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Summary: Hmmmmm
Review: I guess I put off reviewing this for a nearly a year now. I saw it the first day it was in theaters. As I wasn't able to get my hands on a Japanese version(Which I saw later) and was highly anticipating seeing this after hearing great things about the Japanese one. In this version they use elements from both the first and second Ring movies from Japan. And add some new things and what-not. However I am on the side that enjoy the American version more. I think the Japanese one is more admirable, where this one seems more human and relatable. Sure it has its flaws, as does everything. But it scared the hell(BTW I normally don't say the "h" word) out of me, both times I saw it and just as much each time. I was frightened for weeks after seeing it each time. Though keep in mind I have a highly over-active imagination as well. And everyone is effected differently by things, so this may seem like the dumbest movie ever to you. Like both my mother and brother thought it was prety dumb. But me and my other brother were scared like hey! And BTW I've seen loads of horror movies(Been obsessed with them since age 3). But I thought this was probably one of the best to come out of the Hollywood machine in years(Then again since most of their movies suck, how much is that really saying.). But seriously for me it was absolutely frightening. I'll never think of a Tv set the same again. I don't know if I'll ever dare watching this alone, maybe I will just to see if I can get over my fears, or just to see if I can scare myself silly again. But as much as I love this movie I don't exactly want to be afraid all the time at night again. :( Or cover the tv in my room with a towel. I think what really makes this movie though is the atmosphere and music. It is a very creepy, harrowing, and eery mood. And has a feeling of impending doom. Plus the acting is good. I think that Gore Verbinski handled this movie very well. In less competent hands it would have been a mess. :) So watch it. It may effect you and then again it may not. The thing is to come in with an open mind and watch it alone in a dark room in the late-late night. And see if it effects you then. :p God Bless ~Amy
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Summary: Terrified me
Review: This was a very suspensful movie. At some times I could hardly breathe when I was watching it at 1am with my brother and cousins. It was terrifying for days after!!!! This was a wonderful movie... dark and sometimes a bit confusing. If you're looking for a fright not the brainless slasher movie... I think you'll be very satisfied with this selection!! ... 7 days!
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Summary: The Ring vs The Ring
Review: When seeing the american version of the Ring, one realises this is only a poor example of a remake.
Japanese Director Hideo Nakata based this story on a book by Kôji Suzuki. Nakata does succeed where Gore Verbinski fails : the sheer horror. In Ringu (japanes version) everything is left to the imagination. Ringu makes you guess, keeps you to the edge, where as Ring you even get to see the occasional ugly face. Furthermore, Ring is a compilation of THREE movies. Ring - Ring 2 and finally Ring 0 which brings you to the beginning of everything. Give the Japanese version.
American Ring is none other than a commercial remake.
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Summary: Supernatural horror movie
Review: The Ring is a movie about a videotape that kills whoever watches it in one week after viewing. This movie is based on the Japanese movie called Ringu. Watching this movie was definitely frightening. I could confidently say that this is the scariest movie I've ever seen. It's filled with eerie events and unexplainable horror. Naomi Watts stars in this movie as the main character. She tries to get to the bottom of this strange puzzle. She's a journalist and she uses her knack at investigating to figure out what is going on. Her acting is realistic and very good. If you've never seen this movie you should go watch it. I've never seen such strange images in a movie before. The explanation of the supernatural is very weird, though. I realized quickly that I wasn't too frightened about such unrealistic occurrences. Anyway, it's a really good scary movie.
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Summary: The Ring in Full Review
Review: The review by Mark Leeper explains the director of "The Ring", Gore Verbinski, had to have a cold yet an effective style. This is because the only way to make a horror film horrifying is by having a certain style and way of seeing things so that you can take a scene that is not so scary and turn it into a horrific and frightening scene. Also, Verbinski had to have the experience to turn the boring written scripts into a work of eerie tales that send chills down you spin. Not just any director could create a film as excellent as "The Ring" like Gore Verbinski, you need talent and that is just one of the great qualities that Verbinski has towards horror films.
Leeper discuses that "The Ring" was originally a Japanese movie called "Ringu." Japan has always been known for having the most bloodcurdling films. When "Rignu" first came out in Japan, many people had a lot of seizures due to the frightening shots of gory faces and massacring scenes. Leeper says that the film was actually taken out of the theaters for several months after the opening of it due to everyone who watched it had a seizure. Then the movie was looked into and discovered that it was one small seizure and so the film was brought back to the box office.
"The special effects were remarkable, says Leeper, no wonder why "The Ring" has had more hits in the movie house in one month that "Ringu" ever did." There have been so many shots where computer animations have taken place. For example, when the little girl comes out of the TV screens and appears to be a translucent and fuzzy image like off of a television except she is in the room, with you. This used special effects, like actually the part of the girl coming out of the television was actually her tearing though a large horizontal piece of green paper-like material. And when the girl was translucent, that had to go through another process of editing.
The main cast of "The Ring" includes Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. Mark Leeper feels that all of these roles were played extremely well and that all of the characters were brought out to life thanks to the cast. Everyone's role involved so much practicing, like getting the perfect facial expressions and saying their lines with enough emotion and enthusiasm.
I feel that the rest of the crew did not get enough credit from this review. I mean, without the cameramen and photography, this movie would not be what it is today. And that's not all, without the best boy or the make-up crew this movie would not look as real as it does. So you can see how every person involved in making a film is important and without them, you would not have as good quality of a film that you watch.
In conclusion, the film "The Ring" to me was outstanding. It is actually overwhelming with all of the horrific scenes. There are actually some parts that you cannot wait to be over with because they are just to frightening and haunting to look at. The author of the review, I feel, did a good job commenting the movies acting, because I agreed with all of the remarks that Leeper had said in the review. He says the cast did more than an excellent job and I think that is 100% accurate, I just felt that the rest of the cast needed a little more attention and credit with all of their hard work and efforts that they put into the making of the film. Overall, "The Ring" is a must see movie if you are a horror movie lover and even if you aren't this film is just too good to pass up. Mark Leeper gives "The Ring" a "two thumbs up" but I would give it more than two if I had more than two thumbs.
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Summary: IF YOU WANT T O BE SCARED STIFF SEE "THE RING"!
Review: In the movie, the ring, a reporter(naomi watts), investigates a strange videotape that kills people within seven days from which they watched it. Pretty much she tries to find out why people die from this tape, and where it came from. She ends up watching it herself, letting her ex husband watch it and then things get out of hand. Eventually her son watches it. Then she finds out about a lady on the tape, so she ventures to the place where the lady lived. She finds out only the husband is there and he doesn't want her to know anything. She eventually finds out, but then things get worse! The husband kills himself because she doesn't want her to know anythign. She then gets her ex to help and they find out many things. i'm not going to telly uo what the twist is because that would ruin the whole thing. I will tell you one thing, she doesn't die and she figures out why and then saves her son, but by the end its to late for her ex. i would definately reccomend this movie to everyone. If you like slick, twisted horror movies you'll definately love this! I own this movie and I saw it in theatres, believe me in theatres it was the scarriest thing ever! I have watched this movie probably 8 times in the past summer. So if you agree with me tell me about it. The ring is one of my favorite movies ever and the girl in this movie got best villian at the mtv movie awards 2003. So in conclusion, go see this movie.
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Summary: Bad. Just plain bad.
Review: This movie is bad. Badly written. Badly acted. Badly photographed. It's dull. It's boring. It's ugly. It's a waste of time, save your money. Do anything else but spend your time watching this drivel. I can't believe anyone was scared by it or found it intellectually stimulating. It stinks worse than rotten eggs.
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Summary: "The Ring" Is Right Up Nightmare Alley!
Review: Katie, a teenage girl, her boyfriend, and another young couple go away for a weekend in the woods of Washington State. They stay at an isolated small motel, where the cabins are supplied with VCRs and free videos. The couples select the video from Hell for viewing pleasure. What they see is pure horror. Then a telephone call warns them they will die in seven days. And they do. Katie is found, seven days later, dead, with a look of terror on her face that will give you nightmares for weeks. Katie's Aunt Rachel, (well acted by Naomi Watts), a Seattle reporter, becomes suspicious about the cause of Katie's death when her young son, Aiden, begins drawing disturbing pictures of his cousin's burial. Even more disturbing is that the drawings were made three days prior to the fatal shock that supposedly killed the young woman. The grieving mother, Rachel's sister, asks the investigative reporter to find out who, or what, killed Katie. Rachel discovers that a video exists, previously thought to be urban legend, that actually causes the death of viewers seven days after watching it. All three of the teenagers, who saw the movie with Katie, died on the same day, at the same time. Rachel discovers the video, and, of course, watches it. We get to watch it too. This film within a film is a surreal & ominous vision of evil. Was I scared? You bet! And then the telephone rings. Terrified, Rachel seeks help from her estranged boyfriend Noah, Aiden's father. Disbelieving, and refusing to be deterred, he insists on watching the video also. Rachel only has six more days to find some answers; Noah now has seven. Warning: "Before you die you see the ring!" The suspenseful countdown begins, and tension builds excruciatingly, as more horrifying clues emerge. The realm of the supernatural now becomes reality - a reality of unspeakable fear. Director Gore Verbinski does a magnificent job of bringing Koji Suzuki's book, "Ringu," vividly to the screen. He knows the source of fear is in the mind. With superb photography, camera shots of macabre images, and freeze frames, the film's ghostlike eeriness begins to work on the viewers mind, and pulse rate. The psychology of this thriller is not based on blood and gore, but on a harrowing blend of the intense storyline, visual effects, and an excellent, but bizarre musical score that encourages feelings of dread. There is so little color in the film, except for a tree's brilliant red leaves, a fiery sunset, blue red drops from a nosebleed, that it could have been shot in muted shades of black and white. These muted monotones increase the supernatural ambiance. Verbinski reveals each layer of mystery slowly, making it impossible to anticipate the horrifying conclusion, and the answer to what the ring represents. The acting is very well done, with excellent performances by Ms. Watts, who is not a screamer, but a level-headed investigator, with a human capacity for fear; young David Dorfman, who really gives some competition to Haley Joel Osment; Brian Cox; and good cameos by Jane Alexander, a calming influence amidst the chaos, and Daveigh Chase, who makes viewers' spines tingle. I don't scare easily, perhaps not since I last saw "The Shining," but I was scared enough in this well-done movie to rate it 5 stars!
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Summary: Absolutely Awful
Review: This movie has no plot at all. If possible I would give it a negative rating. At least the slasher type movies don't pretend or try to sell themselves as being intelligent thriller horror movies. This movie never scared me, what scares me is the number of people who actually found it frightening and weren't bothered by the lack of a plot or storyline.
Don't waste your money renting or buying this movie, if you want a creepy movie with a plot stick with the classis like The Birds or Psycho.
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Summary: overrated
Review: I am a great horror movie fan. So when the Ring came out to good reviews from the critics, as well as my some of my friends who claim the movie was very scary, I was excited and rushed out to buy my DVD, but I must say I was disappointed.The movie had minimal chills at best. It did have a good mystery going until at the end of the movie when they explained the reason why everyone died
after viewing the video tape. I mean come after all we have seen in horror films over the years, seeing something come out the T.V. is not scary at all, unless it happens to you in real life.
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