ZombieKitten said:

logger said:

Oldboy 7.5 / 10 Pretty good remake and well worth a watch but not as good as the original,which I would give 9 / 10

An American remake?

Yeah, the leading role is played by Josh Brolin and he does a pretty good job.

logger said:

wildgoldenhoney said:

namepeace said:

It's one of the best blockbusters of the last decade or so because of the story, which could be an allegory for a lot of things.

I was still thinking about the scene where he had the other chimp give cookies to each of the other chimps. It made me think of prison and the gangs in prisons and how when gangs are formed they have that need of belonging fulfilled and that's why he said he was 'at home'. Kinda glad they didn't make him fall in love with a female ape and turn it into a love story but kept the story going.

I had a somewhat different take.

Caesar wasn't "home" at the facility, or in the culture of the facility. He organized the apes, abandoned his old ways, convinced the others to abandon theirs, led a fight for freedom, and went back to the only place he truly felt safe and secure, and that's when he told his old "master" . . . Caesar is home.

He left the captivity of the facility (and maybe his own mind), and his old master, to get home. It worked on so many levels.

namepeace said:

wildgoldenhoney said:

I was still thinking about the scene where he had the other chimp give cookies to each of the other chimps. It made me think of prison and the gangs in prisons and how when gangs are formed they have that need of belonging fulfilled and that's why he said he was 'at home'. Kinda glad they didn't make him fall in love with a female ape and turn it into a love story but kept the story going.

I had a somewhat different take.

Caesar wasn't "home" at the facility, or in the culture of the facility. He organized the apes, abandoned his old ways, convinced the others to abandon theirs, led a fight for freedom, and went back to the only place he truly felt safe and secure, and that's when he told his old "master" . . . Caesar is home.

He left the captivity of the facility (and maybe his own mind), and his old master, to get home. It worked on so many levels.

I agree with this too.