Choi Min-sik , Oh Dae-su In The Original OLDBOY Has No Desire To See The Remake

"Choi Min-sik , Oh Dae-su In The Original OLDBOY Has No Desire To See The Remake"

That makes two of us. Some movies hinge on the big 'reveal', and once the suprise is popped, the re-watchability of the movie lacks alot to be desired. Sixth Sense remake will suck too...lwhen they eventually do it.

I love Japanese indie films. But yeah, I have no desire to see the remake either. The original OLDBOY was a classic.

Man, I can't blame that man either. Oldboy isn't just any old movie.

Sick of these remakes of foreign films. I know, people will defend it with the statement: "it's based on a manga, so it's just a more faithful adaptation" but you know, that's bull. There's plenty manga out there and I don't see Hollywood rushing to adapt any of them.

@ Slaine
Actually thats a pretty decent cast.

Still I think Im gonna skip this.

but is this necessary?

But again, WHY Oldboy? Because it was a breakout Korean movie (definitely not Park's best, but still good) that gained critical acclaim all over the world, and carried Quentin Tarantino's endorsement.

Is Spike Lee's adaption going to be more accurate?

Consider the two recent (and really, the only ones) Swedish international hits. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (first of the Millennium series), and Let the Right One In.

Let the Right One In is based off of a Swedish vampire novel, set in a small suburb of Stockholm during the 80s. It minimized a few elements, but was still pretty faithful. Two years later, "Let Me In", the American adaptation, is released, renaming characters, changing the setting to New Mexico, and tunes out the vampire's ambiguous gender. It brings NOTHING new that wasn't in the Swedish adaptation, minimizes things even further, and changes the vampire's past, altering the characters further. It is essentially a remake of the first adaptation.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Swedish version, as the whole "swede" slang has come to insinuate, had a lower budget and different production values. Things were left out of the book, which is a hard read itself. It gained critical acclaim for it's portrayal of Lizbeth, and Noomi Rapace became an international celebrity because of it. Two years after that series concluded, there is an American adaptation that promises to be more accurate and offer an extremely un-Hollywood style approach. It was SLIGHTLY more accurate, but these depictions did not in any way set it ahead of the Swedish film, and had a silver-lined cast of stars who would appeal to American audiences, but were not in the least bit Scandinavian, much less Swedish. In short, it offered nothing new, apart from awesome titles with a Led Zeppelin cover.

So my point is that Oldboy is being adapted, arguably remade, for the sake of profit only - not because the people in charge feel that it is a story worth getting right the second time around.