Sympathy better than Old Boy?
I suppose Sympathy is a bit less convoluted. Have you seen Lady Vengeance? That is an awesome movie and the third one exploring the revenge theme.
Tremors - I saw it on tv and the description just sounded cheesy but there was nothing else on. Love that movie now.
Ashura was pure greatness, wasn't expecting too much as it is based on an opera but it was a fantastic film.
Good: Perfect Blue. I was expecting a decent flick for my $4, not a kick-ass thriller.
Bad: Yo Yo Girl Cop. I was expecting ridiculously over-the-top goofy Japanese yo-yo action, not a mediocre comedy/action with surprisingly little yo-yoing.
Sympathy better than Old Boy?
I suppose Sympathy is a bit less convoluted. Have you seen Lady Vengeance? That is an awesome movie and the third one exploring the revenge theme.
Tremors - I saw it on tv and the description just sounded cheesy but there was nothing else on. Love that movie now.
Ashura was pure greatness, wasn't expecting too much as it is based on an opera but it was a fantastic film.
Old Boy is an incredibly good movie, don't get me wrong, but there are reasons why I like Sympathy more.
For starters, they are both very differently directed. Sympathy is a much slower-paced movie than Old Boy, very little exposition is given, and when it is given, it is often in the form of visuals and not just someone telling you. It reminds me of the shooting style of Takeshi KItano, my personal favorite director.
There is also the problem of Old Boy asking for a lot of suspension of disbelief. Now, I completely bought the ending, hook line and sinker, but that doesn't change the fact that the explanation for some of the up-until-now plot holes (Like why Mi-Do is still with him after he tried to rape her) is very implausible, and anyone who isn't completely immersed in the story (someone who, say, is annoyed at the aformentioned "plot holes") will probably call bullshit.
And as for the final reason why I consider Sympathy to be superior, it's because I love a really, really depressing downer story. Old Boy is a depressing downer story alright, and it is also about revenge. But in Old Boy the main theme is that we are tricked to believe that
The story is about Oh Dae-Su's revenge, when it's actually about Woo-Jin's
while in sympathy the theme is that
in the end we will sympathize with one of the main characters the most, therefore ensuring that which ever side we pick, we will be immensely saddened by the ending.
They are both very similar to Greek Tragedies, which I adore, but Sympathy more so than Old Boy. Old Boy had an open-ended conclusion, so it's up for the viewer themselves to decide whether it was positive or negative (me being on the positive side), while Sympathy is always a downer.
Bad: The Departed. I have never met, read or watched anyone who didn't at least like this film, yet when I watched it, I found it boring and badly acted, and not entertaining in the least.
Good: Haven't finished it yet, but this movie called Timeline that found it's way onto my Netflix list is kind of entertaining time travel action.
Bad: Mother of fucking Christ, the Spirit. Noir, plus Adam West batman camp, plus Samuel Jackson as a mad scientist didn't fucking work. How? I don't think we'll ever find out how this wasn't the best movie ever.
Dude, are all of your 9 posts your own threads? Slow down there buddy. Some people might find that a little obnoxious. (-:
OT: Here's a big one. I had never heard of Fight Club when I saw it (many years ago) and thought it would be rubbish. It's name sounded retarded, and I hadn't yet realised that Brad Pitt wasn't a fuckwit. How very very wrong I was.
Oh very very wrong. Brad Pitt and his wife aren't fuckwitts, they're good actors, they just need to learn to stop taking children away from their families.
Kinda doesn't count since I was expecting A Scanner Darkly to be good, but it still threw me off in A) how good it was and B) in what way it would be good.
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