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yangtheman
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| Zenpickle wrote: |
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I think the problem the critics had with the violence in Old Boy was that it was so realistic.
Not the cartoonish, over-the-top violence of Western movies like Die Hard and Rambo.
I for one didn't think Old Boy was that excessively violent. |
Yeah, it was just the octopus-eating scene, the claw hammer dentistry, and the entire fight scene shot on one take with no cuts. And yeah, that long shot fight scene was -- can I say poetic? |
Yup. The best scene in the film... I wonder how and where they shot it..., how many takes it took and how much they practiced before shooting it. I tell ya, I was cheering for Daesu the whole time. Go get them!  |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:50 am Post subject: |
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| Still haven't seen it. Every copy was out!!!!! |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
| Still haven't seen it. Every copy was out!!!!! |
BUY IT!!!
Trust me.
Sparkles*_* |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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I'm a tight ass and I just spent 70 000 won at the English bookstore in Busan today.
Too much spending for one month  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
I'm a tight ass and I just spent 70 000 won at the English bookstore in Busan today.
Too much spending for one month |
I picked it up for 19,000 won, and have watched it 4 times already. A worthy investment. It also has a lot of bonus stuff (in Korean only, unfortunately) and the OST.
BUYYYYY IIIIIIT!
Sparkles*_* |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:18 am Post subject: |
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I watched it again today. The soundtrack to this film really deserves a release.
Buy the Way(tm), anyone who can direct me to a copy of 'Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance' (�����³��ǰ�) with English subs gets my utmost praise and gratitude.
Sparkles*_* |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:39 am Post subject: |
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SPOILERS!!!
Well I liked it right up to the end!!!
then I was discusted.. man thats japanese for you.. they have a lot of manga films with incest sex ,... and it just makes me sick...
if they would have made the ending the better.. I think it would of been a real good film. and had people leaving the movie saying.. WOW.. not..
OMG gross!!!
did it deserve the GRANDPRIX? well yeah guess so.. out of the competition I think this really was the better film.. I love the dark lighting, alot of rain style.. I want to see the future china movie.. 2048 or something like that.. |
Old boy was originally a comic book. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:57 am Post subject: |
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I happened by accident to watch "A Night on the water"( 1998: U-rim,/Samsung entertainementgroup).
Loved it!!! great movie..has anybody else seen it?
Heres a rather critical review:
http://www.dighkmovies.com/v2/102/102a.html |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Quality film.
I heard that Hollywood are planning a remake with Brad Pitt and Jonny Depp in the two main roles.
I dunno, I like both actors but maybe Nicholas Cage or Edward Norton (maybe even Sean Penn) could do a better job in the Daesu role. |
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poddubny
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| Neil wrote: |
Quality film.
I heard that Hollywood are planning a remake with Brad Pitt and Jonny Depp in the two main roles.
I dunno, I like both actors but maybe Nicholas Cage or Edward Norton (maybe even Sean Penn) could do a better job in the Daesu role. |
is this for real?!? i can't imagine hollywood's version will be anything close to as graphic as the original.
i ordered my old boy DVD off of ebay after a korean friend told me about this movie. still waiting for it to arrive here. |
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harri2002
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Neil wrote: |
Quality film.
I heard that Hollywood are planning a remake with Brad Pitt and Jonny Depp in the two main roles.
I dunno, I like both actors but maybe Nicholas Cage or Edward Norton (maybe even Sean Penn) could do a better job in the Daesu role. |
 either colin ferrell or johnny depp for dae-so's role and brad pitt or jude law for yu ji-tae's evil role. |
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saharzie
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:02 am Post subject: |
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Saw it last night in a DVD room...
Apparently the actor playing Daesoo ate 4 live octopuses during the takes.
Also if Hollywood are going to make a remake, how about Gary Oldman as the lead role? He even looks a bit like the guy who played him.
Great movie although the fight scenes were a bit ott. And yeh, the subtitles were crap again. Loads of times Mido clearly shouted 'Adjussi" and the subtitles read 'Daesoo". |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
I happened by accident to watch "A Night on the water"( 1998: U-rim,/Samsung entertainementgroup).
Loved it!!! great movie..has anybody else seen it?
Heres a rather critical review:
http://www.dighkmovies.com/v2/102/102a.html |
What's not to like about soft-porn starlets imagining they're killer whales? |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| saharzie wrote: |
Great movie although the fight scenes were a bit ott. And yeh, the subtitles were crap again. Loads of times Mido clearly shouted 'Adjussi" and the subtitles read 'Daesoo". |
If you watch with subtitles, you will find this sort of thing (older sister, older brother, adjussi etc.) are always (almost) changed to the names. This is not bad subtitling, but rather a cultural translation. How many western people (aside from us here in Korea) are going to understand a subtitle where a girl calls a guy she's romantically involved with "big brother"? |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| And yeh, the subtitles were crap again. Loads of times Mido clearly shouted 'Adjussi" and the subtitles read 'Daesoo". |
what you you suggest as a better translation? I only noticed one mistake with the subtitles, in the informercial about the sushi knives - "8 million wons!?" Minor stuff. Weren't they done by Darcy Parquet and Yeon Hyeon-Sook? They're pretty good.
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| Buy the Way(tm), anyone who can direct me to a copy of 'Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance' (�����³��ǰ�) with English subs gets my utmost praise and gratitude. |
I've seen it at Kyobo in Gangnam and also at Yongsan. Had no idea it was hard to find.
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| then I was discusted.. man thats japanese for you.. they have a lot of manga films with incest sex ,... and it just makes me sick... |
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| Old boy was originally a comic book. |
yeah, but the plot is very different. Park Chan-wook just took the set up (private prison, schooldays grudge, mandu tracking) and completely redid everything else. The protagonist in the Japanese Oldboy was imprisoned for only 10 years, and is only 35 when he is released. He messes around for ages, working at a construction site, meeting a couple of different women, hanging out at his friend's bar and spending time on the antagonist's yacht. No tooth pulling, no octopus, no deadlines, no daughter. Blame the sick stuff on the Koreans. |
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