http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=194
It will come as part of the Stranglehold Collector's Edition PS3 game. $70.
It will come as part of the Stranglehold Collector's Edition PS3 game. $70.
Hard Boiled on Blu-ray... sort of...
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Oh, HELL, yes.
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Hopefully it will be available without the game.
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Love the movie and have the DVD version. It is a pretty crappy transfer on DVD, I wonder if it would even look good on blu-ray.
One of my all time favorites and the template for so many of todays movies, John Woo did it best in this movie though
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. I have the Criterion DVD (I even have the Criterion Laserdisc Signed by John Woo) but was always disappointed the DVD wasn't anamorphic. This is better then anything I ever expected and just makes me doubly happy with my recent PS3 purchase.
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Just wanted to add, there is a trailer for the collectors edition here: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6170876.html
I do really hope this has the Cantonese language track with subtitles. One thing to remember though is that this movie was made in Hong Kong before HK movies had become popular in the west, they were made cheap and fast and not a lot of thought was put into preserving the film. There just aren't any "perfect" prints of this film out there because they had no way of knowing that this of all HK movies was going to spark the interest in them that it did. I'm not even sure that this had a stereo track when it was released, the Criterion is in Mono and usually they are pretty careful about things like that. So this isn't going to be the best example of an HD movie just because there is not perfect source. But its one helluva movie and I can't wait to have in the best way possible
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I do really hope this has the Cantonese language track with subtitles. One thing to remember though is that this movie was made in Hong Kong before HK movies had become popular in the west, they were made cheap and fast and not a lot of thought was put into preserving the film. There just aren't any "perfect" prints of this film out there because they had no way of knowing that this of all HK movies was going to spark the interest in them that it did. I'm not even sure that this had a stereo track when it was released, the Criterion is in Mono and usually they are pretty careful about things like that. So this isn't going to be the best example of an HD movie just because there is not perfect source. But its one helluva movie and I can't wait to have in the best way possible
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so i was just on gamespot and it has this article saying that hardboiled will be coming out on the same bluray disc. is this really a good thing? i see they're trying to get more intuitive with things but really...how great could the transfer be even on a bd50?
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Dragon Dynasty (a Weinstein brothers company, Weinstein being exclusive to HD DVD) owns the rights to distribute Hard-boiled in the US right now - they have a special super collector's SD edition planned for the film to come out this year. With this news happening I'm not sure what to think is happening or what I might imagine we'll be getting with this particular version.
Because of the above, I'd bet the US release of Hard-boiled on the Stranglehold disc will be an absolute bare minimum transfer/copy that will just be a basic version of an old HK-company-owned print that includes no special features at all. This transfer will likely not be from a print that was re-mastered or re-touched in quite some time, if ever (since the upcoming Dragon Dynasty SD disc will mark the first time this title will have really had a serious, modern, and new re-mastering done to it in a long time). This feature will probably just be a hold-over from the Japanese version of the Stranglehold disc, meant to satisfy that market with a basic Cantonese audio track and a handful of different subtitle selections.
What will be interesting to see though, is if this first move, - will help to generate demand or more action towards Dragon Dynasty and other companies releasing more Asian films on HD media in proper, collector's edition versions. Hopefully it does...
Because of the above, I'd bet the US release of Hard-boiled on the Stranglehold disc will be an absolute bare minimum transfer/copy that will just be a basic version of an old HK-company-owned print that includes no special features at all. This transfer will likely not be from a print that was re-mastered or re-touched in quite some time, if ever (since the upcoming Dragon Dynasty SD disc will mark the first time this title will have really had a serious, modern, and new re-mastering done to it in a long time). This feature will probably just be a hold-over from the Japanese version of the Stranglehold disc, meant to satisfy that market with a basic Cantonese audio track and a handful of different subtitle selections.
What will be interesting to see though, is if this first move, - will help to generate demand or more action towards Dragon Dynasty and other companies releasing more Asian films on HD media in proper, collector's edition versions. Hopefully it does...
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One thing I'll add: It will piss me off to hell if the PS3 turns out to be the only way to find Hard-boiled on HD media for a while, yet the PS3 version of the Stranglehold game itself turns out to have weaker framerates, control, graphics, online functionality, and other details that the Xbox 360 version may/will clearly handle in a better way (like has happened SO MANY times already with practically 90 percent of all next-gen multiplatform games).
And, yes, I know a lot of those little details boil down to nit-picking but I don't care - I am an anal perfectionist who can easily afford to own both consoles and I deserve to always own and play the best version of the game only.
And, yes, I know a lot of those little details boil down to nit-picking but I don't care - I am an anal perfectionist who can easily afford to own both consoles and I deserve to always own and play the best version of the game only.
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okay, i was thinking that the games were taking up a lot more room...especially one as big as this...
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It should be cantonese because Chow Yun Fat doesn't look cool when his voice is dubbed over by some western voice actor.
Anyways, I'd the separate version cos I want my 360 achievements.
It should be cantonese because Chow Yun Fat doesn't look cool when his voice is dubbed over by some western voice actor.
Anyways, I'd the separate version cos I want my 360 achievements.
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