Lauren tries to review. Result=Amusing
Posted 17-08-2008 at 03:21 AM by Lauren
What you get when Lauren tries to post a review on two movies.
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Ringu vs The Ring.
I'm really hard to scare with horror movies. I watched The Ring and it didn't scare me at all. I watched ringu and it didn't scare me, but it paranoid me. For awhile after I kept seeing reflections of say some of my clothes at a dodgy angle, and it made me jump and look at it. Same when I heard little noises.
I agree that US films try to be screamer-like, but the japanese versions have a more, creepy, paranoia style.
The videotape from Ringu was not pointless, I'd actually say the opposite. The Ringu video tape was all from one source and one person. Whereas the Ring tape seemed like just random peices of tape stringed together.
As I said in Part 1, US-H try to be like screamers whereas J-H have a kind of sense like paranoia, which is alot scarier than screamers. I aslo said I'm hard to scare, but Ringu I was surprised because it did actually scare me, but in a different way. Paranoia.
I think that US movies, specifically remakes, try way too hard to make that look scarier with special effects. It's kind of ruins it for me though. The Japanese version is much more suttle with the special effects, which effectively makes it more scary. On the other hand the US version makes it glaringly obvious they're trying to scare you which ruins it.
In conclusion I think Ringu is scarier because the story actually made sense, the contents of the videotape were related, it didn't overuse effects, and the storyline was more important to make it scary than the effects were. The US version was completely opposite they concentrated on the effects to make it scary rather than the storyline. Once again I beleive that the way Ringu makes you scared it much more effective than the way The Ring does.
I beleive the Japanese are the kings of horror, they have proved that.
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Tada?
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Ringu vs The Ring.
I'm really hard to scare with horror movies. I watched The Ring and it didn't scare me at all. I watched ringu and it didn't scare me, but it paranoid me. For awhile after I kept seeing reflections of say some of my clothes at a dodgy angle, and it made me jump and look at it. Same when I heard little noises.
I agree that US films try to be screamer-like, but the japanese versions have a more, creepy, paranoia style.
The videotape from Ringu was not pointless, I'd actually say the opposite. The Ringu video tape was all from one source and one person. Whereas the Ring tape seemed like just random peices of tape stringed together.
As I said in Part 1, US-H try to be like screamers whereas J-H have a kind of sense like paranoia, which is alot scarier than screamers. I aslo said I'm hard to scare, but Ringu I was surprised because it did actually scare me, but in a different way. Paranoia.
I think that US movies, specifically remakes, try way too hard to make that look scarier with special effects. It's kind of ruins it for me though. The Japanese version is much more suttle with the special effects, which effectively makes it more scary. On the other hand the US version makes it glaringly obvious they're trying to scare you which ruins it.
In conclusion I think Ringu is scarier because the story actually made sense, the contents of the videotape were related, it didn't overuse effects, and the storyline was more important to make it scary than the effects were. The US version was completely opposite they concentrated on the effects to make it scary rather than the storyline. Once again I beleive that the way Ringu makes you scared it much more effective than the way The Ring does.
I beleive the Japanese are the kings of horror, they have proved that.
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Tada?
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I think the Ringu is better. good Review!Posted 17-08-2008 at 12:39 PM by Epryor
