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Ketchuplover
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 5:37 pm
Kady. If you're not warped from the experience,then what are you warped from? Take the dare Valentine's Day 2003
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Kady
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 6:07 pm
Ketchup, you always make me smile. Take the dare....care to explain?? Some people(Azriel in particular)thought I was nuts when I said... If someone gave me a video and told me my phone would ring after I watched it...would I watch?? Yes, I would, even after seeing the movie. 
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Jbean
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 8:42 pm
lance, i didn't think it was that scary either. it was pretty good, though. the good thing about it to me, was, when i left, i didn't have to look under my car to see if anyone was under there, and i didn't have nightmares. this was a very well done movie. my friend that i went with didn't think it was that scary either. unless we are just weird....lol...definitely a possibility!
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Juju2bigdog
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 11:36 pm
Okay, I saw it today. Maybe I was overly anticipating. I didn't think it was that scary or all that good. I thought a lot of the build-ups were pretty hokey, and I find that loud suspenseful music which cuts to an innocent scene annoying. I thought there were a lot of "disconnects," as though in some other version of the movie, these things were explained but the explanations somehow got cut out of this version. Like how the kid happened to be channeling the girl. Like the title of the movie. That explanation seemed to be added in as a lame afterthought. "Oh yeah, we cut out the part about how the title is relevant, better add a sentence about it back in." I thought it was just an okay movie, not a big screen must see. Maybe a bored afternoon video rental. Bigdog liked it less than I did. BUT, here is a very interesting aside. One day in the summer, we decided to take the ferry over to the Olympic peninsula from the mainland of Washington state. We went from Kingston to Port Townsend and back. On the ferry dock at the Port Townsend end there were all sorts of movie vans. AND there were horse trailers in with the movie vans, as though they were making a movie about taking horse trailers on ferries. Betcha anything they were making that movie then. The name of the ferry in the movie was the Quinault. We rode the Quinault that day. Well, DUH!!!!!! This just hit me this very minute. We had to wait several hours that morning because the first two ferries did not run. We thought it was because of fierce tides. There are warnings about that particular ferry that it sometimes does not run because of bad tides. It did not run because they were shooting the movie on it!!!
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Alegria
| Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 4:13 am
By six degrees of Kevin Bacon you are 'in the biz', Juju!!!!!!!!
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Crazydog
| Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 8:13 am
Juju, I thought the explanation of the title was one of the best things about it. The whole time throughout the movie I had been confused about the title and assumed it had something to the ringing phone. But their tag line "before you die you see the Ring" didn't really make sense until Naomi Watts was in that place and they had a flashback of what Samara saw after she got there. I thought it was great. As well as the explanation of why the people died in seven days. But I do agree with you that there was never an explanation as to how the little boy could hear the girl. I thought the ending was a little hokey. After Naomi solved the mystery it was all nicely wrapped up but then they went ahead and clearly made room for a sequel.
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Ketchuplover
| Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 2:25 pm
Kady "take the dare" is the tagline of the upcoming Daredevil movie.
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Mssilhouette
| Friday, November 15, 2002 - 2:30 pm
Juju...just keep in mind that this is the American version of a Japanese horror movie based upon the writings of what they call the Japanese version of Stephen King. So the name didn't come from the US movie people. The Japanese title is : Ringu http://www.thehorrorofringu.com/ring_rvw.html Check out the scenes from the japanese version. You'll see the US kept pretty faithful to the plot and look.
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Juju2bigdog
| Friday, November 15, 2002 - 5:07 pm
Well, you know what, Mssil? Now that you tell me that, the disconnects make a whole lot more sense. Well, not exactly sense, but I can see where things might have been lost in the translation. Thanks. I did not know that.
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Pamy
| Saturday, November 16, 2002 - 3:34 pm
I was going to see this movie but my friend told me about a graphic scene involving an animal, I can watch people get murdered and it doesn't phase me(I used to do SPFX makeup)but I can't take an animal getting hurt, go figure!
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Mssilhouette
| Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 1:20 pm
Yeah pamy it is bit of a shocker...I know folks in the movie theater that I went in all did a collective 'Ohhhhhh awwww' I think everyone was wincing at that scene. But you can watch the movie up until the part. Trust me you'll know when it's coming. Just close your eyes and it'll pass by pretty quickly.
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Monkeyboy
| Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 7:00 pm
my roommate rented the DVD last night...OMG! this movie scared the living caca out of me!
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Lizadee
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:28 am
I watched this Sat.nite with my DD by my side (she wouldn't leave it) LOL I thought it was scary I thought I also didn't really get the ending even after I rewinded and watched again My DS borrowed it and took it to his place to watch with his friends so I thought I would call and tell him 7 days and he freaked cause I called at the right time
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Heyltslori
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:46 am
hahahaha Lizadee!! That was mean!! (but funny!)
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Wargod
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:07 pm
Mean, mean, mean Liz, LOL! My mom called right about the time the phone rang the first time in the movie...and I yelled. I love horror movies and books...as long as their not gory. I was excited when hubby bought the Ring home and couldn't wait to get the kids in bed to watch it. I totally freaked out! I could not watch the whole movie. I finally turned it off, nudged hubby awake, and went to bed where I huddled the night away under the blankets. I've never been affected by a good scare movie like that, LOL. Sundy hubby decided he was going to finish watching it. I stayed outside finishing yard work, and washed and cleaned both cars thoroughly even though I had just done his Thursday....I was not coming inside til it was done. Unfortunately, I had to run in the house for windex and managed to catch the last minute or so of Noah's last scene...and I'll I can say is I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER AGAIN watch this movie!!!! It was good....but scared me half to death, LOL.
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Crazydog
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:22 pm
Yes, it was quite scary. So Wargod, you didn't even make it to THAT SCENE and you had to quit! Sorry for your shock then when you saw it. That one scene is far and away the scariest part of the movie.
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Wargod
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:37 pm
I made it to....where she fell down the well, and that was enough for me. The funny part is that I can't finger not one spot before that one scene I caught while running through the house that really bothered me.....it was the whole thing that freaked me out. I really don't scare easy...it was so odd, lol. And yep, when I saw that one scene, I ran out of the house like my shorts were on fire!!! Its funny now, but at the time, it definitely wasn't! Hehe, I can't wait to loan the DVD to my sister to see what she thinks of it!
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Curiouscat
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:06 pm
Mark me down as one who didn't think this movie was that scary. Lizadee, I really didn't get the ending either, so I found a site that discussed the original Japanese version, Ringu, and now I get it. I'm hoping I'll find Ringu to rent now.
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Monkeyboy
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:08 pm
Ringu is out now, curious
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Curiouscat
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:23 pm
Yeah, I saw the advertisement for it on The Ring DVD I rented, Monkeyboy. Have you watched Ringu? I was wondering if it has an English language selection or if it's Japanese with only English subtitles?
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Monkeyboy
| Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:39 pm
its both curious...dubbed and subtitles
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Lizadee
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:50 am
What is Ringu ?? And is it scary ? Or something I am going to need to watch in order to see why I didn't get the ending of The Ring Another thing that bothered me on The Ring is the fingernail coming off Now that just makes my finger hurt
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Monkeyboy
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:15 am
Liza...The Ringu is the original japenese version of the Ring. And i thought it made more since than the American version. Yea and those severed fingers gave me the heebie jeebies!
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Lycanthrope
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 6:15 pm
I loved this flick. I don't normally jump during movies, and I did a few times during this one. I watched the little short film of "The Ring" that's on the DVD, which includes deleted and extended scenes. It ties a lot of things together better. The fingernail popping off is in reference to the fingernail Rachel found in the well, presumably Samara's. The one thing I couldn't figure out was what the severed fingers were supposed to represent. I got the ending, but I'm still gonna watch Ringu at some point. To make it really creepy and get a look at everything, slow your DVD player down during those speed-up Ring image scenes. The best scare-movie since Jeepers Creepers.
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Bananaclip
| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 6:35 pm
I thought some of the things in this movie were pretty similar to Stir of Echoes, fingernail and all! Well up until the apartment scene that is!
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