Originally Posted by
Doc Kwok
Who here has actually read the entire novel (original or translated) and thought that LOCH '82 was better overall?
For me, I first watched LOCH '82, then '94, then read the original novel. When I watched LOCH '82 I thought it was the bee's knees. When I watched '94, I thought it was okay, but felt a bit bland and rushed. Then I read the novel, and discovered that '94 was actually far closer than '82, and the bits that were 'left out' of '94 were actually filler added by TVB. The story was much tighter and coherent, with much more depth. Looking back at LOCH '82, much of it ends up looking pretty shallow, with many of the important plot points covered in a perfunctory manner, large bits of filler that end up going nowhere at all, and changes made for apparently no reason at all.
Having watched parts of it last year, the presentation is seriously dated by modern standards. The special-effects are crude and 'fake', and the fighting is utterly unconvincing (too slow, too obviously choreographed). The worst part was probably GJ and HR's fight against Qiu Qianzhang's robots made out of faux wooden boxes - that was silly even by '80s standards!