OLDBOY (2003) MOVIE REACTION!!
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Although this movie is old, it is good to be remembered by many people so far. (Use Translator)
Oh. They're not ready for this one.
I have a love/hate relationship with this film, in that it's deserving of the praise it gets, but for my money it's not even this particular director's best film, let alone the best Korean film ever that a lot of people herald it as.
@@cfbg and in many cases, their last as well. I've lost track of the amount of times someone has told me they love Korean films cos they saw Oldboy "years ago" and they've been meaning to check out more. When I ask them if they've seen anything past Oldboy, there's nothing . . . except maybe Train To Busan.
Their loss, at the end of the day, I guess.
@@KyleS3m3noff I haven't seen much. Oldboy, the vengeance trilogy, I saw the Devil, most of Bong Joon Ho's work, and a few horror ones. I'd say Oldboy is my favorite. Parasite, for example, is a far better constructed film objectively speaking, but I still prefer Oldboy. Don't really know what it is, it just has a certain feel to it.
Still one of the best damn films out there, period. No problem with people seeing it that way.
@@joaosantos5503 those ones seem to be the popular cornerstones, and they're all bloody solid films, no doubt. But they paint a very singular picture, I feel. I Saw The Devil may be a mindblowing subversion of a film, but it's also pretty fucking hard to recommend it casually as a gateway into Korean Cinema for most people. 🤣🤣🤣
At the end of the day, it's art - there's no right or wrong opinion really. I'm just so co.ety over Oldboy. Imagine if you went to Korea and the *only* US film anyone ever talked about was The Usual Suspects. Great film, awesome twist, but there's literally hundreds more on that level or higher.
@@KyleS3m3noff Let's not compare the usual suspects with Oldboy, please.
I feel like this film shows the ideal way to shoot fight scenes. Long shots, clear view of the action, and good sound editing/mixing. That entire hall fight makes a you feel like you’re in there with him. Crisp boxing at the end too
When I watched the 1st season of Netflix's Daredevil series, the awesome hallway fight immediately reminded me of Oldboy. Sure enough, the fight choreographers took it as inspiration for their gritty, all-in fight scene.
Epic scene. Definitely not an easy task to replicate.
Can we appreciate the performance delivered by Choi Min-sik ❤❤
Storytelling and character development. Two things that 99.9% of Hollywood forgot!
This is the first and only film I had to press stop on when the twist happened-- I felt dirty, betrayed, shocked and numb... I literally had to take time away from the film. A few days passed and then I was brave enough to finish it.This is the only film that has ever done that to me. And by the end of the film you realize it's not Oh Dae-su's revenge story it's Yoo Ji-tae revenge story. That last shot of Oh Dae-su smiling is haunting... It's not only a revenge film but moreover it's a tragedy. No one wins in the end.
And this is the first film I felt especially at the big revelation, the climax, it just kicks in the stomach and keep kicking and kicking and kicking you when you're down. So much feelings going through my head... So much thoughts...
Ultimately Old Boy showed me it doesn't matter what the subject matter of the film is as long as it's good and compelling it will work.
Have you ever watched ‘audition’? Same. You can’t watch it to the end without stopping it. Let me know if you did!
@@patinho5589 Yes, I have seen it! But only once! For obvious reasons of course, but trust me it's imprinted in my mind still! It's another film that was really and truly hard to watch!
GW_ 427 I switched it off in the middle of the end and swore never to take a girl on a date ever again.
@@patinho5589 That’s the point of the film where the female audience member walked out, pointed to the Director and shouted, “YOU’RE SICK!”
If you want a more simple revenge film with the same main actor from this film Choi Min-sik. Then I would suggest giving "I Saw The Devil" a watch. I mean it's another movie that isn't for the faint of heart as the violence in it is brutal. But it is about a man just getting his revenge for the entire film. Just it has a great twist to it compared to most revenge films which are just man fights waves of underlings for 80% of the film to get to the man he wants to get his revenge against. Instead it flips that formula in a really unique way which I can't recall ever seeing in any other film.
SUCH a great film!
I second this motion!
@@LS111AT Yup although to the faint of heart this film isn't for. As I made my friend and his GF watch this film one afternoon and my buddies GF ended up having Nightmares all night long about this film mostly Choi Min-Sik killing her over and over again.
My very thought
I Saw the Devil is so great. when you watch it you want to look away but you can't! it really hooks you in!
The thing about the ending is that the way it was shot it suggests that the final hypnosis on Oh Dae Su fails. The "monster" is alive. So he knows what he is getting into. He can't go back to blissful ignorance, no matter how hard he tries.
Apt. Apt analysis Robert.
This film is in my top 10 favorite films of all time.
"I saw the Devil" and "The Chaser" and something lighter "The man from Nowhere"
Man, first 'In Bruges', now 'Oldboy', you guys are doing my favorites. Looking for a great random watch - 'Not Quite Hollywood'... Trust me, it's a good time.
I love the way Cash's brain clicked when you had to point out to him the obvious reveal lol
Reaction channel with THE BEST film choices. Appreciate y'all, bro
I love a good revenge flick, even the more exploitative ones, but I like this one because it's more honest about what revenge does to people. "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Park Chan-wook is a fantastic s. korean director and despite most likely not being suitable for a youtube reaction, The Handmaiden (2016) is his masterpiece.
It's certainly not gonna draw as many views, and a couple of scenes would need to be blurred (and then blur the blur), but I'd agree 100% that it's his masterpiece.
@SchizoKira "just softcore lesbian porn"? mate, if that's all you got from that film, I feel sorry for you.
OMG!! calling the relationship in the sushi joint!! mind blown
clocks are right at least twice a day :)
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It's part of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy - My favourite being Sympathy For Lady Vengeance followed by OLDBOY the Sympathy For Mr Vengeance. Other Korean films to watch - A Bittersweet Life, Memories Of Murder, I Saw The Devil, The Chaser, The Yellow Sea - all rippers.
I Saw the Devil is definitely one they should watch.
Agreed Lady V is the best of the trilogy. The Yellow Sea is my favourite Na Hong Jin flick, even though everyone considers it blasphemous to place it above The Chaser.
I remember loving The Good The Bad and The Weird but it's been awhile since I have seen it so have to rewatch it to see if it still holds up. But I did love I Saw The Devil. Loved that it flipped the revenge genre around. Where almost all of them are the MC taking on underlings for like 80% of the film until they finally get to the main guy they are seeking revenge against. Where I Saw the Devil says screw all of that and just decides to have it focus on the protagonist and antagonist. Also funny to see Choi Min-sik as I think I saw both Oldboy and I Saw the Devil like back to back without knowing he was in both films and playing reverse roles in both of them.
@@wisewolftony I loved the good the bad and the weird at the time. The action scenes are still really good. But I havent sat down and watched it all in a long time too.
@@esinach The G/B/W is still a hell of a fun flick - I rewatched it about a year ago and it still holds up, mainly because most of the stylistic choices that would date it were intentional and fit into the overall package. Having said that, I do have to admit that The Good, The Bad & The Ugly is my tied for my #1 all-time favourite film and this essentially is a remake of that story so I could just be biased.
When I seen Charlie Murphy pop up I cackled 😂😂😂 RIP to a legend
I genuinely struggle to sit through the end scene where he’s begging for the secret to remain a secret, crawling like a dog, biting his tongue off. The acting is so fucking believable it’s insane.
I think Choi-Min-Sik is possibly one of the greatest actors there has ever been.
I freaking loved this movie! Great reaction.
9:02 You two bickering while the music reaches the crescendo. And then the face 👁👄👁 That had me crying laughing
If you want a "simplistic" revenge movie, maybe try Sympathy for Mister Vengeance by the same director.
I am glad you put " " there as Mr Vengeance is a pretty damn amazing film for many reasons. and it is nowhere near simplistic:)
Sympathy is definitely not "simplistic". It might not be so focused around a "twist" but it's incredibly emotional by pitting two narratives and/or rationales against each other. The joy about SFMV is the director asking the audience, "who did you have sympathy for" (which is not straightforward).
It actually won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
The movie was played in Cannes there is just one Cannes festival per year in France. For me the best festival of movie. Cannes it’s also a movie market place when a lot of distributors come buy movies and series from each other.
Watching you guys speechless at the end was cool.. made me giggle.
Fuck yeah, Jimmy. Awesome reaction to a movie that's so deserving of one.
The timing on "He's been f__king her!" was hilarious😂. The horns came in right after you said it, lmao.
This is one of those good movies you can't immediately watch again. It's so messed up.
You really should watch (and react to) "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" by the same director, it's based on another pretty original story and it's just so great. Great actors, great visuals, it's really worth it.
Masterpiece
Please react to Kim Jee-Woon's "I saw the Devil"
That movies is also so awesome korean thriller and horror movies are awesome like Memories of murder and The wailing.
now THAT is a revenge movie.
Really looking forward to seeing you star in Tenet
This movie is part of the Vengeance Trilogy. There is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance(2002), Oldboy(2003) and Lady Vengeance(2005). You watched one, now its time to watch the other two.
This one is a crazy one, for sure.
Oh shit! You delving into South Korean artistry now, boah.
I can't speak for the entirety of Park Chan Wook's Vengeance Trilogy series because I haven't seen Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance yet, but I have seen Lady Vengeance and it comes at high recommendation. I'd say it's on par with Old Boy, if not slightly better. Amazing film, brilliant filmmaker.
Have you seen the incredible Korean thriller 'I Saw the Devil? (2010)'
You should do Snatch
love the music of this movie
Another famous Korean director, whose films are difficult to watch is Kim Ki-duk. "Pieta" would be a good example of his style of revenge film. Moebius and others are tougher and conceptual films.
'the wailing' (directed by Hong-jin Na,2016) plz!!
recommend "save the green planet" for a unique movie experience. I recommend it 100%
He was trying to protect his daughter when he went full crazy.. doing anything to get her not to see the album.
bruh when are they gonna release the album 😳😳
Please do The Handmaiden, it was made by Park Chan-Wook, the same guy who made this.
Maaaaaaaaaaaybe his best film (but I have such a soft spot for Joint Security Area).
I remember watching that and thinking "this seems tame for a Park Chan-Wook film"... then I saw the octopus.
i think they already knew the story.....however I guessd they feel the same way I/we feel when we watched the movie for the first time. :)
I love this movie. As for the ending, there is quite a bit of debate on what his smile means and whether or not the hypnosis worked or not. Also, my favorite way to explain this movie is that it's simply a movie about "the power of love."
Please react to train to busan! You will enjoy this one 👀
Now go watch I saw the devil.
You gotta watch burning by Lee chang dong.
ok so now it's time for a mind fucking. How much of this movie was real, and how much was he hypnotized for? I've seen this movie twice, I still don't know if everything after him popping out of the trunk that the hypnotists mentioned was real or not
“I saw the devil “ next
2:40 that double reaction to the eating octopus was great lmao
You are very fortunate. Once the story is told you know the film. People ask "what film have you seen would you like to watch as though for the first time". OLDBOY is up there on the list. Inspirational one shot fight scene for future tv and movies that followed.
I've told others who have sampled this movie, Koreans come from
a rural tradition despite living in a metropolitan world now. They say that
everyone knows how many chopsticks you have in your drawer. There isn't
even a word for privacy in the Korean language.
The stigma for incest in that world is a hundred times more severe than it
is here.
Not trying to give you a hard time but i really dont understand what you are saying as a Korean American who lived in Korea for about 7 years. 사생활 means privacy in Korean. Not really sure what you are trying to say regarding the chopsticks in the drawer.
Wtf are you saying my guy
Were you high?
@@abouttime2569 There is actually a saying '옆집 밥숟가락 개수도 안다'
It was all vengeance.
If the moral of this film isn’t “mind your own fucking business”’ I don’t know what is. If no one’s being hurt and everyone’s consenting, why do you care who’s doing what with who, ya know?
Good reaction... BUT really bad sound quality! I could barely understand you. I had the volume on my phone ALL THE WAY UP, which is REALLY annoying when ads pop up!
But just killing him is such a 'simple' revenge..;p BTW try and watch the other two movies bu the same director called Sympathy for Mr Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. The revenge is simpler. Also the Important twist here is the Revenge in this movie isn't that of the main character but by the fella that imprisoned the Main Character.
what a mind fucking movie...
the guy looks like Bill Hicks
React to Bad Times At The El Royale
that movie though!!!
It's not "Old" version. It is Original, all others (american and indian to mention some, but I bet there are more) are not even "versions", more like cheap remakes without soul.
For a fun time in Korean try The Good The Bad and The Weird.
I saw the devil .
React more other Korean movie, the man from nowhere is my favorite action korean movies, if you want to watch this please watch the sub version because dub is awful
If you want a good Korean revenge flick, watch A bittersweet life
19:57 JUN TAO HAHAHA
I'm sure it's been said before, but don't watch the spike lee version. Keep the goodness of the greatness of the original before it was "reinterpretation"-ed.
Watch the devil I saw. Great movie. Or irreversible. The Serbian film.
They're good movies, but you're suggesting them too openly. All three of those require heavy disclaimers; and most especially the last two.
Serbian film is just an edgy shitfest for the sake of being edgy. It's "shock value-the movie"
American's. We always view life through blame.
I'll be the one to say watch the Spike Lee remake at some point. It's not nearly as good as this one, but it's the one I'll sooner watch, and Brolin is very good in it. Plus it's a movie I'd never have imagined Spike Lee making.
Will give them credit for having the balls to go with the Incest plot. Thought for sure if the American version was gonna chicken out on anything with this film. That they would have done so with that plot point. And instead just have made it some generic revenge plot like maybe just having it be that his sister committed suicide because of the MC bullying or rumor spreading. I don't think the ending is as good with him just paying someone to lock him up in the hotel for the rest of his life. Compared to the ending in this film. Honestly the film was never going to succeed or be well received. I mean I didn't hate it but it was never going to be able to live up to the original film. Not unless they did something that was really different to the original and was very good. Am interested in maybe one day seeing Lee cut of the film. As I guess him and Brolin were both very upset with what was re-edit with Lee version being 140min long compared to the 105 that it turned out to be. And were both very angry over the fact that the re-edited the One-Shot scene. So much so that it's the reason that in the credits it doesn't say "A Spike Lee Joint" and instead just says "A Spike Lee Film".
*Dear Lord,* this seems like the most disturbing movie. 😅😅😅 And it looks like maybe it didn't have as much of a focus on martial arts as I thought.
Between the two-mainly the first factor, though-looks like it'll be a hard pass for me. I'll probably go read the plot-just not watch it play out. 😅
Really glad you guys took the plunge, though. 😄👍
brace yourself and give it a watch. sooooo good!
have you ever considered becoming a vertebrate
@@mybatteryisdying1001 Maybe I can watch it if I skip certain parts. I already had to block part of the screen during this review...I ain't watching a dude's teeth getting ripped out. I don't get freaked out at actually going to the dentist, but I sure as heck drawn the line there. 🤣😅
But I keep hearing how good it is, so I definitely will consider finding a way to watch it. Mm, IMDB may be helpful for that.
@@alexsclewis "Becoming a vertebrate"? Are you really trying to suggest that I don't have a spine because I don't want to watch some of the more graphic and disturbing stuff here?
honestly the remake is fantastic too
The fuck it is.
The american version!? No it fucking isn't. it's awful
@@GenetMJF hell nah. The fight might've been a bit sloppier, but the acting and story execution was top-notch