Welcome to MuayThaiArt.com! Are you ready for another great boxing film to watch? Today’s film that I’m going to recommend you today is one of those oldies. You might have heard of this movie before.

For me this movie is really inspiring and it gives the message of “not quitting”. Don’t listen to anyone that says you can’t do something if you believe you really can. It is also a great love story.

The Set-Up is an American black and white boxing drama. The director, Robert Wise, made this in what appear to be real time. The drama features Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter and others.

The film tells about the boxing gangland, the tank-town circuit led by mobsters where up-and-comers get their jaws and has-beens rent themselves out as fresh punching bag.

The Set-Up poster from Wikipedia

Here’s the plot of the movie I got from Wikipedia
Stoker Thompson (Robert Ryan) is a 35-year-old once used-to-be boxer. His promising fighting career has now come to the end. Even his wife is the first one who what him to end this career soon before he gets beaten up to death. Tiny (George Tobias), Stoker’s manager, is sure that if Stoker still keeps fighting, he sure continue losing in every fight. That is when Tiny decides to earn dirty money from a mobster. And sure that Stoker doesn’t know about this evil set-up plan.
At the beginning of the last round of the 4-round vicious bout with much younger and heavily-favored Tiger Nelson (Hal Baylor), Stoker knows about the set-up. However, he refuses to give up the fight and mashes on.
In the end, he defeats Nelson, but Little Boy who is behind all this fix get Stoker’s right hand broken as punishment.

Quite interesting old movie, don’t you think? Don’t forget to check out this film near your house. This one great quality film won’t let you down.

You still don’t know what to watch this week? If I told you that I have a film to introduce, you must know that it’s gonna be one of the boxing film. And if you know it’s a boxing film, you will expect to see lots and lots of actions. Well I might disappoint you that. This movie is completely a true drama. It’s not really a boxing movie, but a movie with boxing in it.

The reason I want you to see this movie is because it is so damn good. I don’t see a person who’s seen it hate it. It has some really good comments; however the film couldn’t make a big sell. It is not as popular as it supposed to be actually. What a shame. I think people should get a chance to watch it or have it at home. And if you are also a drama-freak, you will definitely love it!

The Boxer was released in 1997. The director was Jim Sheridan who really did a great job. And the main characters starred by Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson could and already impressed the viewers.

The movie is a story of a guy named Danny Flynn, a boxer and former Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, played by Lewis, is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his past in IRA activities. He attempts to “go straight” and build up a new life, starting a boxing gym for young people in his old home and training them as young boxers like himself, with no political or sectarian ties. He also tries to reconnect with his woman he left behind when he had to go to the prison, played by Watson. However this past always catches up with him and will not gonna let him live a peaceful life.

So that is just something you can spend your free time doing it. It is a really great movie, I can assure you that. And I don’t want you to miss it. So go to your neighborhood’s DVD renting shop now and rent this movie. You won’t be disappointed!

Welcome back to MuayThaiArt.com/weblog! We’re back with another old movie. However this old movie I’m talking about was made by a Legend, Bruce Lee. So that makes it a lot more interesting to watch.

The Way of the Dragon is considered to be Lee’s best film. He wrote, directed and starred in this action movie. He took a role of a na?ve country boy sent to Rome to help his relatives. A calm and kind Asian like himself will turn into a killing machine once he’s pissed by some bad guys.

If the hero is an Asian guy, so the bad guy has to be a Caucasian. Real-life Karate Champion Chuck Norris took this role and he had to fight against Bruce in the film. So you imagine how well the fighting scenes had turned out. The fight scene against Chuck Norris remains supreme to this day. Bruce had to take hours of Boxing and Wrestling class just for this scene.

However, there are some funny scenes when Bruce had a difficult time adjusting into a new environment. But that makes the film plot really similar to many other of his films like The Big Boss (since there are quite number of the same people appearing in both films) and it could be boring for many critics because they always want to find something new.

Note: Mohammed Ali, the great heavyweight boxer at that time, had an influence in Bruce’s style of fighting. If you have noticed, in this film, Bruce is more on his toes not flat footed as in his earlier movies.

When it first ran at the Asian cinemas, the Way of the Dragon grossed $HK 5 million. For Bruce Lee fans, the Way of the Dragon still remains the greatest Bruce Lee film of all time.

So if you get a chance to rent or even better buy this film to your martial arts collection, I recommend you should do so. If you really are martial arts fan, this movie can never disappoint you.

Here is another boxing movie. It’s quite hard to find specific film with specific things you want to see. And of course if you like Muay Thai, you would want to see Thai boxing films. However, movie production in Thailand is not really that good. So there are very little numbers of Muay Thai films released. Unlike in the West, that movie production started long time ago, and it has been developed uncountable times until it is as good as you can see today.

Boxing was in films long long time ago. Today’s is another classic one called “Golden Boy”. It was released in 1939. That’s like almost 80 years ago, so ancient I know. Some of you might have seen it on TMC. However old movie doesn’t mean it’s not good. It is actually pretty good and very inspiring!

The movie is about Joe Bonaparte, a born violinist but feeling he’s getting worse and worse and practice doesn’t make perfect for him. So he decided to quit and start to box. His dad, however, who has been so proud of his son music skill, got his dream turned down. Joe fought for the first time and he won, so he took it as a sign that he should keep on boxing. But one day he finds his inner conscience telling him to return to his violin. His lover, Lorna Moon, who knows him very well, also tries to persuade him to give up fighting. At the end his undecided decision finally ends, when he kills his opponent in one fight. He discards his gloves and return to his love, his father, his violin and his Lorna.

So if you get to a chance to see it sometimes, watch it. Even though it is old and still in black and white, the value of the movie is still there. This is one good movie that you can’t find in years.

Hi guys! It’s time for a new Thai film. This one might not consists of lots of incredible actions like Tony Jaa’s movies. But this one really guarantees the fun and laughs. Here we go. The movie is called Pattaya Papaya or Thai’s name “Somtum” our famous papaya salad. You’ll find out later why this name.

The story is about a big guy named Barny who somehow traveled to Thailand and got robbed. Having nothing left, he has to do something to survive. This point leads him to find two girls who’re being hunted by Pattaya mafia gang. One of the girls happens to know Muay Thai and is actually really good at it. Barny got hurt from trying to save the girls finally get something back. Both girls took him back to their mom who owns a Somtum restaurant. Barny tried it for the first time and that’s when he feels the fire inside because of the heat from this food running through everything destroying the restaurant. He got no choice but to find a way to repair it somehow.

The friendship between this huge guy and 2 tiny girls has begun. But then these naughty girls again get into trouble and are hunted by a gang of diamond robbers.

So what do you think? The movie is just in Theater a few days ago and I hope you will find it in DVD soon outside Thailand. I really hope you will get to see this film. But as I said, the Muay Thai actions in the movies are performed by a girl. If you expected it to be so cool, think again. But as I have heard, the girl is really good. She actually knows the martial arts. As a kid, she did give a really good performer.