complich8’s journal

Yep. It is. Tha Shizznit.
(warning: technobabble follows. not afraid of technobabble? You will be …. you will be)

“How bitterly he envied men like Henry Foster and Benito Hoover! Men who never had to shout at an Epsilon to get an order obeyed; men who moved through the caste system as fish through water — so utterly at home as to be unaware either of themselves or of the beneficent and comfortable [...]

back again.
once more, the sphere on the plane. Impulses balanced, adrift in a sea of conflicting forces, all adding up to zero, and all internal.
Casting oneself to the sea of externalities … mere abnegation.
But it’s an inaccurate picture anyway. I have impulse, just not as intense as I’d like.
Bah …. stupid thought-tangents from [...]

Crazy Awesomeness. Non-Kung-fu fighting (Muay-Thai is so … different than what we usually see). Some of the awesomest villains ever created.
And the hate-filled football-kick to the chest.
Yeah, Ong Bak is a really freaking great stereotype-martial-arts movie. Forgettable plot (about getting back the head of the village’s Ong Bak Buddha statue, [...]

As a movie, it was solid.
I think I have a few major issues with it though.
For starters, the dialogue was terrible. I mean … like … mindbogglingly mediocre. I don’t think there was a single memorable line in it, other than things that were memorably poor.
For another, The acting was weak, across the [...]