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At some point on Saturday night, we decided to watch a movie. I don't know why. It was close to 3AM at that point and everyone was pretty much asleep, but whatever. Movie.

We put on Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior. This is a particularly good movie for three in the morning because it does not require any brain cells at all. After about ten minutes of doing dramatic readings of the subtitles (ah, yes, the mystic martial art of Mai Tai), everyone but me, feiran and trinityvixen was asleep. So we fast-forwarded to the good stuff.

Maybe it was because it was 3AM or because I was still drunk, but I really don't believe human beings can move that fast. Take the first fight scene, for example. Bad guy tries to punch Tony Jaa: Tony Jaa knees him in the throat. Just - bam! We're all sitting there like wha...? How did his knee get up there? We saw him leap through a loop of barbed wire (by folding himself in half - I still don't know how that works), hurdle a couple of cars and knock a guy out by jumping onto a guy's shoulders and elbowing him in the head (like Iolaus, but a whole lot cooler).

I like Roger Ebert's review of the movie:
Falls from tall tree.
Chase through streets.
Runs on tops of heads of people. Runs across the tops of market stalls, cars and buses.
Barbed wire!
Fruit Cart Scene!!! Persimmons everywhere!
Illegal boxing club. Breakaway chairs and tables pounded over heads.
Chase scene with three-wheeled scooter-taxis, dozens of them.
Ting catches fire, attacks opponents with blazing legs.

Sometime I will have to see this while sober and not half asleep cause dude. Tony Jaa kicks ass.