Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior --> Aug. 30th!
06-03-05, 11:04 AM
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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior --> Aug. 30th!
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will release this highly anticipated DVD on Aug. 30th. SRP is set for $27.98.
Specs:
Audio: Thai: Dolby 5.1 / English: Stereo.
Language: Thai / Dubbed: English / Subtitles: English & Spanish.
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1.
Bonus Features: Music video featuring Tony Jaa, Making of the music video, The 8 movements of Muay Thai, Behind-the-scenes stunt footage, Tony Jaa performance at French screening, Tony Jaa performance at NBA game, Promotional vidieo featuring The RZA, Trailer featuring The RZA, & Additional Trailers.
Specs:
Audio: Thai: Dolby 5.1 / English: Stereo.
Language: Thai / Dubbed: English / Subtitles: English & Spanish.
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1.
Bonus Features: Music video featuring Tony Jaa, Making of the music video, The 8 movements of Muay Thai, Behind-the-scenes stunt footage, Tony Jaa performance at French screening, Tony Jaa performance at NBA game, Promotional vidieo featuring The RZA, Trailer featuring The RZA, & Additional Trailers.
06-03-05, 02:13 PM
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Very cool. Tony is the man 
06-03-05, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ytrez
Uncut?
surprised a bit that fox is releasing the dvd. mainly because magnolia pictures (most of their work is released on dvd by lions gate) and a whole bunch of other companies released the movie in theaters.
06-03-05, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by marty888
"Making of the music video" ? ? ?
Very lame extras.
Very lame extras.
Oh, by the way: FINALLY.
-JP
08-27-05, 01:20 PM
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I watched the R1 last night, and the subtitles were irregular. They were close-captioning style, so they indicated things like different people speaking, in what language they were speaking, and sound effects. I tried restarting and reselecting more than once, but it kept coming up like this. Anyone else have this problem? Isn't that what happened with GHOST IN THE SHELL II?
The extras are indeed lame, too. The live performance isn't shown in its entirety, but in a poorly shot montage that only lasts a couple of minutes.
The extras are indeed lame, too. The live performance isn't shown in its entirety, but in a poorly shot montage that only lasts a couple of minutes.
08-28-05, 07:59 AM
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Ong Bak
I got this a few days ago, and watched it last night. Whoever did the subtitles should be hung - they are indeed closed captioning style and are overly descriptive to the point of being distracting and very annoying.
During fight scenes when the camera cuts to a reaction shot away from the fighters, the subtitles constantly flashes up "punches landing". They also attempt to describe the music, such as "techno", and at one point during a chase scene says "man singing", but I'm darned if I could hear it!
The extras are also less than impressive. The scenes of Jaa performing at the premiere are short and of poor quality, the music video and making of are lame, and indeed the only thing genuinely interesting is the B rool footage.
As for the film, well as a film it leaves a lot to be desired, being a highly derivative throwback to those cliched 70's style lone-hero-must-fight-to-save-village efforts.
The techno music often grates, as does the female lead's voice, and Tony Jaa himself lacks the acting ability and charisma of some of his comtemporaries like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
But the sole reason to get this is for the extraordinary fight sequences. This is real stuff, no wires, no cgi, no stunt doubles. Punches and kicks land on heads, faces, legs, chests often making you wince. Elbows and knees are used to devastating effect, and the fighting style (Muay Thai) owes more to Thai kickboxing than Kung Fu. Jaa is an incredible athlete, able to twist and contort his body around his opponents to deliver devastating blows, and also possesing the ability to seemingly fly over peoples heads using them as stepping stones, walk up walls, do multiple back flips and somersaults, and is also not afraid to take a few punches and kicks himself.
OK, the tendency for the filmakers to repeat some of the stunts from different angles can be annoying, but they are quite incredible.
I hear Jaa's next film Tom Yun Goon is also getting good reviews, and sounds a little more polished and professional. Looking forward to that one.
During fight scenes when the camera cuts to a reaction shot away from the fighters, the subtitles constantly flashes up "punches landing". They also attempt to describe the music, such as "techno", and at one point during a chase scene says "man singing", but I'm darned if I could hear it!
The extras are also less than impressive. The scenes of Jaa performing at the premiere are short and of poor quality, the music video and making of are lame, and indeed the only thing genuinely interesting is the B rool footage.
As for the film, well as a film it leaves a lot to be desired, being a highly derivative throwback to those cliched 70's style lone-hero-must-fight-to-save-village efforts.
The techno music often grates, as does the female lead's voice, and Tony Jaa himself lacks the acting ability and charisma of some of his comtemporaries like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
But the sole reason to get this is for the extraordinary fight sequences. This is real stuff, no wires, no cgi, no stunt doubles. Punches and kicks land on heads, faces, legs, chests often making you wince. Elbows and knees are used to devastating effect, and the fighting style (Muay Thai) owes more to Thai kickboxing than Kung Fu. Jaa is an incredible athlete, able to twist and contort his body around his opponents to deliver devastating blows, and also possesing the ability to seemingly fly over peoples heads using them as stepping stones, walk up walls, do multiple back flips and somersaults, and is also not afraid to take a few punches and kicks himself.
OK, the tendency for the filmakers to repeat some of the stunts from different angles can be annoying, but they are quite incredible.
I hear Jaa's next film Tom Yun Goon is also getting good reviews, and sounds a little more polished and professional. Looking forward to that one.
08-28-05, 07:53 PM
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That's horrible news. I'll be holding off for a hopeful re-release. This is my most anticipated DVD release of the year, just a touch ahead of King Kong, so this is a huge let-down. We'll see how things pan out.
-JP
-JP
08-30-05, 09:53 AM
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Why didn't they use the subs that are on the R0 PAL release? It is the same one that was on the theatrical release in the U.S. BTW, the R0 release blows this one away. Now I'm just waiting for the R2 for the Bey Logan commentary.
08-30-05, 10:57 AM
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This is a bummer man.
08-30-05, 11:18 AM
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I understand why standard subtitles would be better, but I've never had a problem with the "closed caption" style subtitles on any other relesaes. At least not enough or a problem to complain about. My wife is not a native English speaker, and although her English is perfect, she still can have a hard time understanding dialogue if they have a strong accent (southern, new england, etc), or if there's a lot of background noise.
We usually have subtitles on with every film we watch, even if it's already in English, and I've grown accustomed to this, and even put on subtitles when it's just me watching. It sounds like Ong Bak may be a bit excessive in describing the sound effects (I haven't watched it, as I have the Thai disc), but I don't mind a "Door opens" or [over the phone] caption to come up every now and then..
We usually have subtitles on with every film we watch, even if it's already in English, and I've grown accustomed to this, and even put on subtitles when it's just me watching. It sounds like Ong Bak may be a bit excessive in describing the sound effects (I haven't watched it, as I have the Thai disc), but I don't mind a "Door opens" or [over the phone] caption to come up every now and then..
08-30-05, 01:32 PM
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I just picked up the Canadian version of the Ong Bak dvd. The cover is different fm the US version, plus it comes in a limited steel case similar to the limited edition of Appleseed.
08-30-05, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Cardiac161
I just picked up the Canadian version of the Ong Bak dvd. The cover is different fm the US version, plus it comes in a limited steel case similar to the limited edition of Appleseed.