Guest morgoth Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I enjoyed shadow Whip for the action, but the story seemed like a 3rd grader wrote it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 OK, I will just guess it is not as good as Shadow Whip and I won't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Austin Jones Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I liked Vengeance is a Golden Blade - a little too revenge-heavy and secretive at times - so much that you're wishing they would just get on with the retribution-killings. Lots of trusting the wrong people, getting screwed, trusting them yet again, getting screwed, etc. It kind of reminds me of "Pursuit", where the protagonist just keeps getting shafted, making the revenge, which takes a long time to develop, very satisfying when it finally happens. I haven't seen Shadow Whip, but have heard good things about it. Austin Jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I may take a look at it. Is the action good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Poelie Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I have the Thai version and though I kind of liked the movie, the action was really ridiculously sped up. I mean Keystone Cops/Donnie Yen 'The Kung Fu Master' sped up! Is this also a problem in the Celestial version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest killer meteor Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I have the genuine PAL DVD of the Shadow Whip. Most of the fights look OK aside from the one between Ku Feng and Tien Feng which looks as if it was filmed at a jerky speed and frame cut ala Joseph Kuo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gfanikf Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 Hey! No need to bash my man Joseph Kuo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest killer meteor Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I like Joe too, just referring to the frame cutting method Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gfanikf Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I know I'm just teasing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member KyFi Posted July 22, 2007 Member Share Posted July 22, 2007 I think I liked Shadow Whip a little better---the On Her Majesty's Secret Service music helped, and I like Cheng Pei Pei a little better and the snowy locales were cool, but Golden Blade was a pretty solid 60's swordplay, too. Not much difference between them quality wise, IMO. I didn't notice too much undercranking in Shadow Whip (and I"m pretty sensitive to that--I hate it!), but as mentioned, there is some of that jerky-frame stuff. But although I liked the movie, I think Shadow Whip does have the most hilariously bad moment out of all the Shaw movies I've seen---where Yueh Wah is supposed to do a dramatice wire-assisted leap off his horse, and instead it's clear that he's painfully and akwardly YANKED up off his horse by the wire :rollin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Austin Jones Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I'll have to take a look at that one, then. That sounds too damn funny!:lol Austin Jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hey KY, I thought the undercranking was a bit overdone and not used to great effect but I loved the action overall. And I agree that the wirework was pretty funny at times. Does Golden Blade have the same jerkiness problems as Shadow Whip and Wandering Swordsman? I just watched Have Sword, Will Travel and there were no problems, so hopefully there are no problems with Golden Blade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Austin Jones Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I honestly didn't notice any, so it couldn't have been too distracting. Austin Jones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morgoth Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 You didn't see it in Shadow Whip? Check the fights again I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member KyFi Posted July 24, 2007 Member Share Posted July 24, 2007 morgoth, I haven't watched Vengeance is a Golden Blade in a few months, but I don't recall that the fight scenes were sped up, or jerky. It was just kind of standard 60's swordplay action, as I recall---as was the movie as a whole. Li Ching is always a cutie, and the story and action were fine, as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted July 29, 2008 Member Share Posted July 29, 2008 Felt like some wuxia last night so popped this one into the player. Not bad ... not bad. Nice little character driven plot with ample amounts of fighting. Chin Ping (who was 26/27 at the time but looked much younger) stole the show. I've seen her in Mag Trio and Trail of the Broken Blade so far and looking forward to -- watching her in 12 Gold Medallions and Temple of the Red Lotus. (And, oh yeah, need to break out that copy of Tiger Boy as well.) Mark did a review of this film a while back. Any fans/comments on this one...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member venoms5 Posted July 29, 2008 Member Share Posted July 29, 2008 I did one in the review section. I thought it was excellent. The swordplay was lacking but everything else made up for it. Ho Meng Hua did his best work, IMO, in his early career. His later movies seemed to follow a similar trajectory to Chang Cheh in that his later work saw him as a director simply "having fun" with the material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted July 30, 2008 Administrator Share Posted July 30, 2008 I've seen her in Mag Trio and Trail of the Broken Blade so far and looking forward to -- watching her in 12 Gold Medallions and Temple of the Red Lotus. QUOTE] 12 GOLD MEDALLIONS was one I picked up without having ever heard anything about it. Nice surprise! A really cool flick. Remember watching and enjoying VENGEANCE IS A GOLDEN BLADE, but can't recall enough details to comment. It was about 200 movies ago, you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member The Dragon Posted August 11, 2008 Member Share Posted August 11, 2008 Check out The Flying Daggers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member SamuraiDana Posted August 11, 2008 Member Share Posted August 11, 2008 VENGEANCE IS A GOLDEN BLADE has an interesting story and set of characters and strong lead actors in Chin Ping (not Li Ching, as someone indicated here), Tang Ching as the father, and Kao Pao Shu as the treacherous mother. The daughter is torn between the parents at one point, and she's nearly seduced by the mother's promise of luxury and fine things at the brothel that the mother operates, something the daughter hasn't known with her father at the herbal farm where they've been hiding out from the father's enemies for a number of years. It's a film you see for the drama, the characters and the acting, not the action or swordplay, which are there, but not as abundant as we'd like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member gravedigger666 Posted September 6, 2008 Member Share Posted September 6, 2008 Vengeance is golden blace is okay timewaster.Not boring at all,but there is nothing special to bring me back to watch it ever again same like with Shadow Whip. Aforementioned 12 Gold Medallions is superior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted July 22, 2021 Member Share Posted July 22, 2021 Vengeance is a Golden Blade might be my new favorite Shaw film. That's how much I enjoyed it after finishing my first time watch a few minutes ago. This and Killer Darts make for a great double feature. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted July 22, 2021 Member Share Posted July 22, 2021 3 hours ago, Iron_Leopard said: Vengeance is a Golden Blade might be my new favorite Shaw film. That's how much I enjoyed it after finishing my first time watch a few minutes ago. This and Killer Darts make for a great double feature. Two of my favorite movies from the duo Yueh Hua / Chin Ping. And Twelve gold medallions and You have a wining trio. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted July 22, 2021 Member Share Posted July 22, 2021 18 hours ago, ShawAngela said: Two of my favorite movies from the duo Yueh Hua / Chin Ping. And Twelve gold medallions and You have a wining trio. Yueh Hua and Chin Ping are my favorite martial arts duo now. And I still need to see Twelve Gold Medallions. Are those the only three they did together? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted July 23, 2021 Member Share Posted July 23, 2021 5 hours ago, Iron_Leopard said: Yueh Hua and Chin Ping are my favorite martial arts duo now. And I still need to see Twelve Gold Medallions. Are those the only three they did together? Yueh Hua had a cameo as a dancer in one of the Musicals in which Chin Ping played, I won't remember the title. I don' t remember either if they are paired again in other movies. You should try The Young Avenger, in which Yueh Hua is paired with Shih Szu, it's a great movie ! And among the movies in which he is paired with Cheng Pei Pei, I recommend The Shadow Whip and Raw Courage. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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