A fresh little thread for folks to discuss they're ongoing acquisitions and/or recent viewings of Asian movies, and anything else for that matter! Not sure we'll see the same action as last year's thread, but ya never know (5000+ views: paltry some would say, but not too shabby for the size of our active membership). The 2007 thread, particularly those bits where people actually elaborated on their latest goodies
, still provides me with plentiful titles to hunt for during my ongoing bargain scrounges around Toronto's Chinatowns and Asian malls, as well as online.
And the goodies are still out there, if in decreased supply. Not hoping to blow the bank this year due to other commitments yada yada yada, but there's still a little scrounge budget to be tapped!
And who knows, maybe this not-too-surprising news will colour this year's tallies for everyone, though a small part of me wants to doubt that because fading sales and format wars can only mean more price drops and bargains to be had (money permitting, of course):
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/290885
While I've no doubt that hi-def formats—and more importantly, though not mentioned in the article, downloading—will play important roles in the future, I've yet to see a good reason to start thinking about HD-DVD or BLU-RAY versions of my beloved Hong Kong pictures. I suppose the odd new release might be worth a boo on the new formats, but seriously, when you consider how much effort goes into restoring, remastering, and re-whatevering Hollywood movies for presentation in 1080p, I just don't see that same kind of care being lavished on a majority of Hong Kong films, countless numbers of which have yet to even appear on standard DVD, and even the minority that do receive such treatment, well, will the elements even stand up to such high resolution? I wonder if I'll be just as happy upconverting most of the collection I have now via some $50 player that does the deed, rather replacing any significant quantities of it. Hell, I'm still hunting down VCDs, for goodness' sake, and popping the occasional fish-eye at folks who high-mindedly slam them at various other forums. Really, how long do some folks figure they're willing to hold out for certain titles on DVD, let alone the next-gen formats? Sigh.
Anyways, back to the hunt . . .
. Plus, my New Year's resolution this year is to finally watch Avenging Fist, which I bought about 5 years ago 
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. I have been wondering about Dragon Dynasty selections of late (though Rob-B-Hood was a no brainer release I think), because I thought they would have came out with titles like The Killer, more of the Shaw Brothers, Jackie Chan and Jet Li titles that they said they were going to rerelease, etc..., so I completely agree with you on your points. I've read that they were very successful with several of their early releases like Police Story and The Protector (so I don't fault them for bringing out Born to Fight) so up until The City of Violence (I have not seen this one yet, so it might be a good/great) the picks were fine (though I'm not a fan of Seven Swords, well at least that version that has been released) for bigger type audiences. After that they seemed to have lost some interest in that label (not a good edition for Hardboiled, web sites updates aside from Bey Logan blog entries have been slow and lacking, release schedule was pushed back, I could not find several releases at Best Buy/Target when they were released, marketing campaign was slowed, etc...). That label could be so much more successful if they put some more effort into it (the company makes so many rookie business mistakes that I sometimes wonder what the heck is wrong with them; I do think this same thing about other businesses though).
Besides, I'm cool with being behind the curve a bit as I know I'm not the only one here with mountains of this stuff to tackle!
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