Oldboy (Remake) Trailer

[Larry]

I never understood the need for remakes... I mean, is it difficult for americans to watch a movie with subtitles ?

But, on the real, the sole remake of that movie doesn't make sense really because it's the 2nd part of the Vengeance trilogy... Spike should have remade all 3 flicks.

These American interpretations can be brilliant though..


I mean, you didn't like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? It was leaps and bounds above its Swedish predecessor in every way possible. Amazing movie with awesome directing.


I could see if some shytty director was doing it, but with dudes like Fincher and Martin Scorsese doing them, I feel like complaining is silly as fukk.

 

[OmegaK2099]

"A Spike Lee Joint" do we really need another reason to hate spike lee

 

[Liu Kang]

These American interpretations can be brilliant though..


I mean, you didn't like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? It was leaps and bounds above its Swedish predecessor in every way possible. Amazing movie with awesome directing.


I could see if some shytty director was doing it, but with dudes like Fincher and Martin Scorsese doing them, I feel like complaining is silly as fukk.

Haven't seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I have it on my hard drive for months now...
But I watched the 3 swedish flicks and they were great to me. Good depiction of the swedish way of life, simple yet just/credible acting and characters and the language was in swedish ! That's what is beautiful to me, the foreign language that gives a movie an authentic signature that remade ones haven't. They lack the exotic appeal. I mean... it's a movie in Sweden with swedish people but everybody talks in english
But I'll give fincher's version a shot.



I saw the Departed which was good honestly but I really didn't see the need to have it remade above all if the two sequels weren't remade too (well the last one was pretty bad IMO).

Spoiler

I still think the twist at the end pf the Departed is kinda bogus. I still don't understand it

. I understand a remake if the movie is old and/or unknown but Infernal Affairs was a successful flick.

But me being a frenchy and being used to watch US flicks/series in english may be why I like watching stuff in their original language. So to each is own I guess

 

[Da Jungles]

Looks decent. I wish they had just left it alone tho.

Why?

It doesn't hurt the original. It's still and will forever be a classic.

 

[Higher Tech]

Why?

It doesn't hurt the original. It's still and will forever be a classic.

I like leaving well enough alone. The original is one of my favorite movies. It will just suck of this one isn't as good.
Right now I can just recommend Old Boy as a good movie. If the new one doesnt deliver, I'll feel like a damn hipster explaining how much better the original is. Im being selfish for selfish reasons.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

After seeing the trailer, I have a good feeling about this adaptation.

Spoiler

Incest twist or not

That shyt had me @ the end

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[Da Jungles]

I like leaving well enough alone. The original is one of my favorite movies. It will just suck of this one isn't as good.
Right now I can just recommend Old Boy as a good movie. If the new one doesnt deliver, I'll feel like a damn hipster explaining how much better the original is. Im being selfish for selfish reasons.

Or you can just appreciate the original EVEN MORE if the new one is bad

And if the new one is good then you have two bomb ass movies

 

[Higher Tech]

Or you can just appreciate the original EVEN MORE if the new one is bad

And if the new one is good then you have two bomb ass movies

Yea, I can compromise. If it's coming, it's coming. I just hope it's done well and sticks to the original concept while maintaining it's American originality. I just don't want to be "that guy," that's always talking about how much better the original was.

The trailer makes me want to see it a lot more now, it didn't look bad at all. But I've been fooled by trailers before. I was really sour when I heard Will Smith was going to play the lead (some years ago), I just don't think that role fit him. I'm excited to see it, but I'm setting the bar pretty high.

 

[A.J.Soprano]

A remake isn't necessary but this trailer is still better than anything Tyler Perry has ever released

 

[gho3st]

I ain't mad at Spike for this.

Cacs get to do it, so why can't he?

Peep The Departed.

Cacs are more pissed off that a nicca like Spike Lee got to do the movie rather than judging whether the movie is good or not

 

[Box Cutta]

Cacs are more pissed off that a nicca like Spike Lee got to do the movie rather than judging whether the movie is good or not

So true, Spike is like the most hated on nicca on the internet. It's digusting that people will support some of these people like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, yet hate on Spike....

 

[Prolific_1011]

I saw the original a while back but I don't mind remakes.

I actually look forward to another director's take on it (I know the ending will be different). I appreciate cinematography and from the trailer, this looks good.

Spike is underrated. The 25th Hour is a personal classic.

 

[hex]

Cacs are more pissed off that a nicca like Spike Lee got to do the movie rather than judging whether the movie is good or not

Here with go with this shyt.

People never wanted this remade. Nobody gives a fukk about Spike Lee specifically either way. Nobody wanted it remade when Justin Lin was supposed to do it, nobody wanted it remade when Steven Spielberg was supposed to do it. How this suddenly turned into a racial issue because of Spike Lee, I have no idea.

Fred.

 

[storyteller]

Haven't seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I have it on my hard drive for months now...
But I watched the 3 swedish flicks and they were great to me. Good depiction of the swedish way of life, simple yet just/credible acting and characters and the language was in swedish ! That's what is beautiful to me, the foreign language that gives a movie an authentic signature that remade ones haven't. They lack the exotic appeal. I mean... it's a movie in Sweden with swedish people but everybody talks in english
But I'll give fincher's version a shot.



I saw the Departed which was good honestly but I really didn't see the need to have it remade above all if the two sequels weren't remade too (well the last one was pretty bad IMO).

Spoiler

I still think the twist at the end pf the Departed is kinda bogus. I still don't understand it

. I understand a remake if the movie is old and/or unknown but Infernal Affairs was a successful flick.

But me being a frenchy and being used to watch US flicks/series in english may be why I like watching stuff in their original language. So to each is own I guess

I'm actually dying for a American remake of Tell No One, only because I really want more Americans to learn about that piff.

Honestly the only reason for American remakes imo is that a lot of cats refuse to check anything with subtitles. The only subtitle classic that I can name drop anywhere without people saying "I wanna see it dubbed though" is City of God. It's frustrating too, because American movie making has fallen off mostly.

(Note to the cat the posted the Samaritan...that movie sucked and only served to make me never want someone to try a remake of Oldboy again).

 

[Liu Kang]

I'm actually dying for a American remake of Tell No One, only because I really want more Americans to learn about that piff.

You were talking about "Ne le dis à Personne" with François Cluzet ?
If so, I didn't even clicked at "Tell no one" :krshd:

Honestly the only reason for American remakes imo is that a lot of cats refuse to check anything with subtitles. The only subtitle classic that I can name drop anywhere without people saying "I wanna see it dubbed though" is City of God. It's frustrating too, because American movie making has fallen off mostly.
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I like hearing other languages so that's why I refuse to watch a dubbed flicked. It's sacrilege IMO.
I respect voice over artists and some of them can really be spot on but I need the lips to match the voices, it's the only way for the experience to be complete for me.

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I mean, you didn't like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? It was leaps and bounds above its Swedish predecessor in every way possible. Amazing movie with awesome directing.
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So I finally watched Fincher's version and honestly I don't see how it was far superior. I didn't take any cinema classes so I'm not really aware of good/bad directing" and such notions so maybe I'm missing something.

For the actors, I couldn't take Daniel Craig really seriously on the role he was playing... because I view him as James Bond and his performance didn't manage to make me forget that. He was good but Nyqvist was more convincing and more authentic as a journalist.

Spoiler

When Craig was tied up, I was expecting him to fight back

Then between Rapace () and Mara (), it's a tie. Rapace seemed more realistic but more violent while Mara looked more mannered and fragile (being paler and way skinnier). I didn't read the books (I'ma buy them) so I don't know which version was closer than the truth but I liked both.

Then about the very movies I liked them both even if I prefered the svenska version.
I knew how it ended so maybe that's why Fincher's version didn't surprised me but it still keep me tensed nonetheless so that's a good point. Plus Fincher's had Reznor on the musical score and I really liked the sound ambiance (the NIN shirt of Lisbeth's friend, I saw it :D). The very bad point was the english language to me as I said previously and all the "herr" and accents couldn't make me forget that was a US movie with US actors speaking english in Sweden.