Beijing Rocks: Technical Notes

Technical Notes Technical Notes:
Beijing Rocks
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A nice 1.78:1 anamorphic print from Megastar. Grain is present in some shots as well as some light speckling. Other than that, it's a great transfer.

The Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 track uses your entire setup to involve you. Music plays a big part and that sounds clear and so does dialogue. The movie was shot in Mandarin synch sound with only limited use of Cantonese.

The English subtitles contains no errors as far as I could see and Megastar provides subtitles for the songs featured as well. In one scene however concerning SMS messaging, the text is shown a few seconds before we see it on screen. Traditional and simplified Chinese subtitles are also provided.

There's slightly more extras on this Megastar disc than your usual Hong Kong dvd, main one being the alternate ending (4 minutes 8 seconds). It's more of an extended one really and while interesting, it puts a spin to the end that I didn't really like. Kudos to Megastar for presenting this segment in anamorphic widescreen and English subtitles (burned in).

The Making Of & Trailers area is pretty self-explanatory. The teaser and theatrical trailer is here plus a 17 minute 48 second Making Of (no English subtitles). A music video for, what I assume is, the nominated song appears but it consists only of movie clips. The rest of the bonus material is text based starting with the synopsis screen that is also on the back cover. Casts & Credits holds a listing for the most essential cast & crew with short bios/filmographies for Alex Law, Mabel Cheung, Daniel Wu, Shu Qi, Geng Le and Peter Pau.

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