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Speaking of ONG BAK 2 - here's the trailer!
Hey folks, Harry here on Twitter during Fantastic Fest - and I just brought up ONG BAK 2 in my DAY 1 coverage. And here is the trailer that showed up in my email box - We did the North American Premiere of ONG BAK 2 back during Fantastic Fest's special programming at SXSW! And this movie kicked my ass hardcore - so I'm going to make sure I take care of some of you out there - and to help spread the word of Tony Jaa... Here's the trailer:
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is awful, first 25 minutes aside.
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I saw this here in Thailand about a year ago. It has none of the soul or sense of fun that the original had.
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I can expand, to the joy of the people. At the beginning of the movie, it looked like it could have actually been a Tarzan meets Conan meets Hero.
But then it just escalates into a series of pointless (but mostly good) fight scenes without even the hint of a plot.
I mean it, there is literally no plot, and by literally I actually mean literally. It is a diabolically awful film, with an "open ending" that is entirely pointless.
I think the highlight is probably a scene where Tony Jaa dresses up as a masked dancer in order to do something which I won't spoil but involves trying to kill the king but you see I didn't spoil it 'cause the king is alive at the end.
No words to describe how crappy this movie is, although I've used a lot, most of them more than once.
There's one awesome fight scene though. Which is more than once can say for "Youth Without Youth".
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...and it's, to say it nice, very underwhelming. The story is a huge boring mess, the movie ends exactly when it's getting interesting and while the fight scenes are well choreographed, they are everything else than spectacular or even something special. (Except for the "Elephant run") I even go so far and say that the fights in "Forbidden Kingdom" kick this movie's ass.
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(you know, he's in this movie!!) what the heck, the guy has no consistency whatsoever as an actor. like in the village fight where he kicks everyone's bum, why is he acting like he's insane? where was that coming from? i think he directed this movie, 'cause that's the only explanation for this level of quality control.
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It was long, pretty incoherent but looked great. The fight scenes were decent but lacked the urgency of the first one or Warrior King. Its a fail, but no huge surprise considering Jaa is a first time director and he fucked off in to the woods for months during filming.
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what, you mean the comedy flick that had at least 2 asian-movie-clichè scenes with a fat arsehole sidekick with open shirt and stick runs angrily down a sidewalk only to be confronted by a rag-tag team of skinny asian hooligans dressed like they're in Michael Jackson's "Bad" video down the end of the road. He stops, freezes, look of disconcerted panic on his face, they point at him, he turns and runs screaming "AWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAAA!!" (which I guess must be Asian for "shit!jesus!fuck!"), arms flapping wildly while the skinny breakdancing emo hooligans run in hot pursuit.
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The movie trailer guy was a bad move on this shit...
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Some fight scenes aside. The story is shit, the direction is all over the place, the acting is awful & the ending is ridiculous. It's a truly dreadful film.
Possible spoiler.........
The ending is bullshit sequel bait. They basically say he's dead, unless the audience watching want to hope for his life. In which case there'll probably be an Ong Bak 3. -
ong bak 3 set for a december 5th release date.
contains "unused footage" from ong bak 2. You know, like the stuff that was awesome, but not as awesome as the stuff in ong bak 2.
most of it was cut to make way for the 20 minute dancing scenes, so you can see it was worth it. -
from "House of flying daggers." At least that had Zhang Ziyi doing the dancing.
I didn't need 5 or 10 mins of Jaa shaking his arse . -
Wanna see a good thai movie? Watch "Mah Nakorn" (Citizen Dog) instead. Not alot of asskicking, but a movie with a zombie motorbike taxi, grandma lizard, helmet rain and recycling mountains has to be seen. Add to that the greatest opening of a movie ever(possibly).
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was a total letdown. Harry needs to stop overhyping this. I really dont understand it. Like, I did see the same movie as him but I didnt see the special.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2naSzb1psU
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I don't watch a kung fu movie for a goddamn story, good acting...or fucking character development...matter of fact too much of that shit can RUIN a good kung fu movie...I watch a martial arts film to see people getting kicked in the head. There are rare acceptions (The Rebel had a great story AND killer fight scenes) but generally, if you chopey sockey flick tries to have too much story, it gets bogged down and boring..
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i get not watching a martial arts movie for the story, but there's a big gap between what you call "too much" story and no story whatsoever. at the end of the day this is still a movie, and as such i want to feel excited. for me to feel excited when watching, something needs to be at stake. y'know, like in real fights, something is at stake. like an athlete's honour, or a championship title or simply reputation. this is a movie, it's not real, it's staged, so i'm not holding my breath 'cause i don't know who kicks more ass between tony jaa and evil henchman #16.
So, the stakes must be provided by the plot, whether Tony Jaa wins or loses, it's gotta mean something.
Here there's no story, no plot, nothing is at stake, it's just a collection of meaningless fight scenes without anything holding them together. If I want that I'll just watch some MMA on youtube. -
I'm assuming she was his love interest (although she could have been his sister for all I can remember, as the plot was non-existant). He finds her, he saves her..then she vanishes & isn't seen again.
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that Jaa is the successor of Bruce Lee,when Ong Bak first came out.
I enjoyed Ong Bak and Tony Jaa is indeed a very flexible and skillful athlete,but u know what? the guy is a stuntman,like jackie chan,he is not a martial artist,and even his stunts dont compare to Chan's stunts,mainly because he uses what he has learned: Muay Thai. and in my knowledge Muay Thai is based mainly on kicks and hits with your elbow.and that is shown clearly in Ong Bak (i havent watched the bodyguard yet),since his choreographies,although impreesive,the get very soon repeative and boring because he only uses kicks and elbow hits.
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Thank me later.
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Ennh, 'salright.
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THE BAKER!
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jaa does a lot more traditional(though still exceptional) stunts. The long shot if him in the hotel is mind blowingly awesome and something chan would never do(out fo safety's sake). He also branches out into new styles against some more varied opponents, his capoiera battle is anotehr highlight. But even so his movies generally suck. Where as even jackie's old movies like drunken master are still enjoyable to this day.
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Ong Back 2 was the one where they stole Jaa´s elephants, wasn´t it? the one with the tracking shot of him kicking ass all the way to the top of a staircase. I can´t remenber what Ong Back 1 was about, but im pretty sure there were 2 movies before this one, besides isn´t this supposed to be in ancient times? how can it be a sequel? fucking international marketing people!
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Ong Bak gave him the tattoo, right?
Worst episode of LOST ever. -
It was the last night of Midnight Madness http://www.thesubstream.com/article-midnight-madness-review-10-ong-bak-2.html
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Sep 25, 2009 9:59:36 AM CDT
ong bak is fucking great, this weird backlash is undeserved
by lilgorgor
and i dont understand where it is coming from. it totally raises the bar again, just like the first ong bak. if ong bak 2 is such a piece of shit please list some martial arts movies from the past five years that are better, because i would love to see them.
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saw it at TIFF
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It's been out in Thailand for more than a year and HD-quality copies have been available on the net for almost as long. I watched it with some friends about half a year ago and had mixed feelings about it. While the fight scenes were Jaa-wesome, the story was all over the place. But the REAL pisser, the one that made it hard to wholeheartedly endorse this movie, was when the movie ended in the middle of the story. It just stopped. I half expected to hear a voiceover, "Tune in next week...same bat-time...". I mean, when the story was finally showing the slightest bit of coherence the movie's over. And all of what the "plot" was leading up to was never resolved. That bugged the hell out of me! So for fans of Tony Jaa, it is definitely worth seeing, but be prepared for story-disappointment at the end. For those who've never seen Jaa before, check out the first Ong-Bak or The Protector before you watch this one.
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w00t
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Ong Bak 1
Flashpoint
S.P.L
Ip Man
Even lesser movies like
Fearless, The Seven Swords and Rob-B-Hood were better than this. This movie was a fuckup, some decent but unmemorable fights in a poor mish-mashed (but great looking) movie. I think it was on Twitch about what happened with this movie and with Tony loosing his mind under the pressure running of into the jungle, being found and then appearing on TV crying, stories of gangsters interfering and wild demands. Something or someone happend to Tony after his new found fame. -
Really? That's the stuff bad standup routines are made of, "In an ancient land, a boy is raised to be a warrior." Really?! Reaaal original fellas, should've just let the action speak for itself.
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I have to agree with the majority here. OngBak2 is a mess. A mess with some good fighting but when the plot of the movie is so bad (or pretty much non existent as in this case) it then starts to take away from the beautiful violence. Ultimately this movie is a fail.
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of the astonishing action footage and edited it to look like generic action twaddle.
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of the astonishing action footage and edited it to look like generic action twaddle.
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what's SPL?
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Now that everyone is dissing another of Harry's pets we'll never get to see any more insider info. He punishes those who bite his hand.
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...if only so I have the slightest clue as to what the fuck's going on in OB3.
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S.P.L. is KillZone in some territories http://tinyurl.com/mx2wa
A great movie IMO Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung doing some great work with the modern fight techniques, and a great alley knife fight. Also reccomend Flashpoint which is in the same style but could be the better movie. -
he spent years hanging out with elephants and he comes up with this shit? It looks like Jungle Book 2: Mowgli's revenge. Only less cool.
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yep it sucked alrite...quite forgettable, unlike the great first movie
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Jaa has to be supported. There can be only one and he is it. 1 and the Protector are great fun. The foot chase in 1 where he jumps the car with his feet in front of him and he does the aerial cartwheel between the 2 panes of glass. AWESOME
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You people are smoking crack.
PS. We don't care about a trailer for a movie most of us saw 10 months ago. -
...in some scenes?
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Instead of calling it Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, they could'vejust called it Ong Bak: The Beginning. Ong Bak 2 would imply a direct sequel, so they couldn't just go with that since it's a prequel, but not it's a sequel prequl sounding title that... you know what, fuck it...
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Sep 27, 2009 1:37:25 PM CDT
Loved the first one, but the trailer is making me
by hollywoodhellraiser
want to skip it! Yes, I fully endorse guys in action movies kicking ass! But this seems so different than the first Ong Bak that I have to wonder where the hell did the idea come from?BTW, I known about the DVD being on the net for ages but never download it because the CAPS just make it looks like an awful film!
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...months ago. Was pretty good, and Jaa does his usual fantastic stunt work.
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This movie kicks ass. None, and I mean none of his movies have a "plot", which really would only serve to get in the way of the crazy shit he does on screen. Crack a cold one, get some chips, put your feet up and enjoy. Granted, no baby elephants are thrown in this one, but you can't have everything.
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