 3 has a new interview with Stanley Tong. The set also comes with a neat little photo book.

Each disc has a Chinese or English menu option so you don't have to worry about deciphering menu selections, and the discs are region 0 to boot. CD-WOW do the set for a very reasonable £24.99...

[Jorin]

Disney sadly have the UK/US rights to Police Story 3, releasing it as the cut & dubbed 'Supercop'. The IVL box has the uncut, original language version so it's worth buying for that alone! It also features a 121 minute version of Police Story 2 that runs for around 15 minutes longer than the original Hong Kong cut (and by proxy the HKL DVD, which with PAL speed up clocks in at a mere 101 minutes).

The new HD transfers for each film are really good, with lots of detail, and are a stark contrast to the overly-processed HKL efforts. PS 2 is also cropped and matted quite noticably on the HKL version (watch the outtakes reel in the extras then watch the one at the end of the movie) whereas the IVL edition is properly proportioned. The remixed 5.1 dolby/dts audio tracks aren't very good though, so it's great that the original mono tracks also accompany each film.

There aren't many extras. Each film has old & new trailers plus a photo gallery. PS 1 has a short reel of Jackie outtakes from many movies; PS 2 bizarrely has the interview with Benny Lai that HKL did for their DVD; PS 3 has a new interview with Stanley Tong. The set also comes with a neat little photo book.

Each disc has a Chinese or English menu option so you don't have to worry about deciphering menu selections, and the discs are region 0 to boot. CD-WOW do the set for a very reasonable £24.99...
I concur with Niceguygeoff - the IVL boxset is a must-have for seemingly pristine audio/video versions of all three films. The extra material does not hold a candle to the HKL versions but is interesting, nonetheless. At £24.99, this is a bargain, if you love the movies as much as I do. Furthermore, if you REALLY love the movies, it is probably also worth purchasing the HLK versions of the films for the extra material alone. They must be very cheap from numerous sources by now. :dork:

[Niceguygeoff]

Yeah, the HKL editions are still worth getting (or keeping :)) for the extra bits and bobs, although the presentation of the movies in the IVL set really is superb. I watched PS 2 again earlier today and was stunned by how good it looked - even the 5.1 remix isn't too bad - and now I'm hankering for the other major IVL Jackie boxsets: Armour of God and Project A.