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Free ONG BAK screening in Austin this Thursday on Big Screen! Click to get tickets!
Hey folks, Harry here -- Just got a morphine injection for the foot - so I won't be finishing that damn DVD column for you tonight - I can feel consciousness slipping... However, before I begin singing "Daaaiiiisssy, Daaaaiiiiissssy" I wanted to let you central Texas Geeks and Geekettes figure out how to see ONG BAK for free. The screening is this THURSDAY - February 3rd at 7:30pm at the Alamo Drafthouse Village. How to get tickets?
Goto 2009 South First Street in Austin to my sister's store, PEDAZO CHUNK at 2pm today, Tuesday, February 1st. I might be dosed and out of it, but dammit, I love this new cut of Ong Bak so much - I have to do something more to get the word out about this stunning new presentation of this great entertaining martial arts flick.
Dannie and Jose (aka Sister Satan & Lobo) will be on hand to give out passes on a first come first serve basis. Will I be at the screening? Perhaps - depends - I get out of here Wednesday - So it all depends... I'm hoping to be there. If not - perhaps Roro or the man who fixed Talkback might introduce the screening. But hopefully... it'll be me. If you've never seen this film with an audience, then you've never seen this movie. It is truly an enormous audience experience. Hope to see you there!
Harry here again - Art Snob posted a note in Talkback where he wrongfully accuses this version as being toned down. Sure it got a PG-13 - but that isn't because violence has been toned down one iota. This is the Luc Besson edit - and it is vastly superior to the original in every way. The sound effects are superior, the editting is far more crisp - but keeps that crazy Thai charm of fully automatic replays of hits. The saw still does what the saw does - and the film is actually darker now. I scheduled this edit at BNAT6 because I was extremely curious to see how it played out. Well... Some of the melodramatics have been toned down - and the feature is far more focused in comparison to the original. -- NOW -- Typically I hate "Americanized Versions" of Asian releases. But contrary to the scissorhands and dubbing nightmare of most of these things. This one is simply better from top to bottom and the missing scenes are those deleted scenes that you see on DVDs where you feel... yeah - that didn't really advance the story. Now - I've seen both versions multiple times - the Besson edit is the finely cut diamond from the original Thai rough. And the soundtrack keeps the Thai feel, but at the same time it's just far better music that actually gets ya far more involved in the action. Of course - that's me judging both versions instead of just one.
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Feb 01, 2005 3:11:07 AM CST
Brother Knwoles can type considering how hes jacked up on morphi
by tall_boy
Are the Oompha Loomphas comming out of the computer monitor yet, Harry?
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This movie just isn't that great. It's alright, but the cheapness of the production kind of takes away from it. For example, at one point the main character fights about 4 guys in a bar, one after the other. The first guy is a big muscle-bound white guy. The guys after that, are the same white guy in various wigs. Lame. Also, the main goon in the movie has the most comical, raised-eyebrow glare in the history of film. You just can't take him seriously.
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Enter the Dragon. That had a fairly laughable villain and melodramatic acting. But it still fucking rocked my face off, as did Ong Bak. Once Tony Jaa gets going, he is friggin hypnotic to watch. This dude is going to be a star. Anyone know the cut Harry is talking about? I saw it at the Boston Film Festival and I don't know what cut it was...it had the repeated shots in it tho...
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I got to see the unrated Thai version in 2003 at the most glorious venue you can see a movie like this at ... MIDNIGHT MADNESS at the Toronto Film Festival, with the director on hand for a post-screening Q & A. The place went wild! I suppose seeing a dubbed version in Austin with the violence toned down to Medved-approved levels is the next best thing, though! :)
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Which movie of the same genre do you like? I've seen my share of martial arts/fighting flicks and Ong Bak is a top three for me personally (Drunken Master 2 and Fist of Legend being the others).
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The movie shows promise. Tony Ja is talented, and I would love to see him in a good movie, but this isn't it. I never said it was bad because it was cheesy (which it is, but that's okay), in fact I never said it was bad. It's just okay. It is just too cheaply made and executed to get excited about. I am excited about the talent that's emerged from the project, not the project itself.
Also, the fight scenes are repetitive and get kind of boring after a while (I wonder if he'll finish this guy off with an elbow to the head?) The best scenes in the movie are the other action scenes (when he's being chased, etc.). IMO anyway. -
I'm not saying you should feel a certain way about this film but I do disagree...I thought the fighting method for this movie was refreshing and if it was redundant, not more or less so than every other martial arts flick. The first major action sequence of the film, he barely fought but just jumped over and under cars, jumped over people and bounced off walls. The second major section, the muay thai form was utilized to the fullest but the last act, he used weapons and all kinds of crazy kicks and flips that he didn't use in the second major fighting section. Jaa never ceased to amaze me as the film progressed. Although production value did appear cheap, the movie was a great showcase of what Jaa can do. Keep your eye out for Tom Yum Goong...also, I just watched Born to Fight on VCD although I thought it was just "meh".
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I'm confused. You guys claim that this version is PG-13. However, the synposis at Yahoo Movies, the synopsis at IMDB, AND the poster I saw on Sunday at the movies says it's rated R. That PG-13 crap may very well be a sham, folks. Either way, I'm definitely gonna see this one. The trailer that was posted here a few months ago knocked me off my feet!
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hey guys, go to ongbakmovie.com and click on trailers. chose any trailer, BUT make sure you click on the half time show on the upper right on the page. You'll see Tony Jaa performing at a halftime show of the Dallas Mavericks. You'll see how high this guy can kick. Lets say he can kick Yoa Ming on the face. Check it out.
Also, in Tom Yum Goong (his next film), Tony Jaa will have to fight Nathan Jones (this dude is a giant! about 6' 10" with more muscle then Shaq) -
Okay so Tony Jaa was amazing in that halftime show, but I don't know how I feel about Thai martial arts during halftime at a basketball game in the middle of Texas....know what I mean? Kinda a wtf moment. Still, the dude defies all laws of physics.
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Feb 02, 2005 1:20:04 AM CST
Had this movie for nearly a year, where's the write up on FIGHTE
by monkey_king
Ong Bak is great, so is FITW. Hopefully the Ong Bak sequel doesn't feature a globetrotting Tony Jaa fighting for every damn statue in his village. Sheesh!
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McDonalds better hurry up with the Ong-Bak happy meal toy so that the word can be spread to all of the kiddies out there.
Its Tony Jaa's world and we are lucky enough to see him work. Just keep him away from any "Crow" flicks. Or Chris Tucker. -
This is quoted from the director from unspecified interview/article:
The highlight of this movie is the 4 minutes unedited fight scene (non-stop), the problem was, if there?s any mistake during the fight, they had to begin and start to take it again. It took 3-4 days filming just for this 4 minutes fight scene -
well, you're right about Thai martial art during half time show but it wasn't just a show he was there to promote the movie. They showed the trailer of Ong Bak on the big screen before they introduced him. So imagine that you just saw this amazing trailer and then you see the real thing standing there and show people that he's for real. No string, no computer graphic (for the fight).
And the 411 on Tom Yum Goong is that the movie is almost finished except they're having a hard time on deciding the finish moves for the fight scene of Tona Ja and Nathan Jones. The director said that they decided a move for Tony to take down Nathan Jones but then he saw a French movie that has a similar move. So they have to go back to the drawing broad. They show a forty minutes clips of Tom Yum Goong during the closing of the Bangkok Film Festival and the audience was blown away and that many countries already bought the movie from just that forty minutes unfinished clip. -
according to the ongbakmovie.com Tony Jaa will be in L.A. performing at the Arclight theatre this Thursday Feb 3, 2005. He'll be at the halftime show of the Atlanta Hawk game on Feb 5. Check the website to see when he'll be in your area.
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