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The 1998 Japanese film Ring is simply wonderful... it is wonderful all around... if you walked in the room in the middle of it and just caught a second you would likely want to sit down and continue watching. It is made to the Japanese perfection and it grabs you.
Considered a great representative of the best J-Horror style movies it delivers... in its quiet but deliberate way, all until its totally unpredictable ending.
And I am not ashamed to add I felt some chills down my spine here and there.
If you would like to see and experience that marvel - hurry up, as it will be gone from the Criterion at the end of this month.
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How two versions of the same movie could be SO different! Same for Japanese and American version of "The Grudge."
Edits: 06/25/25
That's why foreign movies are so different. Somebody with an entirely different brain conceived and executed the design.
Being a red-blooded American, I often find some foreign horror films boring. Why? I am from an impatient culture that expects things to happen the moment I lay my doubloons down. I often fail to overlay cultural-relativism while watching something like 'The Ring' (or others) in order to adjust to the pace or prevailing story.
I am a huge fan of Asian horror and subtitles which puts me in a tiny demographic. I much prefer foreign horror from Japan or South Korea.
I did not like it. The difference was totally predictable and unpleasant.
Where the Japanese tickle you to death with a feather the Americans run you over with a bulldozer.
But the most disappointing element was all those extra explanations they felt they had to provide... no respect for their public's intellect? I did not like it one bit. I thought everything WAS explained in the original clearly enough... it felt like watching a comedian explaining to me his pinch lines.
Well, at least there was a $.20 discount on this time.
I know there is also The Ring Two... that one is $3.99, so I wonder...
but I don't remember a thing about it. The original trained me to wince in the morning when my comb-over falls over my face after a shower.
. . . which I wanted to post in response. It showed two guys watching some quasi-Fellini film, as the narrator asked, "Why do foreign films have to be so. . . foreign?". But then he continued, "Why ask why? Try Bud Dry". Apparently, Martin Scorsese was upset by this commercial and wrote a letter to the NY Times about it. I always thought it was pretty clever myself. But hey - I'm easily amused!
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I normally would just ignore it, but now you sparked some perverted curiosity in me. :) Is it THAT horrible?
It isn't as good as the original, but it's really not that bad. It just doesn't quite capture the atmosphere of the original, but it's definitely the best of the American remakes. Naomi Watts helps.
Jack
The American version managed to actually diminish my fondness of the Japanese version. Wish I didn't see it...
And I've been watching them Turkish movies on YT for a few years already. Some Persian movies as well. Islamic movies are not as restricted and internally censored as we tend to think.
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