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In 1993, the alcoholic Joseph "Joe" Doucett is a loathed man with basically one only friend, Chucky, who owns a bar. He neglects his three year-old daughter Mia and is estranged of his ex-wife Donna. Out of the blue, Joe is kidnapped and locked alone in a room for twenty years. Along the years, he learns that Donna was brutally murdered and he was accused of the crime and Mia was adopted and raised by a family. Unexpectedly he is released without knowing who arrested him and why. He meets the humanitarian social assistant Marie Sebastian and his old friend Chucky and together they try to find the identity of his kidnapper.
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
Went to see the Oldboy remake last night, although a more apt name would have been "How to solve all your problems with Apple products".
Product placement was horrific. He just gets out, doesn't know technology so the female lead was like "ohh we find stuff out on this device called a mac book, let me show you the inner workings of it. Are you getting all this camera and folks at home??"
He remembers the restaurant he ate at had a Dragon in the title "Oh we can just use this app here on my iPhone to find all the restaurants in the area with Dragon in it. Are you getting this camera while I go on apple maps and scroll down the list" *camera is over their shoulder showing everything*
He knows that song that keeps playing but can't remember where it's from "oh there's an app that lets you play a song and it tells you what it is. Here let me show you and the people at home how to find it on your iphone" *literally holding the phone up to the camera*
EVERYTHING they needed to find out, they either ran to a Mac or used their iPhones. Not to mention the 8000 phone calls made each with a lingering shot so you first get the apple on the back and then see the caller picture ID picture then a shot of them swiping to answer it. I honestly half expected him to be swinging a Mac around instead of a hammer in the hallway scene.
And Sharlto Copley was just dreadful as the guy who set it all up. Totally hammed it up. His British accent didn't sound cockney like Dick van Dyke but it was as over the top and bad. It was just a sh!t, hugely inferior, dumbed down remake. Meh.
Let's get this straight: I'm open minded to remakes. I don't think it's a blasphemy. And there are cases when I prefer remakes compared to the original. Shortly that's not the case here.
I'll be fair: this is not a very bad movie as a standalone. But if you remake a cult classic comparison is unavoidable. And compared to the original this movie does not deliver. I think what is written at the trivia section must be true. There should be a longer original version because Spike Lee is better than this. I have to think the studio killed the movie on the cutting table. I can only hope one day they'll release the director's cut which may do justice to the director's original vision. I believe the missing 40 minutes may save the movie.
The remake as others stated is way too quick. We are rushing trough the plot. It's cut like an action movie but this should be drama. Drama on both sides. And that's where the movie really fails: the original is heartbreaking! And it is so well written and directed that you feel endless regret and sympathy for both sides. It's a nightmarish catch 22 all the way.
And that's what missing from the Spike Lee version. You don't really care for neither of the sides. It tries to get you involved but it does not really work: you don't really like the good guy because he is a prick but you really hate the other because that's a lunatic. The plot twist is simply grotesque in the remake. I think they missed the point here greatly: in the original it's not the twist what is shocking but the reactions. In the original they are all human. With all their problems. With all their passion and heart. They are well built characters while only marionette figures in the remake.
I don't mind they changed the plot at some points. It wouldn't matter. It's a remake not a copy. But it should work, and it does not. To be fair I re-watched the original after watching the remake. I would say they are not even on the same level. The original is an all time masterpiece while the remake is average Hollywood craftsmanship unfortunately.
Josh Brolin is the best thing in the movie. It is not his fault. He tried. The homages are kind ideas from the director: using the same solution for the memory scenes worked great, however the corridor fight scene was too much for me. The original was believable but the remake is only extra violent with CGI blood spraying everywhere while dead people fly around with smashed skulls pointlessly.
I was looking forward to this remake for years. I was waiting for this since it was rumored. Now I'm greatly disappointed.
Spike Lee's version loses the one thing that really worked in the original, the sense of moral complication emerging out of the intertwined action of two men hell-bent on retribution.
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