Oldboy

I have watched this from the start and have just switched it off. What a pile of pretentious arsty crap.
 
Good film, although I too am surprised it was aired.
After it came out that, that Chu kid liked it wasn't there some big effort to get it banned? I am glad those idiots failed :)
 
I haven't seen it from the start, perhaps 20 minutes in...i'm extremely confused. I've looked at Wikipedia and i'm still unsure what's going on..maybe i'm tired. :o
 
seek said:
Yes! Pans Labyrinth is absolutely superb. Very highly recommended (despite the fact that it's by the same director as "Hellboy").
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Cool, not my normal type of film and subtitles normally annoy me but with all its hype i can't not watch it.

May record oldboy on channel 4 +1
 
Begbie said:
I was going to watch it too!:(

Mite watch pans laybrienth (sp) instead.


Any good?
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Pans Labrynth is slightly better than Oldboy. Both are good, but fall very short from 'great'.

You're right. There should have been more terrorists and cries of "yippee ki yay, mother ******!" etc.
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You are implying all of western cinema is cliched tripe. Do you really think so?
 
Begbie said:
Cool, not my normal type of film and subtitles normally annoy me but with all its hype i can't not watch it.

May record oldboy on channel 4 +1
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Although, I should warn you... It's probably not a great movie to watch if you've had a few beers or are tired. It may look like a fairytale, but it's a little more complicated than that. It actually helps if you have an existing knowledge of the Spanish civil war.
 
Seek in taking offence at another members dislike of a film he likes, SHOCKER.

It is a pile of steaming crap. It is trying to be profound and inspired. Instead, it is crap.
 
Nollaig Shona Duit said:
Seek in taking offence at another members dislike of a film he likes, SHOCKER.

It is a pile of steaming crap. It is trying to be profound and inspired. Instead, it is crap.
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In all fairness, it's not going to be to everyones tastes and your opinion is worth as much as the next guy.

I wouldn't say it was crap though. It's a film which needs to be watched in its entirety to be appreciated, I'd say :) What kind of film would you suggest Scuzi? I reckon a film like Oldboy isn't best suited to late night Xmas eve :D
 
seek said:
Bad example, the Wachowski brothers even admited they took their inspration from "Ghost in the Shell".

As for Donnie Darko, I agree it was an original movie, but I thought it was too actively trying to be original.
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I agree somewhat with your Donnie Darko comments, but what is wrong with a film being inspired by another film? Its still a very orginal piece of cinema.

Nollaig Shona Duit said:
Instead, it is crap.
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I think very few films are crap. Oldboy is not one of them. Its just not 'very' good...
 
Kol said:
In all fairness, it's not going to be to everyones tastes and your opinion is worth as much as the next guy.
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I'm well aware of that. Seek appeared to become defensive and hostile towards those of us who found the film to be crap, hence my comments.
 
Nollaig Shona Duit said:
I'm well aware of that. Seek appeared to become defensive and hostile towards those of us who found the film to be crap, hence my comments.
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Absolutely, my post was appreciating your opinion and asking what you find interesting... trying to broaden my horizons and that.
 
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