Two men read a newspaper article about a man who had died in a car accident with his wife. Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review. [24] Brolin has also said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he prefers Lee's version of the film, though it is not clear if this cut will ever be released. The two embrace, and there's a conflicted expression on Oh Dae-su's face that makes one wonder if he will ever truly forget what the truth is. It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean film of the same name, directed by Park Chan Wook. I swear before God and eight motherfuckin' white people! Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. A man watches a television program about the murder of his ex-wife and how he is wanted for committing the murder. He finds himself imprisoned in a hotel where hes fed the same Chinese food every day for every meal. This then leads to Arthur aiming his shotgun, and shooting . Joe hides Marie in a hotel for her safety, and they end up having sex, unaware Adrian is watching through hidden cameras. These TV show segments were so unusually well-timed that the viewer knows that its fake and a set-up. Its not the octopus scene or the fighting that makes it so brilliant. Since Joe wins Adrians game, he receives the $20 million in diamonds. Mr. Han is Lee Woo-jins right-hand man that fights for him and protects him at every turn, like how the infamous Luca Brasi served Don Corleone in The Godfather. He hands the phone to his best friend, No Joo-hwan, and is then kidnapped without a trace of his whereabouts. A man holds a box cutter in his hand and it appears that he was planning on using it, but walks away when he sees an older man suffering from dementia. Young Woo-jin was portrayed by Yoo Yeon-suk, who played also played Ji-tae in the 2012 fantasy-romance film A Werewolf Boy . Meanwhile, he puts himself back in the motel jail and has hidden camera feed of his daughter in the room. He spots the woman with the yellow umbrella and gives chase, but ends up running into Marie Sebastian, a nurse that offers to help. Joe is drugged shortly thereafter, and wakes to find himself outside with a cell phone and a small amount of money. That said, it's incorrect to labelthe Oldboy remake a bad movie. I don't think it was a triangle, but instead that the whole family, dad, mom, sister, and brother, were all incestuous together. After all, neither of the characters attempting to get revenge in the film have good endings. He doesnt spy on his daughter with a hidden camera at the end. The second major fail was the casting of Samuel L. Jackson in a role that was not right for him. Director Park Chan-wook Cast Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Yun Jin-seo, Kim Byeong-ok, Yoon Jin-seo Rated R Runtime 120 min. It contains a whopper of an ending, and it's difficult to discuss the movie without giving anything away, but it contains extremely mature sexual themes, a sustained sex scene, and some nudity (female breasts and bottom, male bottom). Follow us @TheNerdsofColor. A man beats his head against a wall. In fact, the film itself is part of a trilogy of films titled The Vengeance Trilogy that all center around the theme of revenge. [9] Later in November 2009, it was reported that DreamWorks, Spielberg, and Smith had stepped back from the project. Batman and The Wasp Flashpoint Mania. The fourth major fail was in the reveal of the incest. Stars: Samuel L Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin, Michael Imperioli, Hannah Ware, James . And while bettering himself in the process he aims to find out why he endured his confinement. 2013's Oldboy has a unique sequence where Joe befriends a white mouse, who keeps him company and makes him happy for a short period of time. While the ending is portrayed as being potentially happy, it is far overshadowed by the truth that the most positive ending for these two is to never know that they are actually related. Both Oldboy films are based on the Japanese manga of the same name. The sex scene in the American version was so overdramatic it was almost funny. The heinous act is recorded and used as leverage against Joe. 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. It received a mixed reception from critics, with many finding the film inferior to the classic. [24] Lee even removed his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film" during the editing process. This write-up will be chock full of spoilers which will save you a lot of time and money. "She ran into our arms when she saw us. They just show her driving away superimposed on the day / night screen behind him. Oh Dae-su has a craving after he escapes prison. "[33] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Why were they there? [29] It opened in 18th place at the box office and finished with a worldwide gross of $5.2 million. When he wakes, he finds himself locked within a hotel room. A man watches footage of various disasters, including the following: the 9/11 disaster and he watches the World Trade Centers being struck by an airplane, and a man announcing that hurricane Katrina was moving toward New Orleans, as footage of flooding and mass destruction is shown. It stars Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, and Sharlto Copley. A woman lowers herself into a bathtub (no nudity is visible). 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. Of course, Oh Dae-su reaches for the remote, but upon pressing it he finds out that the remote actually turns on a loudspeaker that plays audio of him and Mi-do having sex. A one-stop-shop for all things video games. 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). As a result, the real revenge plot was to subliminally get Oh Dae-su to fall in love with his own daughter, who was only four when he disappeared. Hes provided with a pen and several notebooks. 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. Before he passes out, he sees a woman with a yellow umbrella. A man's room fills with gas and the man awakens in a field, unharmed but completely disoriented. The way Oh Daesu pleads, the cutting of his own tongue, were powerful in a way that Spike Lee underestimated. 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. If you think what we do is worthwhile, please donate or become a member, Remake of the 2003 Korean revenge thriller about a man (Josh Brolin) who was kidnapped and held captive in a motel room for twenty years. Out of the blue, Joe is kidnapped and locked alone in a room for twenty years. The protagonist wronged someone, they got revenge on him, and now he wants revenge on them. One day, he sees an interview with Mia, who says she would forgive her father if she ever saw him. A man is seen shirtless nearly throughout the movie, we see his bare back and chest and he wears only boxer-style underwear. If you get hit by a 24 plank of wood, doesnt it hurt? 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. Not everything from Oldboy 2003 transitions over to Oldboy 2013. Oh Dae-sus wife is murdered after he is imprisoned for one year. A man bites his own hand so hard that he draws blood and uses the blood to create a smiley face on a pillow case, which he holds as he sleeps. Samuel L. Jackson as a whiney hired-hand begging not to be tortured was just boring and under utilized his talents. A man and a woman read newspaper articles about a murder-suicide in a family. 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. 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. But when he removes a knife from his back, he squeals and squeals and squeals. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. As the author, I had to make a fact correction regarding *Theres not an apparent explanation for how our hero meets his daughter in the first place. Joe follows a delivery from the restaurant to a warehouse where he was imprisoned, and meets Chaney, its owner. Oldboy isn't the only movie featuring both Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen. 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. However, Lees film also revealed that the villains father was having sex with his own 16-year old daughter (not the villain having sex with his sister as in Park Chan-wooks film). Took me a minute to figure that one out. Get off the author dick Josephine mike gave his opinion but I guess you have the right to dickeat smh. Helping our teens deal with mistakes is a part of being a good parent. Though these changes seem small, they play into where Oldboy stands in Spike Lee's filmography. A man watches fitness videos of women wearing bikini tops. A man holding a tire iron leaves an elevator and a woman and another man greet him; the woman grabs the tire iron from the man and uses it to smash the man in the stomach and he crumples over in pain before stabbing the woman with a box cutter and slitting her throat (the woman holds her hand to her throat as blood throbs from it, collapses to the ground and a pool of blood is seen around her body and she appears to die as the two men watch). . Adrian then fulfills his promise and commits suicide. 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. But Americans love torture porn, though. 2003's Oldboy was remade in 2013, but the new version made some big changes to the original. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for both 2003 and 2013 versions of Oldboy. Parker was later replaced by James Ransone, due to a scheduling conflict. To give some context surrounding the climactic ending of the film, Oldboy is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-Wook that focuses on the journey of a man named Oh Dae-su ( Choi Min-sik). A man shouts angrily at a woman (his ex-wife) over the phone and the woman angrily screams back. After finding that he has been framed for murder he sets out for revenge and vindication. What is the streaming release date of Oldboy (2013) in Australia? At the school, they look through yearbooks; Joe recognizes one student, Adrian Doyle Pryce, and recalls tormenting his sister, Amanda, for her promiscuity, which led to the revelation that their father, Arthur, had incestuous relations with them both. A well-paid actress has pretended to be Mia the entire time, as well. Oh Dae-su cuts out his tongue with a pair of scissors at the end of Oldboy 2003. Oldboy has even inspired a 2006 Bollywood film called Zinda, which appears to be another Oldboy remake. A man has a flashback to when he was a teen boy and watched a teen girl having sex with an older man; the girl locks eyes with the man (as a teen boy), then leans her head back while having thrusting sex (no nudity is visible) and we later see the man realize that the teen girl having sex with the older man was actually having sex with her father. Her twitters @GoJunko are usually filled with Star Trek-isms. [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. 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). Seeing the lengths he would go to, Lee Woo-jin decides to not have Mi-do learn the truth, instead leaving Oh Dae-su with a remote that supposedly would cause the pacemaker that Lee Woo-jin had installed to kill himself if Oh Dae-su tried to torture him. Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film very loosely based on the Japanese manga of the same name. He refuses but takes her business card. 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. 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. The fifth major fail and second plot difference is the ending. 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 a man comes onto a woman inappropriately (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), her husband overhears him and makes a terse threat to the man, then slaps him extremely hard in the face. There was no switch to turn my heart off' gadget. The website's critical consensus reads, "Suitably grim and bloody yet disappointingly safe and shallow, Spike Lee's Oldboy remake neither surpasses the original nor adds anything new to its impressive legacy. This raises the long asked philosophical question: is it better to live in a happy lie or to live in a sad reality? I just saved you a few bucks. When Lee Woo-jin is breaking down the rules of the game for Oh Dae-su into in Oldboy 2003, he claims to have a pacemaker with a remote that could cause Dae-su's heart to stop at any moment, and threatens to do this if Dae-su tries to kill him one of the many horror movie tropes and easter eggs in Oldboy. A man walks into a teen girl (his daughter's bedroom), the teen girl goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner, the man then goes into a room with a teen boy (his son) and the teen boy then unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner. Horrified, Joe writes Marie a letter saying they can never see each other again, and leaves her most of the diamonds, using the rest to pay Chaney to return him to the captivity of the hotel room. By removing the begging, Lee was able to completely skip over the epic tongue cutting because, you know, an American audience couldnt handle that. A man spits out his food, he then angrily throws a tray of food at a wall. 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Know when new reviews are published We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, We will never sell or share your email address with anybody and you can unsubscribe at any time, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. We see a man urinate on a building corner (the man faces away and we hear the sound of urination). I finally watched the South Korean version. [32], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. Im no therapist (although you may think about seeing one), but do you you think maybe, just maybe, it wasnt the author you were so angry with, but rather, years and years of building frustration at your own near retardation level of intelligence finally boiling over? Adrian shows Joe that Marie is really his daughter and that he had engineered events to this point to make Joe feel what it is like to lose everything. Crushed, humiliated, and in unimaginable pain, Oh Dae-su lies on the floor of the penthouse broken as Lee Woo-jin descends the elevator. The Stranger says they have kidnapped Mia, but if Joe can determine his identity in 46 hours, he'll let Mia free, give Joe $20 million in diamonds and proof of his innocence in Donna's murder, and even commit suicide. It was directed by Chan Wook-Park (who also did the screenplay). 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. Directors Spike Lee Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Brolin Genres Suspense, Drama, . We welcome suggestions & criticisms -- and we will accept compliments too. Joe goes to Adrian's penthouse, defeats Haeng-Bok, and confronts 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. 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. 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.. Oldboy (2013) Synopsis Time to remake the remake. A man wakes up in a bed and he is shirtless; he stands up and we see his bare buttocks as he walks away and he pulls on boxer-style underwear, covering his bare buttocks. And you will be helping support our website & our efforts. The City of Lawrence, Kansas, honored a heroic father-and-son duo who saved a 4-year-old boy with autism from drowning in an apartment complex's pool earlier this month. Park Chan-wook was brilliant in keeping the audience and the hero in the dark about the reason for his imprisonment! Mr. Park runs everything at the hotel in Oldboy 2003, and hes more of a secondary crime lord to Lee Woo-jin, who keeps tabs on all of the hotels tenants. 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. Jesus H. Christ, God, Oh My God, Jesus, Jesus Christ). Joe collapses from dehydration, and Chucky calls Marie to help. What Happened To Spike Lee's Mookie After Do The Right Thing? Apparently, it was safer to say that Doucetts daughter was 23 years old, rather than 18. Marie recognizes the ringtone from the Stranger as the theme song to Evergreen Academy, where Joe attended. Upon getting released, he makes a phone call to his wife and daughter. However, for the protagonist and antagonist of 2003's Oldboy, revenge could not be more serious of a topic for them. Image from Oldboy (2013) The original Korean made 2003 Oldboy was a gripping tale of mystery, anger, and revenge with a horrifying twist that would make anyone cringe. However, Adrian asks Joe to think why he had let Joe go in the first place, and shows that the interview with Mia was all a set-up, and "Mia" was a paid actress. ", "Josh Brolin To Star In Spike Lee's 'Oldboy' Redo For Mandate", "Breaking: Colin Firth Offered Villain Role In Oldboy", "Colin Firth Turns Down Spike Lee's Oldboy", "Breaking: Clive Owen Offered Villain Role In Spike Lee's Oldboy", "Sharlto Copley Cast in 'Open Grave,' Confirmed For Spike Lee's 'Oldboy', "Elizabeth Olsen: 'Oldboy' Role Is 'Really Exciting', "James Ransone Replaces Nate Parker in Oldboy", "Production Starts For Spike Lee's 'Oldboy'; What Scene Is Being Shot In These On-set Photos? A Houston-area father fatally shot a 17-year-old boy who was inside his teen daughter's bedroom early Thursday morning, MyFoxHouston.com reported. Before he gets locked away, Joe isnt a good father. Ive seen the original Oldboy but Ive yet to see the remake if private prisons like the 1 in Oldboy actually exist then I imagine that a lot of money must be needed to run them. He can no longer speak, but they can now live happily together without interference since Lee Woo-jin commits suicide. Adrian Pryce is the main antagonist of the 2013 remake of Oldboy. 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. VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A man walks into his teenage daughter's bedroom and as she goes to unbutton her shirt in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), the man shoots her in the chest with a shotgun (the force of the impact sends the girl backwards and we see a spray of blood hit the wall); the man leaves the room and shoots a woman in the torso (we see blood spray from behind the woman and a large, gory hole is shown in the woman's stomach); the man then walks into another room where his teenage son unbuckles his pants in a suggestive manner (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and the man shoots the teen boy in the chest and shoulder (the impact blows the teen boy backward and blood and gore spray from the wound); the man cocks the gun again and shoots himself in the head (blood and gore spray from his head, almost half his skull is shot off and his dead body collapses on top of the teen boy). What drives Lee Woo-jin to imprison Oh Dae-su for so long in Oldboy 2003 is that Dae-su tells his best friend, Joo-hwan, about Lee Woo-jin and his sister, Lee Soo-ah, having sex with each other back in high school. He is suddenly released and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the person who had him kidnapped and seeking revenge. Oldboy is a movie that doesn't hold back with its depictions of the taboo events that can unfold in our lives and the ever-growing thirst to get revenge on those who have wronged us. He had imagined that she did kill herself, after the bad mouth from the others (including Oh Dae-su, that's why the revenge). On return to Chucky's bar, Joe finds the Stranger there with the woman with the yellow umbrella, his bodyguard Haeng-Bok. SUBSTANCE USE - A man offers to buy a woman an "eight ball" of drugs and the woman turns him down. Oh Dae-su uses these notebooks as journals to keep a record of his time locked away from the outside world. 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