| WHAT DO YOU WANTTO SEE (264 views) | AUTHOR /
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| For those people disappointed in the amount of straight Muay Thai fighting I am curious as to what kind of movie you are wanting. Seriously, do you want to see near copies of Ong Bak and TYG? Current time and not a period piece? Don't you think you would grow bored easily after a few movies? I hope someone responds :) | Cinema!
7/31/2009 8:36 PM |
| #2 | Who was disappointed? Ong Bak 2 rocked. | TheDenizen
8/6/2009 8:02 AM |
| #3 | The people I am around thought it was jaw dropping fantastic! Which it is! But there are a few who have let me know "it sucked cuz there wasn't no my thai in it, not like the first one"
I really have no clue wtf they are talking about so I thought I would just ask. | Cinema!
8/6/2009 10:48 AM |
| #4 | Those are people who clearly need to be ignored. :P | TheDenizen
8/6/2009 11:09 AM |
| #5 | Never even crossed my mind of the lack of muay thai since all the fights were top notch. The best parts were all the different fighting styles and weapons. Ever since Ong Bak there has been a big wave of muay thai films so it was a good change from previous Tony Jaa movies. | Rubberlegs
8/7/2009 2:08 PM |
| #6 | Rubberlegs hit the proverbial nail on the head! I was too busy watching the various styles to worry about "where's the Muay Thai?". Like I hinted in my review, people would eventually complain that all he does is Muay Thai. different. I thought Ong Bak 2 was fantastic, and am eagerly awaiting Ong Bak 3. | William Giordanella
8/9/2009 3:56 PM |
| #7 | I wonder whether "pure" martial arts films aren't sometimes bigger fictions than those including various styles. No style develops entirely in a vacuum, and many are created specifically to counter other styles: Hung Gar/Hung Kuen supposedly created from Tiger and Crane to counter Bakme; Hsingyi and Bagua constantly facing each other; Thai, Burmese and Cambodian forms developing from the same roots and challenging each other; or Jeet Kune Do developing from a conscious amalgamation of Wing Chun, Western Boxing, fencing and other forms - many forms becoming a way without form. Real fighting is not about the preservation of a form, but the use of what works best for an individual; No culture or practice originates ab vacuo: Bodhidharma brought his Chan Buddhist approach from India to Henan, from whence it spread - but it encountered other forms, affecting and being affected by them. If there is a first style, it is lost in the paleozoic era. | Jeffrey Frawley
8/12/2009 8:46 AM |
