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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 23:30:41 GMT
Did the remake have the octopus stuff in it? I haven't seen it since 2013, but I don't think it does. I am pretty sure the remake takes place in the U.S. and the U.S isn't know for it's octopus menu.  I only ask because I remember Spike Lee being asked in an interview if he'd put that in and he claimed he would. I guess he was just being facetious.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 19, 2021 23:35:34 GMT
I haven't seen it since 2013, but I don't think it does. I am pretty sure the remake takes place in the U.S. and the U.S isn't know for it's octopus menu. I only ask because I remember Spike Lee being asked in an interview if he'd put that in and he claimed he would. I guess he was just being facetious. I just looked on Google and the octopus scene isn't in the remake.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 23:36:31 GMT
I only ask because I remember Spike Lee being asked in an interview if he'd put that in and he claimed he would. I guess he was just being facetious. I just looked on Google and the octopus scene isn't in the remake. He was probably just trying to be funny.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Jul 23, 2021 21:20:24 GMT
The remake is not nearly as bad as what it could have been. It's still a pale shadow of the original. Old boy (2003) 9/10 Old Boy (2013) 6/10 The problem comes from an emotional standpoint. The backstory in the remake is done in way that is unintentionally funny and the villain is extremely lame. I was okay with most of the movie, but the last 20 minutes or so is terrible imo. It takes an already unusual plot-point and makes it even more "disturbing", just for the sake of shocking the audience, yet it has the opposite effect. It should have been disturbing, but instead it comes off as ridiculous and funny. The most important scenes in the remake are directed very poorly. The remake at least is different from the original. Same concept but has its own thing. Inferior though. |
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 23, 2021 21:25:38 GMT
The problem comes from an emotional standpoint. The backstory in the remake is done in way that is unintentionally funny and the villain is extremely lame. I was okay with most of the movie, but the last 20 minutes or so is terrible imo. It takes an already unusual plot-point and makes it even more "disturbing", just for the sake of shocking the audience, yet it has the opposite effect. It should have been disturbing, but instead it comes off as ridiculous and funny. The most important scenes in the remake are directed very poorly. The remake at least is different from the original. Same concept but has its own thing. Inferior though. It is different, but it fails on many levels for me. They could have written it in way that was different and interesting, but that isn't what happened. Spike Lee was also just the wrong director imo. He phones it in and has no experience with movies like Oldboy and it shows. David Fincher probably could have taken the same script and made it much more effective.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 24, 2021 2:22:36 GMT
I mean it's no contest.... Honestly 2003 and Min Sik Choi is my best actor win.
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