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Storm riders english dubbed2/17/2024 Seen 13 April 2021 in Jay's Living Room (off the shelf, Hong Kong Blu-ray)Įven without watching its 2009 sequel for comparison, The Storm Riders has a throwback air to it, like the Hong Kong film industry long defined by knowing how to squeeze a lot out of what they had for a one-city market was playing a bit of catch-up before advances in technology and a drastic increase in their potential audience changed everything. I don't know that there's a lot of pent-up demand for this stuff in English - most of the potential audience knows Cantonese and either lives in Hong Kong or has folks there to mail it to them - but it seems like an interesting thing to have on Comixology.įung wan: Hung ba tin ha ( The Storm Riders) I'd love to see some more Hong Kong films based on their comics, though, and more translations of those comics into English (a number by Storm Riders creator Ma Wing Shing were published by ComicsOne, but they've been defunct since 2005. There have been occasional rumors of a third movie, maybe by the Pangs again, but I don't know if Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng are up for that. It's probably totally fair in Hong Kong, and I never actually felt lost. ![]() They both feel like movies where the audience is expected to know what they're in for, but in different ways - Riders feels like it's covering a lot of issues but working its way through the origin, while Warriors just picks up like it's in the middle of a TV series and the audience just needs a slight refresh. There's not exactly strong continuity between them, but it's odd that they retain the same two leads rather than relaunching when so much else is different. I'm glad I did the double feature, though, because it shows what a difference ten years made at this particular point in movie history, and the way the filmmakers handled it.īecause while ten years is a lot of time at the turn of the century - the difference between everything being shot on 35mm and digitally, but it's a stark difference in style, as Andrew Lau Wai-Keung is pretty traditional - for something released in 1998, it feels like something from ten years earlier - while the Pang Brothers dive into building a whole world digitally, with the hyper-detailed armor you see in more current mainland productions. A bit longer than I expected - I read the 86 minutes of special features as the length of the movie, but it's actually 25 minutes longer - but it's not like I had to catch a bus the next morning. Still, I had to take this picture quickly, because there were a bunch of folks who wanted to pose with the antihero.Īnyway, I remembered that when I saw both of these movies in the "cheap sale" section at DDDHouse, picked them up, and picked them up for a double feature last week. ![]() I stumbled upon this statue of Cloud while walking around Golden Bauhinia Square, maybe the same day I was looking for Comix Home Base, and as much as I was intrigued by the fact that it was one of thirty-six statues… Well, like I mentioned above, my phone wasn't doing that great with the internet that day, so I didn't find the map to follow.
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