This is the trailer for the Thai film Raging Phoenix, starring Jeeja Yanin.  You may remember Jeeja Yanin from Chocolate, in which she played the SPECIAL NEEDS GIRL, WITH A NEED, TO KICK ASS.  Raging Phoenix is a Thai romantic comedy that combines love, kickboxing, breakdancing and robot legs.  The trailer’s in Thai without subtitles, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on, and I have a hard time telling which character is which*, so I don’t know exactly how closely intertwined are the romance and the breakdance kickboxing.  But maybe it’s like the Thai What’s Love Got to Do With It.  “Girl, can’t choo see I love you?  Why you always gotta make me breakdance fight cho ass?  You know ah only wear dese robot legs cuz you hurt me.”

*Because of, um, …the editing. Yes, the fast editing, that’s why I can’t tell them apart…

[Pictures via KungFuCinema, thanks to FilmDrunkard SA for the tip]

Paul Rudd was on Conan last night, which was apparently a re-run, to promote his not new movie Role Models.  He introduces a scene from the movie, only to show a random clip from the 1988 kid-in-wheelchair-meets-alien classic, Mac & Me.  Conan then pretends to act surprised because it’s important that people believe that none of Conan’s bits are in any way contrived.  The point of all this is that it led us to another clip from Mac & Me (attached below) which is one of the most bizarre and amazing clips of all time. It includes:

• A birthday party at McDonald’s
• A random, seemingly unrelated breakdance party in the McDonald’s parking lot
• Heavy-handed product placement starring Ronald McDonald
• Alien disguised as teddy bear
• An inexplicable, fully-choreographed dance contest
• …A contest which features guys dressed as football players in full pads and eye black
• Alien disguised as teddy bear takes over the dance contest. Inside McDonald’s.

Sweet Jesus the 80s were retarded.
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Today Apple has this trailer for Planet B-Boy.  Which is apparently a break dancing documentary.

An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father’s approval; a twelve-year-old boy in France confronts his family’s racism – all the b-boys’ lives collide in Germany where their skills are put to the ultimate test: the “Battle of the Year” finals, with crews from 18 nations vying for the title of World Champion.

Uh dude?  There’s a guy spinning around on another guy’s head – I’ll take less backstory and more which demon he sold his soul to in order to become a human dreidel. I remember when people used to breakdance at recess in junior high.  I tried to do it once and all I did was break my ass.  I got so mad that the next time they turned the music on, I just punched the guy next to me.  And that’s how moshing got started.