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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Kar Wai Wong |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1994 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Cav Distributing Corp |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Chinese |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 639518600121 |
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Customer Reviews of Ashes of Time
Movie is wonderful, DVD copy is not. The movie is a wonderful peace of art. Wong Kar-wai is a visionary. He approaches movies with an artist's soul. Don't expect to grasp the concept of this movie on the first viewing. It takes a few times to understand. But because the movie is soo beautiful, you probably won't mind watching over and over again.
The problem with the DVD is that they put a huge black line across the bottom of the screen for subtitles and they didn't bother to adjust the picture. So, being that this movie is such a visual high, it ruins it when you can't see half of the picture.
Purchase the VHS Copy instead.
a brilliant, beautiful movie - on VHS.
This is one of my favourite movies of All Time - the story is moving, the cinematography is painfully beautiful, and the characters are fascinating.
The DVD mastering, accoringly, is perhaps the greatest injustice the movie could have possibly suffered. The source from which the DVD was dubbed was in *terrible* condition. Your local rental store's VHS copy probably looks like it's in better shape. The picture is very scratchy.
Even worse is the subtitling. The subtitles in the VHS version were very thoughtfully written and give a good sense of the poetry of the original script. The only problem is that they are sometimes a little (read: teeny bit) hard to read. The DVD version "overcomes" this problem by BLACKING OUT the bottom 20% of the screen and displaying new subtitles on the black bar.
Two problems with this method - they didn't resize the picture at all. You simply lose the bottom fifth of the picture. Also, the subtitles in the DVD version are a much poorer translation of the original. They are almost comical at times, they depart so far from Wei's original vision.
I would whole-heartedly recommend this movie to anybody, especailly lovers of Hong Kong cinema or Asian period peices. Please save yourself a lot of disappointment, though, and pick up the VHS version.
Good movie, awful DVD
This is great movie. No doubt about it, but quality of DVD is horrible. Picture sometimes got blurred, sound is very low quality. This is worst DVD ever. Movie is more then worth to watch, but not from that DVD.