Was in Spike Lee's fault? Or was this just a bad egg in the world of Copley? What happened?
shareYes he was undeniably BAD.Kinda destroyed the whole movie for me.He did the same thing in Elysium too. This is very disappointing because i liked this guy in District 9.
shareOkay, yeah I feel the same way- though I thought Elysium was kind of bad in general. Thought he was great in District 9. But it really made me mad about Oldboy because I thought Brolin and Olsen were so great, and then there was Copley.
shareI haven´t seen Oldboy (and not planning to) but I thought he was basically the only best thing about Elysium and from what I heard (and read), I am not the only one. I guess with Elysium, it is really very subjective.
shareI personally think he was great in Elysium
shareI agree---I thought he owned Elysium!
shareSharlto was brilliant in Elysium.
shareI liked him quite a bit in Oldboy.
He was certainly over the top, but he was playing a creepy psychopath, that was kinda the point.
+++by His wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5+++
Have you seen the original Oldboy?
Imo Copley was the only good part of the American remake.
His counter part in the Korean film was very much the flamboyant playboy that Copely portrayed.
Everything else about American Oldboy was total crap, sans Copely.