Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

It is official. now.
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. we are not going to Bangkok as planned.
a state of emergency was declared in Bangkok in light of the escalating violence overnight. seems like clashes occurred between supporters of the various factions, resulting in damage,injuries and even one reported death.

so today in the midst of all my work, I somehow managed to find time to cancel my reservation at the hotel and tried in vain to call up the airline all day. but their lines were engaged all day long and the one time I did get through I was put on hold for nearly 7 minutes! I may still be on the line now if I did not hang up. subsequent attempts were futile.

in the evening I headed down personally to the airport to do the needful. I was surprised to find I was the only one there. I was expecting a mob of disgruntled and confused travellers. I guess I am the only person who booked tickets for Bangkok this week. silly me.

so the monies paid for the airfare have been put into a credit-like account which is to be utilised within 3 months from the date. which is fine by me. but we will more than likely use the credits to go to Bangkok within the month if possible anyways. there is still that 4d/3n hotel stay to redeem. be a waste if we had to forfeit. there is always the thick-skinned option of asking the hotel to extend the validity of the hotel stay voucher in light of the current political situation in Thailand. I know.. i can be misguidedly optimistic at times.

coincidentally there is this upcoming Nicolas Cage movie coming up soon called Bangkok Dangerous.
waahahaaa...how apt. unfortunately it does not feature protests, a hostile takeover of a television station or corrupt politicians. or maybe it does include the latter. what would an asian city be like in a Hollywood movie, if it did not include corrupt officials, one eyed thugs, dirty streets and all the local cast speaking Queen's english in the bad side of town?


tag line: there is only one way out
not sure what this posters does. it is just basically a poster of Nicolas Cage staring into the camera. I am sure it will help sell a lot of tickets.

I kinda like this movie poster a bit more...

tag line: one man. one bullet. one shot.
but quite honestly it looks more like a cover of a paperback novel than a poster of an upcoming movie.

or even this one:

tag line: it's all in the execution.
as John Woo inspired as can be. our brooding hero in monochrome. handling a gun not unlike how we hold our X-Box game pads. is that a slipper in his hand? not to mention the bullets-through-glass effect. although the lower third of the poster does appear to be Nicky channeling Ghost Rider like effects.

it is a Hollywood remake of the Oxide Pang (what a name!) & Danny Pang 1999 debut movie.



by all indications it will be located in Bangkok and there will be some elements of danger. don't you just hate it when a movie title just gives away the whole plot?
the plot is the usual 'A hitman pulls off a series of jobs and falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy' sorta story we seen a 1,000 times before. just for once I would like to see a swerve where the hero actually falls for his errand boy and bonds with a local woman. or maybe he could hit a local woman, fall for his errand boy and love his job. Now that would really be something.

we seem to be having a slew of Hollywood remakes of asian films lately.