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I saw it last night.
Very good, very freaky. If you wanna get freaked the hell out, watch it. If you don't wanna get scared, I recommend getting high first. my friends did, and they thought it was funny |
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| Yeah but then I would have to rent the movie then buy weed then buy beer then buy crack..That's too expensive. |
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lol, it wasnt scary, just freaky as ****  lol theres a Ring 2 also |
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| awwww man i wanted to see it. it has that Silent hill feel to it. |
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"I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it/And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you scream about it/I hope your conscience eats at you and you can't b_REaTh_e without me"
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I thought you were referring to the Lord of The Ring, actually.
I've never heard of "The Ring", so it would be appreciated if someone could describe it for me. |
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| its a japanese movie, about these kids that find a video, and it shows freaky stuff, like a person with a towel on his head, anyways when the kids watch it, they die in two weeks (or something like that) unless they show the movie to someone else, well anyways the first part freaked me out, so i left (yea yea yea im chicken) but my mates discribed the rest to me |
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| You're refering to 'Ringu' that was a Japanese movie based on some Japanese novel--there was also more than Ringu, and The Ring 2--there was Ring 0, Ring Virus, and Rasen, but I'm pretty sure Dalius was refering to the -new- Dreamworks remake which is infact slightly diffirent than Ringu since Sammara isn't explained as having psychic powers like her counterpart Sadako.. |
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And Rainecloud--
I'll just qoute a quick description to help explain the film--
"For one, the measured pace of the original is missing here. While Nakata's film was a classic example of the slow burn, Verbinski's always has something going on in it, whether it's the snappy banter of its characters or the ubiquitous "jump" scenes accompanied by high-pitched chords. The film is literally devoid of silence, an aspect I found a little jarring on my first viewing. Also, while there is an obvious attempt to preserve the "dream logic" of the Japanese original, equally apparent is a (western?) necessity to explain away as many of the vague or open-ended points of the film as possible (e.g. the significance of 'ring,' the reason that victims die after seven days, etc.) And while it's interesting to see what screenwriters Kruger and Frank came up with in order to propel their story along, at the same time I was a little sad to see the deliberate vagueness of the original exposed to so harsh an analytical light. Still, Verbinski's Ring is an intelligent film, and a far cry from the breast-obsessed "horror comedy" that currently dominates the genre, so perhaps I'm waxing needlessly poetic.
As for the cast, Naomi Watts gives a fine performance in her role as Rachel Keller. She is able to show her character as strong-willed and yet genuinely having the living hell scared out of her at times, no small feat. Brian Cox excels in his far-too-brief cameo as Richard Morgan, Samara's father. Not only is he a wonderful actor, he was the perfect choice to fill the role played by Daisuke Ban in the Japanese Ring.
Because this Ring does away with many of the supernatural aspects of the original, some of the characters are reduced to little more than shades of their former selves. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the case of Anna Morgan (Shannon Cochran) and Noah (Martin Henderson), which would go a ways to explaining my initial dislike for both of these characters. It's not that Cochran and Henderson gave bad performances; it's just that, character-wise, they really
weren't given that much to work with. As it turns out, Cochran gets one really great scene to show us what she's capable of, and Henderson... well, his big palooka of a Noah wasn't that bad the second time around.
Ditto for David Dorfman's wide-eyed portrayal of Aidan, Rachel Keller's son. It's been suggested that the filmmakers were trying to evoke the Sixth Sense with his character, but personally I found Aidan to have little in common with Haley Joel Osment's weepy portrayal of Cole Sear.
And then there's Daveigh.
Not since Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs has a villain (if one can pigeonhole either character as such) with so little screen time captured the public's interest as much as Sadako, Japan's answer to the modern, vengeful ghost. Daveigh Chase had some mighty big shoes to fill with her portrayal of Samara, the remake's interpretation of Sadako, and you know what? She rocks.
Opinions will differ on the fact that even in the trailers we can see Samara's face uncovered. Myself, I probably would have opted against it, but actually seeing Daveigh up there onscreen, watching Samara presented as a frightened and unsure young girl, made me think that maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all. Maybe that's what director Verbinski was after-- the added shock value in seeing what Samara would become as opposed to the person she once was. Still, as much fun as I had
watching her in action, I can't help but think why, why did they cut her marvelous line from the trailer? You know the one-- Everyone will suffer.
And speaking of cuts, wasn't Chris Cooper supposed to be in this movie? Somewhere along the line, his cameo as a child murderer also seems to have disappeared...
I could go on and on. I haven't even talked about the CG, or the horses (!), or the little slices of insanity Rick Baker serves up for us in the form of some freakish-looking corpses... and I guess I'm not going to.
Pretty much everything you can imagine about this film differs from director Nakata Hideo's Japanese version. It has none of the subtletly, none of the quiet dignity of the original... but at its core the story is the same, and more than a few scenes will have you squirming in your seat.
Go see it. This movie is a lot of fun.
And Samara will make you afraid."
Not so quick actually.. But whatever..
/Nakata was the director of the original Ring film from Japan
/Verbinski was the director of the remake |
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