CompleteMartialArts.com - Kung Fu Pilot (TV Premiere DVD)
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List Price: $5.98
Our Price: $7.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Philip Ahn, David Carradine, Keye Luke, Radames Pera
Directed By: David Carradine, Alex Beaton, Robert Butler, Barry Crane, Marc Daniels
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0085393886523
Format: NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-06-08
Running Time: 74
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1972-10-14
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Summary: Warner Brothers' "TV Premiere DVD" Series - Cheaply-Made & Over-Priced
Comment: This is not a review of this specific title, but rather of Warner Brothers' "TV Premiere DVD" series as a whole. I would like to make you aware of my issues with features that are apparently prevalent in ALL of the titles in this series, based upon my purchase of one of these titles ("The Flintstones - The Flintstone Flyer").
Although the list of issues below was written specifically for The Flintstones DVD, I highly suspect that most (if not all) of it applies to this and all of the other titles in the "TV Premiere DVD" series. Be sure to check out The Flintstones page to see the photos that I uploaded which better illustrate the packaging and disc printing issues mentioned below.
-- The disc does not come in a plastic case, but rather in a cardboard sleeve which opens on the side. I've purchased $1 public domain DVDs from no-name companies that came in plastic slim cases, so it's appalling that a $6 DVD from a big-name company would be done so cheaply. Also, the sleeve has a hole at the top in the center where the peg would go for it to be hung on a rack like an action figure or toy. The hole has been edited out of the promo photos that Warner Bros. gave Amazon to display for the DVDs.
-- The text on the disc is very faint and hard to read - another way Warner Bros. skimped on production costs.
-- The cheapness doesn't stop at the packaging. The DVD does not contain a menu, not even a plain one. Because of this, there's an interesting glitch that happens if you let the DVD play past the episode. You see, after the episode plays, it goes to a FBI Warning on title 3, which then goes to the non-existent menu, so the player just hangs on a black screen.
-- They were even cheap in the placement of the chapters marks, which are placed every ten minutes (0:00, 10:00, and 20:00) no matter if it makes sense in the episode content for one to be there or not.
-- From what I've read, most (if not all) of the titles in the "TV Premiere DVD" series were originally released on VHS and/or laserdisc, with these DVDs being done from the VHS and laserdisc masters. The quality of The Flintstones DVD definitely appears to be better than VHS, so either it came from a laserdisc master, or not all of the titles were done from old home video masters.
Although at first I didn't mind paying $6 for one 26 minute Flintstones episode, that was before I knew that the DVD didn't even come in a plastic case. Now that six dollars really seems like a rip-off.
Warner Bros. "TV Premiere DVD" Series (10 titles)
* The Flintstones - The Flintstone Flyer
* The Jetsons - Microchip Chump
* ER - Pilot
* Babylon 5 - The Gathering
* Taboo - Tattoo
* Gilligan's Island - Two on a Raft & Home Sweet Hut
* The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest - Escape to Questworld
* Gilmore Girls - Pilot
* The Waltons - The Foundling
* Kung Fu - Pilot
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Summary: Ground breaking, new style of story telling
Comment: I had not seen much of the martial arts except some Bruce Lee stuff and some Hong Kong flicks. This Pilot movie was incredible. It showed a whole different way of discipline. The use of flashbacks, to show what he would have thought of, his memories, is so applicable to all of our lives. Kung Fu is a great show and truly remarkable.
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Summary: "Snatch The Pebble From My Hand"
Comment: Who amongst the forty and older crowd doesn't remember with great fondness the inscrutable face and piercing eyes of Master Kan repeating the statement, "snatch the pebble from my hand" in the weekly prologue to the latest episode of 'Kung Fu', one of the truly great television series of the '70's?
This DVD is the pilot show for what would become one of the most popular television series for '72 to '75 which offered a unique blending of Chinese philosophy and martial arts in an Old American Wild West setting.
Yes, this pilot movie is included in the First Season disc set so this one is basically for someone who liked the original movie but doesn't want to bother with all the ensuing episodes, or the completist who just has to have it all. I fall into the second category.
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Summary: Buy the complete seasons 1 and 2
Comment: Buy the complete seasons 1 and 2, don't waste money just in the pilot that is included in the season 1
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Summary: I've waited a long time for this!
Comment: The only trouble was I couldn't decide whether to buy the low cost pilot or the entire first season. In the end I purchased the low cost pilot because I don't watch much TV and wanted to save money. Either way, you won't go wrong. When I was a teen I thought Cain exhibited the perfect example of the character that should be seen in a religious man. I still agree . . . except . . . perhaps he . . . could . . . talk . a . bit . . . . . quicker? I certainly like Carradine's Cain character better than his Bill.
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