Anybody remember those days when Di Caprio was a fresh face in The Beach and Titanic? How babyface wasn’t considered a serious actor and would more than likely disappear?
Funny how he is now a legitimate heavyweight in good films.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
I really enjoyed Ender’s Game and it was one of the only books to really satiate me in my childhood, while I trust Ford and Kingsley to bring some very respectable acting capabilities to the film, I still have my strong apprehensions on whether it would be good or not.[/quote]
Childhood? Christ I feel old now.
james
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
Anybody remember those days when Di Caprio was a fresh face in The Beach and Titanic? How babyface wasn’t considered a serious actor and would more than likely disappear?
Funny how he is now a legitimate heavyweight in good films.[/quote]
Man, you think he looked young in Titanic, go see What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Still makes me feel strange seeing his change from that to this.
From the Director of “Drive,” stars Ryan Gosling… I’m in.
[quote]Gmoore17 wrote:
From the Director of “Drive,” stars Ryan Gosling… I’m in.[/quote]
I love Winding Refn’s films (aside from Fear X, at least), but the consensus from Cannes on Only God Forgives has been split right down the middle. Some are spouting this as a Lynchian-inspired masterpiece, while others are condemning it’s head first fall into surreal arthouse territory, and some of those reviewers were the same who adored Drive. Maybe it’s one of those “Marmite” movies that could go either way, and I will see it all the same, but I don’t personally expect it to live up to Drive, and that in itself was hard to please a lot of people with. Winding Refn fights for a very niche audience and if some of the more invested are bashing his new movie, that’s not such a good sign for things to come.
I will still pay to see it, and it’s entirely possible that some of the reviewers are too prudish to appreciate the apparent focus on violence and gore, but sadly I’ll keep my hopes down slightly. It’s aggravating, because had the film been universally praised, I would really appreciate Winding Refn having made something great out of this particular storyline.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Gmoore17 wrote:
From the Director of “Drive,” stars Ryan Gosling… I’m in.[/quote]
I love Winding Refn’s films (aside from Fear X, at least), but the consensus from Cannes on Only God Forgives has been split right down the middle. Some are spouting this as a Lynchian-inspired masterpiece, while others are condemning it’s head first fall into surreal arthouse territory, and some of those reviewers were the same who adored Drive. Maybe it’s one of those “Marmite” movies that could go either way, and I will see it all the same, but I don’t personally expect it to live up to Drive, and that in itself was hard to please a lot of people with. Winding Refn fights for a very niche audience and if some of the more invested are bashing his new movie, that’s not such a good sign for things to come.
I will still pay to see it, and it’s entirely possible that some of the reviewers are too prudish to appreciate the apparent focus on violence and gore, but sadly I’ll keep my hopes down slightly. It’s aggravating, because had the film been universally praised, I would really appreciate Winding Refn having made something great out of this particular storyline.[/quote]
I don’t consider myself an artsy guy when it comes to movies, but I though Drive was fucking badass, and this looks pretty similarly awesome.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]Gmoore17 wrote:
From the Director of “Drive,” stars Ryan Gosling… I’m in.[/quote]
I love Winding Refn’s films (aside from Fear X, at least), but the consensus from Cannes on Only God Forgives has been split right down the middle. Some are spouting this as a Lynchian-inspired masterpiece, while others are condemning it’s head first fall into surreal arthouse territory, and some of those reviewers were the same who adored Drive. Maybe it’s one of those “Marmite” movies that could go either way, and I will see it all the same, but I don’t personally expect it to live up to Drive, and that in itself was hard to please a lot of people with. Winding Refn fights for a very niche audience and if some of the more invested are bashing his new movie, that’s not such a good sign for things to come.
I will still pay to see it, and it’s entirely possible that some of the reviewers are too prudish to appreciate the apparent focus on violence and gore, but sadly I’ll keep my hopes down slightly. It’s aggravating, because had the film been universally praised, I would really appreciate Winding Refn having made something great out of this particular storyline.[/quote]
I don’t consider myself an artsy guy when it comes to movies, but I though Drive was fucking badass, and this looks pretty similarly awesome.[/quote]
I’m not expecting much from this one. Drive set the bar pretty high for Refn. Don’t think he will one up it with his new film.
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
Anybody remember those days when Di Caprio was a fresh face in The Beach and Titanic? How babyface wasn’t considered a serious actor and would more than likely disappear?
Funny how he is now a legitimate heavyweight in good films.[/quote]
He was pretty awesome in The Basketball Diaries as well.
Red Band trailer for Oldboy:
^ Wow
why does the dude at 15 seconds in have a nipple on his head?
Each second that goes by I get more and more depressed over the idea of an Oldboy remake. If this actually does turn out to be bad it will break me.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Red Band trailer for Oldboy:
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It kinda looks like an exact version. I kinda hope it is not. The original was just wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to dark.
Ya know, Jeff Bridges has become one cool ass motherfucker. Its almost like he became cool (the bad ass kind of cool) as he got old.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
why does the dude at 15 seconds in have a nipple on his head? [/quote]
It’s Sam Jackson with a Mohawk. He’s the same character as the guy with the grill in the Korean version.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Each second that goes by I get more and more depressed over the idea of an Oldboy remake. If this actually does turn out to be bad it will break me.[/quote]
I have difficulty with foreign language movies*, so I’m ecstatic that they remade it because I’ve heard it’s exactly my kind of movie (dark, twisted revenge story). Huge fan of Josh Brolin too, so I don’t see how it could possibly be bad.
*Tried to watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy like 6 times and couldn’t make it. Loved the James Bond version though.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Each second that goes by I get more and more depressed over the idea of an Oldboy remake. If this actually does turn out to be bad it will break me.[/quote]
I have difficulty with foreign language movies*, so I’m ecstatic that they remade it because I’ve heard it’s exactly my kind of movie (dark, twisted revenge story). Huge fan of Josh Brolin too, so I don’t see how it could possibly be bad.
*Tried to watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy like 6 times and couldn’t make it. Loved the James Bond version though.[/quote]
I think it’s just Spike Lee as director, the cast looks wonderful and Josh Brolin will likely be great (though I would have loved to see Russell Crowe), but I’m sure that Spike Lee will manage to over-Americanise the story and fuck it up. It works best under Asian tropes because they deal well with this kind of overtly dark and horrific story template, it’s almost their thing, I think it’ll just lose it’s charm if there’s too much Western cheese here.
It could work out great, but I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel as elegant as the Korean one from the trailer at least, I have my personal apprehensions about it, but they could just as easily be wrong. I just think it’s a personal dislike for Spike Lee, I like a couple of his movies but I feel that when he gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong. I’m assuming this will be at one extreme and not cruising the middle, but I personally expect negative.
Both Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films are extraordinarily good, the remake turned out incredibly well and easily holds up to the original, so I’m real happy that it worked as well as it did and was brought into the eye of English-speaking audiences. I enjoy foreign language films, some of them can be surprisingly good but are still obscure because of their origins. There’s a couple Belgian and Norwegian ones in particular that I love.
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
I think it’s just Spike Lee as director, the cast looks wonderful and Josh Brolin will likely be great (though I would have loved to see Russell Crowe), but I’m sure that Spike Lee will manage to over-Americanise the story and fuck it up. It works best under Asian tropes because they deal well with this kind of overtly dark and horrific story template, it’s almost their thing, I think it’ll just lose it’s charm if there’s too much Western cheese here.
It could work out great, but I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel as elegant as the Korean one from the trailer at least, I have my personal apprehensions about it, but they could just as easily be wrong. I just think it’s a personal dislike for Spike Lee, I like a couple of his movies but I feel that when he gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong. I’m assuming this will be at one extreme and not cruising the middle, but I personally expect negative.
Both Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films are extraordinarily good, the remake turned out incredibly well and easily holds up to the original, so I’m real happy that it worked as well as it did and was brought into the eye of English-speaking audiences. I enjoy foreign language films, some of them can be surprisingly good but are still obscure because of their origins. There’s a couple Belgian and Norwegian ones in particular that I love.[/quote]
I’m sure that for most people it’s going to be a great movie. I think the only people who are going to have trouble with this will be those of us who have seen the original and thought that it was near perfect as is. It’s going to be hard for any movie by any director to stand up to the original. Hell, that entire trilogy is simply amazingly well done.
This is the same phenomena that happened with WWZ. The purists who read the book said “this movie sucks because it’s not like the book” whereas people who didn’t read or didn’t like the book loved the movie version.
Steel, why do you have a hard time with foreign movies? They make subtitles you know…lol.
james
Aparantly this is real and aired on ScyFy last night starring Tara Reid and that dde from the original 90210. As I watched the trailer I kept thinking ‘man I would love to tie Big Kahuna to a chair, make him watch this and them force him to give a lengthy review’.
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
I think it’s just Spike Lee as director, the cast looks wonderful and Josh Brolin will likely be great (though I would have loved to see Russell Crowe), but I’m sure that Spike Lee will manage to over-Americanise the story and fuck it up. It works best under Asian tropes because they deal well with this kind of overtly dark and horrific story template, it’s almost their thing, I think it’ll just lose it’s charm if there’s too much Western cheese here.
It could work out great, but I don’t know, it just doesn’t feel as elegant as the Korean one from the trailer at least, I have my personal apprehensions about it, but they could just as easily be wrong. I just think it’s a personal dislike for Spike Lee, I like a couple of his movies but I feel that when he gets it wrong, he gets it really wrong. I’m assuming this will be at one extreme and not cruising the middle, but I personally expect negative.
Both Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films are extraordinarily good, the remake turned out incredibly well and easily holds up to the original, so I’m real happy that it worked as well as it did and was brought into the eye of English-speaking audiences. I enjoy foreign language films, some of them can be surprisingly good but are still obscure because of their origins. There’s a couple Belgian and Norwegian ones in particular that I love.[/quote]
I’m sure that for most people it’s going to be a great movie. I think the only people who are going to have trouble with this will be those of us who have seen the original and thought that it was near perfect as is. It’s going to be hard for any movie by any director to stand up to the original. Hell, that entire trilogy is simply amazingly well done.
This is the same phenomena that happened with WWZ. The purists who read the book said “this movie sucks because it’s not like the book” whereas people who didn’t read or didn’t like the book loved the movie version.
Steel, why do you have a hard time with foreign movies? They make subtitles you know…lol.
james[/quote]
Yeah I guess that may be my issue, that I have a very hard time blocking out memories of the original in all it’s glory and will always end up comparing it back to that. It might be something I have to work on for when this releases, to try and block that out and really go into this as if it were an original production of Lee’s (aside from the directive changes, which of course are original) and not condemn it based on the Korean film but rather gather my thoughts together without any outside sources of reference, whether it be the original or my personal dislike for Spike Lee. It’s very probable that I will retain a strong bias, which I will try my hardest not to of course, but it’s not the most objective of situations for me to go into and I apologise in advance should I get a little ridiculous with it.
I never read World War Z, but I guess that I can understand the scenario when I think about other films, Ender’s Game when it comes out might be one that plays to the purist in me, but there are other films that I haven’t read the original book to and on their own merits I appreciated the outcome.