Joe sees a news report that says his ex-wife Donna was raped and murdered and he is the prime suspect, while their infant daughter Mia was adopted. A man is seen shirtless nearly throughout the movie, we see his bare back and chest and he wears only boxer-style underwear. It could have been the best Hollywood thriller ever since the days of Hitchcock. Thanks for ruining the ending you worthless sack of shit. That said, some CGI is used for the knife in Dae-sus back and to land hidden punches. But then, the most laughable thing happens: the villain shoots himself on the spot. Become a member of our premium site for just $2/month & access advance reviews, without any ads, not a single one, ever. Another red flag was that there was lengthy setup of our hero being an asshole. Just. The Spike Lee joint is making a resurgence on the streaming giant, coming in at sixth . Lee Woo-jin shoots himself after convincing himself that revenge was all he wanted out of life, thus preventing him from ever moving on and forever locking his life to the past, and Oh Dae-su tries to make himself stay with his daughter in an attempt to make himself ignorant of the painful truth. I don't think it was a triangle, but instead that the whole family, dad, mom, sister, and brother, were all incestuous together. It triggers what should normally be a happy ending where the protagonist gets with their love interest, which in turn makes viewers all the more unsettled when it sinks in that they are being emotionally manipulated to be happy for this incestuous relationship. Young Woo-jin was portrayed by Yoo Yeon-suk, who played also played Ji-tae in the 2012 fantasy-romance film A Werewolf Boy . It received a mixed reception from critics, with many finding the film inferior to the classic. Directed by Spike Lee. This concept alone isn't one that is unfamiliar to many, as I am sure we have all had our moments of small, petty revenge for things that would be seen upon looking back as not necessarily being worth getting revenge for in the first place. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. "[36] Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune, in a one and a half star review noted that "The revenge in Oldboy is neither sweet nor sour; it's just drab". But make no mistake Oldboy is all over the place, sometimes playing like a subdued melodrama and elsewhere erupting into flamboyance and gore. In Mr. Lee's new film, "Oldboy," Josh Brolin plays Joe Doucett, an alcoholic ad man and negligent father who is imprisoned in a small, mysterious room for 20 years for no evident reason.. [17] Elizabeth Olsen,[18] Samuel L. Jackson[19] and Nate Parker[20] were all later announced to have joined the cast. Liar, Liar (Between Father and Daughter) VHS Lifetime Movie Canadian Full Andrew Spannaus 2.23K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K Share Save 162K views 6 years ago A Canadian little girl notorious for. Although Oldboy and Squid Game are vastly different, a similar characterization can also be observed in Squid Game protagonist Gi-hun. While we read all emails & try to reply we do not always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. The program only has one viewer for its entire run. Dear (Lousy) Mother, First, don't be so quick to call yourself a lousy mother. A man's room fills with gas and the man awakens in a field, unharmed but completely disoriented. A man angrily shouts at another man and tries to grab the man but is calmed down when a woman appears. 2003's Oldboy was remade in 2013, but the new version made some big changes to the original. Reassure the child that you know they will have a hard time with the day, but that it's okay to be sad sometimes. Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) has never taken his role as husband and father seriously and has just been released from police custody for drunk and disorderly behaviour on his own baby daughter's birthday. Touching Mi-do is all that's mentioned in Oldboy 2003. To get this to happen, Lee Woo-jin had Oh Dae-su's wife murdered and his daughter Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung) hypnotized to ensure that the two would fall for one another once Oh Dae-su was released. James White is a graduate from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln who loves to write and analyze various forms of media. The hallway sequence is allegedly re-edited by producers in Oldboy 2013 and is about 15 seconds shorter in comparison, and tries to outdo how impressive the original sequence is. As Doucett learns through a stagy newscast that his daughter is now an orphan after his ex-wife was brutally raped and murdered (presumably by him), Lee is allowed to explore the reality of how so . Took me a minute to figure that one out. A man tells another man that he gains pleasure from forcing him into a sexual relationship with his own adult daughter (the man did not know the woman was his daughter when they had sex), so he could feel the sexual connection that the man had shared with his own father. Did you know you can now filter searches by any combination of ratings? In Oldboy 2003, Oh Dae-su eats a live octopus after hes released. [12] Josh Brolin was cast to star in the remake as the lead character, while Christian Bale was reportedly in talks to portray the antagonist character,[13] but it was later reported that Colin Firth had been offered the role. Instead, Lees re-write was to manipulate our hero via TV show segments to convince Doucett that his daughter was alive and well. Oldboy 2013 compiles the hallucinations and that dreaded sense of loneliness into one short sequence where a bearded and long-haired Joe sees a bellhop at the hotel sitting on his bed eating popcorn and laughing at the TV. We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. Perhaps this saved us from seeing Joe Doucett as incestuous AND a pedophile compared to just being incestuous. OLDBOY is an American remake of a 2003 Korean thriller. With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors. A third major fail was deconstructing the fantastic hallway fight scene into a senseless, story-less jumble. A man watches a television news reporter announce that a woman had been murdered and we see a sheet-covered gurney (a small amount of blood is seen on the sheet) wheeled away; the reporter announces that the woman had a daughter, and we see a small girl being handed to an older woman; the man becomes very upset when the reporter announces that the police believe that he had murdered the woman. An American remake of Oldboy (2003) previously had director Justin Lin attached, with Ernesto M. Foronda and Fabian Marquez writing the screenplay after previously collaborating with Lin on Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). Related:Malcolm X True Story: What Spike Lee's Movie Changes & How Accurate It Is. The sex scene in the American version was so overdramatic it was almost funny. He is the one who orchestrated Joe Doucett's twenty year imprisonment to make him pay for his family's abysmal death. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse that offers to help. Samuel L. Jackson as a whiney hired-hand begging not to be tortured was just boring and under utilized his talents. A man is seen with yarn wrapped around his waist and legs, pinning him to a table and a metal knitting needle stuck through each hand and into the table (we see blood on the needles and from the hand wounds); another man stands over him holding a box cutter to the man's neck, where a series of dashes have been drawn with a permanent marker and the man tells the pinned down man that he is planning on cutting enough of the man's neck that he will be able to rip off the man's head with his bare hands; the man with the box cutter cuts into the man's neck, throwing the bloody pieces into a trash can and as he continues to cut, the man pauses and pours salt into the wounds, followed by water; the torturer is interrupted when another man knocks on the door and the torturer leads the man out of the room (blood is pouring from the man's wound-covered neck) and we see the torturer holding the box cutter to the man's neck as he walks through a crowd of other men. Joe calls Chucky with the name, and Chucky confirms Joe's guess that the Stranger is Adrian. The film does not necessarily give a direct message to be learned, except perhaps to be wary of how revenge can completely ruin another person's life as well as your own. Crushed, humiliated, and in unimaginable pain, Oh Dae-su lies on the floor of the penthouse broken as Lee Woo-jin descends the elevator. Yes, you heard me right: a dad that spies on his daughter from a small jail. His letters are filled with his regrets and his desires while asking for forgiveness for never being there for Mia. Oldboy (2013) Oldboy is topping the Netflix charts this week, nearly a decade after its first release in 2013. - NibblyPig Aug 24, 2016 at 14:51 Add a comment 1 Answer Sorted by: 1 We see a man urinate on a building corner (the man faces away and we hear the sound of urination). The torture scene itself was a tween version of torture porn: pouring salt on open wounds while SLJ squeals. Follow us @TheNerdsofColor. He gives most of them to Marie along with a box full of other mementos like the rubber duck and a letter saying shell never see him again but that hell love her forever. Yep. Why were they there? "She ran into our arms when she saw us. Oldboy (2013) - soundtrack - Movie HD - ThmovieHDD.com Mr. Han and Mr. Park seem to have been rolled into one in Oldboy 2013. Junko lives in Los Angeles and is an actor, consultant, Japanese/English interpreter and translator in addition to being an equestrian and mounted archer, who peruses the aisles of the local Book Off (Japanese second hand bookstore) for her next manga discovery. Anyway, there's apparently a director's cut of this film that is at least 35 minutes longer. Oldboy 2003 makes a thought-provoking comparison between ants and loneliness, as Mi-do states that when youre lonely and desperate you hallucinate and see ants. Spike Lee's Oldboy remake contains several differences, with changes made in a bid to give the film its own identity, but it failed to make the same kind of impact. Its been a little over a day since I saw both versions of Oldboy one by Spike Lee and one by Park Chan-wook back to back. He then appears to stumble across a young social worker named Marie. Apparently, Samuel L Jackson runs the prison and rented it out for use, hence, the scene with the tape recording of the deal he made with the main antagonist (sorry, forgot his name >.<) and why Joe was able to cut a deal to re-enter the jail even after the main villain's death. When he finds himself in solitary confinement in a prison cell . The second film in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy back in 2003, Oldboy is the one most associated with the director's success. While there, Joe gets a call on his cell phone from a man calling himself the Stranger, mocking him. However, Lee's film also revealed that the villain's father was having sex with his own 16-year old daughter (not the villain having sex with his sister as in Park Chan-wook's film). These scenes are crucial to why, out of the movies in Park Chan-wooks Vengeance trilogy, Oldboy is the most compelling. When he walks into Adrian's room, Adrian exclaims "father!", and starts undressing because he's been sexually abused. Obviously not wanting to permanently scar his daughter, Oh Dae-su begs for Lee Woo-jin not to tell her, going so far as to cut his own tongue out as a gesture of what he would do to make sure she never learned the truth. "It's not one shot," Mr. Lee said. We hear a squishing crunching noise, which we learn is a man fatally smashing another man in the face with a hammer; we see as the man smashes the hammer into a second man's face, a spray of blood leaves the man's head as his nose bridge caves in from the hammer, and the man walks over to a third man and cleaves the claw portion of the hammer into his head (we see the man's eyes bug out and blood pours from the wound as the man slumps over and blood pools under the man's head). In the manga, Shinichi Got has the tracking device buried in his back near his right shoulder blade that Eri has to dig out with a knife. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. It is a remake of Park Chan-wook's 2003 South Korean film of the same name, and follows a man who searches for his captors after being mysteriously imprisoned for twenty years. Reviewed by: Spencer Schumacher CONTRIBUTOR Moral Rating: Extremely Offensive Moviemaking Quality: Primary Audience: Adults Genre: Action Thriller Suspense Mystery Drama Remake Length: 1 hr. The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. Director: Spike Lee Writers: Mark Protosevich A man grabs a woman's upper thigh and makes a series of crude remarks asking her to have sex with him; the woman promptly turns him down and her husband overhears and is visibly upset with the other man (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). Oldboy is a 2013 film directed by Spike Lee, and a remake of the famed South Korean film from 2003, itself loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name. Pretty harsh implication there, that Joe is such an asshole he could anger a person that much and not even remember it. "[33] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". It follows advertising executive Joe Doucett as he is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. Oldboy isn't the only movie featuring both Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. Just as Chaney is about to beat him savagely, the Stranger calls Chaney and offers to pay him for Joe's release, and Chaney lets them go. Its the cultural nuance around the scene where the protagonist begs the antagonist to not to reveal the truth to his daughter. A man watches a workout video with a woman wearing a one-piece bathing suit while using a Thigh Master and making what could be interpreted as sexual sounds; the man places a pillow over his crotch and masturbates as he watches the woman (we see a tight shot of the woman's crotch and legs spreading; no nudity is visible); the man passes out while he is masturbating when the room fills with a chemical fog. A man eats a piece of food, then spits it out (visibly half-chewed) into a napkin. Patrick Bateman 31 1 2 3 It is his daughter's 4th birthday, and he is imprisoned for 15 years. A man announces that he is going to urinate as we see him face the toilet, spit (we see spittle leaving his mouth and hear it hit water) and then begin to urinate (we hear the sound of urination). The remake chooses to have windows with sunlight, as the mayhem take place on three separate levels, and Joe seems to take less damage than Dae-su. "One of the 50 Coolest Websitesthey simply tell it like it is" - TIME, The current economic climate has reduced our revenues. It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean film of the same name, directed by Park Chan Wook. In order to fully answer the question of what's different in the Oldboy remake, as well as to understand why Spike Lee remade Oldboy, viewers need to know the history behind the Korean thriller. Joe also bites the webbing of his hand until it bleeds in order to draw a face in his blood on his pillowcase for comfort, in a way that reminds of Wilson from Cast Away. Throughout the duration of the film we find out that the person targeting Oh Dae-su is a man by the name of Lee Woo-jin (Yoo Ji-tae) who is getting revenge on him for causing the death of his sister. Then when the shot zooms in, it says "Adrian Doyle Pryce". Oh Dae-sus wife is murdered after he is imprisoned for one year. We are a totally independent website with no connections to political, religious or other groups & we neither solicit nor choose advertisers. [2:00]. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. He is a wealthy businessman who seeks out extreme revenge against his former classmate Oh Dae-su for playing an indirect part in his sister's death. Related:Why Park Chan-wook Has Disowned His Debut The Moon Is The Sun's Dream. Unfortunately for Oh Dae-su, the revenge for his actions is far from over like he thinks. If so, too bad. Most of the hotel sequences are similar, but he doesnt just eat Chinese food: hes fed milk, Frosted Flakes, and even a microwaveable burrito, among other things. Witness how far we as humans can go to get revenge as we explain the ending to one of the best revenge films ever made. A man grabs a hammer from the hands of a woman, and then shoves a young man off a bike and steals the bike, following a man driving an SUV. Next:Why Zombie Scarlet Witch Cant Defeat Ultron (But Wanda Could Beat Thanos), Oldboy: The 2013 Movie Biggest Differences From The Original, Malcolm X True Story: What Spike Lee's Movie Changes & How Accurate It Is. Chaney is basically both characters while Adrians bodyguard is a woman named Haeng-bok; she has very few lines and doesnt do much besides fight and hold an umbrella. Starring: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. While in his hotel room, Oh Dae-su sees an ant crawling under his skin before a swarm of them are suddenly crawling all over his face. A man holding a box cutter fights off a group of 10+ and we see in slow-motion as the man kicks, punches and stabs his way through the men who all fall to the ground; the man runs into a second group of 10+ men and he punches, kicks and stabs his way through the second group of men, until he is stabbed in the back and he comes upon a third group of 10+ men in a cargo elevator who are covered in blood, lying in various positions in the elevator and one man with a sword through his chest is shoved to the ground by the man with the knife in his back; the man pulls the knife from his back and collapses to the ground as he crawls outside where a man and a woman pick him up and put him in a car, and then dump him outside a bar; we see the man recovering later as a doctor tells a woman that the man had been stabbed countless times and one of the wounds was centimeters from being fatal (a small amount of blood is seen on a bandage and bruising on his torso). Oldboy is a 2013 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by Mark Protosevich. Woo-jin orchestrated the entire thing to make Dae-su fall in love with his own daughter so that he too could know the pain of incest, with the knowledge that it cannot be resisted. After he is suddenly released, he goes on a mission to find the person responsible for his imprisonment, later discovering that his life is still caught in conspiracy and torment. That leaves Lee's film as the lone true Oldboy remake, although it also contains a lot of notable differences. Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue and hypnotizes himself to forget about the truth regarding Mi-do in Oldboy 2003. It was Wierd and dumb for there to be a love triangle between the dad, daughter and son. And you will be helping support our website & our efforts. Joe finally escapes and violently dispatches hordes of his jailors. Director Spike Lee Cast Josh Brolin Elizabeth Olsen Samuel L. Jackson Sharlto Copley Michael Imperioli Lance Reddick So they remade Oldboy. You can help us keep our independence with a donation. Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE & LANGUAGE on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest depending on quantity & context |more|, Print a page, share with friends, and yes, please go ahead and email links. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. The manga is mostly incredibly similar to the main storylines of both films. For Oh Dae-su, a man that was just utterly demolished mentally, physically and emotionally, he did not have the strength to endure his life with the knowledge of the truth. [21] The film marked Jackson's first time working with director Lee since 1991's Jungle Fever. I, think this is a revenge film, just Lee's revenge film. Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin, Michael Imperioli, Hannah Ware, James . After so long with no real human interaction, Oh Dae-su wants to find out whom he wronged to deserve the punishment he just endured, and he wants to make them pay for the torture they just placed unto him. However, any commercial reproduction of anything appearing within this site is both illegal and in really bad taste and we will take action |more|. Action Drama Mystery Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. As a man writes a letter, we hear his voiceover read it to his daughter and he explains that he did not kill his ex-wife, his daughter's mother. We see a smear of blood on the bricks of a shower as a man digs at the grout around a brick. That release is all a part of the game as the world is essentially a bigger prison the captor has trapped their prisoner in. 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