As The Blu-ray Blog reported earlier, if you live in North America and you want to own Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on Blu-ray, you’ll have to buy Sony‘s weird “Trilogy” box-set. If you live in the UK, however (or if you’re into importing your discs from, say, Amazon.co.uk) you’re in luck. You Ang Lee and martial arts fans can get Crouching Tiger in an individual release, available July 6th!
DVDActive got themselves a copy of the UK disc and gave it a pretty glowing review:
- “I was most impressed by the audio-visual elements (particularly the audio), and while the bonus material doesn’t look good on paper, the commentary track is great and the featurettes are more informative than the usual fluff that accompanies most DVD and Blu-ray releases these days.”
Unfortunately, however, it seems that Sony has used the same old, dumbed down subtitles they used on the previous DVD edition. Chris Gould at DVDActive points out,
- “The Blu-ray subs are considerably less elegant than the original subs, which were almost poetic at times. Although none of the subs have ever been completely accurate (Yù Jiāolóng has always been mistranslated as Jen Yu), the BD subs take things too far. Governor Yu becomes Chief Yu and May inexplicably becomes Sue, even though both of their names are correct in the credits.”
Seems like Crouching Tiger may have a case of Let The Right One In shitty-subtitle syndrome…
Over one billion people speak mandarin, they couldn’t find someone to translate this properly? Outrageous!