OLDBOY Stars On How The Film Differs From The South Korean Version

Stupid ass remake. Please die and go to movie hell.

There are a ton of Asian remakes of American movies too people, its the way of the world. Could be worse...

Honestly, I can't wait for this flick. Looks pretty dang good.

Extremely excited for this, the original was very good...but there are plenty of great ways to tell the same story.

Just prepare for the gut punch this thing will bring at the end. Yeesh never saw it coming.

Will NEVER pay for a S. Lee movie going forward. His disqusting act with the tweet of the address he thought was Zimmerman was deplorable.

First, even if it WAS his address, what did he hope to accomplish? A hanging? Obviously that was his intent (and don't say "you can't read his mind" blah blah), and this is not meant to spark a debate, but for someone of power to pull such a stunt is inexcusable.

Second, idiot was wrong and put a couple literally in the 'cross hairs' of violence. Fccker owes that old couple a new home. Poor folks are still living there, and creep obviously has no conscience.

Super Douche 2012-2013 goes to....

If there will be no main original theme "Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone" - the movie will be SOOOO unwatchable shit...

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Studio literally wanted the director of the Swedish movie, which he had filmed a year and a half prior... to direct the American remake. Insulted, he declined, thinking his work wasn't in need of another version. So they got the director of Cloverfield, and changed a couple things to make it Americanized, but it was largely the same movie with less heart, and less interest.

The book has a lot of things that didn't show up in either one. Matt, one of Oskar's "friends", is completely absent. Håkan doesn't die at the hospital after Eli feeds on him, and is instead turned into a grotesque vampire. Håkan returns to antagonize Eli after going on a killing spree towards their neighborhood, and almost succeeds in raping him/her. Eli has to flee into the sun with a bunch of blankets to get away from Håkan, who gets lost in a storage unit with the delinquent Matt. Matt gets freaked out (and is also high) and proceeds to bash Håkan's brains out with a bat.... over, and over, and over again (he regenerates very slowly). The detective who is missing from the Swedish movie is there in the American version, but the detective in the American version basically trades places with the neighbor who tries to kill Eli towards the end... so he's basically a glorified extra in "Let Me In".

Both movies completely leave out the fact that Håkan is a sexual predator who was a teacher before getting caught, and was using child prostitutes to get by on the way to hitting rock bottom, which is how he came by Eli. The American version actually tries to make Håkan out to be another boy like Oskar who fell in love with Eli and became "her" thrall over the years, creating some kind of cycle at the end of the movie.

We all know why Oldboy is getting remade. There are too many mangas to count and name, but Spike Lee has to get the one hit with international acclaim. And the movie is being marketed as if it was the South Korean version. The differences there are so negligible, they can't even be noticed (apart from the woman with the umbrella). The trailers are promoting it as if it truly was a remake.

Literacy. Is that what's going on here? People don't want to read subtitles? Me, I feel as though I need subtitles for every movie I see, which leads to a certain awkwardness in the movie theater. I know it's kind of a joke, but truly - is that the issue?