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Summary: Have YOU seen the ring?
Review: I want to start out by saying I'm not easily scared. There are only a few movies that have had me peeking through my fingers as I watched it. "The Ring" is one of them. You probably already know the plot, so I'll just tell you what the actual movie is like. Every scene seems to be important or have some frightening part. Even though the discussion at the beginning of the movie isn't even supposed to be scary (about television waves), I already had the creeps. Know why? It was too quiet. There wasn't any background music, there wasn't ANYTHING. Just two teenage girls talking to each other. You never know when something's going to jump out at you. This movie seems to really take advantage of that. Practically the whole movie is quiet in the background. When there is music, it sends chills down your spine. During "THE TAPE", my cousin claimed to have heard "Cha-ching" noises in the background. I've yet to heard this, but I believe him. Everytime you see this film, you notice something new. A lot of the things you notice will scare the heck out of you, too. There are "rings" in a lot of scenes, for instance, when Noah picks up his coffee cup, there is a ring left on the table. I haven't seen the original movie called "Ringu", but maybe it's better that I saw this one first. While a lot of movies (Scream, I know what you did last summer) seem to think that violence equals scary, "The Ring" takes a different path. It scares you psychologically with smart images, a unique story, and terrifying scenes. There's hardly any violence, actually. When I think of this movie, I remember myself huddling down in my theatre seat and closing my eyes. Yet, I never wanted to leave. It's great movie, that's just on the brink of comfortable scary, and a little too scary. It terrified me and everyone I saw it with. But we LOVED it! This movie somehow targets what scares you most and intensifies it for 2 hours. My cousin and I talked about it after we saw it for about an hour. It sticks with you. The last time I saw it was October, and I still think about it! See this movie, if you dare.
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Summary: As long as you watch this on DVD you should be safe...
Review: As a horror film "The Ring" is the complete antithesis of "The Blair Witch Project." Instead of a raw, low-budget, independent film where the actors improvised everything while filming themselves with hand held cameras we have a slick, big-budget, Dreamworks production that is an adaptation of a successful Japanese film, "Ringu." Instead of a first time cast we have recognizable face, such as Namoi Watts from "Mullholland Dr.", and especially in the supporting cast that features Brian Cox and Jane Alexander. Most importantly, while "The Blair Witch Project" was ultimately a shaggy dog story in which there really was not much there in the end, "The Ring" is ultimately guilty of providing too much (i.e., we had to go back and rewatch the last chapter on the DVD to figure out what had just happened). The beginning of the film establishes the "urban legend" of a video tape that when you watch it, the telephone rings, a voice says "Seven days," and then seven days latter (to the minute apparently) you die. When this apparently happens to one young girl in the Seattle area, her aunt, reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), begins to investigate. Suffice it to say she has objective reasons to believe there is something to the unbelievable story and then she finds the tape-and watches it. The phone rings, a voice intones "Seven days," and the real fun begins. The tape is filled with disturbing and strange clips, looking like a cross between the surrealist work of Luis Bunuel in "Un Chien Andalou" and the graphic images Nine Inch Nails music video for "Closer." However, the disjointed images turn out to be clues that allow Rachel to investigate the macabre story that finally explains the significance of "The Ring." She is aided in her quest by the drawings of her son Aidan (David Dorfman) and the video geek knowledge of the boy's father, Noah (Martin Henderson). This is a horror film where the frights come not from things jumping out at you, but more from the building unease as the facts start to add up. The film is shot mostly in an underlit fashion, which just encourages you to turn off the lights and watch it in the dark. Ultimately, the greatest sin of "The Ring" might be that it does not know when to stop and you should not be surprised if you would pick a different point for ending the film that where director Gore Verbinski ("The Mexican") draws the line. This all might have something to do with the original film version, but that has only recently become available in the U.S. because release on DVD was delayed until "The Ring" hit the theaters, so I have not checked that out yet. The 1998 film is based on the novel by Kôji Suzuki; there was also a 1995 television version, "Ringu: Kanzen-ban," which had a male reporter (there is also a 1998 sequel "Ringu 2"). I do know that Verbinksi and the studio played with some different endings for this film (one of which is at the end of the deleted scenes, not that the deleted scenes are actually labeled as such). It is just such a complicated story, making all the clues fit together to explain "why" that the whole idea of "how" is left untouched. In the final analysis I would say that how much you like this horror film depends entirely on how well you keep me to speed on the rules of the game as they are played out.
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Summary: A great movie for anyone who loves to be scared!
Review: Alright, everyone has heard mixed reviews from critics and other sources about this movie, so now I am going to tell you the truth. This movie has got to be the scariest movie made in the last ten years. In my oppinion, it ranks higher than "The Sixth sense" and "The Others". It scared the bejesus out of me and I am NEVER scared of movies. I mean I laughed at the "Blair Witch" and cried at "Signs" Now there are some confusing parts. For example, I'm sure everyone would love to know the history and where the mysterious tape was made, but it won't give much on that.And the ending needs a little work.I won't give it away, but it could have been better. There is minimal violence, no nudity and hardly any swearing. Although you will see a couple of very disturbing scenes. The Ring is so much better in the terms of you won't see one beheading or a beating heart in the two hours that this movie takes to watch. I think the plot was very orginal. When Rachel, (Naomi Watts) a reporter, starts to investigate the murder of her niece, she starts unraveling more than she could ever imagine. She finds and watches a mysterious video tape that will bring about your demise exactly seven days later. She then inlists the help of an old boyfriend Noah,( Bryan Cox) who watches the tape and the two are then put in the middle of a mind boggling mystery. I just loved Naomi Watts in this movie. I belive she has a big future in Hollowood. I also thought Bryan Cox was great in his performance. They have great chemistry in the movie and I can't wait to see more from the both of them. But like I said earlier their are a couple of plot holes, but I think were put there for a reason, so maybe they will be explained in a sequel. (wink wink). So go spend the four bucks and rent it or the 18 bucks and buy the dvd. I think it will be well worth it! That is the truth about this dvd. It's not perfect, but any real movie lover will love this movie! A warning though. After the movie you might be prone to unplug all your phones and to throw any tv's out the window.
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Summary: I shouldn't be writing this review.
Review: I'm not a fan of horror movies because they simply don't scare me. I jump at the the occasional spring-loaded cat (like the one in MINORITY REPORT), but efforts to make me quiver in my seat and sleep with the lights on never seem to work for me. Along comes THE RING, Hollywood's insidious effort to get me to label my videotapes. The movie's very well made. The effort is there to make a really creepy film, and the material the film is built on is suitably freaky. It's a bit unfortunate that the vastly inferior FEARDOTCOM pilfered so blatantly from the original story--the twisted plot would have been a lot more impressive if the key parts of it hadn't been paraded past us just a few months ago. As for THE RING, the visuals are stunning, the soundtrack is excellent, but when you try to add it all up, you end up with more questions than answers, and pretty pedestrian questions, at that. Put as many twists, turns and shocks into a movie as you like--you still have to pay off what you set up. Maybe this is a "more to the story than meets the eye" situation, or maybe it's a story where questions and hints are meant to be taken as absolute fact. Either way, the information you need in order to understand what's going on is practically invisible, here. It's not hard to tell what happens, but the average viewer comes away with way too many questions about WHY it happens. I do appreciate the clever approach to presenting deleted scenes in this one: make it a separate film that feels like story moments we didn't see in the original, tied together with a similar feel and enough of the main story for us to understand where the scenes would have appeared if they hadn't been cut from the film. The deleted scenes feel as creepy and suspensful as the original, as well as offering a few nice pointed observations from the townsfolk to fill in a bit of the Morgans' story. Is it scary? I'm the wrong person to ask. Is it entertaining? Yeah, I think so. Much better than the average Hollow-wood "churn 'em out" horror film. Does it make sense? Depends who you ask. People steeped in the background of Suzuki's original novels or the Japanese version of the story (RINGU) probably have a much better idea what's going on in this thing than the rest of us do.
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Summary: Very Good!
Review: This was the best horror film of 2002! The only other good ones were One Hour Photo and Signs. This is one YOU MUST WATCH ALONE IN THE DARK! It's about this video tape that if you watch it the phone will ring, and someone on the other will say that you're going to die in 7 days. The atmosphere of this film is incredibly intense, and if you're ineed of a good scare, this is the one to see.
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Summary: 'The Ring' is superior to 'Ringu'
Review: The Ring is horrific and up there right next to The Exorcist, in terms of being disturbing and scary as hell. The PG-13 rating on The Ring means nothing. I will not compare this to Ringu, see my review of Ringu, for that. The Ring grabs you by the throat and does not let you go. When the movie was over I was drained from constantly being on the edge of my seat. Bottom line this is a mind(...) and absolutely Brilliant. I will watch it again and again because it's rare to come across a horror movie this frightning. Too bad the dvd edition has close to no extras. Watch Universal release a special edition down the road so us fans get (...) w/shelling out more money, which I will do because I'm a sucker for sp. edition dvd's. Anyway why the hell am I talking about such nonsense when I should be watching 'The Ring' again?
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Summary: The Cheesiest Horror Flick Since Blair Witch
Review: I Recently Rented The Ring Today and I Was expecting thrills And Chills But instead got nothing but a film that was stupid it was like watching a B-Movie on cable. Naomi Watts is a great actress(I Loved her in Mullholland Drive)... But the one question that the filmmakers never answer is How can a Videotape kill its viewers a week after they Viewed it. I would Strongly urge people to rent this movie before going off and wasting [money] on buying it
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Summary: The only thing scary about this movie is that it was made
Review: Who even though of this film? I mean it's not even a thriller, I think this movie tried to copy the 6th sense by having a creepy kid and failed miserably and the answer to the problem is stupid, there isn't even a climax in the movie. I think the funniest part of the movie is the way people die. This little girl goes and makes them ugly, "Hey you have nothing to do with me so I'm going to look at you evilly then make you ugly." Well it was just pure dumbness.
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Summary: what the...
Review: Hype, hype, hype, that's all the buzz about this film is. "As scary as the Exorcist", my ... Though it has its chilling moments, you will be bowled over more by utter confusion, trying to figure out what it all means. I mean, the director had two hours of my time to explain...but it stubbornly remained mumbo-jumbo. Too many inexplicable elements make "The Ring" a big mess.
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Summary: great beginning...and then...what the heck happened!
Review: The beginning of this movie had me soooo excited! I was thinking that finally here was a scary movie that had something good going. A scary movie that actually was scary...
then as the movie continued it just got more and more stupid. It was such a disappointment since the beginning captured my attention. As the movie goes on it just veers into blatant stupidity. It seemed like the writer had a wonderful idea, couldnt figure out what to do next and decided to just put in a whole bunch of confusing unnecessary (...).
Then at the end I got excited again, thinking...okay! Now maybe everything will come together and make some sense...but then...it veered off into stupidity again. The movie is okay I guess. But when you think about it later you realize that absolutly NONE of it made sense! So you decide...but if you want my opinion...just watch Child's Play. At least that plot is consistant.
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