Change - 2013-07-11
Oh, Jesus, I thought you were joking.
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candyheadrobot - 2013-07-11 Meant to reply to you, but it's still down there.
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memedumpster - 2013-07-11
Looks absolutely terrible!
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candyheadrobot - 2013-07-11
Nope. Steven Spielburg wanted it at one point I guess, but Spike landed it, now everyone is wondering if he's gonna do the film or the manga. The Point Break remake in the hopper is a sort of a joke though.
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infinite zest - 2013-07-11
Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of dumplings to milk
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infinite zest - 2013-07-11
I can see this actually working. I loved the original but sometimes American remakes can work just as well (The Ring/The Departed) as their Asian counterparts. Fire away playa hataz!
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TheOtherCapnS - 2013-07-11 I agree that The Departed was a far better film than Infernal Affairs, but I like the original Ring better. I saw the original first in both cases, but I think it only made a difference because of The Ring's genre. I also agree that this could be okay, though I really really liked the original. Furthermore, I respect your opinion.
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Riskbreaker - 2013-07-11 "The Departed"
Hahaha, no, between DiCaprio's awful overacting, and Nicholson doing a parody of himself the movie is just not memorable at all. The useless love triangle didn't help at all.
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Unmerciful Crushing Force - 2013-07-11 The Departed was terrible. There I said it. They couldn't even use a good non-fucking-live-at-Berlin Pink Floyd song. I liked the American Ring better than the Japanese one though becas.
Oldboy the movie was already a hacked-up remake of a Japanese manga, so I'm not against the remake in of itself. Color me mildly curious.
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Maru - 2013-07-12 Spike Lee is -presumably- going to make a major American movie with incest in it. It doesn't matter if Park Chan-Wook did it first. That's a fucking risk.
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CornOnTheCabre - 2013-07-12 sosage: So what is the magical number of years that must pass before a remake can be considered creatively challenging?
I'm assuming you're going to say more than ten years? So how exactly does that compare when you consider that the source material manga for Oldboy was made only 5 years before the movie?
Please let me in on the finer points of this rigid quantitative system you have for deciding what is or isn't creative.
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Maru - 2013-07-12 The manga isn't much like the movie though. You could tell there was a singular vision in the movie that wasn't in the manga. This is practically a shot-by-shot remake.
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CornOnTheCabre - 2013-07-12 I mean, the trailer would have you believe this is a shot-by-shot remake, but I've seen a good amount of deviation from the original film from this two and a half minutes alone -- the female "assistant" of the antagonist mentioned below is an example of something that wasn't in the Oldboy movie, but was in the manga.
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Riskbreaker - 2013-07-11
So let's see:
-They gave the bad guy a female bodyguard that, so far, seems to be either naked or wearing latex, derp #1
-Brolin is not a bad actor, but this trailer is not exactly showing a good performance from him
-I'm getting tired of Sam Jackson, another guy who is now a parody of himself
-Lee's direction looks rather lame, the apartment doesn't look claustrophobic enough
So in other words, no thanks bro.
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Cena_mark - 2013-07-12 I haven't seen the original film. I will do the right thing and judge this work upon its own merits.
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CornOnTheCabre - 2013-07-12 the female bodyguard was definitely in the original manga, Spike Lee didn't just Snyderize her out of thin air.
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Mother_Puncher - 2013-07-11
Well there is apparently sex in the movie
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WHO WANTS DESSERT - 2013-07-12
Looks pretty good, keep crying weeaboos.
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oswaldtheluckyrabbit - 2013-07-12
You know the original movie will still exist right
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TheSupafly - 2013-07-12
This is a bad idea, but I'll give it a chance. If they change the movie enough for me not to draw too many comparisons then I think I can enjoy it.
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