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Archive through March 12, 2003

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Ketchuplover

Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 5:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kady. If you're not warped from the experience,then what are you warped from? :)

Take the dare Valentine's Day 2003 :)

Kady

Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 6:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Jbean

Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 8:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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! :)

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!!!

Alegria

Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 4:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
By six degrees of Kevin Bacon you are 'in the biz', Juju!!!!!!!!

Crazydog

Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Ketchuplover

Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kady "take the dare" is the tagline of the upcoming Daredevil movie.

Mssilhouette

Friday, November 15, 2002 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, November 15, 2002 - 5:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Pamy

Saturday, November 16, 2002 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Monkeyboy

Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my roommate rented the DVD last night...OMG! this movie scared the living caca out of me! :)

Lizadee

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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

Heyltslori

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hahahaha Lizadee!! That was mean!! (but funny!)

Wargod

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Crazydog

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Wargod

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!

Curiouscat

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ringu is out now, curious :)

Curiouscat

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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?

Monkeyboy

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
its both curious...dubbed and subtitles

Lizadee

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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

Monkeyboy

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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! :)

Lycanthrope

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Bananaclip

Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!