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Subject: The Ring
I don't know if anyone has posted about this movie before, but I just saw the movie Saturday on DVD. Everyone kept saying it was one of the scariest movies ever, but when I watched it, it didnt seem scary at all to me. If anything I thought the whole idea of the movie was dumb. The movie was kind of intriguing in trying to figure out how it all fit together, but other than that the movie wasnt scary at all and I didnt think it was as great as everyone made it sound.
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I haven't seen it. I thought it was supposed to be scary too.
Everyone said One Hour Photo with Robin Williams was scary, I didn't think so. I thought it was stupid. (I'm so articulate.)
But, Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me. I mean it REALLY SCARED me! BAD! I can't even think about it without nearly peeing my pants. I guess it was so suspensful to me and then not knowing what's "out there" in the dark freaked me out. :o
I didn't sleep for over a week after watching that movie. :-[
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I haven't seen it. I thought it was supposed to be scary too.
Everyone said One Hour Photo with Robin Williams was scary, I didn't think so. I thought it was stupid. (I'm so articulate.)
But, Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me. I mean it REALLY SCARED me! BAD! I can't even think about it without nearly peeing my pants. I guess it was so suspensful to me and then not knowing what's "out there" in the dark freaked me out. :o
I didn't sleep for over a week after watching that movie. :-[End Quote
I saw One Hour Photo and I thought it was really good. Didn't think it was scary but I enjoyed it. I haven't seen Blair Witch Project though.
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I think I am the only person in the world who was terrified by BWP. Everyone has said how lame it was. Of course after hearing them say that, I don't dare tell them it scared the bejeezus out of me!
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I saw "Blair Witch Project" in the theater, and seeing it for the first time in the theater was a whole other experience compared to watching it at home. It was the first and only movie I have been to where the entire audience was sitting there in intrigue and scared all together. I remember when it was over, everyone just kinda sat there still sort of in shock from the ending. :D
As for "One Hour Photo", all I can say is: Robin Williams hasn't put out anything good...in the last 10 years. It sucked, and he has lost it. IMO.
And as for "The Ring", I was pretty dissapointed considering all the hype. The last 20 minutes were excellent, unfortunatly you have to sit through the rest of it to get there though.
BTW, there's a Japanese version of "The Ring" called "Ringu" out on DVD. It was the original version and inspiration for the American version.
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I don't know why you guys were disappointed with "The Ring". I loved it, and still do. The Movie contains an Interesting Mystery, some real scary moments (Girl in the closet), and good acting. It was way better than the teen horror crap that had been coming out of Hollywood. If you think this is a bad Horror movie, then horror is not your genre; because, this is one the best horror movies I have ever seen. It frightens you on the screen, but it frightens you mentally as well (I can't tell how without spoiling it). The Ring is a true masterpiece.
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I don't know why you guys were disappointed with "The Ring". I loved it, and still do. The Movie contains an Interesting Mystery, some real scary moments (Girl in the closet), and good acting. It was way better than the teen horror crap that had been coming out of Hollywood. If you think this is a bad Horror movie, then horror is not your genre; because, this is one the best horror movies I have ever seen. It frightens you on the screen, but it frightens you mentally as well (I can't tell how without spoiling it). The Ring is a true masterpiece.
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I totally agree with you. This movie creeped the heck out of me. Never has a movie gave me so many goosebumps, even just reading your post when you mention the closet scene made the hair on my arms stand up. Definitely the scariest movie to come in the last few years.
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KENNY'S THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING THE RING
Okay, this movie makes no sense at all. It's riddled with plotholes. I mean, it's good and creepy and all, but it's going nowhere. I can't concentrate on the creepiness because it's bothering me so bad. I really don't think this is working for me at all. What a crappy movie.
KENNY'S THOUGHTS WHILE TRYING TO SLEEP AFTER WATCHING THE RING
Can't sleep... Ring will get me... can't sleep... Ring will get me...
Subject: Re: The Ring
I quite enjoyed The Ring.
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I don't know why you guys were disappointed with "The Ring". I loved it, and still do. The Movie contains an Interesting Mystery, some real scary moments (Girl in the closet), and good acting. It was way better than the teen horror crap that had been coming out of Hollywood. If you think this is a bad Horror movie, then horror is not your genre; because, this is one the best horror movies I have ever seen. It frightens you on the screen, but it frightens you mentally as well (I can't tell how without spoiling it). The Ring is a true masterpiece.
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personally, when it first came out, all I heard was how wonderful it was and how scary it was. And don't get me wrong, I love a good horror movie (not that there has been any in the last decade), but I don't consider The Ring a "masterpiece" by any means.
It could have been better, and it could have been worse. But masterpiece it was definitely not.
Now Excorcist, thats a horror masterpiece, and The Ring doesn't even compare to The Excocist.
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Haven't seen the Ring yet...so don't spoil it!! ;D
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I think I am the only person in the world who was terrified by BWP. Everyone has said how lame it was. Of course after hearing them say that, I don't dare tell them it scared the bejeezus out of me!
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I gotta tell ya, cs. I saw the movie after knowing that it was just that, a movie and not something that really took place. So it wasn't really all that scary.
But...right before the movie came out, the Sci-Fi channel did a special on it. They did it in documentary form, just like the movie. They interviewed townspeople. They showed footage of the location and stuff. Then they started showing the movie footage that the kids supposedly took. Well, I did not know this wasn't real...and it scared the CRAP outta me!! I was alone, and it was at night, and constant chills were going up and down my spine. I was freakin'!! I had no idea it was all put on. The next day, I told my wife about it and she said it was all fake and I said no way and she said yes way...we still laugh like crazy about that to this day.
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And the two Catholic school girls at the beginning were hot. I wish all movies could begin with teenage girls in their school uniforms. (Both of these girls are legal in real life.) ;D
But seriously, I saw Naomi Watts (the lead actress) in "Mullholland Drive" and "The Ring", and she was good in both. I still can't bellieve she wasn't nominated for an Oscar for M.D. >:(
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It could have been better, and it could have been worse. But masterpiece it was definitely not.
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It is in my book, and the more I think about it, the better it gets.
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personally, when it first came out, all I heard was how wonderful it was and how scary it was. And don't get me wrong, I love a good horror movie (not that there has been any in the last decade), but I don't consider The Ring a "masterpiece" by any means.
It could have been better, and it could have been worse. But masterpiece it was definitely not.
Now Excorcist, thats a horror masterpiece, and The Ring doesn't even compare to The Excocist.
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See, that's the thing, The Exorcist didn't bother me at all. I thought it was stupid. (There I go showing my articulate side again ::) ). A good horror movie to me is something that could possibly happen. I just don't believe in that puking pea soup stuff. But, that freaky s h i t that could happen out in the woods with whacko's on the loose...that's another story!
Isn't there a movie coming out about some deranged brothers in the woods of West Virginia? Yikes!
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They did a similar thing on T.V in the U.K a few years ago with three well known T.V presenters suposedly doing a 'live' show from an occupied haunted house with poltergeist activity around two children living there.At first it appeared to be a hoax then stuff started happening and it was quite scary.I knew it was a spoof as I had read up on it and I still found bits of it disturbing!So I can understand why the T.v company was bombarded with phonecalls.They never repeated the show !!
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Another movie that scared the crap out of me was an old Vincent Price movie called Haunted House on the Hill. We rented it when I was about 15. I remember being scared by that movie.
Didn't get into the Jason/Halloween movies. Not a fan of gory stuff.
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Quoting:See, that's the thing, The Exorcist didn't bother me at all. I thought it was stupid. (There I go showing my articulate side again ::) ). A good horror movie to me is something that could possibly happen. I just don't believe in that puking pea soup stuff.
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Ah, but see, The Excorcist movie was based on a book. And the book was based on actual events. Of course parts of it were embellished for shock value on the big screen, but the whole story was based on actual events.
However, when you talk about The Ring, you're talking about a video tape that kills people. And you call that believable? ::)
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Ah, but see, The Excorcist movie was based on a book. And the book was based on actual events. Of course parts of it were embellished for shock value on the big screen, but the whole story was based on actual events.
However, when you talk about The Ring, you're talking about a video tape that kills people. And you call that believable? ::)
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Yeah, I'm sure there's people who think (or are :-/ )possessed. But the movie just wasn't scary to me.
I haven't seen The Ring. Is that what it's about? Nah, I don't think a video can kill me. But those freaky cults and mountain people... :o
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However, when you talk about The Ring, you're talking about a video tape that kills people. And you call that believable? ::)
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No, it is about past mistakes, revenge, and self sacrifice....
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The Ring is a movie that made the absolute best it could out of a bad, campfire story premise.
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No, it is about past mistakes, revenge, and self sacrifice....
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no offense, but I think you guys are looking waaaaaay too deep into this movie.
people watch a video tape, and die from it. Not my idea of cinematic genius.
but to each his own. ;)
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One hour photo was good but didn't really tell me anything insightful.
The Ring (Japanese version) is memorable for one scene and that is when the girl comes out of the television. I have not seen the American version but that Japanese version sure scared the hell out of me.
In a way, it's a psychological ploy. You are watching the same forbidden thing on the same medium as the characters are. Are you going to die as well (that's how I was thinking). The distorted swaying of the girl was so eerie as well - I'd not seen anything like it.
I would have sh*t myself if I got a phone call half way through the film!
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no offense, but I think you guys are looking waaaaaay too deep into this movie.
people watch a video tape, and die from it. Not my idea of cinematic genius.
but to each his own. ;)
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That's the problem. You guys are looking at it too light (or don't understand the whole plot), and can't see the real genius behind it. ;)
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No, it is about past mistakes, revenge, and self sacrifice....
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I have nothing against looking deeply into things that don't seem very deep. I have analyzed the underlying nuances of Weird Al songs. But I have no idea at all how you got any of those themes out of The Ring. To get me to buy this, you're going to have to give a detailed explanation for each subject, 150 word minimum.
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Quoting: To get me to buy this, you're going to have to give a detailed explanation for each subject, 150 word minimum.End Quote
Don't buy it, rent it!
Subject: Re: The Ring
The main reason that "The Ring" was not scary to me is that there was no real suspense to the movie, there were some really small points of suspense but nothing to hold your breath to. I mean yeah there were some creepy sceens but not scary. For a movie to be scary to me there has to be a lot of suspense and even though I never saw Blair Witch Project from what I have heard it is filled with suspense and thats what makes the movie so scary.
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no offense, but I think you guys are looking waaaaaay too deep into this movie.
people watch a video tape, and die from it. Not my idea of cinematic genius.
but to each his own. ;)
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Thats another thing the whole idea of the movie was stupid cause it was so unrealistic.
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The main reason that "The Ring" was not scary to me is that there was no real suspense to the movie, there were some really small points of suspense but nothing to hold your breath to. I mean yeah there were some creepy sceens but not scary. For a movie to be scary to me there has to be a lot of suspense and even though I never saw Blair Witch Project from what I have heard it is filled with suspense and thats what makes the movie so scary.
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I agree 100%!
Susupense and "fear of whats to come" is the #1 ingredient to a First-Class horror movie.
And as far as I'm concerned, "The Ring" had none of this. It was just a wannabe horror movie with a weak story-line, weak plot, weak characters, and a really lame premise (video tape that kills people ::)).
In 20 years when someone wants to see a classic horror film, they will go for something like "The Excorcist", "The Omen", or maybe even the original "Nightmare on Elm Street", but they will definitely not go for "The Ring".
"The Ring" will be in the clearence bin at Walmart in a few years.
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In 20 years when someone wants to see a classic horror film, they will go for something like "The Excorcist", "The Omen", or maybe even the original "Nightmare on Elm Street", but they will definitely not go for "The Ring".
"The Ring" will be in the clearence bin at Walmart in a few years.
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I disagree; the canonization is already taking place. The reason people are still talking about it even though it's not in theaters (something most horror movies today never make it that far) is because it had something the others didn't: atmosphere. Plot or not, it was a really creepy movie. It probably won't be as big as The Exorcist, but it will probably make it to the level of, say, Poltergeist.
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It probably won't be as big as The Exorcist, but it will probably make it to the level of, say, Poltergeist.
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Totoally disagree.
Actually, now that you mention it, I should have mentioned "Poltergiest" as one of the classics, but it slipped my mind.
"The Ring" will be out of memories in a few years, trust me. Classics Like "Poltergeist" and the forementioned in my previous post will live on forever.
I equate "The Ring" to other recent teen horror flicks like "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
Snore city. ::) :P
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I equate "The Ring" to other recent teen horror flicks like "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
Snore city. ::) :P
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Oh, if there's one lesson that has been painfully beaten into me, it's that some things will be hailed as classics whether or not you or I hate it.
Freakin' Depeche Mode.
Freakin' Seinfeld.
Freakin' American Beauty.
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How about Freakin' Star Wars? :P ;D
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Oh, if there's one lesson that has been painfully beaten into me, it's that some things will be hailed as classics whether or not you or I hate it.
Freakin' Depeche Mode.
Freakin' Seinfeld.
Freakin' American Beauty.
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Subject: Re: The Ring
I really hope I haven't dropped myself in it here but I don't think Depeche Mode, Seinfield or Star Wars are classics at all.
'See you' and 'I just can't get enough' were o.k but I don't think the band should recieve legendary status.
Seinfield is nice to fall back on if there is nothing on telly - but it is not legendary.
Star Wars was a bit of fluff. Attack of the clones had good effects and crap plot - but it wasn't legendary.
I can't say anything about 'American Beauty' - I couldn't be bothered to watch it.
Subject: Re: The Ring
The Ring was alright. IMO, it had decent eerie atmosphere, it was suspenseful enough, though it fell very short of scaring the "beegeezus" outta me. Definitely overrated. I mostly remember it being full of plot holes.
I'm sure some of you know of "Ringu". I read "Ringu" is much scarier. There are a prequel and sequel out there for it too which explain everything one could ever want to know or didn't understand about the first released film.