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Long Step Mantis
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List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $17.99
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Manufacturer: Ground Zero
Starring: Long Step Mantis
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Ground Zero
EAN: 0694795406224
Format: Color
Label: Ground Zero
Manufacturer: Ground Zero
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ground Zero
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2003-01-28
Studio: Ground Zero
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Editorial Reviews:
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Studio: Ground Zero Release Date: 01/28/2003 Rating: Nr
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Customer Rating:
Summary: "I'll tell you the truth, I'm the one who killed your wife. And you, I killed your dad"- classic hate from Lung Fei
Comment: This movie is bad, but worth watching for the fights. The story is too complicated for it's own good. It's not interesting whatsoever. Mark Long plays a young man who wants to learn kung fu. He finds a secret book, and now he has to defeat some villains with his new skills. Blah blah blah. So how are the fights? Not bad, not bad at all. This movie is a perfect example of what kung fu fans in the UK call "shapes". Basically the best way to describe shapes is that when you watch an actor's body you can see them making shapes. Simple as that. Also, when the actors are doing kung fu exchanges, a lot of the time they are fitting shapes together with their arms. Kind of hard to explain, but when you see the action in this movie you will see the style of choreography I am talking about.
Alright, so back to the fights. TONS of fighting, and most of it is pretty good. Lung Fei's the villain, and he rarely disappoints. He uses a cool one hand style where he keeps his other arm behind his back, but I didn't feel that the director made the most out of this. But it's still cool.
The Groundzero version has decent picture quality, but the full screen presentation really affects the fighting. I'm not one of those people who complains about an actor being out of frame while he's talking, but when the full screen affects the fighting, that's when I get mad. The movie deserves a 3 star rating, but this DVD only gets a 2. Seek out a different version.
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Summary: Talgoma1..(old school kung-fu) Queens,N.Y.
Comment: Beckybwoy you're absolutely correct,these movies are 20-30 years old and in the 80's when I went to 42nd street every friday night to see them ,some of them were poor quality then but that does not take away from the action and that is what you are looking for.Those other two guys with their upity reviews need to get back to their little preppy school before their teacher marks them absent,any Real old scooler knows that these pictures are old and they accept them as they are.
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Summary: Old 'skool" Kung Fu
Comment: On Like the other two so called kung fu lovers above, when I watch a martial arts flick, I usually watch it for the actual art of kung fu PERIOD!! As a true old school kung fu lover, I cannot afford to focus 100% on the sound or picture quality, I'm just too caught up in the choregraphy and or the cinematography. These flicks are usually 20 to 30 years old,,come on be a flexible. You don't score a flick simply on the picture and sound quality alone!! Personally,,,just as long as I can see and hear appropriately what is happening,,I'm good to go. Therefore, I will rate that movie accordingly!! Yeah, the picture and sound quality is not the greatest,,but that did not take nothing away from the acceptable story line and the amzing fight scenes! This is a top notch flick where the art of kung fu is absolutely transparent, an amazing kick ass flick which deserves nothing less than 5 stars in my book!!!
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Summary: I agree with Zhuge Liang
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I don't understand why they think that the average kung fu movie consumer could tolerate such crappy quality. I've seen this movie in Europe and I know for a fact that the picture quality is decent in it's widescreen format. When I seen this one come to the states, I refused to buy it unless there was some indication that it's either remastered or in letterbox or both. They should start doing decent transfers of kung fu movies and quit ripping us kung fu movie fans off!!
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Summary: Great Kung Fu, Poor(est) Transfer
Comment: I watch a lot of kung fu movies and have come to expect that the DVD transfer of such films is usually less than perfect, but this one went above and beyond the call of duty to be one the worst DVD transfers of a kung fu film I have ever seen. During the first 20 minutes the film is almost unwatchable as everything takes place in what appears to be heavily-foliaged terrain, its very hard to tell because everything is washed out green with almost no detail visible, even the actors appear to be green when seen in the distance. Also one can see this was transfered from a VHS tape or similar format as it appears that the tracking was being adjusted constantly for the first sequences of the film. The only thing that saves it from getting 1 star is that it has some very good scenes of Mantis Kung Fu, when they're actually visible of course. Here's to hoping they find a better print of the movie someday.
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