I've avoided the Oldboy remake strictly out of word of mouth, lol.

Tbf I believe Akira’s movie was based on a book from an American writer anyway. Spike probably adapting the same material and basing it in America then modernizing it

The old boy remake was not that bad and I believe Spike had issues with the studio over it

Yeah you're right this is fair. The modernizing and nailing a proper procedural was my main thing.

And then there's Denzel and Spike's last collab Inside Man which was also a procedural that was heavily influenced by another film and that worked very well

Spikes one of my goats, Denzel is one of my goats. I’m trusting this.

Just not a fan of remakes, especially of movies that I truly love. But then again, Denzel was in a remake recently, Macbeth and I liked that one a lot…so..

Most people say Seven samurai is their favorite Akira movie, mine is High and Low.

In the words of Michelle Obama… “when they go high I go low”…. Or wait

Peeping the OG

Spike is too legendary to be remaking s*** man

stop it unc

The Kurosawa one?

My expectations are very low for this. He bold for doing a Kurosawa remake

Didn’t Soderbergh also try this with Full Circle a few months ago

So I gave the original version a watch, and it's great. That last third was truly something special. Kurosawa could have just made a suspense movie and left it there but I was surprised by the psychological turn at the end. Silence of The Lambs type beat. Also, the use of color in a particular scene was very clever.

@twitch

yes i think it was loosely inspired rather than some 1 to 1. it was a good show though, super underrated. If Spike is just taking notes from the original and not trying to remake it then I have high hopes.

Martin did it with departed and it was f***ing great. I’m glad he remade it

Yeah i really liked the Guyana connection, still gotta finish it though.

Saw the og last year, goated

Yesssir! Glad you enjoyed it!

Abolish remakes

totally unnecessary

Halle Berry has been offered the role as Denzels wife

Need John turrtoro & spike back together

With the racism and all

Is he racist irl?!! Or do you mean because John usually brings the racist angles/subplots when he’s in a spike movie?

@Elric