I much prefer Arrow's "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to bonus features, with multiple cuts, multiple audio mixes, dubs etc, over Criterion's "you're getting one mono mix and that's it!" approach
. The only cloud is that Bruce boxset seems to have just thrown the old rubbish looking special edition blu-ray disc of 'Enter the Dragon' in there. For rights reasons I guess? I'd been looking forward to owning the new theatrical remaster of that in a set that isn't the expensive imported Criterion one.
Criterion's audio options on The Big Boss were great, to be fair. They had the original Mandarin track (where you could *hear* wherever they made censorship cuts), the Mandarin voices synced up with the Peter Thomas music from the English dub, and the Cantonese re-release audio with music by Joseph Koo (and Pink Floyd but don't tell their lawyers) and authentic Bruce battle cries. The only real omissions are the obscure alternate export English dub, and the Japanese version that had a hybrid of the Koo and Thomas scores, along with Mike Remedios's theme, "To Be A Man".
What did you dislike about Warner's Enter the Dragon? I thought it was a reasonably good looking Blu-Ray. And that mono track where you could hear Bruce's real voice instead of the soundalike for the added scene with the Shaolin abbot was a nice touch.
Truth be told, I never got around to watching the theatrical cut. I've just never had any interest in watching a version that had Bruce philosophize less. Now, maybe if there were a version that made John Saxon's fight scenes convincing...
As for Robot Jox - one of my earliest childhood memories is catching the last stretch of it on TV early in the morning, watching it with my dad. And even at whatever young age that was - single digit - I was already genre savvy enough to know that the thumbs-up in your .gif was a big subversion of the cliche. I distinctly remember my dad's surprise and enthusiasm at what transpired. Gonna have to revisit that with him some day.