Bangkok Dangerous

[dab69]

starring Nicolas Cage opens Sept 5 in the USA

trailer:
http://www.bangkokdangerousmovie.net/

can hardly wait to see it and pick out all the spots I have seen/visited/been near

The original, by Oxide Pang, was released almost 10 years ago.

I rather doubt this remake is more authentic.

The original, by Oxide Pang, was released almost 10 years ago.

I rather doubt this remake is more authentic.

No, but maybe it won't be as boring.

[bedbugy1-old]

why wait
you can download the movie for free at
www.the (http://www.the) piratebay.org

[elephantspike]

I saw an ad for this film on TV the other day.


http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/images/expecting_rain/Bangkok_Dangerous_Poster.jpg



Does it have anything to do with the series of novels by John Burdett? (Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts...) featuring the protagonist Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep?


http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/images/expecting_rain/BangkokHaunts.jpg



I'd love to see those stories made into good films.

I don't think this is related to that though. I think I may have seen the original film.

Is it about an English woman journalist who befriends a young Thai boy and becomes entangled in a gang war?

[TrongpaiExpat]

I recall Nicolas Cage being in Bangkok just before the last coup, holding up the fort at the Oriental Hotel. Was this the move they were shooting? Odds are most of it was made in Hollywood.




I'd love to see those stories made into good films.

Can't be done, if made by the Thais. Good and Thai films just does not equate. They got the technical parts right for the most part but then use incomprehensible scripts, stretch melodrama to the max, cry through most of the lines, put in guns and violence out of context and add the all necessary surprise/shock appearance of ghosts.

[allieb]

why wait
you can download the movie for free at
www.the (http://www.the) piratebay.org

The download is a Thai movie with French Subs its a load of crap with very bad acting. Its not the Nicolas Cage movie

[bing]

Nicholas Cage was on a late night talk show on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, and he talked about being in Bangkok at the time of the coup. He said it was a bit scary, but Thailand's people were so welcoming and warm, he kept on working on the film. He did send his wife and child out of country because of security concerns.

incomprehensible scripts, stretch melodrama to the max, cry through most of the lines, put in guns and violence out of context and add the all necessary surprise/shock appearance of ghosts.Apart from the last bit, it sounds just like American films ... and even then I'm not so sure

[Brad the Impala]

The rights to John Burdett's books were sold last year to Millenium Films. http://www.imdb.com/company/co0002572/

It was announced over a year ago that they would shoot Bangkok 8 last year/this year, for release in 2009, and that James Mcteigue would direct. He previously directed V for Vendetta. However it's all gone very quiet since then.

[bedbugy1-old]

you can download here
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4378401 ... .Dangerous (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4378401/Bangkok.Dangerous).[Nicolas.Cage].ENG.[2008].DivX.[FULL-HD].AC3.P

[TrongpaiExpat]

incomprehensible scripts, stretch melodrama to the max, cry through most of the lines, put in guns and violence out of context and add the all necessary surprise/shock appearance of ghosts.Apart from the last bit, it sounds just like American films ... and even then I'm not so sure

Yet, US seems to dominate this list: cinepad.com/awards/awards_1-50.htm (http://cinepad.com/awards/awards_1-50.htm)

Of the top 10, three were made by Brits but in USA.

Actually, this is a Thai movie production with the original directors from the thai language version. It was completely shot in Bangkok with an all thai cast and crew. Cage is the only Farang appearing in the movie. It was not "made available" to reviewers prior to its release here in the USA. Never a good sign.....

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

Nicholas Cage was on a late night talk show on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, and he talked about being in Bangkok at the time of the coup. He said it was a bit scary, but Thailand's people were so welcoming and warm, he kept on working on the film. He did send his wife and child out of country because of security concerns.

Yes it must have been quite scary in the Noel Coward suite at the Oriental.

I do love Nicholas Cage-fab actor !

You can get the Conan episode at:

isohunt.com/torrent_details/50122944/nicolas+cage?tab=summary

Nicolas Cage interview starts half way through. There are a few funny gay Republican jokes in the opening monologue, too.

Still d/loading the movie.

Stupendously disastrous reviews so far:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bangkok_dangerous/

[dab69]

Stupendously disastrous reviews so far:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bangkok_dangerous/

sounds like a stie made for just you Chao.

what else would you expect from a site with this name? duh

one guy is even whining about the CREDITS

Uh, it's one of the net's foremost film sites.

[dab69]

No one is expecting Casablaca here, just a little international advertisement of Bangkok that might inspire some travel/tourism. It all adds up (bT)

[TrongpaiExpat]

Thailand had great PR expectations for the movie 'The Beach' 2000 and that was a colossal flop even with a big name star, Leonardo Di Caprio, in the lead roll. Now, it seems that history has repeated itself, another big name in a bad movie based in Thailand. Too bad.

All the comments on Cage's hair were amusing on the Rotten Tomato's site. I guess the reviewers don't see as many expat farangs in Bangkok as I do. That was authentic.

[alittlebi-old]

Nicholas Cage ... did send his wife and child out of country because of security concerns.

Well, that is one way to get the misses out so you can hit the bars and find some thai companions. :)

"Sorry hunny, it is too dangerous for you to be here. Oh, don't worry about me, I'll be FINE!!"

Missing Thailand and hoping to have happy memories evoked, I took the (for me) extraordinary step of going to a local cinema yesterday to see the film. A few scenes were shot in Silom but, taking into account the astonishing richness available to a cinematographer in Bangkok, disappointingly little was made of the setting. The story was a series of cliches characterised by gleeful violence. A waste of money.

[Shuee]

bedbug link no work

[Beachlover]

Yeah the reviews are not looking good.

Check out this one: http://www.filmgecko.com/bangkok-dangerous-review/

"I wonder what Nicolas Cage was thinking when he made this movie, which features his droney voiceover narration and lots of close-up shots of him pondering the fact that he kills people for a living. I have to think it went something like this: IтАЩd like to go to Thailand. Why not make a movie there and see the sights in the process?"

haha

"Bangkok Dangerous" tops US box office


Bangkok Dangerous, featuring Nicolas Cage, topped the US box office earning US$7.8 million during the weekend, Associated Press reported.

The movie was a remake of a 1999 Asian movie.

It was shot in Bangkok with several Thai actors and actresses.

Bangkok Dangerous was screened in the US shortly after the state of emergency was declared in Bangkok.

AP reported that the weekend was the slowest movie weekend in at least five years.

The Nation

just finished watching it. Not oscar material but still a good shoot em up.

AP reported that the weekend was the slowest movie weekend in at least five years.


It's back to school this week here in America, typically the slowest week for movies every year as most parents have already exhausted their most recent paychecks at the clothes designer malls.

I've finally gotten to see a downloaded CAM in a playable format. I will say it is not a bad movie. That is it was not sophomoric, not filled with swear words, not seemingly intentionally demeaning to a non-American culture, a little exciting, cute, and filled with little things about Bangkok like (were they?) grasshoppers, spicy food, steamy clubs and everything else. Non-negatives, aside, probably not award material, but certainly worth a night out to the theatres.