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The Henschel HS-123 was a biplane dive bomber that first saw action in 1937 in Spain with the Condor Legion. Although designed as a dive bomber, the HS-123 was initially tried out in Spain as a tactical bomber, a role to which the plane was not suited. The HS-123 continued to fight on the Eastern Front until 1944 although its numbers. Eastern Condors (Chinese: 東方禿鷹) is a 1987 Hong Kong action film directed by Sammo Hung, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Yuen Biao,.
I own the series including Magic Cop, aka Mr. Vampire 5 (1990). There are a few reviews on them but i've never read any that could compare with yours. I'll ask a quick question for a few of you: what is the best sequel (official or not) in the Mr.
Vampire series? Being always busy with watching film and having read several not so good reviews on the sequels I have stayed away from them. But I figure it is time to be daring a give some a chance (especially considering some of the not-so-good film I've watched lately ). Morgoth: this film is best to go in thinking about a genre film instead of a Kung Fu actioneer (like what Endsang wrote). Inframan: I would love to see several of these on the big screen so quite jealous here.
Completely agree with you, the humor works well for me (and for the several people I have lent this too, it has always translated well). I've seen a few: Mr Vampire 2 has a few moments but overall is a let down as one reviewer on HK movie database said 'facial mugging that would embarass Jackie Chan', 3 I remember being pretty good but its a ghost story no vampires, Magic Cop is pretty good kind of a modern day version of the taoist magic movies, Crazy Safari is the weirdest one I've seen, its also really funny. Its set in Africa and it features that bushman from The Gods Must be Crazy. I think its only VCD, but where else can you see Lam Ching Ying ride an ostrich?XD A local theater used to regularly have Hong Kong Sunday, those were the days. The IVL release of the film boats a wide selection of audio tracks.
Along with Cantonese Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 efforts, the disc features the original Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Cantonese track for posterity. Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 is also available.
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However, such a wealth of audio options doesn’t necessarily equate to superior audio quality, but this is not the case here. Both the Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks are very lively, with a surprising amount of surround action for such an old Hong Kong flick. It’s fairly obvious that a lot of new effects have been added into the mix in order to create a more stimulating track, and while this might offend the purists I have to say that I was impressed with the results.
Some of the discrete effects add genuine atmosphere to scenes that were previously lacking—just listen to the heartbeats during the prison scene for proof of that. This version of Mr.
Vampire also features punchier bass than before, adding menace to the vampires’ ominous hopping. Dialogue also sounds more natural than most Hong Kong flicks of this era, although it’s still very obviously looped. The only truly negative thing I have to say about the tracks is that they feature a somewhat annoying level of background hiss, but I even that became less apparent when I got into the movie. Thankfully purists are also catered for with the inclusion of the original Mono track, which is very much what one would expect. Virtually all of the dialogue sounds as if it has been looped through gauze, which of course it has (been looped that it, I’m not sure about the gauze), and there’s a lot of distortion in the track. While it’s nice that this track found its way onto the disc, it really is starting to show its age now.