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offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 20:09 [#00592670]
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I quite liked it..one of the better horrror to come out in
a while. Not having seen the Japanese version yet I am not
going to make the comparsions. But yes this version is well
worth a watch.


 

offline afxNUMB from So.Flo on 2003-03-12 20:16 [#00592675]
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I still havent seen it I heard it would scare the bajebuz
out of me. but I know the whole story anyway, I'm sure it
would still scares me.


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 20:20 [#00592679]
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it's very well done..not scare the bejezus material
though..it's a lot more subteler...


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-03-12 20:21 [#00592680]
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japanese ring (ringu) 0wnz... but the US version was a
pretty good adaption


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-03-12 20:25 [#00592682]
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yeah, I liked it a lot... probably will get the dvd
sometime...


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 20:25 [#00592683]
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funny thing is that I own Ringu2..which is pretty
decent..not mind blowing but I noticed the continuation..but
those disfigured faces of the victims in the US version were
quite hair raising... from seeing Ringu2 I assume that wasnt
the case in the original version...


 

offline Clic on 2003-03-12 20:33 [#00592687]
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I liked the images on the video and the cool shot near the
end when the woman kills the girl, just the way the camera
floats down from above. Cool shot. All in all, it was fun.


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 20:45 [#00592693]
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same here.. the video montage was the best thing about the
movie..very stylish...it was very clever deprecating humour
when the video specialist just dismissed it as "Student
Film" :)


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-03-12 21:00 [#00592702]
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The video can be downloaded. I think it was at ifilm or
something. The cursed part that is, not the whole movie.

-P


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-12 21:02 [#00592703]
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I wrote the title down to check out later. As for you fleaf,
I suggest the fine piece of art "the bubble boy".


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 21:27 [#00592719]
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ah bubble boy..with the guy from Donnie Darko?..if so yeah i
will check it..


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-12 21:28 [#00592720]
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I need to see donnie darko, but yeah that one.


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2003-03-12 21:32 [#00592722]
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yeah see Donnie Darko..well worth it..
the website is amaazing
http://www.donniedarko.com

but for some stupid reason it's off line right now:(


 

offline corn_mouth from santiago (Chile) on 2003-03-12 22:54 [#00592767]
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for some stupid reason, me and two friends went to see this
movies totally stoned, it literally scared my head off,
ABSOLUTELY disturbing in that state of mind.
(and i don`t know why i kept thinking that "Come to Daddy"
would start playing at any time during the movie...i dunno,
it felt like it was just the right track to go with the
film)


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-03-12 23:33 [#00592791]
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i REALLY wanna see the japanese version... i hear it's alot
more subtle and creepier.


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2003-03-13 00:21 [#00592821]
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really really really bad
it was your general american 'thriller'
plus i hate plot lines where techinical information is
compleatly made up to serve a point in the film.....
"the data track is unique to the device which recorded it,
to have a video without a data track is like to be born
without fingerprints"

i dont understand who puts the garbage in when theres things
like this? i mean do they get some guy to give them correct
terms and then compleatly make their own stuff up?


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2003-03-13 00:24 [#00592823]
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haha, i saw this movie so fucking stoned too
and it scared the fuck out of us

but yeah
i thought it was really good

havent seen ringu


 

offline Chri5py from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-13 01:26 [#00592859]
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Ring will always be my favourite but The Ring was a very
good adaption.

Flea: the disfigured faces were in the original too. quite
scary. It's a shame all of the trailers for the remake
showed too much of the evil thing (not giving any
spoilers!)

The Book translation is out soon, that is gonna be fucking
amazing! (big Ring fan right here, incase you didn't know!)

Go to www.ringworld.somrux.com for more info...


 

offline WooferAttack from Milano (Italy) on 2003-03-13 01:30 [#00592861]
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chrispy, where did you take the pic in your avatar?



 

offline Chri5py from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-13 01:31 [#00592862]
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which one, I've just changed it.... the one of the dead girl
in the wardrobe?


 

offline WooferAttack from Milano (Italy) on 2003-03-13 01:31 [#00592863]
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the old and the one? they're disturbings...


 

offline WooferAttack from Milano (Italy) on 2003-03-13 01:31 [#00592864]
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*new one*


 

offline Chri5py from my Solarbear (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-13 01:34 [#00592865]
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http://www.neodymsystems.com/ring/index.shtml

its a Ring fansite


 

offline WooferAttack from Milano (Italy) on 2003-03-13 01:46 [#00592867]
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This movie seems too scaring for my tastes... i think i will
not watch it :-/



 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-03-13 01:52 [#00592871]
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sadako/samara, will you marry me?


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2003-03-13 01:54 [#00592873]
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I've seen Ringu, that was boring and badly filmed up until
about an hour into it, then I shit my pants


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2003-03-13 02:08 [#00592879]
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ring(u) was great ! Pretty much shit my pants =os

We had ring 2 & 0 borrowed on dvd for a bit but never got
round to watching them


 

offline tibbar from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-03-13 02:22 [#00592887]
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i heard the sequels suck...


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-03-13 04:02 [#00593032]
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I think "Ringu" is way better than "The Ring".
The US version has nicer photo + it has
Naomi Watts, but "Ringu" has way more logical story.
Don't know why they changed it so much - since the japanese
story is scarier.

Also the ex-husband in the japanese version rides a bike in
one scene - hehe:
No adults ride bikes in Hollywood movies - unless they're
suspicious and/or communists.


 

offline blipseed from Virgin Islands (US) on 2003-03-13 04:51 [#00593114]
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I agree with that. The one thing that bothered me the most
about the remake was how horses played such a large part in
it, seemingly for the simple reason that the horse on the
ferry vaguely resembled Sadako from Ringu, with it's hair
over it's eye. A fairly big plot revision for a fairly cheap
gimmik.



 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2003-03-13 06:03 [#00593209]
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I was disappointed by Ringu, the Japanese original--it
didn't really hold much suspense for me, and I didn't feel
it used its potential.


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-03-13 06:04 [#00593211]
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im buying the ring on ebay right now for 8 bux. brand new.
ahhh i luv ebay...


 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2003-03-13 06:04 [#00593213]
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i found the jpanese version stupid enough to avoid watching
the american remake. i just noticed the principal actress
was really bad looking..


 


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