Wesley Snipes Needs To Learn Muay Thai

There was a trend in action movies in the mid-to-late '90s where any hobby could become the foundation for a violent adventure. It seemed to coincide with America's brief (and yet overlong) fascination with X-TREME sports. Let's call it the Dan Cortese Effect. So, you had action movies about skydiving Russian spies, and adrenaline-addicted surfing bank robbers, and skydiving American spies. If it was on ESPN2, it was the foundation for a movie about spies and or bankrobbers.

I'd always found this trend silly and boring. It seemed like a corny way to put a new spin on a worn out plot, and to work the words "rush" and "what a rush" into scripts. But that's just because we were doing it wrong. They're doing bascially the same thing in Thailand, and it is working out AWESOME. The problem was that we were mixing action adventure with all kinds of sports, when we should have just been mixing everything with one sport: incredible Muay Thai fighting.

After the jump, the trailer (via FilmDrunk) for Fireball, you guys, the world's first Muay Thai basketball movie.

Talk about hoop dreams, right?

Posted by Gabe at 2:15 PM in Trailer
Tags: Dan Cortese | Fireball | Muay Thai

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It's about time someone made Arch Rivals: The Video Game: The Movie.

Posted by: wubdub at 02/11/09 2:37 PM  | Reply
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Nothing could ever be more ridiculous than "Future Sports" it had that Superman/Ripley's Believe it or not guy in it.

Posted by: sarcasticmeow at 02/11/09 2:52 PM  | Reply
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At last, the true sequel to "Love and Basketball."

Posted by: Madletters at 02/11/09 3:11 PM  | Reply
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Wow. First time in my life, there are TWO martial arts movies I want to see this year. This doesn't have shit on Chocolate though. I'm a special-needs boy with a special need to see that in theatres.

Posted by: lookie-here at 02/11/09 4:49 PM  | Reply
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Thai men can jump.

Posted by: I PEE GOLD at 02/11/09 5:01 PM  | Reply
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Have you seen "Born to Fight"? It may in fact, shit on Fireball. At one point a soccer player fights a rebel militia with FLAMING SOCCERBALLS. He even manages to take out a sniper. It is also so emotionaly overraught that it's exhausting. The Thais go all out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQYpqe9bD3U

Posted by: Jono at 02/11/09 6:35 PM  | Reply
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is nobody noticing that they spelled "lose" wrong

Posted by: MuffinsQ at 02/11/09 7:16 PM  | Reply
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Isn't this how they already play in Detroit? ZZZZZZZ....

Posted by: killahmcgillah at 02/11/09 7:56 PM  | Reply
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fireball?
i didn't see any fire.
it's more like kicking-punchsketball, really.

Posted by: caringiscool at 02/11/09 8:40 PM  | Reply
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It's nice to see that Spuds McKenzie landed on his feet.

Posted by: d-w at 02/12/09 9:20 AM  | Reply
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