Musa: The Warrior R1 DVD announcement

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1. Steve 01/01/2006 @ 11:49am

   I’ll pick this up just to get a version with some decent english subtitles. The CJ Entertainment R3 DVD I imported a year ago has some really screwed up subtitles. I’ll just combine the 5.1 Korean audio and the new version’s subtitles and make my own master copy. Although it’s really a shame Sony doesn’t just include the 5.1 Korean audio.

2. mrmarzo 01/01/2006 @ 1:14pm

   what a terrible cover

3. Todd Brown 01/01/2006 @ 4:41pm

   Hey, it’s the real cut instead of the international, good on Sony for that. I’ll pick it up just as a matter of principal to support decent local releases ... plus I’m not 100% sure that my current copy is legit ...

4. Rahat 01/01/2006 @ 5:53pm

   Horrible cover, indeed. Worst cover since Infernal Affairs, even. But good to see Sony release a proper version, at least that’s quite encouraging.

5. Mack 01/01/2006 @ 7:11pm

   Indeedy. I should have stroked Sony’s ego some in the post because they are really the only studio out there doing a decent job with foreign properties. Forget decent. They’re doing an excellent job. Good for Sony. Just for this I am buying one of your televisions.

6. jon pais 01/01/2006 @ 8:59pm

   Good news for those who get the pleasure from “Musa” that I didn’t. Until now, the only recommendable transfer has been by HK Video, available from overseas.

   On watching the film a few months back, what struck me the most was the total absence of drama. Poor writing & weak battle scenes aside, the camera work on the picture as a whole, which was billed as one of the costliest Asian productions at the time, was pedestrian at best. By good camera work, I also mean lighting and movement. If you’ve seen “The Sheltering Sky”, you’ll know what I mean. Zhang Ziyi, while not a particularly gifted actress, is capable of far more than is seen in either of these works.

   As for “Flying Daggers”, Zhang Yimou gave up making movies a long time ago. I have said elsewhere that I would take one “To Live” over 100 “Hero“‘s, & and I’d take one “Not One Less”, shot on a shoestring with non-professionals over these two bloated works.

   I must agree with Mack, Sony does an admirable job with their transfers, a shame that so many studios appear to neglect the 5.1 original soundtrack on these imports...does it eat up a lot of megabytes or something? Nonetheless, shrewd marketing on Sony’s part; for those wishing to see these titles for themselves, they couldn’t do better than to check out this set.

7. D.M. 01/17/2006 @ 1:08am

   i don;t like how the cover has these two, to single them out from the other main characters, and they have swords...she does not fight, he fights but all the time with a spear
   American market stereotyping to sell $13.49 of a great film

8. D.M. 01/17/2006 @ 1:09am

   i don;t like how the cover has these two, to single them out from the other main characters, and they have swords...she does not fight, he fights but all the time with a spear
   American market stereotyping to sell $13.49 of a great film
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