Fucking hell, I never normally get this from seeing movies, but the scene with the octopus really made me want to vomit, I mean, my stomach actually felt sick.
Is it really common practice in Korea to eat them alive? Really, I couldn’t give a fine fuck about the animal cruelty aspect of it, but it was the grossest thing I’ve ever seen on film, along with the shit eating in Salo. Just horrible.
Oldboy is still the coolest movie I’ve seen this year though. If there’s any justice it will do very well
Today I have seen the movie. Awesome! I can’t find words in this moment, absolutely astonishing piece of modern moviemaking.
About the scene: I don’t thought it was hard to watch. It wasn’t very extreme or sick, I don’t understand what you mean. Bringing the guys’ teeth out with a hammer was much harder, but I don’t think OLDBOY is a very gory or brutal movie. Its today’s standart in violence.
i didn’t have a problem watching that scene either.
I dunno why, but i think it’s different from person to person.
If i was eating a hot dog and you tell me that there’s shit in it just to make my stomach feel bad, damn, i wouldn’t have a problem with that. i would enjoy it even more to piss you off
however, i don’t think the violence in this movie is main thing.
i actually don’t really remember them cause i paid too much attention on other things.
Park Chan Wook said once that the violence is not the thing about this movie and in my case, he was right.
don’t just watch movies because people tell you "hey man, that’s the most violent movie i’ve seen. check it out"
i think that’s kinda stupid.
ok, i’m going too much off topic here so i’ll stop.
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Fucking hell, I never normally get this from seeing movies, but the scene with the octopus really made me want to vomit, I mean, my stomach actually felt sick.
Is it really common practice in Korea to eat them alive? Really, I couldn’t give a fine fuck about the animal cruelty aspect of it, but it was the grossest thing I’ve ever seen on film, along with the shit eating in Salo. Just horrible.
Oldboy is still the coolest movie I’ve seen this year though. If there’s any justice it will do very well
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Haha it wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be, but it was a little nausiating I guess. I can usually handle extreme stuff like that, so the octopus scene didn’t really bother me that much. I’ve actually only watched about 40 minutes of the movie (just paused it a couple minutes ago because i’m starting to get tired), but so far it is pretty awesome. I just hope that I haven’t guessed one of the main twists correctly, because I always do that and end up being a bit disappointed because I already know what’s going to happen.
There are 2 new dvd for oldboy. The first one is Korean Ultimate Edition which includes 2 bonus discs and a soundtrack cd. It’s all packed in a handmade copper box. The price pretty unbelievable, about 100$.
The second release is a normal price Final Edition which includes the first two discs from Ultimate Edition. I don’t know if extras are subbed or not.
What’s interesting besides all new extras is that these dvds have new, remastered and totally different looking transfer. The difference to old dvd is huge. And it’s not even sure which one is closer to what the director originally wanted the film to look.
