Sentences with phrase «original oldboy»
Like most every film on this list, Chan - wook Park's 2003 original Oldboy boasts many scenes that are tough to watch.
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Lucy is on the run from the mysterious Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi from the original Oldboy), who had planned to use her to transport CPH4 into Europe, where it would be sold (in small quantities, mind you) as a recreational drug.
When the Oldboy remake was first announced, many fans of Chan - wook Park's original Oldboy wondered if the iconic hammer fight scene would be included in this updated version.
Not exact matches
Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is a freewheeling expat American in Taiwan, blowing off her studies for nightclub carousing, until the day her boyfriend handcuffs a briefcase to her arm and sends her to see fearsome mobster Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi, star of the original «Oldboy»).
The big problem with Lee's «Oldboy» is that for all its dark confidence, it doesn't reimagine the original boldly enough.
There's only one way a remake of Park Chan - wook «s «Oldboy» was ever going to even a have a chance of approaching the original — embracing the fact the story requires a hard - R to get told right.
The original film was a classic tale of revenge that followed an elite special agent (Lee Byung - hun, «G.I. Joe») whose pregnant fiancé is murdered by an evil madman (Choi Min - sik, «Oldboy»), prompting him to lure the killer into an increasingly violent and twisted game of cat - and - mouse.
I don't mind directors trying to do something new with the story (Oldboy's prison for hire is a great idea and I wouldn't mind someone forgetting the original movie and making a film about that concept with a totally new character), but when Spike Lee sticks so closely to the plot, he is setting himself up for failure.
No matter how you feel about Spike Lee «reinterpreting» Park Chan - wook's Oldboy (me, I'm neutral as I'm merely so - so on the original) one must admit that Film District's marketing machine has been pumping out some decidedly intriguing material over the...
Thirst Where: Bridge Theatre, 3010 Geary Blvd., 415-751-3213 When: All Week Why: The latest from South Korea's Park Chan - wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) takes no prisoners — it's a brutal, exhilaratingly original tale of vampires struggling with their newfound taste for blood.
An Oldboy remake was always going to find it hard to compete with the original.