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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 22 – Samurai Cop

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Samurai Cop is an absolute gem of a bad movie.

A samurai cop and his side-kick go after the Yakuza, that notorious Japanese organized crime outfit. However, it’s set outside of Los Angeles. And there’s barely a Japanese person to be found.

The samurai cop (Matt Hannon) has a Bon Jovi / Friends / Fabio hairdo that proves to be distracting, not only for aesthetic reasons but also for what we described as “hair continuity issues.”

We discuss second unit footage and cutaways, both of which are used amply here.

The film’s villain utters lines like “I want his head on my piano!”

And we’ve also got the incomparable Robert Z’Dar (Maniac Cop)