A very good deal and worth picking up to give as gifts this Christmas.
Mr. G
10-12-08, 08:23 PM
I'm sorry I'm a BL newbie, how many total films did he make, and were they all based on the martial arts genre? What was that early-mid '90s Bruce Lee documentary-esque film called again? Sorry, I know I'm way out of the loop regarding Mr. Lee. Other than bits of Enter The Dragon, I've never sat down to watch his films before.
I might be picking this up at Walmart though, and a bag of Skittles and enjoy :)
kefrank
10-12-08, 09:16 PM
The completed films Bruce Lee starred in before his death were:
The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury)
Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection)
Way of the Dragon (aka Return of the Dragon)
Enter the Dragon
He had shot some of Game of Death before he died, but never completed it. A few years after his death, the footage he'd shot was cobbled together with newly shot scenes using a lookalike and in some cases, even a cardboard cutout of his head (i'm not kidding). The real scenes he shot are absolutely electric, but the rest is an abomination. It bares little resemblance to the conception that he had for it.
All of these films are in the martial arts genre. Any other films that are supposed to be about Bruce Lee or have him in it are generally films that exploited his fame after his death and are not true Bruce Lee films.
Prior to those films, Bruce appeared in some television shows in the U.S., most famously as Kato in The Green Hornet (and a few episodes of Batman) and Li Tsung in Longstreet.
A biopic about Bruce Lee was made in the 90s, entitled Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. It takes some pretty significant liberties with the facts of his life, but most biopics do. If you're really interested in his actual life, there are some great documentaries. One of my favorites is his A&E Biography Episode, which is available on DVD as Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon.
RustyOrgan
10-13-08, 02:21 PM
Interesting... might order it from Amazon if I don't see it at Wall-Mart
Tardo317
10-13-08, 03:22 PM
Didn't find the set in Plaistow, NH or Haverhill, MA......
Has anyone else been able to find it?
Lemdog
10-13-08, 09:58 PM
Found it in Virginia Beach
bsmith
10-14-08, 12:02 AM
As corny as it is, my favorite is "Way of the Dragon" for the final fight scene with Norris. I use to have one of the older collections but sold all the others off. But I might pick this up for a cheap price so I can get the better transfers. Now that the price seems officially down from $50 to $20 I don't think there is a great hurry. DD has it for just under $16 no tax, no shipping costs. I may just wait until the November sale and see if it is even lower, like say $13.
jgorow
10-14-08, 01:07 AM
As corny as it is, my favorite is "Way of the Dragon" for the final fight scene with Norris. I use to have one of the older collections but sold all the others off. But I might pick this up for a cheap price so I can get the better transfers. Now that the price seems officially down from $50 to $20 I don't think there is a great hurry. DD has it for just under $16 no tax, no shipping costs. I may just wait until the November sale and see if it is even lower, like say $13.
sometimes when you see a heavy price drop like this, it means it is going to go out of print. if you wait too long, it might be, you snooze-you lose
DJariya
10-14-08, 04:30 AM
The completed films Bruce Lee starred in before his death were:
The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury)
Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection)
Way of the Dragon (aka Return of the Dragon)
Enter the Dragon
He had shot some of Game of Death before he died, but never completed it. A few years after his death, the footage he'd shot was cobbled together with newly shot scenes using a lookalike and in some cases, even a cardboard cutout of his head (i'm not kidding). The real scenes he shot are absolutely electric, but the rest is an abomination. It bares little resemblance to the conception that he had for it.
All of these films are in the martial arts genre. Any other films that are supposed to be about Bruce Lee or have him in it are generally films that exploited his fame after his death and are not true Bruce Lee films.
Prior to those films, Bruce appeared in some television shows in the U.S., most famously as Kato in The Green Hornet (and a few episodes of Batman) and Li Tsung in Longstreet.
A biopic about Bruce Lee was made in the 90s, entitled Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. It takes some pretty significant liberties with the facts of his life, but most biopics do. If you're really interested in his actual life, there are some great documentaries. One of my favorites is his A&E Biography Episode, which is available on DVD as Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon.
The documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey which is available separately and on the 2-disc Enter the Dragon re-constructs how Game of Death was actually supposed to be according to Lee's script and some incomplete footage re-added. If your going to pick up this collection, then the 2-disc Enter the Dragon DVD is also a must for that documentary. Robert Clouse's version in this collection is almost unwatchable.
mrhan
10-14-08, 11:24 AM
The documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey which is available separately and on the 2-disc Enter the Dragon re-constructs how Game of Death was actually supposed to be according to Lee's script and some incomplete footage re-added. If your going to pick up this collection, then the 2-disc Enter the Dragon DVD is also a must for that documentary. Robert Clouse's version in this collection is almost unwatchable.
I'd like to add that if you want to make your collection complete and you are region free get "Bruce Lee in G.o.D". It is a Japanese release which is similar to WJ except it tries to make a movie out of the Bruce Lee footage. It is not informative like WJ but it gives you an anamorphic cleaned up version of the same footage. It makes the WJ footage look like a washed out non anamorphic bootleg. :)
I hope with this price drop and eventual OOP status maybe there's a BD release around the corner.
SonicScrewy
10-15-08, 09:10 AM
I thought about buying this last year or so. But decided against it since the box wasn't too descriptive. And I didn't buy the special edition of "Enter the Dragon," because it didn't have the cantonese track like I saw on tape.
Does this have the two Chinese tracks for each film, except for the ones he didn't do?
dmkb
10-15-08, 12:54 PM
This is definitely a YMMV situation - the folks at my Wal Mart looked at me like I had a third head when I asked them about the set.
mrhan
10-15-08, 01:51 PM
I thought about buying this last year or so. But decided against it since the box wasn't too descriptive. And I didn't buy the special edition of "Enter the Dragon," because it didn't have the cantonese track like I saw on tape.
Does this have the two Chinese tracks for each film, except for the ones he didn't do?
Why would you want the Cantonese track on ETD when the original language is English? What they should have done was put the U.S. version of ETD with the international version on the SE. You can't find it anywhere except on LD.
MScottM
10-15-08, 01:53 PM
The completed films Bruce Lee starred in before his death were:
The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury)
Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection)
Way of the Dragon (aka Return of the Dragon)
Enter the Dragon
He had shot some of Game of Death before he died, but never completed it. A few years after his death, the footage he'd shot was cobbled together with newly shot scenes using a lookalike and in some cases, even a cardboard cutout of his head (i'm not kidding). The real scenes he shot are absolutely electric, but the rest is an abomination. It bares little resemblance to the conception that he had for it.
All of these films are in the martial arts genre. Any other films that are supposed to be about Bruce Lee or have him in it are generally films that exploited his fame after his death and are not true Bruce Lee films.
Prior to those films, Bruce appeared in some television shows in the U.S., most famously as Kato in The Green Hornet (and a few episodes of Batman) and Li Tsung in Longstreet.
A biopic about Bruce Lee was made in the 90s, entitled Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. It takes some pretty significant liberties with the facts of his life, but most biopics do. If you're really interested in his actual life, there are some great documentaries. One of my favorites is his A&E Biography Episode, which is available on DVD as Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon.
You didnt mention that he was in Marlowe. He didn't have a big role in the movie, but it is worth mentioning that Gardner's character asks Lee's character if he is a homsexual and Gardner actually lives through the resultant fight.
An amusing if somewhat far-fetched scene.
mrhan
10-15-08, 01:57 PM
You didnt mention that he was in Marlowe. He didn't have a big role in the movie, but it is worth mentioning that Gardner's character asks Lee's character if he is a homsexual and Gardner actually lives through the resultant fight.
An amusing if somewhat far-fetched scene.
He was also in Ironside, Longstreet, Here Comes the Brides and Blondie. Their all available on DVD except for the Blondie episode. There's also HK DVDs of his work as a child actor.
DonnachaOne
10-15-08, 02:03 PM
This is definitely a YMMV situation - the folks at my Wal Mart looked at me like I had a third head when I asked them about the set.
As a rule, if Wal-Mart doesn't have it on display, you're better off not asking them where certain titles are or if they have them. They won't know.
kefrank
10-15-08, 02:12 PM
You didnt mention that he was in Marlowe. He didn't have a big role in the movie, but it is worth mentioning that Gardner's character asks Lee's character if he is a homsexual and Gardner actually lives through the resultant fight.
An amusing if somewhat far-fetched scene.
yeah, i was just giving an overview of his starring roles (thus the wording i used). i wouldn't consider his appearance in Marlowe a starring role.
Tardo317
10-15-08, 04:16 PM
This is definitely a YMMV situation - the folks at my Wal Mart looked at me like I had a third head when I asked them about the set.
I'm not even going to ask about your second head.......:rimshot:
Trevor
10-15-08, 04:26 PM
As a rule, if Wal-Mart doesn't have it on display, you're better off not asking them where certain titles are or if they have them. They won't know.
Exactly. No offense to the employees there, but I can't imagine a scenario where asking them a question would be worth the trouble.
The DVDs are stocked by an outside company, the Walmart employees are rightfully clueless about what they have.
JSwarce
10-15-08, 09:18 PM
Was in Best Buy today and picked up this set. They had three, all marked $14.99. I used the October 10% off coupon from the small book they had in the DVD department and got it for $13.49 plus tax.
--John
jgorow
10-15-08, 10:47 PM
Was in Best Buy today and picked up this set. They had three, all marked $14.99. I used the October 10% off coupon from the small book they had in the DVD department and got it for $13.49 plus tax.
--John
damn, wish I knew about the coupon when I bought mine, but still, 15.00 for 5 remastered bruce lee movies in widescreen is a hella deal
FangsFirst
10-15-08, 11:51 PM
The DVDs are stocked by an outside company, the Walmart employees are rightfully clueless about what they have.
Seeing as I worked there for a year and a half or so--this isn't true. It's true of CDs, but not DVDs.
They really should know better--but considering what it's like working there, I can't blame them completely either.
My first store, tho, we all knew everything we had and right where it was most of the time (in electronics, I mean).
But then, I used to alphabetize the dumpbin, so we WERE kinda weird.
bipartite
10-18-08, 06:08 AM
Went to Best Buy tonight they had three copies all marked $37.99 so I went to Wal-mart and bought it.
Tardo317
10-18-08, 08:18 AM
Finally picked up my set at Best Buy in Salem, NH. They had 3 sets marked at $14.99 each.
JSwarce
10-18-08, 09:41 AM
Went to Best Buy tonight they had three copies all marked $37.99 so I went to Wal-mart and bought it.
But they probably would have rang up @ $14.99. Two were marked $14.99 @ my local BB, and the other one was marked $37.99, with a yellow $14.99 ticker over the higher price. Good that you did get the set, though!
--John
Trevor
10-18-08, 10:29 AM
Shelf tags are often wrong, I pretty much ignore them.
Trevor
10-18-08, 10:30 AM
Seeing as I worked there for a year and a half or so--this isn't true. It's true of CDs, but not DVDs.
They really should know better--but considering what it's like working there, I can't blame them completely either.
My first store, tho, we all knew everything we had and right where it was most of the time (in electronics, I mean).
But then, I used to alphabetize the dumpbin, so we WERE kinda weird.
It's true at the two Walmarts that I frequent, unless the employees are flat out lying to me. Imagine every region could be different.
FangsFirst
10-18-08, 11:21 AM
It's true at the two Walmarts that I frequent, unless the employees are flat out lying to me. Imagine every region could be different.
Could be, but highly unlikely. That'd be a stupid extra cost for a company that would have approximately zero interest in extra cost--also, the CDs portion is generally easy to tell because of the differing sticker style on CDs. Most DVDs carry a Wal-Mart created label (with a handful of exceptions).
But having worked a 12 hour shift (voluntarily, because dealing with DVDs was my favourite thing and I guess I must be slightly insane) to re-set the DVD layout with my department manager once, I'm pretty confident that it's the case everywhere (and I worked in two stores, at least).
Still possible, I suppose, but I do doubt it.
bsmith
10-18-08, 06:08 PM
Happened in a Walmart while doing errands and spotted one copy left on the shelf and decided to pick it up.
One question for those that also have "Enter the Dragon". I have the black background special edition version and from what I have read the red cover version is a little better in PQ but not much. However, the red copy has more extra's. If anyone has seen the extra's between the two versions and finds the additional extra's on the red version much better. Let me know, I may decide to upgrade it too while I'm at it.
chris_sc77
10-18-08, 06:47 PM
^Get the 2-disk Red background version. There are two full-length documentaries. One lasts 100 minutes and one lasts around 87 minutes. Both are every good. Plus there are other extras and a commentary. Well worth the price. a great 2-disk SE.
Tardo317
10-18-08, 07:24 PM
^Get the 2-disk Red background version. There are two full-length documentaries. One lasts 100 minutes and one lasts around 87 minutes. Both are every good. Plus there are other extras and a commentary. Well worth the price. a great 2-disk SE.
I just picked this up from an Amazon Marketplace seller for $15.00. It was about the cheapest I've seen it.
Torchur317
10-18-08, 08:07 PM
this isn't true.
It's actually true for certain DVDs not all of them but some of them.....
chris_sc77
10-18-08, 08:21 PM
I just picked this up from an Amazon Marketplace seller for $15.00. It was about the cheapest I've seen it.
Or columbia house has the 2-disk SE. You can get it as an enrollment title if you are not a member.
FangsFirst
10-18-08, 10:46 PM
It's actually true for certain DVDs not all of them but some of them.....
Yeah, but it's a pretty tiny number, and rarely ones that are on the "IL"...but maybe that has wiggled more (tended to be a smattering of new releases in my stores, and little, if any, more)
mrhan
10-19-08, 12:43 PM
I just picked this up from an Amazon Marketplace seller for $15.00. It was about the cheapest I've seen it.
I've seen the 2 disc SE for $8 at Costco. They randomly restock it from time to time. Same goes for Se7en and Once Upon a Time in America; both $8.
bsmith
10-19-08, 01:42 PM
I've seen the 2 disc SE for $8 at Costco. They randomly restock it from time to time. Same goes for Se7en and Once Upon a Time in America; both $8.
That's good to know. I hit Costco about once a week. I know I've seen it on sale somewhere, maybe that was it.
mrhan
10-19-08, 09:10 PM
That's good to know. I hit Costco about once a week. I know I've seen it on sale somewhere, maybe that was it.
At Fry's they have the HD DVD version for $8, also. They had quite a few the last time I was there. I've also noticed that the BD version went up to $22 and it was only $19 when I bought it last January.
HOSALE
11-25-08, 04:00 PM
My Best Buy in E. Palo Alto has three Bruce Lee Ultimate Collections in stock for $14.99. I've been waiting for this to show since the thread started. Got one today. Thanks.
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