Comments on: Tony Jaa’s Sword Has Been Canceled???

By: Stallone jackson

Stallone jackson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:35:48 +0000

I agree, hollywood is a disease to good martial artists. They’ve destroyed so many that u never see any martial artist in movies.
Its reality shows and lame remakes. “The last dragon” being one that should of been kept in the vault. Hey screw it we might see chris brown play bruce leroy(ewwww).
But tony jaa should continue to make movies where he is now.

By: gunneos

gunneos — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:23:13 +0000

I agree with you up there. Asian martial arts films need to retain their rawness, and I wouldn’t personally look forward to a Muay Boran meets Hollywood production, that’d be just weird to watch. Funny you should mention TYG being better than Ong-Bak, I prefered Ong-Bak because it generally made more sense and felt truer to Thailand’s filmmaking. TYG kind of felt Hollywoodised, and they randomly threw villains in just to show off/pit martial art against martial art. Not that it wasn’t fantastic to watch, but they could have introduced his opponents in better scenarios so it would feel more like a movie and less like martial art pornography. To each his own, I guess.

By: Yi-Long

Yi-Long — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:43:20 +0000

“Good news…hurry up and become an International Action Actor? Stunts galore? Sho’nuff”

Ehmmm… I’d rather see Tony stay as far away from Hollywood as possible. Hollywood has absolutely NO idea how to handle these asian martial artists properly. Just look at what Hollywood did to Jackie. Just look at what it did to Jet Li. Their Hollywood output has been laughably BAD, and nowhere near as good as their HK stuff.

You think Tony Jaa would be allowed to take 2-3 years to make a proper action movie, doing all his own stunts? Hell no. Hollywood would never allow such a thing. Before you know it, he’d be cast opposite Ben Stiller or some other ‘comedian’ in some lame buddy-cop movie…

I rather see him stay in control of his own projects. He’s a VERY talented guy, seems bright, and seems very AMBITIOUS when you look at how much of an improvement TYG already was over Ong-Bak, ACTION-wise.

Too bad though he allowed the Weinsteins to pick up the North-American rights to his next project. The Weinsteins have been EXTREMELY bad for asian cinema, cutting it up, only releasing piss-poor dubbed versions, or not even releasing movies at all.
Go try and find a subbed uncut DVD of Fist of Legend, for instance. You cant. Jet Li’s best ever movie hasnt even had a proper DVD release(!)

Nah, I wish Tony will keep making movies his own way, instead of becoming a puppet for some Hollywood studios where he’ll be dumped in pathetically bad projects.

By: Loc

Loc — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:25:52 +0000

Good news…hurry up and become an International Action Actor? Stunts galore? Sho’nuff…