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Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

I love Sympathy. It's a tragic tale of nihilistic doom, and a classic. But Oldboy is better directed, acted, paced, and has a score so sublime that I still regularly listen to it 3 years after the film's release.

My vote is for Oldboy; yes, the story is farfetched in comparison to the gritty, somewhat believable plot of Sympathy, but still I consider it the better film.

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Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

I voted OldBoy.

I saw the movie 4 times, and every single time i was impressed, it just doesn't get boring.

There is just so much strength in that movie, i loved and dragged al my friends with their hairs to see it.

I was still in Belgium, and the only cinema playing it was the gritty alternative one, you could fit 20 people in there. Man, that was great. We basicly occupeid the entire space.

Some people grossed out, some found it great, others hilarious, it is a movie that doesn't leave you with a sugary taste.

That said

Lady Vengeance is a more riper movie, it is an excellent way of showing how people feel guilty about what they did. We just had our baby boy when we saw it. We were feeling quit emotional about it.

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

I can't wait to hear what jinju has to say about this!

Confused

PS: OLDBOY.

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

both superb films, almost nothing to chose between them. I went to an interview session with Park Chan Wook in London, a very interesting individual indeed.

Back to the thread question I would say Oldboy as I found it gripping from start to finish and has some really well shot scenes (incidentally i thought the post production for Oldyboy much better than vengeance). Vengeance is excellent i thought it was poorly edited in some places but Bae Doo Na is superb Laughing

Song Kang Ho as well. Oldboy actually comes from a Japanese comic originally

First time poster by the way, how do you all do?

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Umm...Sympathy for LADY Vengence??

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

i would tend to agree. i didnt think lady vengeance was all there and that final interrogation scene with the parents was really laborious.

that said lady vengeance is still worth seeing but easily the most inferior of the revenge trilogy.

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

old boy, unquestionably... 친절한금자씨/lady vengeance is well made and 이영애 magnificent, but to me it just comes across as an ultimately hollow piece of work. also i was really disappointed with 최민식 in that film, especially when he is usually so great (ie. failan, which is almost perfect)

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

wow.. embarrassing.. in my defence i had just come back from the bar when i wrote this..
anyway old boy is still better.. but don't listen to me, i can't read Smile

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

The 6 of you are idiots. (Right now it is 6 to 1)

Especially you Tibby. Moron.

That's all I have time for right now. Deconstructions of my views, as outlined so far, are welcome.

Billy Pilgrim · Joined: 08 Sep 2004

Zyzyfer · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:34 am Post subject:

They've got a lot in common themewise, so it's difficult to choose. I think Oldboy is the better movie for your standard movie watcher, but Mr. Vengeance has that gritty, unpolished and somewhat caricatured feel to it that makes it totally unbelievable, and yet at the same time I was enthralled. It just has so many eccentric characters.