Bruce Lee - The Master Collection Set

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Summary: Laser Disc Transfer....
Review: I bought all of the Bruce Lee films on Lasrer Disc years ago. At that time, it was the only way to get movies in widescreen and at a higher resolution. I have seen those LD movies so many times and I know what resolution something is. Fox has put a flim-flam on us. I bought mine when this set first came out about for(?) years ago. Once that CBS Fox logo came on the screen, the first thing I said was "these people got lazy and did not even want to re-master the original films. Instead the just copyed a LD to DVD because they figure that most fools would not know it." I guess they were right. Some of us do know it.

Just because these were Kong Kong films and considered "B" movies, you should still give them some decent treatment. Even Game of Death II was re-mastered and even given some type of surround sound. The sound on these is about as horrible as you remeber it from TV. The picture, I cannot really get happy about it since it is not DVD qulaity. Many people did not get into LD's or S-VHS for one reason of another(cost being the main factor), so they may be impressed and think that this is Lee on DVD in it's finest quality. I wonder if we will ever see such quality. I am hunting down the Asian verison which says that they were indeed re-mastered, you hear Lee's origianl voice AND it is in DTS surround sound. They give their master the royal treatment, and we give him the "B" movie treatment.

I say hunt down the Asian ones.

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Summary: The best I've been able to find, but...
Review: There is no denying the fundamental importance of these movies to any fan of action, and now that the price has dropped from the original $54 I can wholeheartedly recommend this version. Be forewarned, however, that the collection does NOT include Enter the Dragon, due to copyright issues with WB studios (This set is released by 20th Century Fox) and it also does NOT contain the original language dialogue, which was a huge disappointment to me. The gem of the collection is "The Chinese Connection", which shows some fun examples of Bruce expanding his role as an actor as well as a martial artist. Just as a heads up, this movie, originally released as Fists of Fury in HK, actually has a quality (for HK films of this era) sequel starring Jackie Chan that most people haven't heard of. Called New Fist of Fury, I thought that this was one of Jackie's better earlier films as well.