Our winners are announced
See our The Guillotines DVD winners thread.
Good luck to me!
Who’s really the winner here?
My condolences to anyone who ‘won’ this contest…I highly recommend you use this DVD for something other than viewing purposes. A paper weight? Something to throw at your kids? A door stop? Or sell it on the black market for it’s plastic content. You’ve been warned.
The DVD can be a flying guillotine!
The original Flying Guillotine is super cheesey, but to the point of being entertaining. It’s a classic of director Ho Menghua’s style to be sure. Note that there is often confusion between the original with Chen Koon Tai and the U.S. released sequel, Master of the Flying Guillotine, which is absurdly crazy. This new one is based on the original, although mostly thematically, as it goes a very different direction. I watched the original on iTunes again right after watching this new one, and it makes a fascinating double feature, although not one I’d recommend to anyone who isn’t a major fan of the genre.
This new one has a lot of scenic panoramas, gratuitous slo mo, lackluster CGI blood, bullets, arrows, cannonballs, explosions and flying guillotines - flying in yo face cuz it’s 3D, and grandiose underlying patriotism. It might have been better in 3D as it has some spectacle. Lots of sword fights. Overdone in every way. If the 3D was good, it would have been a better film. I can watch a lot of 3D explosions.
Was that Yu Zhenhua in one scene? That would be weird.