KUNG FU HUSTLE - Stephen Chow's latest Kung Fu Flick

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by ShaolinJOJO
Hey me Javier and abunch of theother guys got these emails from them like be happy and healthy to teach them chinese or something like that. Did you get it

yeah! but it was teach them english and they will help me with my chinese. one of them is like maybe i can visit you. i was like avoiding it all together. oh man.

[chris_kfo]

It was a great movie. It even inspired me to change my avatar!
http://www.myshoots.com/userprofile.php?user=chris

[shaolinboxer]

Stephen Chow and Tony Ja are the only interesting guys in KF flicks right now. Of course, New Police Story was pretty good but so DARK...

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by shaolinboxer
Stephen Chow and Tony Ja are the only interesting guys in KF flicks right now. Of course, New Police Story was pretty good but so DARK...

yeah with the young hip criminals. sometimes those young hip cool criminals make me laugh, cause they are all into extreme sports and such. like the cops in gen x cops and such. jeeze. i guess in hk they eat that stuff up.

[GeneChing]

NEW POLICE STORY was quite a reinvention of Jackie Chan's character, a real break from the Kung Fu clown he's been portraying in the US. Quite daring really. I was delighted to see Jackie pull it off, frankly. People tend to underestimate him and stereotype him, mostly because he's done some really cheesy stuff, especially lately. But I've been following Jackie's career for almost 30 years now, so for me, NPS was a definate milestone.

[norther practitioner]

HK bad guys sometimes seem like the "punks" they put in B films in the early 90s/late 80s and such..

I have watched more Jackie Chan films than I'd like to admit, and I'd put NPS up there with the best of them, and a definite return to the ol' school.... with ropes.

[Shaolinlueb]

oh its definetly dark and a good movie and brings back the old jackie chan. but i always find the bad guys funny for some reason. in hk it seems the last couple years with young hero's/villians is that they have to be cool and hip. so they make them all into extreme sports or dress hip and stuff. they jsut cant be "normal" it seems over done. . but yeah I have seen a lot of jacki chan stuff too and this is definetly the best thing he has done in a couple years. but i also liked shanghai nights and the rush hour series :X. i need to go buy twin dragons, i remember that being pretty good.

[GeneChing]

I just got a call from Sony Pictures. They're working on releasing Kung Fu Hustle in March. That's a lot faster than I thought.

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by GeneChing
I just got a call from Sony Pictures. They're working on releasing Kung Fu Hustle in March. That's a lot faster than I thought.

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808617679

March 18 (limited)

[SanSoo Student]

NOOO!! not limited release, they need to do nationwide...I bet it would be a hit then

[GeneChing]

Look at the history of subtitled films in national release. Sadly, America isn't a nation of readers and I don't think Sony Pictures Classics will dub this. At least I hope not.

Now I also realize why it's been so hard to get a DVD for resale at MartialArtsMart - I've had my eye on KFH for a long time hoping to bring it here like we did for Hero and are doing for New Police Story.

[Shaolinlueb]

isnt KFH out on dvd in china by now? i mean, I bought andy lau's movie "A world without thieves" on dvd in china, and it was still out in the thearters in china.

[GeneChing]

...but those are region 3 platform. We only deal in region 1 (USA) or universal platform DVDs. Also we don't deal in bootlegs. Official product only. You may pay a little more, but the production quality is generally far superior, and the earnings go to the rightful recipients.

[Shaolinlueb]

my fortune cookie jsut said "be confident in your own lovability" so i guess it means i have to push more buttons!!!!
werd, ill pick it up off you guys if you get one in.

[GeneChing]

...but if Sony Classic Pictures is going to release it stateside that soon, they'll probably clamp down on HK uni-platform DVDs and it'll go straight to US DVD distribution. In which case, we won't carry it. We generally don't carry DVDs in regular release which explains why we don't carry Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or even Enter the Dragon. You can find that stuff at Blockbuster so it's not worth it for us to try to compete there.