http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/ The home of Electronic Arts Community en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:37:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/images/ea_images_main/misc/rss.jpg http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/ http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/304-lauren-tries-review-result-amusing.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:21:09 GMT 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? ]]> Lauren http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/304-lauren-tries-review-result-amusing.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/126-eauk-graveyard.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:22:20 GMT This is the respected graveyard of Past EA members. It's also home to the current EA members that we have killed. Post to add a grave to this dignified cemetery. ]]> Lauren http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/126-eauk-graveyard.html http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/blogs/338661-lauren/123-hello.html Sat, 31 May 2008 23:47:04 GMT So today I finally got past that God, urm, boss, Demyx on Kingdom Hearts. And now i'm addicted. But I'm afraid the time has come....

I don't think I'm worthy. I have to fight Xaldin!

My pc is still acting up and I won't be able to enter the sig of the week. Probably wouldn't win anyway.

Random Fact: Galaxy is nearly as tasty as Demyx.

My Tekken Comic update:
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