Yeah but I’d put up with corny dialogue and a poor script if the fighting and camera work are good.
I think with this, and “Unleashed” we are actually seeing the new trends begining. No wires, all realistic style.
Definately a fresh raw movie. I thought the voice box was funny as hel!, especially when he laughed “bzzzzzzzz” LOL
The best fight I think was the last psycho in the fight club.
Oh also, Just to let you all know Tony Jaa studied kung fu in Hong Kong for a few years. 
I like his front thrust kick. Granted, it’s glam’d up a bit, it’s still cool to watch a movie make use on one in that manner.
-Will
3 words:
Knives For Sale
LOL, that was hillarious.
i downloaded and watched it, it was in thai w/japanese sub, so i didn’t understand it at all but i would have to say that it was one of best fight scenes that i have watched in a long time. one scene i didn’t like is that one fight scene with that big grunting guy that throws stuff.
here is the trailer for his new movie
whenz da next movie commin out? O.O it looks.. gangsterr
his fighting style didnt look very thai to me, at first i thought it was chinese martial arts because of his stance and arm positions, almost like praying mantis or snake.
he did use the elbows and knees of muai thai very well though. but didnt he have a certain cma style about him, especially his manuvering and weaving and attacking with a small circular defense/offense. very cool though, i heard he was the best fighter in the world for his class.(so i hear)
Ong-bak
Watched Ong-Bak yesterday night, Finally someone looking credible!
didn´t know about the elephant… :rolleyes:
Noah
I saw the thai version of ong bak several months ago - great action in that film…and with no wires.
i got bored with it … fastforwarded it to the second or third fight scene and then turned it off.
I thought it was rather refreshing. I was getting a little tired of the whole grand Chinese tragic period piece with too much wire-fu.
My weapons teacher said of House of Flying Daggers: “Too much smoochy-smoochy, not enough knifey-knifey.” As you might guess, he absolutely loved
Ong-bak.
I like any action movie as long as there is good choreography in it.
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Saw the movie a few months ago at a friends house. I thought the fights scene were good, but they seemed repetative (elbow knee elbow knee). I like the stunt work, jumping through panes of glass, giant flying knees. All good stuff. I must say though that the giant double flying knee to finish off the last fight was worth the price of admition. :eek:
Ong Bak, Tony jaa
morning, has anyone seen this movie?
comments please… jackie chan step aside please, let the younger guy have a shot…
i think most people got to see this via bootlegs and internet but I just saw it myself a couple of weeks ago…smokin’!!!
some badass tricks and the specials on the cd showed that this guy can really do the stuff himself.
two thumbs up and a keeper dvd.
Am I alone in disliking Ong Bakh?
Tony Jaa is a talented young man, yes, but I found that didn’t outweigh:
The lousy camera work
The even lousier lighting
The almost laughably preachy plot
The (imho) unexciting and mediochrely executed fight scenes
And the really annoying thai techno during the taxi scene! :eek:
well, since many of us were weaned on Golden Harvest and Shaw Bros. films with the likes as the Venom Gang,Jimmy Wang Yu, David Chiang,and Ti Lung, how can you compare your criticisms with
poor dubbing-I love hearing John Wayne’s voice coming out of Bruce Lee’s mouth
ridiculous fight scenes-I love the counter stepping footwork routines
plot? what’s a plot? oh yeah,'You killed my (insert Master, Father,Brother,Family, Clan,Dog for all you Country Western Kung-Fu fans)
Backround Music-the same music they use on porno movies (well, from what they tell me. Of course I haven’t actually seen a porno flick)
BTW-I just saw the trailer for his newest flick-we should be getting it in Chinatown in a few months, and it should hit the screens in a few years-it is amazing-more viscious technique, I was rewinding it over and over again