Well we’re now a quarter of the way through our list and boy does it feel like this is going to take forever to get through 100 movies. At our current pace we’ll finish in 2012. Ugh. Oh well. On to our 25th movie: Oldboy. It started out weird and weirder. A drunk Korean man suddenly gets kidnapped off the streets and we see glimpses into his life in captivity for 15 years. All of a sudden and without explanation he is released. What is going on? During the first 20 or so minutes Candice kept giving me those “This is stupid” looks but as the movie progressed we both got into the plot. This is a classic Korean action movie and there are some well choreographed scenes. Sometimes I thought the director got a bit too “artsy” which distracted from the tone of the movie. What really did it for me was the acting by the lead actor. He certainly roped me into caring for his plight. I won’t give up the twist ending but for once I had NO idea it was coming. And it wasn’t because it didn’t fit with the rest of the movie, but because it was so ridiculously out there. Wow. I was STUNNED. It’s been awhile since a movie did that to me (Memento I think) and I liked it, as disturbing a revelation as it may have been. This ended up being far better than I expected.
