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Old 07-02-2008, 01:05 PM
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Default ’House of Fury’ - High-Def Digest Review

Kenneth has reviewed \’House of Fury.’ He says it's a mediocre hybrid of superficial action and clumsy homages to greater films. This blu-ray has good video, iffy audio and pretty poor extras. Skip it.

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Old 07-02-2008, 01:09 PM
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I'm gonna take his advice and skip it
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Old 07-02-2008, 02:06 PM
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Ken, I thought we had an arrangement? You know what question I'm gonna ask...
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Old 07-02-2008, 02:23 PM
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I for one loved this movie.
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Ken, I thought we had an arrangement? You know what question I'm gonna ask...
Ah, sorry! I submitted my 'House of Fury' review for edits before you pointed out the fact that I hadn't been including subtitle-placement info. It didn't occur to me at the time to go back and update any reviews I had already loaded.

As for 'House of Fury,' the subtitles unfortunately do extend into the black bars.
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I for one loved this movie.
I second that, and just got the blu-ray through the mail yesterday and finished watching all of it

Video was very neutral overall like the reviewer suggests, I do like how the transfer wasn't unrealistically sharp like alot of digital film transfers to

Cant say much about the audio since I'm comparing my DTS 5.1 (1536kbps) output to the original DTS 5.1 (768kbps) on the DVD and it did feel like an improvement to me, the sound design on the original DVD wasnt amazing, but its definitely an improvement and I'm sure its the same with DTS HD MA

Personally I want more movies with Twins to debut on Blu-Ray to overtake this ok Blu-Ray transfer
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I didn't love this movie by any means, but (for someone who's seen a lot of recent HK movies) it's worth a rental just to see Anthony Wong doing kung-fu, which is hilarious.

I love the opening scene to the movie. I just wish the rest of it lived up to that potential.
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