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Just watched Bullet In The Head this weekend. I know it was shot in 1990, but it looked and sounded much older than that. Maybe it was my copy, I don't now.Was this supposed to be in mono? Aslo, there were a couple cuts that looked and sounded really cheap.
But I want to add that I think it's a good movie (mind you, not a great one).
BTW it was in the original version with English subtitles. And it lasted 02:05:00.
Patrick
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John Woo has been quoted as saying that this is his finest film, but there are a lot of different length versions around. I've seen a "director's cut" which was 2:20 and the laserdisc version which was 2 hrs even. The longer version had more character development and more circumstances testing the men's friendship, not really more action.
There are tons of trash copies of HK films floating around.
I am not sure how the copyright stuff works, but it seemed like for a while anyone could grad the rights to pictures, and these knock off companies were shipping them out in force.
There are tons of bad dubs out there.Plus, videotaped degrade over time, so try for a DVD release- something more official.
MY tak on Bullet in the HEad is that there is a lot of political, historical stuff going on there, that is clearly not as acessible to white american as just the shooting, but many who know the original language and the culture seem to think of Bullet ITH as a great work.
Killer, HArd Boiled, A Better Tomorrow I or II (I think Woo did those, right?) might be better to start with
Also look for director Tsui Hark -Jet Li;s High Risk is a pretty cool action movie with gunplay (like Die HArd)
dg
I agree. My first viewing of "Once Upon a Time in China" was a badly copied VHS version, non-widescreen, and the subtitles were chopped off at both the right and left edges and at the bottom! Not only was I clueless as to what was going on (because I couldn't read the mangled subtitles) but the action scenes suffered from the non-widescreen version. Jet Li would kick someone and his legs would fly off-screen. So you don't see his feet nor his victim being kicked! It was almost hilarious.My biggest complaint of Hong Kong films is the absurdity/silliness that seem to make their way into almost every single Hong Kong film ever made. Stupid slapstick to stupid jokes to over-the-top high comedy...except they're not funny...just groanfully silly.
The only time this type of silliness made its way into "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was in the restaurant scene...where Princess Jen kicks butt while reciting (creating??) some Chinese poetry and making fun of Chinese names (e.g., flying shadow monkey Wu). Yeah, it's not a Hong Kong film but Ang Lee was heavily influenced by Hong Kong films and dreamed of making a martial art epic.
I saw "Bullet in the Head" but for the life of me, I can't seem to remember the details. The only feelings I get is that the last half of the movie was too serious and was a sharp contrast to the first half of the movie. Not memorable.A better John Woo movie is "The Killers" starring Chow Yun Fat. Some of Woo's techniques in that movie have been copied in recent movies. The slo-mo operatic scenes, two guns-two hands, shooting while jumping, flair for over-the-top drama, following the path of the bulllet, etc. (as well as the unbelievable plot line)
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