The new movie starring J Montonn's was released Thursday last week and you can now watch it at most cinemas across Bangkok.

Directed by Kittikorn Leowsirikun, That sounds good is basically a road movie, with Montonn being the driver and having to female passengers, Ter and Soontri (Ramita Mahapreukpong, Rattanrat Eertaweekul), with him. Both of the girls are a bit awkward, one with thick glasses, the other one being hearing impaired.

As you can imagine for a romantic drama as That Sounds Good is, a love triangle forms while you can adore the Laotian and Vietnamese beautiful backdrops that the three pass through. For the record, I haven;t seen the movie yet so thi is no review, just a short story rundown. Let us know in the comments if you liked it or not.

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Last year, Preduce "Samba" movie had its premier at the Lido cinema on Siam Square here in Bangkok, It was their first full length movie showcasing Bangkok's skating scene. Now the movie is available for viewing online. You can watch the embedded skate video below or download the whole thing at the Preduce website.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand

Events at FCCT

 

6.30pm Weds, April 28, 2010

EVENT LOCATION HAS BEEN CHANGED
MBMG Group: The global economy - more questions than answers - S&P award-winning fund manager Scott Campbell discusses investment strategy in the current market conditions

 

9am Weds, April 28, 2010

EVENT HAS MOVED VENUE - Committee for Asian Women (CAW)
- Wage Campaign Seminar 2010
Decent Wage, Decent Work: Working ourselves out of poverty

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I heard about this on twitter yesterday already and the comment that was made on Twitter might heve been sarcastic....but it is actually quite true. A poster said "Why are they showing Hotel Rwanda in Bangkok? To show more ways how to kill people?". Some people might take things out of context, Hotel Rwanda being about attempted genocide...

Ong Bak 3 will be released next month (on the 5th) and it is expected that it becomes a big hit again. Although I still prefer the first part to the second, the latter being one of the most successful Thai movie ever produced. Parinyaporn Pajee interviewed Tony Jaa about the new movie for the Nation:

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The movie of course, being about a spiritual art such as tattoos,is full of magic spells and other supernatural things. Watch the trailer below to get a first impression. Nu Kan Pai (ศึกมหายันต์ ยิงกันสนั่นจอ) will be released to cinemas tomorrow.

The NETPAC Film Festival's start date at the FCCT was recently changed to 29th of April. The events calendar is already updated.

(Update: Subtitles post has moved here) English subtitles for Thai DVD Movies for download. When buying Thai movie DVD's in Thailand of Thai movies, about 90% of them will come without English subtitles, only a very few have English subs. This is for the reason that if distribution rights to Thai movies are to be sold in other countries, they do not want to have cheap Thai DVD copies flooding the import market. By not including English subtitles, for most people, this will render Thai DVD imports useless. There are some movies that do include English subs though but not many.

By offering the English subs here I do not want to encourage any download of illegal copies of Thai movies. Especially in Thailand a DVD can be had as low as 50 Baht (less than 2 USD) and a new title normally goes for around 150 Baht (around 5 USD). So I encourage everybody here to support a movie industry that actually prices their products the right way and encourages people buying them. Because they are cheap I buy a lot more DVDs in Thailand then I do anywhere else. Beware that it is not easy to find these subtitles and that some were created by movie fans so sometimes you might find a title that does not fit 100% (the words do not fit 100% to the picture). The reason is mostly that the subtitles were done for a different version (A Hong Kong DVD of a Thai movie might be cut a little different than the Thai or US version of the DVD). That being said, the subtitles here are the ones that I ALREADY tested with the Thai version of the DVDs or that I extracted directly from DVDs I bought using Subrip.

So if you have a Thai DVD of a movie listed below, everything should work just fine. If not, subtitles can still be changed to fit any DVD version with software such as Subtitle workshop which I might do a tutorial on in the future. Be warned, this is for advanced users. For displaying the subtitles you just need a media player that lets you select external subtitle files and display them on top of your DVD video. The easiest way is the free VLC Player. All you have to do is start VLC player, open the DVD with it and when the movie starts playing you just drag and drop the subtitle file onto the video picture. Voila, the English subs start displaying. Another media player that springs to mind and is good with subtitles is bs player. The free version is all you need.

Important Note: (Update: The English Subtitles post has moved here)

I have collected these subtitles from many different online sources so it is very hard to credit the right people. if any of these subtitles was created by you, please let me know so I can credit you properly. Thanks.

The below list will be updated over time so you should bookmark this page and come back to see if something new arrived. List of English subtitle files for Thai movies:

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13 Beloved aka 13 Game Sayong aka 13 Game Of Death Subtitle
4bia Subtitle

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So what exactly are we allowed to see in Thai movies anyway? In a country where the rule of law is often ambiguous at best, the censorship laws can often baffle television and film fans.

The Thai smoking law, enacted in 2000, forbids the showing of smoking on all local television programs. While local channels are meticulous about smudging up acts of smoking, HBO and Cinemax can show the occasional cigarette or joint lit up because of special freedoms they enjoy as pay cable channels.

Cable provider UBC independently employs a small team of censors who decide appropriateness, such as levels of extreme violence, drug usage or sex. But it’s often difficult to predict which scenes get cut and which ones do not. Inconsistent as the cable monopoly may prove, don’t count on ever seeing women’s nipples or soft-core porn on Thai television. As we saw with Big Brother Thailand recently, even the smallest degree of open affection is still considered taboo

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It should be no surprise that Singapore’s government is the strictest of all Southeast Asian television censors. After all, even the popular HBO show Sex in the City was banned for five years. This is quite ironic, considering Singapore’s airport code is “SIN.” The Singaporean government lifted the ban on the hit series in September 2004, but HBO Asia has been at the mercy of Singapore, much to the dismay of those of us who live outside the island nation. By law, HBO must air only one version of a TV series in all of its 20 Asian markets. Thus, anything the Singaporian authorities want censored is what ends up on our screens in Bangkok.

Regarding Film:

A few years ago, many moviegoers were surprised that the Thai government allowed the showing of the movie Poo Ying Ha Bop, or “sin sisters” in English, because of the film’s controversial nature.

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