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Bruce Lee the Master Collection

Bruce Lee the Master Collection

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Bruce Lee in Widescreen!!!!
Review: Bruce Lee is fantastic and it is worth seeing him in action on the original widescreen format. I would have loved to have in the original lanaguge. The dubbing that CBS/FOX did way back when sounds awlful when played through a home theatre system. I think it might have been better to just get the three Bruce Lee movies, Fist of Fury, Return of the Dragon, & Chinese Connection seperately. The Game of Death isn't worth getting - Bruce Lee is in 13 minutes of film, and 'Bruce Lee the Legend' is ok, but not BRUCE LEE!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The one and old Bruce Lee
Review: Bruce Lee totally kick butt (literally) in the four movies featured in the Gift Pack. From Thailand to Shanghai to Rome and then back to Bruce Lee's birthplace in Hong Kong, Lee trashes the bad guys around the world! Really good kung-fu in all of the movies. Although most of the Game of Death is done by a Bruce Lee wannabe, at the end, everyone goes wild when appears! Get it 'cause you won't regret it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: classic
Review: bruce lee was poetry in action.very powerful and a true craftsman.a pioneer in the truest sense.a must have.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic, Immortal, and Pioneer of all fighting movies
Review: Classic, Immortal, and Pioneer of all fighting movies. These movies are not for one segment of taste. The Bruce Lee series are on a classic buffs' to do list. To understand the tone and the root of all fighting movies and scenes these are the fight flicks to do before any Jackie Chan, Vandamme or Segal.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ONE OF A KIND
Review: ENTER THE DRAGON IS THE BEST MOVIE YOU WILL EVER SEE MY ADVICE WOULD BE TO BUY IT NOW BEFORE I GET THEM ALL IT IS AMAZING. NOT JUST THE FANTASTIC MARTIAL ARTS FIGHT SCEANES BUT THE GRIPPING STORY AS WELL.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Seriously deficient DVDs; crappy transfer and no bonuses.
Review: Every couple of years we get a batch of Bruce Lee re-releases, and none of them has ever impressed me.

Thanks to the thoughtless original distributors who had handled the films on their first run in the U.S., American audiences have never been able to get official releases of Bruce Lee's films in their original language. Even modern companies like Dimension (with their disgraceful dubbing on Jackie Chan's films) have been disrespectful to kung fu films by never including the original dialogue tracks and credit sequences, meaning fans of Bruce Lee will still hear a fourth-rate voice actor on these films rather than Bruce himself.

That was to be expected. What was not expected was how bad the quality of these transfers was. I don't know how much work they did in picture restoration or colour timing; judging from the picture quality, my guess would be: None. The three Hong Kong films -- Fists of Fury, The Chinese Connection and Return of the Dragon -- have too much contrast and unnatural desaturation, making the characters pasty-faced and the lighting seemingly too dark. Whether that was the original intent of the filmmakers is unknown, but I know that even the old VHS editions of these films I bought 10 years ago didn't have the number of scratches, bad sprockets and picture jumps I see here. These *are* letterboxed, (...) though it's small consolation for the number of frozen frames I see before cuts. Even the Transformers DVD collections have a better restoration job than this, to say nothing of the impressive array of Shaw Brothers films that Celestial Pictures has been releasing. This set is a disgraceful treatment of the master Bruce Lee's films.

The thoughtlessness continues into the fact that there are absolutely no bonus materials on the DVDs of the films. No commentary tracks -- it should have been easy enough to get some kung fu film experts here, even if they can't get Raymond Chow, James Tien, Nora Miao, Linda Lee Cadwell or Lee's Hong Kong contemporaries; no trailers (again, an easy dig through the archives); not even film stills or essays. You just get the film, subdivided into overlarge chapters that don't reflect the structure of the films: The *entire* Colosseum scene in Return of the Dragon, up until the graveyard scene, is one big chapter. Are you kidding me?

The documentary Bruce Lee: The Legend is a curiosity. While it has some major faults -- the horrible dubbing on Bruce Lee's very early films as a child actor, factual errors and omissions -- it also has a wealth of archival footage that is a joy to behold. If the DVD distributors had done this kind of homework! This documentary is definitely worth seeing for Lee fans, though I would tell them to just get this single DVD and skip the rest.

Compared to the Shaw Brothers re-releases and the bonus materials for the excellent DVD edition of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, these DVDs are shameful -- another quickie repackaging of Lee's films for some quick cash, with no thought. (...) (...)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An excellent, but incomplete set.
Review: Excellent digital re-mastering of Bruce Lee's classics. Unfortunately, it's missing "Enter The Dragon", which you'll have to order separately since it's owned by WB and not CBS/FOX, the publishers of the set. This set is simply incomplete without it. I urge the people at Amazon to bundle them in a promotion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 'Nuff Said......
Review: First of all, this is Bruce Lee. Not Bruce Li or Dragon Lee. All Bruce Lee. He is the man. He can kick our butts without thinking about it. Buy this collection out of respect for him, not because it does or doesn't come in Dolby Digital 5.1 (TM) and your big screen HDTV doesn't bring out the best of the films. I'll watch these movies on a 19 inch TV and still enjoy them. The dubbed voices are a key element in old school martial art films transfered to English. It's simple as day...If you can't appreciate Lee, don't by the movies.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Bruce-the best in the world
Review: He was a true master-till this day no one comes close. His techniques are copied and used by everyone from navy seals, to shaolin monks-they just dont tell you this. He was a fanatic who developed his one style of martial arts after studying numerous other....but he had only one formal teacher-Grandmaster YipMan of the Wing chun system. {Bruce eventually taught his teacher his new found teckniques.}
As far as this collection-they could've added special features, but the company felt it wouldnt've made anymore profit from this. It didnt matter that his fans missed out. The company that put out Warriors Journey-the documetary that features "Game of Death" uncut wanted to work with fox video to add all the footage into the movie-there is another 20 minutes of bruce fighting that has never been seen! They said no. There is a DVD put out in Asia by "Media Asia" of Chinese connection-AKA Fist of Fury in Asia that is far suppior to the american version-it features tons of extras,3 dubbed languages[including english] Bruce actually dubbed the voice of the Russian bad guy on the chinese track-very cool to hear!! The movie comes in a gift box with a pair of miniature Nunchakus! 5 star laser sells it-look them up on line.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not A Collection
Review: I am aware that this is a compendium of Bruce lee's movies from Hong Kong. But there's one problem I have with this collection. It's not a collection. ENTER the damn DRAGON is a BRUCE LEE MOVIE. If all of his films aren't COLLECTED it's not a collection. You can skip all of the pretty packaging and Booklets. I just want all of his films together. That may be a problem as far as the movie studios see it. Couldn't they settle their differences for the consumers sake. I sold my so called collection to a friend of mine a day after I purchased it. I didn't realize it was incomplete. I guess I should read the boxes before I buy my next COLLECTION. I can buy each DVD seperately and save money. Especially if the quality difference isn't that noticable. One of these DVD's isn't even an actual film. It's a documentary. Not worth it, unless you're to lazy to build your own collection.


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