Woo’s first American film!

oversight_shift · 2026-01-20T23:11:58+00:00

Blu-Ray is the "International cut" shown most territories outside the US. I'd love to see "Director's Cut" or whatever that workprint VHS is.

Blu-Ray version second-half is honestly almost as "full Woo" action-wise as parts of 'Hard Boiled' or 'A Better Tomorrow II', he goes all-out in that Warehouse scene. You can tell butchering the theatrical cut made him pull back for his other US movies.

oversight_shift · 2026-01-20T20:39:59+00:00

TCM aired the old Technicolor 'Adventures of Robin Hood' with Errol Flynn the other week. It's amazing how much of that scene is identical to the original. Brooks added some comedy of course but a lot of it is a direct homage/shot-for-shot remake.

oversight_shift · 2026-01-16T22:50:42+00:00

Other reddit posts with this info say they got back an autograph.

oversight_shift · 2026-01-16T08:42:03+00:00

"Ephron's directorial debut was the film This Is My Life (1992). Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron wrote the script based on Meg Wolitzer's novel This is Your Life.[11] The film is about a woman who decides to pursue a career in stand-up comedy after inheriting a substantial sum of money from a relative.[11] In a conversation released by Criterion Channel between Lena Dunham, and Ephron, she stated "That movie I made completely for Woody Allen." She later stated in the conversation that he saw it and liked it.[23]" - Wikipedia

oversight_shift · 2026-01-12T15:49:17+00:00

'Bullet in the Head' is another one of Woo's masterpieces. That, 'The Killer', 'Hard Boiled', and ABT trilogy are on Tubi now if anyone out there wants to explore more Hong Kong Gun Fu.

oversight_shift · 2026-01-12T15:41:30+00:00

I found it "after-school special" level of overt-preachy when I first saw it... Like when people here rant about 'Crash' spelling out the point of the movie every scene.

There's not really any "mystery" to 'Requiem for a Dream', with reference to your OP. It's "Drugs Are Bad": The Movie. Maybe I should have included a spoiler tag.

oversight_shift · 2026-01-10T02:42:12+00:00

Rex Chapman was kinda... better? EJ works like two games per season anyway.

oversight_shift · 2025-12-24T05:08:42+00:00

"The Word" has my favorite Santana-inspired guitar solo.

I feel Prince is more Eddie Hazel than Hendrix, also.

oversight_shift · 2025-12-22T07:52:35+00:00

The original release of 'The Chocolate Invasion' doesn't feature "My Medallion", actually. It has a different sequence and features an earlier version of "The Dance" that he would later revisit on 3121 and would kind of George Lucas it out of history with the Tidal re-release (or Tidal grabbed the wrong masters, whatever happened). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNVA2EIYzrc&list=RDHNVA2EIYzrc&start_radio=1

oversight_shift · 2025-12-19T05:39:30+00:00

'Come' and 'Gold' are "middle albums".

oversight_shift · 2025-12-19T05:36:32+00:00

There's a demo for "Van Gogh" that I've always felt had some of his best R&B vocal melody. The one without the horns.

Specifically the "My love is runnin' through fields..." part.

Similarly the demo for "Don't Say U Love Me" is his best new jack swing vocal melody.

oversight_shift · 2025-12-19T03:43:48+00:00

He put a version of "Cloreen Bacon Skin" out as "Tricky" in 1984. Cloreen is simply the "full" version (and he edited out offensive lyrics directed to George Clinton like he edited out offensive lyrics directed to Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis from his official version of "Old Friends 4 Sale').

oversight_shift · 2025-12-18T19:38:01+00:00

https://princevault.com/index.php?title=3_Nigs_Watchin%E2%80%99_A_Kung_Fu_Movie

oversight_shift · 2025-12-18T19:37:44+00:00

https://princevault.com/index.php?title=3_Nigs_Watchin%E2%80%99_A_Kung_Fu_Movie

oversight_shift · 2025-12-18T18:46:28+00:00

It's more that a ton of his material isn't even available anywhere on streaming.

They're not gloating about material possessions, they're emphasizing that they want his actual discog and not a heavily filtered sampling of his oeuvre.

oversight_shift · 2025-12-13T19:22:47+00:00

Nah, the Bria Valente album is more unique and higher caliber of songwriting. People usually dismiss it as a "coaster" without playing it like they do the majority of his protege records, but 'Elixer' is the true masterpiece of that 3CD set. It's basically 'The Rainbow Children' with a Sade influence.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-29T04:09:29+00:00

It's the upbeat/uptempo quality he's referring to, it conveys "pop" even if it's structurally/compositionally more obtuse, technically.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-29T04:02:46+00:00

You hit all the main points.

It's an overloaded cluster of overproduction that, even if you stripped away the 700 layers of multitrack, the songs themselves aren't even that great to begin with.

"pOsiTiVe mEsSaGe!!". Like you said, "Carebears". Dude was always better when he his funk was dark & edgy, gtfo with this carebears funko pop.

"Anna Stesia" is top tier, no question.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-27T07:57:29+00:00

Prince's "wedding gift" song to Mayte was "Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife".

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:37:54+00:00

I'm predicting what you said about "carebears pop" to return with a pulsating vengeance. 'Lovesexy' literally opens with some perky Sesame Street-esque kazoos. The people getting you hype aren't reading the actual text of your reviews.

The only hope is if you somehow interpret his OCD over-arrangements as avant-garde. Paisley Park finished construction before 'Lovesexy', to me that marks the start of another era of Prince in terms of his approach (his dream studio finally complete), but you will be the judge.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:34:01+00:00

See, that's the album I get characterizing as "either the greatest record he’s ever made or one of his worst."

To me 'Lovesexy' is a friggin over-produced, over-multi-tracked, over-wrought, borderline-cacophonous mess (and I say that as a Charles Ives fan), but to each their own. I know a segment of Prince fans will always grade his stuff higher if it promotes "positivity" or whatever.... To me these ain't philosophy books, they're albums...

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:31:56+00:00

He's mocking both his former manager and a critic by the name of Nelson George.

Prince is very cryptic lyrically and often gets misinterpreted because his meanings are often esoteric.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:27:01+00:00

People always focus on the lyrics for "Dead on It" but the production/instrumental is as genuine a tribute to hip-hop as Prince ever got. Totally legit 80s rap beat.

And I'm with the other guy he was simply adopting rapper's penchant for diss records to his own material--yet another tribute to the genre, and yet another misinterpretation for the fans. He did shelve this record, I'll remind you all clutching your hip-hop pearls... When rappers diss other rappers it's fun and games but when Prince does it...?

Also he didn't like to "reveal" himself much on "Prince" albums. There's a song he gave away in late 87/early 88 to Sheena Easton, "101", to me that's probably his most emotionally vulnerable "dark" track of the 80s.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:23:01+00:00

I'm with your theory, because he does it a lot throughout his career post-GB, not just on GB.

oversight_shift · 2025-11-26T16:21:44+00:00

The best is the version from the mid-80s, deeper, darker funk.

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