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Summary: damn!!
Review: ok, I saw this movie in the theater a week ago with 2 friends of mine and it scared the hell out of all three of us, I was so scared that the next day I didn't wanna be alone, I went to my friends house for the night. the images stay with you long after the movie is over, lets put it this way, I am still sleeping with the lights on. I don't get scared easily by movies, in fact I can think of only one movie that scared me as much as this one, and that would be the exorcist.
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Summary: Several things that went through my head
Review: The Winston Cup race from Atlanta was quickly becoming a snoozer.So I decided to rent The Ring.After 15 minutes I started thinking to myself,was the WC race more boring than this? I decided to hang with this flick.
Another thing I was thinking was how much this movie reminded me of "A Ghost Story".If you saw Ghost Story no need for me to explain anymore.Plus it was way better.
I was ready for it to be over when the sopposedly dead girl crawled out of the T.V.
The Ring is far from the best Horror movie of the year,or was it simply because it was the only horror movie released.How can anyone compare it to The Sixth Sense?
Come on Hollywood with all the big budget films you produce is this all the better you could do? Geeze.
Save youre money foe when something really good comes out.
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Summary: Awesome movie....put the kids to bed first!
Review: This was an awesome movie. It's the kind of movie that stays with you several days after you've seen it. I was actually scared to buy the dvd because when I saw it in the theatre it spooked me out so bad. Not so much because I thought it was plausible, but because the images from the video in the movie started to appear in my dreams for the next week and a half.
"The Ring"--the gift that keeps on giving!I only wish they would sell a dvd that has both the American and the Japanese versions on it, since they were distributed by the same company. That would be cool.
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Summary: Creepy thriller in the tradition of The Sixth Sense
Review: Gore Verbinski's classy remake of the 1998 Japanese film Ringu packs quite a few chills, thrills and a few spills into a solid creepfest. Verbinski's previous films (Mouse Hunt and The Mexican) demonstrated his skill as a film director but nothing hinted at his ability to handle this film. I've noticed quite a few comments about how confusing the film's conclusion seems. There's always unanswered questions in the best thrillers (Kubrick's much maligned The Shining or Freidkin's The Exorcist are two good examples). Verbinski and his American collaborators focus on a what appears to be a streamlined narrative but really had more twists and turns than is at first hinted at. The plot has been well summarized already but for the sake of this review I'll provide a thumbnail sketch; There's a video floating out there that, urban legend has it, will kill you 7 days after you've watched it. A reporter's niece is dies horribly after having accidently watched it with some friends (all of her friends died as well). She decides to investigate and watches it herself in the process. After watching it she, like all the victims, gets a call from a little girl that tells her she has 7 days to live. The timeframe and tragedy associated with the video spurs her on to find out who is behind the video and why innocents are dying. In the process, she unwittingly opens up a supernatural pandora's box. The jumpy editing, spooky cinematography and strong performances all enhance the film making it almost a sequel to the original Japanese classic. Since most sequels are remakes trying to recapture lightening anyway, Verbinski works in visual references to both the original film and other classic horror films in an attempt to make this more than your standardized American remake of a sucessful foreign film. .... The Ring is an intelligent, forceful thriller that doesn't overload us with gore. Instead, it focuses on the "suspense" angle. We, as the audience, know what's going to happen to some extend. Verbinski and the writer on the film use that knowledge to their advantage. There are a number of fleeting graphic images but nothing over the top. Additionally, the story of estrangement at the core of the film plays off of the story that the reporter begins unraveling about the videotape. There are a number of unexpected twists and turns along the way (don't let anybody tell you anything beyond the plot description)that remind us what good films "terror films" (as Boris Karloff called them) are all about. The extras include a number of trailers including the trailer for Catch Me If You Can, Ringu and a short "film" by the director that provides additional clues as to the heart of the mystery. The director wisely chose not to go with a DVD packed with extras recognizing that the mystery at the core of the film would be dispersed with too much information.
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Summary: NOH!!
Review: Now, now now - before my phone starts ringing ..... this one's a pale copy of the original [granted more special effects, etc - ala Bunel, Dali and Hitchcock - see "Vertigo"], but so much better before - remember "Ghost Story" and possibly the lesser seen "Changeling"? More shock value there. This one's a modern retelling of the classical Japanese NOH theatre tale - the 'vengeful' ghost seeking retribution. Granted there are a few minor jolts - but it is not too special -more or less something for the kids on a very wet afternoon. Sorry! Wrong number!
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Summary: A+ Effective Mood Movie, not as an Effective DVD
Review: The Ring, the movie that has scared almost everyone who has seen it. The same effect was not put upon me, but it was definitely thought provoking and I left the theater with the creepiest feeling.
The plot is known by mostly anyone, and it's known that The Ring is a remake of the Japanese horror success Ringu. Gore Verbinski's direction was very effective. Had to be to scare the daylights out of everyone. His use of mixing subtle blues and blacks fit the films mood, and enhanced my mood while watching it. Naomi Watts succeeds at her character for I was involved thoroughly with it throughout the entire movie. Martin Henderson also pulls through as the side character. The subplot dealing with his and Watts' character was effective. And David Dorfman who played Aidan, the little kid, was quite creepy. His eyes did a lot of the acting. Great performance.
The DVD release is a bit of a letdown. It's near barebones with only one feature and a string of 3 trailers (Although one is for Ringu). The one feature - the new short film that was much hyped - is a combination of deleted scenes mixed in with the actual video tape. It's a good watch, but doesn't reveal anything new. I'd rather have seen the deleted scenes in the normal format. But hey, where is the theatrical trailer for The Ring itself?! After the major success The Ring has had in just its first day of sales (2 million copies in 24 hours), a special edition is expected. Because, hey! More show, more money making. But I'll be there to buy it.
I will close this review with noting ... on the main menu, get the arrow to disappear and select Enter. You'll see the ring.
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Summary: Now this is what it's all about
Review: I haven't seen a horror movie that impressed me this way since The Blair Witch. It was completely non-linear, which is what good movie making should be all about. The background story involves the little girl, Samara, who came about possibly by unnatural means. She has the ability to thought-project dark hallucinatory images, causing madness of an infectious scale. For a while, the girl is left in the care of an institution, where she is carefully studied, and her thought projections captured in negative print. Scattered images of Samara being monitored, even then a ghostly little girl with long dark hair hanging over eyes that look like swelled black pupils without irises. But eventually Samara is murdered, dropped into a well, and her abilities become demonic. Her residual imprint is captured in technology, her thoughts projected onto a simple video tape that provides her with a gateway into this world. If you watch the tape, taking in the nightmare images, forming the link, you die in seven days. One thing that seems almost unsettling is the fact that Samara was, in life, a beautiful kid, despite the things that lurked behind her pale doll's face. She renters this world as a vengeful wraith, with real, physical power, and with her other abilities amplied. By opening the gateway, via the video tape, Samara is able to seek out her victims and just turn them into ruin. When they find the victims later, they're shriveled, drained, ash-grey, with eyes filmed like milk, and horrified expressions that twist their faces into hideous masks. It's cool. The best part is that you never see the actual deaths, just the aftermath. It's a shadowy playground for the imagination, unlike with Fear Dot Com, which was an okay movie but made the mistake by showing you everything. I've heard this movie get maligned a little, but don't listen to any of it. This movie rules. The DVD itself has a short film that contains existing movie footage interspersed with deleted scenes, proving a little bit more in the way of background. (Actually I think it would have been even better if they had left those deleted scenes in.) There's also a trailer for the Japanese movie, Ringu, which The Ring was based upon. Haven't gotten a chance to see that one yet, but I want to, and I want to read the novel when it's released. For any true horror fan that's gut-tired of some of the worthless garbage floating around out there, this is the movie. Yeah baby.
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Summary: The best horror movie I've seen in a long time
Review: I heard this movie was good from a lot of people. I decided to see for myself so I bought the movie and good doesn't begin to describe. The end was beyond ironic. I've always been a huge fan of horror movies, but this movie goes up to the top of my list. The details about the movie are all so organized and very well directed. When the movie when off after the first time I watched it, my phone rang. I was almost scared to answer it. I wouldn't even tell anyone about the plot of this movie because its too good to spoil. I would just say if you ever do anything in your life, buy this movie.
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Summary: You'll have nightmares!!
Review: Ok, let me just say this. Since I saw this film 2 weeks ago, I haven't been myself - I am scared of turning off the lights before I go to bed. I have had nightmares 3 nights in a row and I get very tense and nervous at night when I am alone. This has never happenned to me before with any other horror film. I am not joking. I am 25 and very few things in this world scare me. But if you see this film, the horrid ghastly face of the little girl, Samara, will haunt you for some time.
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Summary: Pish posh, who are the people that enjoy these movies?
Review: DO NOT LISTEN TO YOUR FRIENDS, or be like me and regret wasting five bucks to rent this movie. It was not scarey, it made no sense, and regardless of this.....it wasn't even a good movie. Can nobody in Hollywood make a scarey movie anymore? I guess if i want to be scared it's back to the 80's I go. Dont waste your time with this movie. I was tempted to see the Japanese version....but mmmm, no thanks.
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