Catfight! Besson and Weinstein Doing Their Best To Claw Each Other's Eyes Out!

That is just f***ing [i]awesome[/i], especially from the dude who screwed up ONG-BAK pretty thoroughly with cuts that made no sense, and subtitles that made even less (how you gonna take the Dirty Balls out of ONG-BAK?), and some lousy French hip-hop that's as out of place and poorly thought out as Harvey's Death Row Records SUPERCOP soundtrack - there's nothing wrong with French hip-hop, not in the slightest, but the stuff in ONG-BAK just sucked. The hell with peace, I want to see this squabble blow the hell up beyond all proportion.

Luc, Luc, Luc. You should have done some homework on how the Weinsteins have a habit of destroying anything animated they pick up, so much so that it makes their treatment of Asian cinema pre-Dragon Dynasty look downright benevolent. Some of the most egregious examples of this were even partially or entirely French. DOOGAL used to be called THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT, and it was a France-UK co-production. The French animation GANDAHAR was so drastically changed for its US release as LIGHTYEARS that Harvey Weinstein had a directing credit on it. Luc, you walked right into this. Don't blame the shark for biting off your arm when you stick that arm into its mouth.

Blah blah blah.

If anything, Besson helped Ong Bak. Its original score was ear-piercing.

And a has-been? I think not. I believe he's produced more films than Weinstein, and directed his fair share of modern classics.

Cue argument as to the contrary.

Something I didn't understand. Besson says that Weinstein make people believe that the movie was american and made for americans, but that's besson who chose to shoot live scenes with american actors, so the movie can sell worldwide.

Besson is the first one to make his movies look american. So what does he expect now ? Didn't he got too much trials already for his egoistic choices ?

Wait, I thought they only recut/retitled/redubbed/rescored and held hostage Asian films? They do it to others too? Oh, well, then they are not just racists or anything.

How the F*** does any person who loves film buy up the rights to Tears of the Black Tiger and then keep it on the shelf for SIX -- SIX! -- F***ing years?

That one instance right there proves they are idiots who do not know anything about real art.

Besson should have known better; does he even need their help? Isn't he capable of getting his stuff out there without the Weinsteins' "help"?