It's pretty well know as far as I know. Sure, it isn't as well known as the newest triple a movie from Hollywood. But it is widely know, at least among the internet. And I know a couple of people who have seen it, and I live in Iceland.Snarky Username said:
Sure it's well known by the internet, but everyone I asked has never heard of it. You can't really get it without going on Amazon, and no one really watches foreign movies anyways. Perhaps just my group of friends, but the only other person who has seen it had it given to him by me...RanD00M said:
I have a feeling if you tried to initiate a conversation about Oldboy with any person, chances are they wouldn't know what your talking about. But it's probably your group of friends. I really don't hang out with people who watch foreign movies, so that's probably why.RanD00M said:
Sure, if I were to try to initiate a conversation on OldBoy very few people would know what the fuck I were talking about. But the same can be said about most movies that are made before 1990, or aren't made by big budget Hollywood producers.Snarky Username said:
Thats the Terry Gilliam film about the old guy with the balloon chair right?Comrade Mateo said:
Well now we're just splitting hairs over which movie is more obscure. Also, I know a lot of people who have at least heard of Dead Snow. Movies about Nazi zombies usually make more rounds around the internet than movies about a man's quest for revenge.RanD00M said:
But that's still not saying very much. The fact is that very few people (in America, anyways) pay any attention to foreign movies. Ones that don't come from Britain anyway. The closest thing most have come to seeing an asian film is watching the Americanized version of The Grudge or The Ring.RanD00M said:
So most of the people that you have met, or the people living in your area haven't heard about it. It is still well known in the western world. As I said, I personally have only met 2 people who have seen it, but does that mean that it is ill seen? No, it just means that the people who enjoy more dramatic, and better made movies with great stories have.Snarky Username said:
Well there's a difference between "few" seeing it and "relatively few." The fact is that all movies have been seen by a lot of people. For every single movie in this thread, there is probably a chatroom for it. Even Dead Snow, a movie you yourself implied was obscure, has a facebook page with nearly 20,0000 members (Which, coincidentally, is the same number Oldboy has). You can't use the internet as a guide for obscurity because on the internet nothing is obscure. Literally no one I know has seen Oldboy, but there are a bunch of people I know who have seen or at least heard of A Clockwork Orange, therefore, in my mind, it is obscure.RanD00M said:
