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Plot:
It sounded like just another urban legend--videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Kelle...( read more 
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MCT:May 30, 2008
Dr. Scott: "You don't want to hurt anyone.
Samara: But I do, and I'm sorry. It won't stop."
Every time I review an American remake I feel like I'm repeating myself for the 300th time. There's no need to go over my personal feelings towards the concept of remake alone, you all know how I feel about them. It's easy to consider The Ring the best adaptation Hollywood's done so far of Asian horror, because it probably is. Why? Well, 'cause there's talent involved (i.e. Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts), and talent is talent, no matter where you're from. However, I ask you, is that really much of an accomplishment? Being the best at copying, at replicating? It doesn't change the fact that this film - like any remake you've ever seen - should have never happened.
I'll admit it - Verbinski's rendition of Hideo Nakata's masterpiece Ringu is immediately downgraded in my book (when, in reality, it's a decent horror/thriller) for having the audacity to replicate a film that is already close to perfect. I simply cannot advocate The Ring (to do so would be to betray everything I believe in) because it stands as another blatant admittance that many people are unwilling to watch a film if it contains subtitles or if a newer, bigger budgeted version is available (The Ring's video release sold more than two million copies within the first 24 hours of its release). Furthermore, films such as these serve as a figurehead for Hollywood's willingness to placate such cinematic lethargy.
With this in mind, I would refer anyone wanting my opinion on this film to my review of Nakata's Ringu and bookmark that Takayama's character changes vocations from that of a mathematics professor to a videographer due to the narrative's emphasis of the cursed child's psychogenetic inheritance via her mother being abandoned in order to parcel more time in which to explicate every image found within the malevolent video; the motive for the blighted family's demises are arbitrarily altered; the central metaphor of technology plaguing society is retained but the impetus for the tape's existence is slightly modified; and Verbinski includes various references to Alfred Hitchock's films, most frequently Psycho.
The only improvement made by Verbinski is that the rationale for the curse to run for seven days prior to one's death is that this is the period of time in which it is estimated that a person could survive within a well (as opposed to the unlikely thirty years as presented in Nakata's version). However, though Verbinski's film runs twenty minutes longer, he fails in his exposition of what has occurred in that he attempts to be too subtle for his own good (largely due to his fixation with justifying the tape's images), thus leaving his viewer to do more grunt work than should be expected given the film's contents which, if you don't feel like backtracking (it's all there, unlike what some critics claim), one need only to refer to Nakata's original.
Overall, despite faithfulness to its source material, The Ring lacks the sense of impending dread the seeped out of every frame of Ringu, and the ending fails to deliver the profound sense of a growing evil unleashed upon and spreading into the world at large. This flash of moral horror - of saving oneself by exposing others to the Ring Virus - gave Ringu a memorably disturbing kick in its final scene that made the film feel complete, not just open-ended for the sake of a potential sequel. Till this day, I still can't understand why in the world was Hideo Nakata asked to direct - not this film - but its preposterous sequel. That is BEYOND me. -
MCT:April 18, 2008
Fucking scary. #1 rated horror movie.
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MCT:March 28, 2008Not really as scary as people say but good acting
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MCT:January 4, 2008
A scary supernatural remake.
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MCT:September 9, 2007Any film that blatantly steals from another--and I mean BLATANTLY--and then pretends the other doesn't exist, then has a backing film company that buries the original...well, it didn't have to suck as a film, too, but, unfortunately, it did.
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MCT:December 3, 2008
Creepy and I had sympathy for the girl in this movie but you can't get too caught up in the past is what I believe in this movie!! Also I was wondering how can a parent do this to their child. Also the horse scene what a movie...
Comments
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umhaesposted 1 day ago -
LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie....its great!!!thinks its better than the japanese version...far scarier
posted 122 days ago -
apistevti tainia idika i kineziki ekdosi opou einai poli pio avtentiki......
posted 131 days ago -
Why is it that Gore Verbinski can take ideas that sound stale or like crap on paper (let's remake a Japanese horror film! Let's make a movie based on a theme park ride!) and crank out instant classics with them? What does that guy ingest that gives him that kind of talent???
posted 228 days ago -
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Uhm, to me it's not a unbearably scary film. but 2 days after watching it, I was always imagining a head with long hair would shoot out from my PC. Anyway, I think the Japanese one is better than the USA's.
posted 399 days ago -
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I saw scary movie 3 first, so I was completely unable to take this film seriously. I kept wondering what would happen if you put your only T.V. on a high shelf and she crawled out of it? Or if the only T.V. you had was a tiny portable, would she come out a midget? Personally I would just sit, seven days after watching the video, in a small room, facing the only door with the T.V. in front of me and a shotgun pointed at it. :P
posted 426 days ago -
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u must find me a solution . since I watched this movie and I can't sleep or sit in a room alone. I'm talking seriously , I'm very afraid of this movie:(
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