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careful mate - that is the good version of the film but theres a leeetle problem. The idiot who ripped it from the R3 DVD source didnt bother to include any subtitle tracks....so unless you understand Thai its F all use. I tool a look at the main subtitle track sites last night and there are no english subs out for Ong Bak 3 yet....
keep an eye out for subs then drop it.
Ill keep an eye on this - subscene is a good source
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
I was considering downloading that and OB3 when I get home later, I will do now.
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careful mate - that is the good version of the film but theres a leeetle problem. The idiot who ripped it from the R3 DVD source didnt bother to include any subtitle tracks....
You mean to say I'd miss out on all the superbly crafted character development?
It comes from a R3 source so Im guessing this is from a Malay disk. The ones in the 7/11 will be thai soundtrack only - look on the back of the box. No english text = no english track.
Go get it me lovlies
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
Next out of the bag we have PRINCE OF PERSIA: SANDS OF TIME
Look its a film made our of one of the least plot driven computer games ever, so this was never going to be Lawrence of Arabia. No...its a pretty standard action hero saves the princess film with an Arabian Nights twist. And it does hit almost all the check boxes head on.... evil scheming Vizier...check. Lush sets and spectacular desert scenery...check. Dashing scimitar swinging hero...check. Lovely heronine in flowing gossamer gowns with tinfoil bra accessories....check.
But no magic carpet???? No big fat bloke painted green playing the genie in a lamp??? No Ray Harryhausen style stop motion monsters????
No??? AAARGH!
Really it is a good romp through fantasy arabian nights land, and even the lead weighted heavy handed references to the problem solving platform game roots (and they are annoyingly overplayed) dont detract from the sand blown fun. Even Disney's cack handed attempts to avoid references to Allah dont stick in the craw too badly, a mere cough now and then. Its fun, its spectacular, and it damn well does what it says on the tin...and thats good enough for me.
A great fun and thrills romp for all the family.
A solid gold bejewelled handled keeper all the way
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
One that works, now one that doesnt.....DEAD BIRDS
A bunch of confederate deserters pull off a very bloody bank raid, and so have to hide out in an old plantation house once owned by the soldiers now dead commanding officer. Of course, that officer forgot to mention his dad was mad as a hatter and conducted experiments on raising the dead on his slaves and kids.... you can guess whats coming, even if the muppets in the house cant.
Cue every cliched haunted house demon possession hack line from other films, except here do it on a two bob budget. Its just badly executed, badly acted, and makes as much sense asthe PT Party manifesto.
Avoid like a dose of clap.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
One thing Ive noticed about WW1 films is they are as rare as a blue moon. Another is they are ususally excellent, and thats true for a recent one from the land down under - BENEATH HILL 60.
This gritty grubby tale tells the claustrophobic tale of a company of Aussie sappers who are digging what would turn out to be the most complex mine system of WW1 under the hellish Hill 60. Built with one purpose, to house over 1 million pounds of high explosive nastiness in a big trap for the unfortunate Germans sitting in their trenches above. Its based on the memoirs of one of the sappers, and authentically conveys the soul destroying terror of the trenches, and the breath sapping closeness of the mines where death was only a thin tunnel wall and sawed down carbine away. The company soon learn that being below ground is much safer than being above, even though their German counterparts are constantly digging counter mines.
Top notch filmmaking at its best, great acting and a tense storyline make this an instant keeper and a shining example of a great war film.
Go get a copy, its well worth it.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
One I missed writing up recently and remembered when transferring the files last night.
OPERATION ENDGAME
Sort of a madcap action comedy in the line of ASSASSINS BALL with more laughs.
A super covert US department of dirty tricks and assassination, housed three floors down underground, is staffed by two competing teams of personnel - Alpha and Omega. The staff are all malajusted misfits and cranks for one reason or another. Work continues as ususal till one day the alarms start ringing and the staff relise their now dead boss has initiated the Endgame ... napalm bombs planted around the unit to destroy all trace of its existance. That, and someone ordered Alpha to take out Omega....
The comedy comes care of the fact that none of the staff are armed, so have to turn office equipment into weapons...that and they are all mad as cheese to start with. Its funny in a chuckle way, and there are some great dialogues and situation set ups....
Its worth a good watch, and its a keeper as its a nice spin on the assassin film genre.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
Well, I gotta say that Ive a new experience to list - watching an Israeli film. Its been out for a while, and probably could be best categorised as Israel's answer to the classic German WW2 film DAS BOOT (The Boat)...and y know what....its nearly as good. Ladies nd gents I give you the steel encased claustrophobia of LEBANON.
The film tells the cramped and sweaty tale of a crew of rookie Isreali tankers who have the big misfortune of being in their national service when the first Lebanon war breaks out, and despite most of the crew being weeks from release they get sent into the warzone in the first wave. The mission, which is kept secret from them, involves suppporting the incursion into Lebanon of an Israeli Paratrooper unit on a sweep and clean mission. The crews inexperience and unprofesionalism runs headlong into the gung ho attitude of the major of the paratroopers who is now in command with horrific results.
The film is almost entirely shot from within the tank itself, with only the openeing and closing scenes shot from outside the tank, and the viewer is restricted to the scope views of the outside world, making teh viewer part of the crew. Very clever, very effective. In this cramped and leaky world of oil, sweat and terror personality clashes turn deadly, and what seemed a walk in the park soon turns very lethal and very visceral. As with DAS BOOT the soundtrack adds to these feelings of beig closed in, with external noises distant and steely. When in motion the deafening engine noises and rattling camera motion just adds to the confusion.
Its an excellent war film, and instead of presenting the troops as gung ho shows their weaknesses and inexperience which is lethal when facing trained troops and insurgent forces. Be warned that this is like DAS BOOT - its all about characters and dialogue and how those people react to life threatening situations when you are a steel encased sitting duck, not boom boom blood n guts glory.
It still stands in the shadow of DAS BOOT, as I dont think there will be a war film that can hold a candle to that masterpiece of war cinema and its my benchmark for war films, but it does so just in the shadow and with head held high.
Go see it, its well worth it. Just make sure your copy is in the original soundtrack as most are Russian copies where the annoying Russian bloke just reads out the subtitles, which are in English, and it ruins the film.
Otherwise excellent DVDRIPS are out and about.
A definite three cheers keeper.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
One that whizzed past my ear in May and i nly caught up onlast night was Sky TVs latest Terry Pratchett Discworld adaptation GOING POSTAL.
Fans will know this is the one where Moist Von Lipwig gets given the unfortunate chance to be Postmaster General....a role in which 5 men have already died in suspicious accidents. Its that or have the Patrician invite you to a session with the hangman....and theres Mr Gilt the clacks semaphore station owner to worry about, as his idea of an agressive takeover involves The Assassins Guild. Add eccentric useless staff of two, a backlog of a million letters, and spice with gothic marxist schoolteacher love interest....its just not a good day for Moist.
The one thing I will give Sky is they do these well, probably because from what Ive seen of the previous ones Mr P keeps a good close eye on the buggers. This is another big budget jobbie with extra added Golems.
As before this truncates the story a bit to fit it into 2 one and a half hour slices of fun and thrills. Its a dark beastie too, with some genuinely edgey bits in there to make the kids jump and squeal with fright. Its an excellent job, and fun all the way. Fathers will probably get a big kick out of Miss Dearheart's telling off of the naughty horse. I certainly did
If youve missed it there are copies out and about on the net.
Get one in and settle down with the kids for more top notch Discworld madness.
Heres looking forward to Christmas when we should be due another....santa willing
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
I spoke up above about benchmark films that I sue to gauge others against. With war films it is DAS BOOT in its original very long "BBC Edit" format that was eventually released as the Directors Cut. For fantasy swords and sorcery epics it is the untouchable Errol Flynnish madness of THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER or the original long edit of HIGHLANDER. And when it comes to post apocalyptic world gone to cack films it is the big bad Master Blaster combo of MAD MAX 2 & 3. Mad cars, madder characters..........Classics see.
Now, against this bench ruler we set the high contrast low budget tattyness of DOWNSTREAM, which was apparently scripted by a pissed up stoner student on the back of a fag packet during a session of Max watching.
Max has mad insane Oz utes and dune buggies turned into fearsome spiky machines of rolling death - Downstream uses their mum and dads cars with some chicken wire and mud splatter added.
Max has the cockatoo psycho Wez, Auntie Entity, Master Blaster and Humungus - Downstream has a few students its paid to ham it up and over emote their parts to death dressed in muddy army surplus gear and rollerblade pads.
Max has the under siege fuel camp, Bartertown and the Big Empty - Downstream has some back roads in Arizona and sets so cardboard they fall apart in the wind.
Max was classic, it has stood the test of time like the guzzoline munching V12 road warrior car he drives - Downstream is the film equivalent of a chilli enema you will switch off sometime in the first third of the film.
Avoid like a dose of the clap. Im off for a shower as I feel soiled......I thought The Book Of Eli was bad......how wrong I was.
Tune in to Sandman Does HollyBlood next week when I will spend a half hour special forcing DVDs of Mad Max 2 up the arses of the cast of this turkey with a jackhammer. The show climax will be me forcing Denzel Washington to eat a frickin copy of the Bible at gunpoint, then popping a cap in his ass for sparking off a slew of bad Mad Max wannabe films. Later in the series I will be beating Will Smith to death with a claw hammer for even contemplating remaking OLDBOY, and feeding Eli Roth into a woodchipper for making more crappy snuff porn horror films.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
What new films has 'Eli Roth' brought out Sandy.... the only two I know are the Hostel's. Sorry I am the most terrible critic you will come across. I love all movies! Unless they are really bad budget movies with bad camera angles, shite sets and piss poor special effects... I'm game
Have over 2000 boxed DVD's. And still rewatch movies I have seen thirty times already. Have never downloaded yet as I like to build on my collection, just like collecting stamps I suppose!
If it's within arms reach, there's nothing to worry about!!
