Really Awful Movies: Ep 36 – Ong Bak – Thai Warrior

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Ong Bak, Muay Thai Warrior is a wild Thai action film starring ass-kicking Tony Jaa. Jaa rules! The guy is a “human special effect.”

On this podcast, we discuss how we came to see this amazing film, its mesmerizing fights and chase scenes and our experiences in Thailand.

The plot is wafer-thin but who cares? RAM guy Jeff even watched it in Thai, minus the subtitles. And the movie didn’t suffer for it.

Thai villagers upset over the theft of their beloved Buddha statue get the village’s toughest resident to hunt it down in the mean streets of Bangkok.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 35 – Deadly Crossing

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Not so much a movie, as a few episodes of a dreadful TV show cobbled together INTO a movie.

In our quest to watch every Steven Seagal “movie” ever made, we bravely tackle Deadly Crossing.

In this, the amazing thespian aikido master tries to master a Cajun accent, and does so very unsuccessfully. And no discussion of a Seagal movie is complete without mentioning his brillo pad hairdo.

This is a Canadian-lensed dull police procedural with some of the worst Russian gangster accents ever committed to celluloid. For a $5 Walmart pickup, we can’t complain – too much.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 34 – Xanadu

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Xanadu!

A fantasy, a musical, a place where dreams come true…for some, it’s more of a nightmare and more of a Xana-don’t.

However, there is something undoubtedly charming about this Olivia Newton-John MEGA-flop, which co-stars the late great Gene Kelly and Warrior Michael Beck.

A roller-skating artist, who doesn’t know the meaning of the term “muse” (!) meets a sprite on the beach and tries to romance her. He seeks advice from a beach clarinet-playing dandy (!) who wants to open a nightclub with him.

Then things get weird.

Thanks to Robin Bougie of Cinema Sewer for the tip-off.