I just got the press packet from Rogue. They are looking at an August 4th release date at this time.
Hero was distributed by Miramax, released to 2,175 theaters in the USA ($18,004,319 opening weekend). Fearless, like Unleashed, is through Rogue. Unleashed was released to 1,962 theaters ($10,900,901 opening weekend).
The Chinese title is Huo Yuan Jia, the founder of Chin Woo, one of the most venerated organizations in CMA. Fist of Fury, Fist of Legend, Legend of a Fighter are all based upon this story.
For those of you who live in the N.Y. you can pick a copy of the movie on 14th street there’s a DVD outlet store right off 6th ave. The copy isn’t the best that you can find but you can sit though it lol.
I missed your question above. I dabbled in mizong, but didn’t learn the whole form and I don’t remember now what little I was shown. In fact, I’m the fall guy on the cover of the yanqing mizong video that we produced. We had a thread going on that some time back, but I cannot remember which forum it was in.
Just watched this movie and I agree with Gene. Started out like Fong Sai Yuk with what seems like Jet just reliving the character. Once it hits the village it gets good story wise. Lots of philosophy to go along with the action.
Won’t give too much away but as been said, if you know anything about huo, you know how this story is going to go. Still nice to see it played out. I think Jet and crew did a great job.
I thought the final fight scene was good. It was a good mix of things and did not lose anything by the earlier scenes. At least he didn’t recycle choreography like Donnie did in Sha Po Lang (which was another good movie)
My wife saw it last week in the Philippines and said it is a great movie!!! She is trying to find a DvD of it for me for our anniversary next month (if she can find it)!
Simon, not to derail this thread too much but The final fight scene in SPL was basically the same fight scene that Donnie had earlier in the movie. The sequence is slightly different and now you have Sammo doing stuff but it had this dejavu feeling