Received some mighty sweet goods today, one of which was the Japanese Grindhouse Complete Box. This is one very cleverly designed edition, the only one which features the theatrical version of “Grindhouse”. It contains the following:
-Two disc edition of the longer cut of “Planet Terror”.
-Two disc edition of the longer cut of “Death Proof”.
-Two disc edition of “Grindhouse”, featuring shortened versions of “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof”, dirtied up and with all the faux trailers.
Groovy!
This is how it looks on the outside. A dirty, worn sleeve with glossy embossed letters:
Well it’s either Lee Myung-se or Lee Yeon-hee’s signature. Everything after Lee ‘이’ is indistinguishable I was kinda annoyed that dvdfromkorea got a signed batch in after the intial pre-order downtime. I missed out on an autograph because, of all things, I’m too eager.
Well it’s either Lee Myung-se or Lee Yeon-hee’s signature. Everything after Lee ‘이’ is indistinguishable I was kinda annoyed that dvdfromkorea got a signed batch in after the intial pre-order downtime. I missed out on an autograph because, of all things, I’m too eager.
“Lee” was also as far as I got (albeit from inference rather than being able to read Korean). Either would make me happy, but I’d like to know which one it is!
I preordered this from YesAsia and they still don’t mention that some of these are signed!
For puzzle-purposes, could you show me their names in Korean?
Lee Myung-se: 이명세 and Lee Yeon-hee: 이연희. Pure headscratcher.
Kinda simple and nice. But also kinda pointless...both cases are exactly the same so why even bother with the box when you could fit everything in an amaray case. Not the usual Korean standard we’ve come to know and love.
no doubt M has some pretty packaging but is the movie worth the money of this set? I’ve heard a bunch of mixed things about it. I love noir… i love supernatural.... i don’t love paying $50 for a dvd… but will if the movie is that good.... so i ask those that have seen it… is it THAT good?
no doubt M has some pretty packaging but is the movie worth the money of this set? I’ve heard a bunch of mixed things about it. I love noir… i love supernatural.... i don’t love paying $50 for a dvd… but will if the movie is that good.... so i ask those that have seen it… is it THAT good?
Opinion is mixed even within the Twitch editorial staff (as in: love! hate!), but I can give a few pointers.
First, I didn’t pay $50 but $40, and no P & P.
Second, this is what happened when I tried to watch the first 2 minutes yesterday night. Me and my wife were both very tired but I was curious to see what it looked like, seeing as how “The Duelist” was such a visual feast. Sleepy or not, we had to fight to press the stop button because what we saw intrigued us both. Amazingly 13 minutes had past before I finally managed to stop the film.
It looks just as ‘overdirected’ as Lee Myung-Se’s other movies: every single second has been tinkered with, every shot contains a visual joke or two. In lesser hands this could get annoying REAL quick, but like “The Duelist” I found it stunning. I’ll try to finish it tonight.
Just got that Grindhouse box as well. Beautiful stuff. Ard, are you going to review it on the main site?
Soon I’m hoping to start work on a box set for the Icelandic films Children and Parents (Born and Foreldrar)and I’m going to do my best to make it look fabo. The director wants a nice package but the thing is that nobody has ever done a nice SE in Iceland for any movie, not even Jar City, the most popular film ever made in Iceland got a decent release.
Hopefully I will get to do something sweet and hopefully they are willing to put some effort in it as well.
Just got that Grindhouse box as well. Beautiful stuff. Ard, are you going to review it on the main site?
Hope to!
But I’m watching it with the missus (we’ve chosen to watch the “Grindhouse” version first and check the longer ones later), and this week each day one of us had to work late, so it takes a bit longer than I planned…
Often it pays to check out Asian Limited Editions of movies from the US and Europe, because they can be quite superior. For example, that Korean “Pan’s Labyrinth” was very very gorgeous indeed!
Here is another special one. David Lynch and Allan Smithee present: “Dune”, the Korean Limited Edition.
As is well known, David Lynch shot material for a huge epic 4-to-5 hour movie or two, but was later told to cut back to a regular size. This resulted in the theatrical version of Dune which was truncated into non-sensibility but remains one of the most interesting SF-movies from the Eighties.
You needed to have read the book to be able to follow the film.
Legends persisted of an existing longer cut. These legends turned out to be partly true when the movie was shown on television in a 190 minute cut. David Lynch wants nothing to do with that longer cut, so it is known as the “Allan Smithee” version (even though Lynch is credited under the name Judas Booth).
Fans will be fans so people wanted to own both versions. For a long time the only way to do that was to buy the Japanese Laserdisc (to the tune of $500), but recently more versions arrived. The French have a spiffy package out containing both versions of this movie, and recently in the US the longer cut was released separately (the only one which features 2,35:1 aspect ratio on the longer cut), but…
...for a while the only way to own this cheaply was the Korean Ultimate Edition.
DTS and 2.35:1 on the theatrical version: check.
Television version in 4:3 and Dolby stereo: check.
Nice set of extras: check.
And this is what it looks like:
Getting the disc holder out of the slipcase you see some nice artwork:
Opening the holder, the four discs spell D-U-N-E. Simple idea but nice:
The thing that bugged me about the box art for the Director’s cut was that Mignola did not come near it and as a result we have this rather lame vector traced picture of HB. That’s why I ended up making my own cover using Mignola art.
