Shaw Brothers Metal Tin: Epic Heroes (17 Nov 2009)
I do prefer to watch foreign movies with subtitles, however if the
film was originally filmed without audio like old Spaghetti Westerns and Shaw
Brothers movies, then I actually like hearing their English Dubbed
version. Often time, like in the case of
the original Mad Max and The Man with No Name trilogy, they have the main actor
(Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood) go back into the studio to dub over their own
lines.
When Shaw Brothers movies are re-released for the Region 1/North
American audience, I find it hard to understand why they don’t include the
English audio. Perhaps they lost the
English dub, or probably most likely, never recorded an English soundtrack for
the film
Thankfully, Well Go USA’s tin boxset of EPIC HEROES collects four of
their DVD with the English dub! The Tin case is nice, but it does look
unnecessary big, and to access the other two DVDs, you have to open the case
from the back. If you own other tin
cases, like those “cheap” Sherlock Holmes or public domain films, then you
should already know how the tin case work
EPIC HEROES contains two “old” releases (THE HEROIC ONES and TWO
CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN) with two “new” releases (HEROES SHED NO TEARS and
DELIGHTFUL FOREST), so you won’t complain if the release has movies you’ve
already own, since chances of you rushing out to get DELIGHTFUL FOREST is next
to nil
Having already own and seen two of the DVDs, I found that all the
movies are actually pretty good. None of
the plot is too overly complicated, although you may have an issue of who’s who
in the epic THE HEROIC ONES
The boxset includes “free T-Shirt” offers, which have already expired
and that I have never sent in. The shirt features the USA cover artwork for THE
HEROIC ONES.
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