Mainly dialogue about Ting's origin and the subplot about the girl's sister; she's the one overdosing. ---but you'd never know they were related since the subplot was cut out.

What retailer did you pick it up from?

I'd like to get it also.

Apologize for my ignorance as I do not know how to post a pic here. But here is the link to the Ong Bak Canadian dvd via Best Buy:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/prodde...2097589&catid=

Thanks for the link friend, but they won't ship to the US. Is there any other canadian retailer that is selling it?

---tin case and they ship to the U.S.


http://www.dvdsoon.com/show-title-de...008&uid=254462

thanks man, order placed!

Beware of DVDsoon. They've lost their main distributor, cancelled a bunch of orders, and are in the process of revamping their invoicing. People who purchase from them regularly are pissed. Order at your own risks, at least for now.

Does the Canadian version have improved subtitles?

Yoda,

I assume you're talking about the "closed-captioned" subtitles? That was the first thing I looked at and, IMHO, it wasn't really close-captioned (this is basing it only on the Canadian dvd). It does mention the occassional "(yelling), (groans)" and "(English)" when a character starts talking in non-Thai. I may have missed it but I didn't find the "(Techno)" when the background music started playing.

That's exactly what I wast talking about Cardiac161. Thanks for the quick response, it looks like I might have to pick up a tin lol.

What eXcentris said. Before you order, check out the Store Forum. I'd avoid but you might get lucky.

I bought the "tin case" edition from Future Shop in Canada. I think the subtitles are beyond horrible. But the action sequences are awesome!!!

I noticed on the back of the DVD case doesn't mention anything in french... but when I'm viewing the special features menu, it says for two of the options "French". One for a music video, and another for that performance Jaa did for some theatre crowd. But, for both the video and performance, they're both in English. Also, on the front and back, there's no metion of it being a "French" version. Strange.

Also, for other Canadians... is there more than the one version that's being offerend at Future Shop? English, French, Cut, UnCut?

Thanks.

There are 3 R1 releases: The Fox (US), the Alliance/Universal (Canada), and the Crystal Films (Canada/Quebec). The later is in french only. All 3 have the same so-called Luc Besson cut.

I was going to pick this up as a blind buy (I wanted to see it during it's theatrical run but never got around to it) I've been reading what you guys have been saying about the dvd and at first I was turned off, all due to the closed captioned subtitles. But after hearing nothing but good things from you guys among others about how amazing the fight scenes are, I've decided to pick it up sometime this week.

I haven't watched the entire film yet, but y'all do know that there are two sets of English subtitles on the R1 Ong-Bak disc, right? At the start of the film, in the tree scene...all of the guys start screaming and running toward the tree. With the first set of subtitles on, it says "[All Screaming]" but with the second set of English subtitles (the third on the disc, Spanish is second), this doesn't appear.

Like I said, I'm not sure if the first set is entirely closed-captioned, while the second set is normal...but it did get rid of that very first instance of closed-captioning. I'm going to go finish watching the movie. I'll report back to see if it's clear all the way through.

Update: I'm playing the disc on my PS2, and the third set of subtitles (which comes up on my screen as "Subtitle 3 English") has no subtitles at all. Is this the case with everybody else's discs? Does the third set even show up on your players? I think, if they're all like this, we could complain to Fox and get replacements for defective discs. The back of the box says, "Subtitled in English, Subtitled in Spanish, Captioned." This means, according to the back of the box, there are supposed to be three sets of subtitles: English, Spanish, and English Captioned. On my PS2, there are three options...but only the English Captioned and Spanish work.

Any thoughts? Enough angry emails, and I'm sure they'd do something about it (they did with the Simpsons 6th Season packaging, after all).

-JP

Bump. Anybody?

-JP

saw this in the theaters, and I hope the dvd verion has the same funny subtitles and funny soundtrack, that voicebox sounding music during the "car" chase was hilarious

What's the email address I can use to contact 20th Century Fox to log a complaint?

-JP

http://www.foxstore.com/contact/inde...80be6c4cbb5983
I would like a conformation from others since at least it seems like there are 2 subtitle options.

I'd also like to know what the disc is doing on everybody elses players. Are y'all getting the third set of subtitles (the second English option)? If so, does anything at all show up?

-JP

You guys are correct, there appears to be a third subtitle track with nothing on it on mine as well. I really do believe somebody messed this up during the authoring similar to what happened with Ghost in the shell 2: Innocence some months ago.

I did contact fox through their website and got this response:

Hello,

This is the response I have regarding this issue:

Sounds like you might be using the subtitle button instead of using the selections from the menu page. If you go thru the menu page and select subtitles, you'll get the correct SDH track.

Note that on all discs we have the following:

Line 21 (Closed Captions)

SDH (standard English Subtitles)

Spanish Subtitles

There is also a blank track for switching subtitles off when toggling
from the remote. If you use the remote to toggle, you can get to any one
of these tracks. It's easy to lose your bearings so best thing to do is
go back to the menu and select what you want.

Thank you,
Fox Consumer Services

-end

I wrote back insisting they were wrong and have not been replied to since. Sounds like a canned generated response if you ask me. If you're unhappy though, complain, and maybe we can get replacments sent, it worked for GITS 2.

Also BTW the email I complained to was a different one from the one posted above which I think only goes to the store. Here's the one I complained to:

[email protected]

I sent them an email, also, stating the following...

We'll see.

-JP

Sorry to report this, but there is nothing wrong with the R1 DVD. The third subtitle track only contains the words "NONG PRADU VILLAGE," which appear at the very beginning of the film. The English subtitle track is most likely a copy of the closed caption script (I don't have a television with closed captioning ability). Can anybody confirm this?

EDIT: Okay, so there's problems with the film's presentation. I only meant that there's nothing defective with the DVD's subtitle tracks.

if thats the case, there is def. a problem, since we don't need to see "punch landed" " speaking thai" on our subtitles, we just want the words, not the actions.