"Fist Of Legend" now has competition
 

Ok...so for the longest time I figured Jet Li's "Fist Of Legend" was the most badass martial arts film ever made. Now I'm wondering. Tonight I watched a Thai film called "Ong-Bak". I must say, this film has stunts that would make Jackie Chan cream himself and martial arts that would make Jet Li cringe. And all from Thailand? Strange, to be certain. I mean seriously...this movie had me and my roommate, both hardened fans of kung fu and martial arts films going "oh fuck, that had to hurt" and "holy shit, that's insane" the whole time. Everyone should watch this film and bow before it's immense awesomeness.

hmm im going to have to watch that because i always though fist of legend was bad ass...

I've never been a fan of Jackie Chan's movies. Well his newer ones anyway. I'll have to check that shit out GT. I'm a fan of Martial arts movies.

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I've never seen "Fists of Legend", am I missing out on something here?

im with you on not seeing that movie too shards

Yes...yes you are. "Fist of Legend" is one of the best martial arts movies ever made. It shows you just how bad Jet Li can fuck up a roomful of Japanese guys. Until I watched "Ong-Bak" last night, I thought it was the best martial arts flick out there. Now I'm not so sure.

Edit: You know...now that I think about it...this guy's stunt moves look a lot like Joe Eigo at www.multilevelmoves.com. They're so fluid and so crazy...it's inhuman, I tell you.

i seen fist of legand. bad ass movie. love the fighting.

i heard about ong-bak but never watched it. i always seem to forget to. much go get it now or ill forget agian.;)

I know Ive heard of this movie...Ive probably seen parts of it too. I guess I'll have to head up to blockbuster and look for it soon (one near me has a ton of asian movies.......not a lot of good ones though)

Is this it?
http://www.ongbak-lefilm.com/
(Theres a trailer there too)

Yes...that would be the one. But since I didn't find a trailer anywhere on there, there's a quicktime trailer at http://www.apple.com/jp/quicktime/tr...ach_large.html It's all in Japanese since it's Apple's Japanese site, but you ghet the idea. Watching the trailer I remembered a friend sent me the link for the trailer months upon months ago...but I didn't make the connection because they call the movie "Mach". Whatever...there it is.

(Damn this site for not being able to read hirigana!)
I dont read japanese well enough anymore to go through it.
But I can figure out that that means its not a good link;)

All fixed.

there we go
Well the announcer made me think I was watching Iron Chef, but its better than au francis.
Looks good...definately not what I thought it was.