Does Thai cinema have much of an output?

by **Charlie Parker** on Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:29 pm

How does it compare to HK of the present or past? Excuse my vague questions, it's a market I know little about. Anything to get excited about apart from Tony Jaa?

by **ASaroch** on Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:50 am

Charlie Parker wrote:How does it compare to HK of the present or past? Excuse my vague questions, it's a market I know little about. Anything to get excited about apart from Tony Jaa?

Mike is the most qualified to answer this one...

by **Charlie Parker** on Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:01 pm

A year and a bit on I think I've seen enough to say 'meh'. Most Thai films seem to be horror movies :?:

so I made do with what I could find.

Ong Bak 1 and 2 I enjoyed as fun.

Bangkok Dangerous, Beautiful Boxer and Tears Of The Black Tiger are all excellent offbeat action films.

Warrior King is utter tripe from start to finish, so are the Bodyguard films and the worst gangster film ever, Hitman File.

Chocolate, Fireball and Born To Fight have some good moments in a sea of clumsiness.

I've seen Tony Jaa films on sale from pre-Ong Bak days but I gave them a miss.

by **the dude** on Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:59 pm

BangKok Dangerous is awesome

Shutter is also good

enjoyed Ong-bak - waiting to see number 2 and 3

by **Phil** on Wed May 12, 2010 4:54 pm

I think the problem with Thai cinema is that it only really became known for one genre and then failed to maintain a consistent output of those types of films. Stars like Tony Jaa, Dan Chupong or Jeeja Yanin are clearly very good at what they do, but they've only made like 4 or 5 films between them!

by **Charlie Parker** on Wed May 12, 2010 8:01 pm

There's a good blog covering Thai films out there that I can't remember anything about :oops:

There's a couple of upcoming titles that look promising, you just don't get the info on what's out there unless you really dig. I love finding John Woo knock offs :lol:

by **Phil** on Wed May 12, 2010 8:29 pm

The blog is probably Wisekwai which is a very good site. I check it regularly for news but would still say the interesting movies seem to be few and far between.

by **Charlie Parker** on Wed May 12, 2010 9:14 pm

That's the guvnor. It was a grimy crime film called Slice that caught my eye.

by **Charlie Parker** on Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:22 am

Slice is a poor man's 'extreme' Korean film

by **jrcma** on Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:18 am

Charlie Parker wrote:How does it compare to HK of the present or past? Excuse my vague questions, it's a market I know little about. Anything to get excited about apart from Tony Jaa?

Depend's I personally prefer Panna Rittikrai old films to the new stuff...but sadly out put is bad

so I've seen more new...it looks like they made a lot of good MA stuff look they even did Shapes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVksXycrtg

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