[Help] A Better Tomorrow 2 DVD/Blu-Ray

[MrBrown]

The Audio is just Cantonese, not mandarin, and it is in 2.0 mono.
I just noticed the Scene in the restaurant, and when mark is getting the data from the crime syndicate base. But I did not check the whole movie. IIRC, I checked the final shootout, and it was not a different msuic, from the original.

[LucasGodzilla]

So recently, I've ended up unearthing an old Hong Kong movie box in my current household and stumbled across the A Better Tomorrow trilogy inside it. Upon deciding to watch the first one earlier this evening, I made the lucky (or rather unlucky given the fact that I still sat through it) discovery that my copy was actually the infamous 5.1 Cantonese release with the alternate music.

Is anyone ( @Stamper ) still interested in the audio remix out of curiosity?

[Stamper]

You bet man! This one his hard to get!

[zoidberg]

What is the 'look' of the ABT2 DVDs? I still have my Made in Hong Kong VHS which is sourced from a 35mm release print with scratches, some pretty jumpy splices and burned in subtitles. It's got a pretty striking blue and orange/brown look

[LucasGodzilla]

What is the 'look' of the ABT2 DVDs? I still have my Made in Hong Kong VHS which is sourced from a 35mm release print with scratches, some pretty jumpy splices and burned in subtitles. It's got a pretty striking blue and orange/brown look

For the most part, the movie looks very neutral with a lot of clean-looking whites. It does have some blue-lit areas in some night-time scenes but nothing particularly heavy. Never gets particularly warm looking except for the ballroom sequence towards the beginning.

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Side-note, just cause I noticed it and thought it was funny, but I noticed how there seems to be a Tangerine Dream The Keep music cue used from time to time in both the first and second film every now and then (note below on the left video at 0:09 | Isolated cue on the right video; apologies that the video is YouTube-only).



Reminds me how in Once A Thief the opening drum cue of "City of Angels" from Wang Chung's score for To Live And Die In L.A. gets used over and over again as a mafia motif.

[zoidberg]

I'm sure there's a bit of Starman in ABT2 as well at a couple of points in the movie.
Yeah that DVD looks more neutral compared to the VHS, it was quite common in the DVD era for movies to get the tints knocked out of them.
It's genuinely maddening how poorly Woo is represented on HD/blu when there was literally DVD after DVD in the UK, at one point there was even one of those monthly magazines with a free DVD on the cover

[Abramoluna1]

How large is your room? If it is not very large then Best Subwoofer you do not really need to buy very powerful speakers. Keep in mind that the speakers need to be placed a reasonable distance away from the seating or else the audio will not sound very good.

I really agree.
The room matters.
You really do not need to buy one which is so powerful yet your room cannot accommodate the sound!
Still space!

[CSchmidlapp]

How large is your room? If it is not very large then Best Subwoofer you do not really need to buy very powerful speakers. Keep in mind that the speakers need to be placed a reasonable distance away from the seating or else the audio will not sound very good.

I really agree.
The room matters.
You really do not need to buy one which is so powerful yet your room cannot accommodate the sound!
Still space!

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Or the old bot pretending to be a new different bot?

Botting Hell!

[MrBrown]

You bet man! This one his hard to get!

Seems if I was lucky regarding ABT1: I got one Anchor Bay DVD, that also has a cantonese 5.1 track with the replaced music.