HANGOVER 2....from the perspective of a Bangkok resident.

666EnergyDrink · 2011-06-07T11:46:05-04:00

Just saw "Hangover 2" here in Bangkok at Central World this afternoon. I've lived in Bangkok pretty much full time since September 1999, although I travel frequently to Europe, the USA, Japan, China, Taiwan. Bangkok is my home base. As usual, Hollywood did not do any justice to this great nation full of hardworking and creative people. Hollywood seems to WANT to portray Bangkok as a filthy, lawless, dangerous, corrupt, crime-ridden and chaotic city. It's not that way at all. My apartment is about 200 meters away from a vacant lot where the movie production trucks for Hangover 2 were parked for about a month last year. Delta Airlines does fly to Bangkok (via Tokyo) but it lands around the same time as United, about midnight, not during the day. The airport shown in the scene where the plane lands is NOT Bangkok. I can't tell where it is. The Delta flight is not 16 hours, it's about 21 hours (including the 3 hour layover in Tokyo). There is an LAX-BKK nonstop on Thai Airways and it's 17 hours. I tried the non-stop last year one time and it's painfully long, even in business class. The wedding in the movie appears to be at a 5 star resort in either Phuket or Krabi, on the Andaman (Indian Ocean) side of the country. You CANNOT take a boat from Bangkok to that area without going all the away around Malaysia and Singapore. It would take a speedboat about 48 continuous hours of travel. The flight is about 1 hour from Bangkok to Krabi or Phuket. A Thai father would never insult his son-in-law-to-be in front of others, especially at a wedding party like that. First of all, he would have had to approve of the marriage in the first place. Thai people are generally very non-confrontational until pushed to the edge (then all hell breaks loose!!!) If you wanted to crash in that filthy room that the protagonists wake up in after their crazy night out, you would have to look very very hard. In Bangkok there are many small hotels where you could sleep off the night's excesses, and most are reasonably clean and safe. Again, the movie producers purposely WANTED Bangkok to look sleazy and dirty. Thai hoteliers generally strive to keep their rooms as clean as possible, even if the building is old and out-dated. My apartment building is about 25 years old, and my apartment is about $300/month, but the janitors do their damnedest to keep the trash picked up and the floors swept every day. The go-go bars on Soi Cowboy are all owned by Thai people (police and military), not by Arabs. You would never see a gun being bought or sold in one of those places, but I haven't been to that kind of place in many years. The notion of foreigners starting a riot in Patpong, throwing molotov cocktails, etc., is ridiculous. The Royal Thai Police would have thrown them in all in jail if they had started something like that...or they would have had the crap beaten out of them by Thai guys. This movie is incredibly stupid and an insult to Thailand. I am surprised that they even let them film the movie here.

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14 years ago 06/10/2011 8:06am EDT

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snoopie dog wrote:
Based on what you just wrote then shouldn't you have started a thread on how the original Hangover made Las Vegas look bad? It was dudes on a bachelor party in Bangkok, they weren't going to the cultural district or a vegan restaurant.

That's one of the problems. There are some really nice vegan organic restaurants in that part of Bangkok, many nice parks and beautiful areas, and of course the movie did not show them at all because it would not conform with the image of Bangkok that they are trying to project.

In the first Hangover flick, the guys wake up in a suite at Caesars Palace, not in a slum! In the Las Vegas flick, they drive in nice cars, not in tuk tuks or songtaews. Hangover did a real hatchet job on my "second hometown" and showed nothing but disrespect to Thailand.

14 years ago 06/15/2011 1:51am EDT

re: 666EnergyDrink

....when was the last time you left your apartment?

i know of 6 bars in cowboy owned by arabs.

guns are present and used in cowboy(if only in jest), further to; 4 nights ago, playing hi-lo with pissed thais in the wee hours of a particular music bar***(closed doors), the cop in the group pulled out his glock several times and laid it inches from my cash pile...which he later fired(not at me,,am not joking) emptied rest of clip on the pool table and cocked gun to show a clean chamber to anyone that regained their hearing and focus to see it. he was standing next to me so none of the above is second hand tall tales!

2 ambulances have taken away seriously injured farangs, one of whom was drinking quietly only minutes ago in the outdoor bars next to a bar i was in, so was surprised to see him face up, pool of blood around his head and bubbling from his mouth(a good sign that he was at least breathing!) and motionless for 30mins before police, ambos and local medics arrived. i know the young thai security guy that decided he didnt like the foreigner even though girls barfine was paid for..(she just happened to be the thai guys working girlfriend)

all of the above are events of the last five days in my visits to cowboy. im always in a walking state even tho some days i dont leave till sun comes up, but none of the above has been exagerrated like everything else in this messed up and confused city they call the capital. BKK is nothing more than a bum hole village with a population which defines it as a metropolis and nothing more....

14 years ago 06/15/2011 1:57am EDT

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14 years ago 06/15/2011 8:18am EDT

re: 666EnergyDrink

666EnergyDrink wrote:
Yes, you have to be a bit creative when it comes to training in Bangkok, but it can be done. I do about half my volume at the gym ...

I guess everyone has a different mindset. I do quite a bit of my winter training on the treadmill and I hate it. In the summer, there is no way I am running in the gym.

14 years ago 06/16/2011 3:42pm EDT

re: 666EnergyDrink

666EnergyDrink -

"Name a movie set in Las Vegas that doesn't focus on casinos."

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I don't want to be that guy but...Pay it Forward.

14 years ago 06/16/2011 3:43pm EDT

re: 667EnergyDrink

I'm not trying to be that guy but "Pay it Forward" doesn't focus on casinos.

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