01-07-2006, 11:29 PM
note that all the things you liked were the fight scenes. that and the cute elephant, but not all of us are so into elephants. DON'T THINK ABOUT ELEPHANTS! i stand by my comment - just fast forward to the fights. forego the plot, it just muddles things. The fights are great - Tony Jaa has some serious moves.
I can't answer your questions. I had subtitles but they were totally inadequate and became entertaining on to themselves, especially when they were translating the english to english.
Note: Tony Jaa was raised in the country with elephants. He saw the films of Panna Rittikrai - Born to Fight actually, which is something you posted on our old forum right after we saw Ong Bak - and was inspired to follow him. Rittikrai has several films to his credit and is known in Thailand for his stunt team. Only Born to Fight, Ong Bak, Tom Yum Goong and a comedy called the Bodyguard featuring Petchtai Wongkamlao have been marketed outside Thailand. The others, maybe a dozen plus films, are available only as Thai VCDs. See the link above. VCDs are cheap but the res sucks. I watch a lot of stuff on VCD first, just because it's faster for me to acquire. I'm waiting to hear some recommendations on this old stuff before I venture into it tho...
I can't answer your questions. I had subtitles but they were totally inadequate and became entertaining on to themselves, especially when they were translating the english to english.
Note: Tony Jaa was raised in the country with elephants. He saw the films of Panna Rittikrai - Born to Fight actually, which is something you posted on our old forum right after we saw Ong Bak - and was inspired to follow him. Rittikrai has several films to his credit and is known in Thailand for his stunt team. Only Born to Fight, Ong Bak, Tom Yum Goong and a comedy called the Bodyguard featuring Petchtai Wongkamlao have been marketed outside Thailand. The others, maybe a dozen plus films, are available only as Thai VCDs. See the link above. VCDs are cheap but the res sucks. I watch a lot of stuff on VCD first, just because it's faster for me to acquire. I'm waiting to hear some recommendations on this old stuff before I venture into it tho...
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