on 14-06-2018 10:09 PM
I was just browsing the site (as you do) and clicked "add to cart" on a CD, and the item was added to my cart (not the shocking part), but it was done dynamically... (by which I mean, it didn't load up the cart page, it just had a pop-up window I could close and I got to stay on the item page, which is something I've wanted ever since the cart was introduced).
Is this new? If so, good job, eBay, it only took a few years to get a much-requested function implemented. If not... I'll just celebrate over in the corner on my own, cause I'm happy, if but behind the times.
*I lied, or at least was a bit hyperbolic. Sorry if this post is anticlimactic.
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17-06-2018 01:37 AM - edited 17-06-2018 01:42 AM
Thoroughly jealous right now. I haven't seen that one (I'm sure I would have remembered it
) but it sounds like it would have gone into my 'so bad it's good' pile (along with Fantasy Mission Force and City Hunter
). The Wong Fei Hung story was told and retold so many times, to varying degrees of success and with varying degrees of embellishment, but I have a very special place in my heart for another of Jet Li's called Last Hero In China, in which to defeat the bad guys at the end (who are doing a 'dragon dance' but in the form of a centipede) our hero must invent a new fighing style. And what beats a centipede, one might ask?
on 17-06-2018 08:00 AM
Digi, one of my favourites is Kurosawa's Seven Samuri, on which the Magnificent Seven was based on.
17-06-2018 01:43 PM - edited 17-06-2018 01:46 PM
That is a brilliant film 🙂
Hollywood actually borrows a lot from Asian cinema (and vice versa, of course) but some of the most well regarded Hollywood films are direct remakes of Asian films (eg Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs is a loose remake of Ringo Lam's City on Fire, which itself was based on a true story of a robbery gone wrong, and Martin Scorcese's The Departed is a blow-by-blow retelling of Infernal Affairs - I was gobsmacked when he won best original screenplay for that, as that would have been like me winning a prize for my 4th grade re-telling of The Neverending Story ... well, I actually got 20 points on the classroom leader board, but I never pretended it was original Infernal Affairs is superior, JMHO).
Edited to add: my mistake, it was best adapted screenplay at the Oscars.
on 17-06-2018 03:27 PM
LOVE HK movies - even the bad ones! What a shame SBS has mostly stopped showing them because of affiliation with Viceland...🙄
17-06-2018 04:56 PM - edited 17-06-2018 04:59 PM
Netflix and Stan show some of the bigger films, but they can be the butchered "international" versions (Shaolin Soccer on Netflix, for example).
I used to watch Cult Movies with Des Mangan religiously - SBS subtitles were/are a lot better than the standard ones that were on HK movies (those white ones, with some particularly interesting translations at times*, when they weren't obscured by the background ), so it's a real shame they couldn't keep that up, even with a different host.
*Though, it wasn't always the translations. Since British and Amercians were often the bad guys in HK films, there was no shortage of bad guys played by bad actors who spouted some awesomely bad lines in english, or just highly amusing ones. One of my favourite films of all time (Once Upon A Time in China, another Jet Li / Wong Fei Hung movie) also has my favourite example of this, when a British officer is approaching a docked American ship with the heroes, and is told that they can't board as it would be a "....violation of federal law *gun shot for emphasis*" The Brit replies in a very posh accent "Damn your Yankee laws!", to which the yank retorts "Damn you Brits to hell!".
on 20-06-2018 04:27 PM
Can't say I've seen it!🤔...will have to keep a look out for it!
on 24-06-2018 09:16 PM
Good job I haven't got eBay's messages blocked to my own email.