I was watching Ong Bak again yesterday and I'm going to have to reverse my opinion stated on LiveJournal: Ong Bak is better than Tom Yum Goong. The stories are pretty much the same. In Ong Bak, Tony Jaa goes after the stolen head of his village's Ong Bak statue. In Tom Yum Goong, he goes after his family's elephant. Both are sacred, but Ong Bak's story sounds just a little bit cooler... and the jaded viewer in me couldn't help but remember a certain Simpsons episode ("Where's my elephant?"). I definitely prefer the music in Ong Bak to Tom Yum Goong's. Ong Bak just seemed to have more... I don't know... martial arts-sounding music. Not that Tom Yum Goong's music was bad - it was definitely appropriate. I can't put my finger on it, but the action sequences in Ong Bak were better than Tom Yum Goong's after all. I remember watching Ong Bak in the theater and being amazed at not only Tony Jaa's moves but also how quickly he returned to his fighting stance. His form was absolutely flawless. I think he also hit MUCH harder in Ong Bak with his elbows and knees. I can't help but think he had to tone it down a bit for the Austrailian crew in Tom Yum Goong. Then again, Tom Yum Goong had the 4-minute no-cut action scene, the guy who looked and acted just like Eddy Gordo, and the bone breaking moves. Tom Yum Goong was supposed to be an international movie with more variety everywhere and they've succeeded. I think Ong Bak is better as a whole. In Ong Bak, Petchthai Wongkamlao (Hum-Lae) actually had a pretty big role; his role was rather cursory in Tom Yum Goong despite shooting a few bad guys. He was funnier in Ong Bak too. Tony Jaa was pretty much perfect in Ong Bak, but in Tom Yum Goong, he had about ten lines... and most of them were either "Where's Johnny?" or "Where's my elephant?"... and what did happen to Johnny anyway? At least everything was wrapped up nicely in Ong Bak. So to put this in Tekken terms: Ong Bak is like TTT in its prime, whereas Tom Yum Goong is like T5 in its prime... whenever that was.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Sunday, December 25, 2005
LOLOLOL...
[ORIGINAL POST]
I was going to make my first MySpace blog entry extremely profound and highly cogent (and on the first day of the new year accompanied by some sort of introduction), but this was too friggin funny!
From Tekken Zaibatsu:
I must say, I like how the MySpace blog interface looks, but I don't like how I have to search for my "now reading / viewing / listening to" selection instead of just typing it in. Maybe I'll go ahead and make this the new home of my rants and pointless reflections. Too many bad memories on LiveJournal and my Xanga wasn't going anywhere.
Oh, and by the way: I don't usually write things like "LOL" except when I'm making fun of the people who do. This is probably one of those times...
From Tekken Zaibatsu:
WHAT THE HELL? YOU MADE A FUCKING TOPIC JUST FOR FUCKING ASKING HOW SHE FUCK THAT BITCHS NAME IS PRONOUNCED? I haaaatteeee yooouuu. Can't you just add someone on msn and then have a voice conversation to ask them? And by the way, why the hell would you ask such an idiotic question? My friend pronounceses Lee and Lei with just LEE. IT DOESNT BOTHER OR HURT ANYONE. Just fucking say whatever you want. You can call her a BITCH and give that name to her for the rest of her life. And haven't you read? NO FUCKING NONSENSE TOPICS. uuuhhhh GOD i hate humens like you.
I must say, I like how the MySpace blog interface looks, but I don't like how I have to search for my "now reading / viewing / listening to" selection instead of just typing it in. Maybe I'll go ahead and make this the new home of my rants and pointless reflections. Too many bad memories on LiveJournal and my Xanga wasn't going anywhere.
Oh, and by the way: I don't usually write things like "LOL" except when I'm making fun of the people who do. This is probably one of those times...
Thursday, December 8, 2005
*insert witty title here*
[ORIGINAL POST]
It's been a little over a month since my last entry and I've had a few days to decompress from the craziness of finals, so I guess it's time to write about it.
School stuff
JAPN 315 (Language in Japanese Society): I got "A"s on the first two tests and I'm sure I did okay on the third (and last) test which doubled as the final. The project I had to do turned out interesting... as usual I did it at the very last second and I got my material from people on AIM, including people I haven't even met in person! Many thanks and apologies.
JAPN 410 (Modern Japanese Literature): Er... I'll be happy to get a "B" in this class. This was surprisingly tough; I got high "C"s on the first quiz and midterm (as did almost everyone else), and I have no idea what I got on the second (and last) quiz. I'm sure I did well on the final, and I did surprisingly well on the paper ("B+"), especially when Yokota-sensei was saying how she was "grading strict" and that some weren't "following the paper instructions"... not to mention that I turned mine in a day late! She kept delaying the due date of the paper and I was always just putting it in the back of my mind. On the day I thought it might be due, we had an insane amount of homework (which meant to me that it couldn't have possibly been on that day), and I thought she said we could turn it in the next day anyway. Everything turned out okay, though. I did most of the homework and participated fairly often, so that has to mean something, right?
JAPN 300A (Advanced Japanese): The final was a little harder than I thought (especially that first question)... maybe I should have studied for more than a minute. I was more worried about the presentation I still had to do; I knew mine would be a bit long with the DVD and I didn't want to use up any more time for the final than I had to, so I tried to go through it as fast as I could. I'm still disappointed that I still had to read off my script - much more than I thought, anyway. I tried to at least memorize the first paragraph, the last paragraph, and the first few sentences of each paragraph (to give the illusion that I memorized it), but I couldn't even do that. My hat's off to the beauteous Pearl for the best presentation.
Fun stuff
Bujingai: It's the game Gackt helped make. I found the US and JP versions very cheap on eBay so I grabbed them (if I was crazy I'd get the European version too, but I won't). It looks and plays great! It comes with lots of extras like unlockable Gackt interviews and stuff. I'm pleasantly surprised that the US version not only kept them but subtitled the videos as well!
Tom Yum Goong: I had a hard time believing that anything could top Ong Bak unless it was by Tony Jaa himself. WOW. It's better in every way in terms of story, scope, and of course action.
A Love To Kill (aka "This Love I Want to Kill," aka "A Love of Death"): Whatever you call it, it's pretty spectacular. This of course stars Bi, who I revere about as much as Gackt. And what do you know - he's also a singer. I've only seen the first three episodes so I won't be reading a certain someone's LJ for a while...
Firefox 1.5: This browser is my favorite new toy. Even if it didn't load pages faster than Internet Explorer and didn't prevent your computer's security from being compromised unlike IE (which it does), I'd still use it. I've got so many extensions for Firefox that let me do so many cool and useful features (that IE could never do) it's insane. You know, I've always thought obsessing over cars was pretty stupid, but if it's because of the customizability (like with Firefox), I can understand.
I still need to decompress until the first day of school next year, whenever that is. With any luck a friend from high school will be dropping by (he damn well better), so I gotta have my days open...
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It's been a little over a month since my last entry and I've had a few days to decompress from the craziness of finals, so I guess it's time to write about it.
School stuff
JAPN 315 (Language in Japanese Society): I got "A"s on the first two tests and I'm sure I did okay on the third (and last) test which doubled as the final. The project I had to do turned out interesting... as usual I did it at the very last second and I got my material from people on AIM, including people I haven't even met in person! Many thanks and apologies.
JAPN 410 (Modern Japanese Literature): Er... I'll be happy to get a "B" in this class. This was surprisingly tough; I got high "C"s on the first quiz and midterm (as did almost everyone else), and I have no idea what I got on the second (and last) quiz. I'm sure I did well on the final, and I did surprisingly well on the paper ("B+"), especially when Yokota-sensei was saying how she was "grading strict" and that some weren't "following the paper instructions"... not to mention that I turned mine in a day late! She kept delaying the due date of the paper and I was always just putting it in the back of my mind. On the day I thought it might be due, we had an insane amount of homework (which meant to me that it couldn't have possibly been on that day), and I thought she said we could turn it in the next day anyway. Everything turned out okay, though. I did most of the homework and participated fairly often, so that has to mean something, right?
JAPN 300A (Advanced Japanese): The final was a little harder than I thought (especially that first question)... maybe I should have studied for more than a minute. I was more worried about the presentation I still had to do; I knew mine would be a bit long with the DVD and I didn't want to use up any more time for the final than I had to, so I tried to go through it as fast as I could. I'm still disappointed that I still had to read off my script - much more than I thought, anyway. I tried to at least memorize the first paragraph, the last paragraph, and the first few sentences of each paragraph (to give the illusion that I memorized it), but I couldn't even do that. My hat's off to the beauteous Pearl for the best presentation.
Fun stuff
Bujingai: It's the game Gackt helped make. I found the US and JP versions very cheap on eBay so I grabbed them (if I was crazy I'd get the European version too, but I won't). It looks and plays great! It comes with lots of extras like unlockable Gackt interviews and stuff. I'm pleasantly surprised that the US version not only kept them but subtitled the videos as well!
Tom Yum Goong: I had a hard time believing that anything could top Ong Bak unless it was by Tony Jaa himself. WOW. It's better in every way in terms of story, scope, and of course action.
A Love To Kill (aka "This Love I Want to Kill," aka "A Love of Death"): Whatever you call it, it's pretty spectacular. This of course stars Bi, who I revere about as much as Gackt. And what do you know - he's also a singer. I've only seen the first three episodes so I won't be reading a certain someone's LJ for a while...
Firefox 1.5: This browser is my favorite new toy. Even if it didn't load pages faster than Internet Explorer and didn't prevent your computer's security from being compromised unlike IE (which it does), I'd still use it. I've got so many extensions for Firefox that let me do so many cool and useful features (that IE could never do) it's insane. You know, I've always thought obsessing over cars was pretty stupid, but if it's because of the customizability (like with Firefox), I can understand.
I still need to decompress until the first day of school next year, whenever that is. With any luck a friend from high school will be dropping by (he damn well better), so I gotta have my days open...
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