FIRST TIME WATCHING: Oldboy (2003)

After Oldboy losing on many a poll here on your channel, I can finally rest knowing you were as traumatized and scarred as I was when I watched it as well 🤣🤣🤣 EDIT: I'm also glad Tyler pushed you to watch this knowing that you'd still appreciate the cinematic experience even if the subject matter was a little much 😂👌🏿

I had to double check to be sure, but the actor who played the warden of the prison also played the boat captain in "Squid Game." I knew I recognized his face from somewhere!

Props to Tyler for avoiding spoilers on this one. BRAVO! As another "Old Boy" did it first fun fact. The octopus scene also inspired similar scenes, with the Kong: Skull Island being one of the most memorable to mimic the scene beat for beat (including the wiggling tentacles.)

Park Chan-Wook has some fantastic movies in his filmography. Highly recommend "the Handmaiden", which is an adaptation of the novel "the Fingersmith", albeit with a lot of changes.

how much u think she regrets saying "she's a giver" lol

I have no idea what I just watched, but it was insane! 😅

Kudos for keeping away from the American remake.

Superman?

I was definitely happy to see this for feature friday. The korean film industry really nails the revenge genre. One of my favorite revenge movies(besides old boy) & maybe serial killer movie is I Saw The Devil, also staring Choi Min-sik who I just really love because of this movie. I saw this, it blew me away, and went down a rabbit hole of watching as much of his movies as I could.

Wow...finally Old Boy. ...and yes, I was flabbergasted upon watching this the first time in '03. ...live Octopus (and squid) is delicious. I grew up in Hawaii and Japan, and am a Hafu and have eaten many different live seafood dishes in 3 different countries (to include 2 trips to Korea when I was in the USAF).

“Are they? It can’t be… there’s no way…. okay, definitely not… right???” Girl, I am SO sorry 😭😭😭 Literally a nightmare. What else can you do except set yourself on fire and blow your brains out, like… spoilers: How are you gonna fuck YOUR sister and get mad at ME for saying EWWWW? 😭😭 Also that shot of Soo-ah’s empty hand cocking the gun at the end… this movie has sauce, we can’t lie

Great stuff glad ya watched it even tho it didnt win the poll :D

The octopus eating scene was REAL and it took THREE TAKES 😅

Having finished the reaction, a couple things Nat: The one-shot fight scenes in Daredevil were directly inspired by the fight scene in Oldboy. That fight scene became infamous and inspired a lot of similar scenes in cinema afterwards. Also, the film won the Grand Prix (basically the 2nd place award) at Cannes. That was the year Tarantino was on the judging panel and loved the film so much he fought for it to win. Also congrats on guessing the twist so quickly. I also never noticed the smiling motif thing even having watched the film a bunch of times, so thanks for pointing that out! Edit: About the octopus eating scene: live octopus is actually a thing that is served in South Korea. It's not common place, but there are definitely restaurants that will serve it and Koreans don't really find anything weird about it. So I think that scene plays very differently internationally vs in S.K. and I don't know if it was the director's intention for that scene to be as "shocking" as it was to audiences.

Well… i guess my day was going good enough. Time for some misery x

if you were to look up the definition of f@&*up, OLD BOY would be right beside it lol

FYI Nat Neon acquired the film rights only a couple years ago and put out a new 4K transfer and updated translation (to be more accurate). They didn't produce the film or anything.

Oh no, that sounds worrying, I had no idea what genre thus film was, so he hear Nat say she was disturbed makes me dread watching it lol...

Shout out too Tyler, he's a real one for pushing this 😊

Now I really REALLY wanna see what Nat would think of I Saw The Devil…

Oh god it's happening... 😆 Either you will appreciate or hate this movie, still one of the biggest wtf plot twists iv seen 😆 honestly been waiting for YEARS.. for a big YouTube reactor to do this film lol

Happy Feature Friday Nat. This is a movie that I haven't seen before. Your opening sentence is definitely selling it to me ha ha Looking forward to checking it out with you 😊