anyone else seen this? i bought the uber-edition dvd box on reputation alone, and i'm glad i did. this movie is fucking fantastic! it's also fucking crazy, especially at the end when shit is explained. i thought i had the twist figured out. i was right, but it wasn't the real twist. the big one was more fucked up than i had even considered.

general jist:
a guy is kidnapped by an unknown person(s) after he got piss drunk and arrested. he is imprisoned for 15 years with no explanation as to why and who kidnapped him. during the span, he is tormented by his captures, and he suffers through peculiar acts (which is explained later in the movie). guy slowly grows mad, and vows revenge when/if he ever escapes/gets out. he is suddenly released one day with no explanation. his kidnapper(s) continue to fuck with him, and the guy realizes that he's just in a bigger cell. he is given 5 days to figure out who imprisoned him, but more importantly why he/they did it. if he doesn't, everyone that the guy loves for the rest of his life will be murdered. the movie progresses as the guy figures things out, and seeks his revenge.

the twist will make every one of you go, "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck..."

let me just say that it's the ULTIMATE OWNAGE. i mean, you'll never hear about a better one than this.


btw, this is a park chan wook movie. "old boy" is the second in his vengeance trilogy ("sympathy for mr. vengeance" and "sympathy for lady vengeance"). the film won the grand prix at the '04 cannes film festival.

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 6:57 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 6:31:16 PM

i'm pretty sure there is an old thread about this...good movie though

1/4/2007 6:33:38 PM

My Roomate's Girlfriend figured the whole thing out like just after he got out, kinda pissed us off that had seen it before and were waiting to see the WTF moment when it is revealed....

Other then that great movie though

1/4/2007 6:36:51 PM

yeah i saw it a number of months ago

1/4/2007 6:40:46 PM

the other vengeance movies are pretty good as well

1/4/2007 6:42:32 PM

i think my only big criticism of the movie is the superman, he's invincible fight sequence when the main character takes out like 30 gangsters. it was still a pretty badass, funny sequence though.

1/4/2007 6:43:56 PM

It's a goddamn hammer fight. It's amazing.

1/4/2007 6:44:43 PM

the hammer (haha!). i loved that he kept it.

1/4/2007 6:46:00 PM

saw this at the galaxy, or whatever that theater's called. one of the few other people in the theater walked out shortly after the big surprise.

1/4/2007 6:47:50 PM

eh... doesn't give away anything really, but i don't want anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet to get any kind of indication as to the twists.

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 6:52 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 6:50:27 PM

the cutting of the tongue was

1/4/2007 6:52:37 PM

yeah, that was reminiscent of "ichi the killer".

1/4/2007 6:55:26 PM

^ have you seen the real ichi the killer, or only the US edited version?

1/4/2007 7:07:17 PM

whats the diff

1/4/2007 7:29:20 PM

MORE LIKE




AM I RIGHT?

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 7:33 PM. Reason : ]

1/4/2007 7:32:05 PM

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"^ have you seen the real ichi the killer, or only the US edited version?"

i guess the u.s. edit - the one shown on hbo. what, am i just missing more gore?

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"AM I RIGHT?"

i don't know. i've never seen, nor heard of "zinda".

1/4/2007 8:06:07 PM

jk, i'm retarded.

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 8:13 PM. Reason : fhds]

1/4/2007 8:12:19 PM

from what my friend has told me seeing the edited version, mostly a little more gore. and i'm not certain whether the US version had the title rising out of a puddle of cum like the jap version did

1/4/2007 10:15:25 PM

oldboy is one word

btw they're making a US version of oldboy coming out in 2008

fuck

1/4/2007 10:20:14 PM

that's pretty gay.

1/5/2007 8:26:37 AM

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"i don't know. i've never seen, nor heard of "zinda"."

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"Plot Summary for Oldboy (2003) An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment."

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"Plot Summary for Zinda (2005) For fourteen years of his life, Balajeet Roy (Sanjay Dutt) was imprisoned without knowing what his crime was nor where he was. One day, he is suddenly set free and has four days to find out why he was imprisoned and why he was kept alive. So begins his quest for answers and revenge."

1/5/2007 5:27:57 PM

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"i think my only big criticism of the movie is the superman, he's invincible fight sequence when the main character takes out like 30 gangsters. it was still a pretty badass, funny sequence though."

he spent 15 years training to fuck some bitches up,

1/5/2007 5:56:28 PM

i thought there were going to be more mind games after he got out because of the whole beginning part and the hypnosis stuff kinda a let down when it became just a revenge movie with a twists

1/5/2007 7:44:59 PM

^^^ aha! whoever made "zinda" must've seen "oldboy".

^^ i don't care if you're super chuck norris, no one can take on 30 dudes at once. they don't even try to pull that shit in "walker: texas ranger". it just didn't seem to fit the style of the movie. everything else was very real and believable, which i think is a big part of what made the movie great. it was like, "oh shit, this could happen to me!" the take on 30 dudes by yourself shit is for action movies. like i said though, i still thought it was an entertaining fight sequence. also, the other fights weren't embellished like that one.

[Edited on January 6, 2007 at 6:23 AM. Reason : ]

1/6/2007 6:18:58 AM

i'd believe that fight could happen before i'd believe that hypnosis would work

1/6/2007 9:55:25 AM

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"For fourteen years of his life, Balajeet Roy (Sanjay Dutt) was imprisoned without knowing what his crime was nor where he was. One day, he is suddenly set free and has four days to find out why he was imprisoned and why he was kept alive. So begins his quest for answers and revenge.""

I think it's pretty funny how they just changed 15->14 and 5->4, NEW MOVIE

oldboy was pretty awesome even though you might want to throw up through parts of it

1/6/2007 11:28:43 AM

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