Little Girls Who Kick Tony Jaa’s Ass
I’d like to apologize to you guys. When I saw the trailer for Tony Jaa’s Ong-Bak 2: The Bakkening, I thought it was pretty cool. I mean, Jaa did a flip kick off an elephant. That would seem to cool to anybody, right?
But then CarolinaHaze commented with a link to a trailer for Raging Phoenix, another Thai martial arts movie which features:
? The girl from Chocolate, that kung fu movie about the special need martial arts genius
? Guys with ridiculous bladed shinguards or something
? Martial arts breakdancing
? Drunken Muay Thai
? TEENAGE GIRLS PERFORMING DRUNKEN MUAY THAI
? What looks like some seriously real injuries
And I have revised my version of “cool” accordingly. Raging Phoenix is cool. End of line.
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