In the 80's and 90's Hong Kong was the place to get your foreign action movies. I almost chose Hard Boiled (1992) for this Friday:
By the 2000's they were usurped by Thailand, maybe not least of all because Thailand's movie set safety laws became more... lenient.
Because people get hurt in Ong Bak. One of the American taglines is "No computer graphics. No stunt doubles. No wires." and it brings to mind the end credits to one of Hong Kong's Police Story movies:
Ong Bak's Tony Jaa is the newest "new Bruce Lee" after Jackie Chan. Since then Jackie Chan has become the new Pat Morita who was the old Al Molinaro:
According to IMDB Al Molinaro is actually from Kenosha and this is his childhood home:
People, a former occupant was in a Weezer video.
Pick up your yard.
One of the coolest things about Bloodsport is that some of it is filmed in Kowloon Walled City before it was torn down.
It stars Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds,
Bolo Yeung from BMN movies Boxer's Omen and Breathing Fire
and JCVD.
This website that's doing God's work chronicling movies like Scorpion Thunderbolt and Ninja Terminator has a post on what connects Bloodsport to one of my favorites, Silver Dragon Ninja.
Here's what happened last week:
3 MINUTE TO CATCH A YETI from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.
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