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    Default The Grudge

    Has anyone seen this movie yet?? I've yet to read too much about it - is it worth a rental or even buying? I do like GOOD horror films, especially if it has good sound effects (creaking stairs and the like) coming from all around you - would this movie qualify for that?

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    I've heard mixed things about this one. I don't think the mood'll
    let you down, just don't take your brain into your HT.

    I just watched "The Forgotten". DUMB.

    Rick

    p.s.-on a brighter note, "Ring Two" comes out soon:-)

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    just watched the grudge actually. it's alright.
    powdered toast man away!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattepntr
    I've heard mixed things about this one. I don't think the mood'll
    let you down, just don't take your brain into your HT.

    I just watched "The Forgotten". DUMB.

    Rick

    p.s.-on a brighter note, "Ring Two" comes out soon:-)
    I just watched the forgotten a couple of weeks ago myself. I thought it started out pretty good myself - but the 'twist' was DUMB to be sure (hence why I was asking about The Grudge). Looks like a movie that's worth a rental anyway - so I'll give it a whirl.

    Thanks Rick and Jeh!

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    Default DVD movies with alternate endings...

    OK, I'm going off on a tangent here...BIGTIME!
    What is it with DVD movie releases that market
    themselves with the boast that they come with
    alternate endings?!?!? THIS IS NOT SOMETHING
    TO BRAG ABOUT.

    Essentially, a movie has several different endings because
    it was screened for a preview audience who said "the story
    sucked and the ending was stupid/ confusing/ unbelieveable".
    For a studio to lay out the extra $$$ to write and shoot a new ending
    means there is serious trouble with the picture.
    "The Forgotten" has an alternate ending. As does "Dreamcatcher"
    and the list goes on.

    I just find it amazing that what starts as a negative somewhere
    along the way becomes a "positive". People can market ANYTHING.

    End of rant.
    Rick

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    I give it out of .

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    Well, I rented "The Grudge" a few months back.
    Thought I'd flap my jaws on it now.

    YAWN. Didn't do anything for me. I think it's a cultural
    thing: white-faced asian girls with their hair in their face
    staring at you just aren't that scary. Unless it's the original
    Japanese "Ringu", that is.

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    it doesn't play well with american audiences... japanese horror films are about the ambience of the scene...i've seen ringu, and ju-on the japanese predecessors to the ring and the grudge. its all about mood. no overuse of CGI, if any at all. if you want, go get the double dip, and check out the grudge directors cut. theres a couple, more disturbing scenes in it that were taken out of the original. i liked the grudge, but i didn't like the ring or ring 2. i'm waiting for dark water (another japanese turned US horror film) to come out.

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    It's interesting to compare "Ringu" and "The Ring".
    So far, I'd say "The Ring" is the most succesfull translation
    of the current crop of Asian horror to western audiences.
    Even though director Gore Verbinski lifted a couple of scenes
    literally shot-for-shot from "Ringu", I give him high marks
    for adding some amazing and subtly creepy aspects to his
    version. He really tried hard (with writer Ehren Kruger) to
    deepen the horror of it all.

    ***Spoilers***

    I LOVE that in the American version, Rachel and Noah are
    arrogant enough to think they can solve the mystery and save
    their own lives. Their Japanese counterparts are under no such
    delusion. They KNOW what kind of danger they're in.
    But that just makes the stinger ending of the American version
    so much scarier!
    There is a lot more exposition/explanation of the phenomena of
    the videotape in "The Ring", but it's so subtly worked in, you don't
    realize all of it til after the movie's over. That made taking about it
    later with friends so much fun.
    "Ring Two", unfortunately, was a bust. Japanese director Hideo Nakata
    was just WAY over his head trying to make a big studio happy with his
    first American film. It's a shame, although there are touches of coolness
    in it. The short film "Rings" recently released on DVD would have made
    a MUCH better sequel. Unfortunately, contractual issues made continuing
    Rachel's (Naomi Watts) story a necessity.

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