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Hope you didn't watch the American version

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Jon L

In Reply to: RE: The horror does not get any more beautiful posted by Victor Khomenko on June 24, 2025 at 05:31:59

How two versions of the same movie could be SO different! Same for Japanese and American version of "The Grudge."

Edits: 06/25/25

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Ethnocentrism in action . . . - Billy Wonka 13:35:43 06/28/25 (3)
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 splurged $3.79 on the US version - Victor Khomenko 04:57:41 06/29/25 (1)
  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...
  - I know I saw the USA version . . . - Billy Wonka 19:09:05 06/30/25 (0)
    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.
- Bud Light (or was it Bud Dry?) is suppressing their commercial. . . - Chris from Lafayette 01:37:41 06/29/25 (0)
  . . . 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!
Per his post, he watched the 1998 Japanese film - agattu 13:19:04 06/26/25 (0)
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I just know it exists - Victor Khomenko 07:10:24 06/26/25 (2)
I normally would just ignore it, but now you sparked some perverted curiosity in me. :) Is it THAT horrible?
- No, not really - Jack G 03:53:50 06/27/25 (0)
  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
- RE: I just know it exists - Jon L 01:30:26 06/27/25 (0)
  The American version managed to actually diminish my fondness of the Japanese version. Wish I didn't see it...

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