Comments on: Ong Bak 2

By: Laureen Stockner

Laureen Stockner — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:27:17 +0000

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By: Caoimhín

Caoimhín — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:57:19 +0000

It’s not though, it’s extremely tedious. That trailer actually contains most of the fighting. Probably less than ten minutes of action in the entire film.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:55:37 +0000

The trailer for Ong Bak 3 is out now. Looks like the single most insane action movie since, well, since Ong Bak 2.

By: Lupin 3

Lupin 3 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:53:13 +0000

Ong Bak 2 is cinematic perfection. Bring on Raging Phoenix (looks spectacular).
In reference to Thunderbolts pachinko fight – Wires and stunt doubles do not a good Jackie Chan film make.

By: Roachboy

Roachboy — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:10:34 +0000

Oh, and the film was a huge box office flop, too.

By: Roachboy

Roachboy — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:42:43 +0000

Vern – oh, they filmed the whole thing in Korea (I think), then came back and the whole footage was unusable, and so began an epic Taiwan shoot. During it Chan broke up with his girlfriend, got depressed, almost broke his own Guinness world record for the most takes of a single scene (twice), went over budget, went behind schedule (I think all in all the movie took him two years or so), obsessively hired enormous numbers of stuntmen for giant stunts that where left on the cutting room floor (sounds familiar? At least there will be Ong Bak 3!), scrapped the whole script AGAIN, re-cut the whole thing, filmed some new scenes and finally returned to Golden Harvest with a weird little anti-kungfu movie with three or four VERY elaborate stunt sequences. The movie was about a year late and was hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget. I’ve read about this in a book called “I Am Jackie Chan”, but there are pieces of info on Net as well (just google “Dragon Lord stuntmen” or “Dragon Lord Taiwan”).

By: Outlaw Vern

Outlaw Vern — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Roachboy – so what was the deal with the production of DRAGON LORD? All I could find was wikipedia says they did 2900 takes of a badminton scene. That sounds more like Kubrick-style perfectionism than APOCALYPSE NOW.

By: BlackFrankWhite

BlackFrankWhite — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:59:53 +0000

Roachboy – Didn’t see that one yet. I’ll put it on top of my list. bte, according to imdb Chan’s fight scenes in that movie were filmed with stunts because he was injured during filming Ramble in the Bronx.

By: Roachboy

Roachboy — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:33:12 +0000

BlackFrankWhite – Oh, I totally forgot that he showed Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, too! Yeah, it’s probably Jacky Chan’s best movie.
And what do you think about Thunderbolt’s pachinko parlor fight?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:51:26 +0000

NTSC isn’t a problem in Europe. All DVD players sold in Europe are required to be NTSC capable. I don’t think there even are any PAL only players. Now region coding is another issue, but shouldn’t be much of a problem these days…

Anyhow, great review Vern and I’m really looking forward to checking out Ong Bak 2.