Posted by ggull on 12/29/99 11:46

"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote
>
> Like, I want a copy! On DVD! And it's nowhere to be found!!

Out of print, you mean?
You should be able to rent it or get it from the library if you're in NYC.
While I would neither encourage nor condone illicit behavior, I do note that
it doesn't seem to be copy protected.

> You're right about the last quarter of the film...a bit jarring,
> ham-fisted...I don't think it was a focus-group thing; just that HK
> anything-goes sensibility (I see this wackiness in Japanimation,
> too)...deus ex machina all the way!
>
> Hmm...okay, I guess, now that I've put it that way, it all smacks of
> too much Harlequin for wider release outside of HK...but it's a great
> Chinese chick flick....

I didn't necessarily mean actual "focus group", just the bean-counters
deciding it needed a happy ending, a virtual focus group if you will. If I
understand your comment, I don't think the happy ending would be needed for
US/European distribution .. if anything, the opposite. It seemed me more
like reverting to some sappy, soap-opera'ish, HK flicks I've had in my DVD
player (names blessedly forgotten). Though I guess every nationality has
them, they just don't get around a lot.

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