"You see the ring before you die." That's cool. Thank for letting me know. Having read the case study for The Ring and J-Horror I realized that a lot of thought goes into making these horror movies, and to be honest, it makes me a tad bit nervous. I've always fantasized about being a producer or writing for movies and now I'm just like, who has the freaking time to sit down and remember all these little rules and accuracies and formats and coloring images and blah blah blah. Kudos to those out there who do this for a living and enjoy it. Me personally? I'll stick with the whole news things.
So, watching RINGU was boring. Sorry to J-Horror movie buffs out there. But it didn't inspire the same nervousness and 'need to know' that The Ring still does for me. Perhaps the digitizing got in the way for me to be able to visually enjoy it, and the subtitles always are hard to pay attention to when your eyes need to be able to focus on the screen. I also felt a serious lacking in...suspense. It might be because I've seen the American version a number of times, but for some reason I don't think that has that much to do with it. I still get a little excited and a little scared watching The Ring. I don't jump out of my seat the way I did when I first saw the movie, but I can still feel my heart start to race and I can feel the anticipation building. Nothing about RINGU excited me. Even the differences in the movies were boring.
Perhaps I'm a sucker for bad horror movies (I've been told I am) or perhaps I need to experience some more J-horror films to really understand their methods. It was lost on me.
So, watching RINGU was boring. Sorry to J-Horror movie buffs out there. But it didn't inspire the same nervousness and 'need to know' that The Ring still does for me. Perhaps the digitizing got in the way for me to be able to visually enjoy it, and the subtitles always are hard to pay attention to when your eyes need to be able to focus on the screen. I also felt a serious lacking in...suspense. It might be because I've seen the American version a number of times, but for some reason I don't think that has that much to do with it. I still get a little excited and a little scared watching The Ring. I don't jump out of my seat the way I did when I first saw the movie, but I can still feel my heart start to race and I can feel the anticipation building. Nothing about RINGU excited me. Even the differences in the movies were boring.
Perhaps I'm a sucker for bad horror movies (I've been told I am) or perhaps I need to experience some more J-horror films to really understand their methods. It was lost on me.
I don't think Ringu was as scary as the American Version either. The Ring had more of an over-all creepiness to it. I liked Ringu's use of backing audio better on the scarier parts, but overall, I was more creeped out by The Ring. However, I do think the story line was better in Ringu. I know they were similar but the little differences made it better. The little boy was a lot less annoying in Ringu, and I enjoyed Samaras back-story better in Ringu. Ringu actually exceeded my expectations, I thought having seen The Ring first, it would make it look cheap and non-believable, that wasn't the case at all.
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