The Ring - How I Wasted my Saturday

[downside]

I'm not looking for an argument, but rather reasons users think I should like this movie. Here is what I gathered thus far on one of the more hyped movies out there that I got tricked into seeing.

When my friends all raved about this movie, I had to see it. When the die hard, Goth friends also talked about it's spookiness, I was there. And up until the credits roled at the end...I wait for said scary part and it never came. I left feeling sore from the power-torwuing I just received.

I can think of one think...one fucking thing that allowed me to continue watching. Of the 7200 seconds involved in this movie, two got my attention. Relatively in the beginning when the main mother is talking to the mother of the dead girl from the beginning, the dead girl's mother relives finding her daughters body. Wisely, the editing crew placed two seconds of footage of the body being found in the closet surrounded by a screech of noises. This made me jump, and smile, and look forward to the rest of the movie. This is what I like to refer to as the heavy petting of the movie...since the movie itself gave me horrorcore blue-ball.

The rest of the movie was spent trying to figure out how to not die in seven days. Slowly, she pieces together a story of a tormented girl who was tossed into a well and left for dead. The girl was weird before the tossing, so it was okay and acceptable to the town. The ring (as it should not have been a surprise) was really the girls view up from the well as her mother sealed it shut. She later died in (gasp!) seven days. This all seemed fairly solid.

Then I asked myself...so why the tape? Why the VHS? The little girl, although dead, somehow has a VCR? The cure for her too was lame...make a copy and send it around. I waited hours just to figure out that this is simply an over exagerated version of the "send this to 8 people or you'll have bad luck" emails. And when you finally did see the girl attack someone...she was just a naked wet albino chick that apparentally is so ugly, you die of fright. Don't worry though...she walks really slowly.

I guess I was probably jsut taken off gaurd by what I was told was the scariest movie of all time. Maybe I expect too much...like some horror. But for whatever reason, I was completely bored in this flick and can't fathom why people would say it was a good scary movie after watching it.

My Cousin Vinny was scarier.

[meetthecreeper]

You know what is wrong with movies now days? WAY TOO MUCH HYPE!!! I agree all I heard was how scary this movie was BORING I found that Shatners performance in the second airplane flick more frightening. I rarely go to the theater now because of this. Just saw TCM at the theater dont get me wrong it was very good but I expected more. When I was told that House of 1000 corpses was having trouble being released because it was to terrifying i thought Great cant wait to see it. I loved the movie but I thought the terrifying parts were missing. I guess that I have become desensitzed to horror. But I think the hype ruins it for everyone. Matrix reloaded I saw, wasnt impressed. Remember when Titanic came out all the hype surrounding that, I thought after seeing it that it was the biggest piece of crap film I had ever seen. Just my 2 cents.

[FreddyFan]

I didn't like The Ring that much either. I expected to be scared to death but I found out that I was BORED to death. I only liked the scene in the begginning when they find the gir's body in the closet. Scary shit! But the rest of the movie was horrible. Not scary at all.

[moonsorrow]

hmmm.... still dont see why you didnt like it, amusing scary movie if you ask me...

[Nutty ****]

How could you not find samara crawling out of the tv scary? i nearly pissed meself:( :eek:

[moonsorrow]

Originally posted by Nutty ****
How could you not find samara crawling out of the tv scary? i nearly pissed meself:( :eek:

the music\ambinence and immages worked realy well together, i remember jumping at the sight of that catterpillar cause of the damn sound.

[dmihatmttl]

Loved it. One of my favorites of all time (both versions). Been a long time since I saw a movie that -- even when watching a scene that wasn't overtly *scary*, per se -- instilled such a sense of "dread" in me. Loved the "tone" . . . very unnerving . . . .

And I'm definitely with ya on the sounds, Moonsorrow. I think they were part of what made this movie really work for me. That shrill "scraping" noise (for lack of a better way to describe it) set me on edge every time.


Count me in with you RING fans.



James
http://members.tripod.com/~NEWMANATOR/index.html

[downside]

I suppose it worked for some, but I'll agree that the hype is a huge part of what killed it. Nutty's pic is a good indication of the word that spread about this movie. I found myself waiting to be "terrified" for hours, only to leave mildly annoyed.

And although I don't remember the sound when the girl crawled from the T.V., I will say it was the sound when they showed the dead girls body (in the beginning) that made me jump. So I suppose kudos are in order for the volume guy. But as for story, plot and overall scariness, I would show this movie to my neice, who will be turning three next month.

[Nutty ****]

i think r niece is too young i think u shuld wait until shes 3 and a half


or she can watch matrix reloaded instead

[GoreHound]

I did not find it scary, but I did enjoy it. I really find no movie to be scary these days.

[graveyard ghoul]

Originally posted by Nutty ****
i think r niece is too young i think u shuld wait until shes 3 and a half


or she can watch matrix reloaded instead

thats mean reloaded was gud!! but the first one was better

and the ring does suck

[heapodd]

Just a few words:

Check out the original (far superior). The hollywood remake was ****.

The orginal: a challenge:

watch it on your own, late at night, with the lights turned out and come back here and tell me it wasn't good.

[freddy13]

this fuckin movie was really dumb.i hate this movie.it made no sense .what was it about

[Lycanthe]

This is especially for downside, but also for those who apparently didn't understand the story of "The Ring".

First of all, it makes no sense to be too disappointed if a horror movie doesn't work for you; people are different, and the path, if you will, to the part of each person that generates fear is different and all movies aren't going to get there. Maybe this was the case with you and the Ring. You have to pay attention to THE STORY in order to get this, and not just sit there hoping something scares you.

Here's the story in a nutshell.
Samara was the result of some subhuman fertility deal and as a result she had the ability to transmit her thoughts and some images into the minds of others as well as onto certain types of media, like photographic film and , yes, videotape. Her father didn't want her, and (I'm just guessing here) that conflict drove her mother crazy. When mommy went to the nuthouse, daddy stashed her in the horsebarn, alone. At some point her mother came back, killed Samara, then killed herself. In a combination of anger and malice, Samara, who apparently had some part of her mind or whatever survive after her body died, decided to put her story onto videotape, presumably because she wanted others to know what happened to her. Some evil part of her would come and "get" anyone who didn't make and distribute a copy of the tape so others would not only witness her story but have to make more copies or die.

Personally, I found it to be one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen. If you didn't , it's because the story just didn't reach you, not because it was a bad movie. None of the "nutcase-in-a-mask-with-a-knife-chasing-stupid-teenagers" movies are scary to me, but that doesn't mean some of them weren't good stories...they just weren't horror to me. To each his own.

[the Anti-crist]

i agree with what Lycanthe said about each person that generates fear is different and for the movie to scar you you have to think more about what is going to happen next plot wise then whats going to happen next scary wise and the movie will be much better that way for two ressons 1 this movie to me is more of a mystre type then horror &2 movies are too predicable now a days so you wont know what is going to happen next unless you focuse on some thing eles or all movies are going to seem like this one
:D

[ringmovierocker]

i thougt the ring was a good movie. i liked both of the versions japanese and english but the best i think was the english version because i liked how the faces looked when someone died especially the first girl that died. the japanese version didnt really have a very scary effect because well the effects on their faces just looked a bit crap.



ps this is my first post:D

[SadisticAngel]

Well, I liked "The Ring", too. I've seen both versions, the japanese one and the remake and I would prefer the remake. It looks much darker than the japanese version... the sky is always dark :-) so the atmosphere is more depressing...
And I must admit, the movie scared me more than all the other movies I watched in the last time. Of course, not everyone will be scared by it because everyone fears other things... but for me, it was scary as hell :-)

[rikki]

YES! There are other people in the world who thought this movie royally sucked ass! I almost liked it - but the end ruined the whole thing. The movie was doing OK until the part of the end where it stops and restarts. You know where it seems like the movie's over, fade to black, but then the fucker just doesn't want to die and starts right back up. That pissed me off so bad I have now boycotted the movie.

I was really disappointed w/House of 1,000 Corpses, too - not because it was a bad movie though, but because it wasn't what I expected. I went to see it with the expectation of pissing my pants, instead I almost fell asleep. Granted, it was weird and had some psychotic stuff going on, but it was far from scary.

[SoUl SuRvIvOrS]

I liked The Ring and Loved Ringu..then again Im a huge fan of Horror movies from Abroad....The english version had awesome sound effect as posted previously..But I have to stay comminted to Ringu..after all I had seen it first and it had lead me to watch the Ring..

[Wicked Lady]

Originally posted by meetthecreeper
You know what is wrong with movies now days? WAY TOO MUCH HYPE!!! I agree all I heard was how scary this movie was BORING I found that Shatners performance in the second airplane flick more frightening. I rarely go to the theater now because of this. Just saw TCM at the theater dont get me wrong it was very good but I expected more. When I was told that House of 1000 corpses was having trouble being released because it was to terrifying i thought Great cant wait to see it. I loved the movie but I thought the terrifying parts were missing. I guess that I have become desensitzed to horror. But I think the hype ruins it for everyone. Matrix reloaded I saw, wasnt impressed. Remember when Titanic came out all the hype surrounding that, I thought after seeing it that it was the biggest piece of crap film I had ever seen. Just my 2 cents.

The movie that I think was COMEPLETELY OVER HYPED was that crappy little movie THE HULK...It was lame,it was boring & it just plain SUCKED!:mad:

[kawaiidragonfoe]

To love the ring you have to watch it more then once & if you can, rent the DVD which has all the extra's (JMO). The thing with the hole & the girl at the end was awsome, but i think that it could've been even better if it had been rated 'R' likewise with darkness falls. Of course 'Ring' has shortcomings, what movie doesn't the friday the 13th movies also have loads of shortcomings & plotholes but i still love them all the same.

[mictlan]

Originally posted by SadisticAngel
Well, I liked "The Ring", too. I've seen both versions, the japanese one and the remake and I would prefer the remake. It looks much darker than the japanese version... the sky is always dark :-) so the atmosphere is more depressing...
And I must admit, the movie scared me more than all the other movies I watched in the last time. Of course, not everyone will be scared by it because everyone fears other things... but for me, it was scary as hell :-)

Check out Dark Water, by the same writer and director of Ringu. The (US) Ring got a lot of that murky look from Dark Water.

Seattle (where Ring was shot) is like that in the winter anyway... I lived there for six years and it can be pretty depressing.

[cjbguy87]

I got a question that deals with the ring itself. Ok, so if you slide a huge stone slab across a well, doesnt it block all the light out...therefore not leaving a ring. Im confused as to how a ring of light gets through........it is physically impossible because if a ring existed than the slab would fall through. Anybody have anything to say to this....?

[graveyard ghoul]

Originally posted by cjbguy87
I got a question that deals with the ring itself. Ok, so if you slide a huge stone slab across a well, doesnt it block all the light out...therefore not leaving a ring. Im confused as to how a ring of light gets through........it is physically impossible because if a ring existed than the slab would fall through. Anybody have anything to say to this....?


if you had every other small bit of rock missing it woulkd stay up (just) and might let a wonky ring through.... that doesnt work does it?:confused:

[Aasiyan]

I bought the dvd before I watched it because it was supposed to be good. That was the biggest mistake I ever made. (For the most part....) Anyways, everyone said it was scary, and it was a little bit creepy, but omg. Does anyone want to buy a dvd that was used like, twice???? :D Ha. Ha. Ha. Some parts were pretty creepy, but I was expecting to have serious nightmares from all the hype and it never happened.....

[Ulrik]

the ring was ok..girl crawling out..fucking scary!

[Midgard Dragon]

*waves* Erm, hey, I'm kinda new, and I really liked this movie, so it only seemed logical that my first post/reply should involve it.

Anyways, if you really want the story to make sense, you have to do a lot of searching and find the original Japanese books/mangas/whatever they were. It explains the whole backstory and (I believe) delves more into what Samara's powers are/do. I also believe that there was a sequel (or 2) to the Japanese version, as well.

I hear (don't remember where) that we should have a sequel to the American version someday soon too. *shrug* It could just be rumor, but I'm fairly sure it was confirmed.

[GoreHound]

Yes, they are coming out with a sequel to the American version. It comes out in November 2004. I saw it mentioned on Gore Zone (www.gorezone.net/). They showed a copy of the teaser poster. I hope when they release this sequel to DVD, they will also release the Japanese sequel on region 1 DVD as well.

[Seeing-red]

I liked the ring (jap version) It's quite a slow movie but the ending is good

[Leslie Daher]

i sooo whole heartedly agree on the sentiment that THE RING was a waste! i wasted 2 hours of my life that i'll never get back! i'm pretty certain that that was put out by dreamworks and though i'm quite sure that steven spielberg didn't have anything to do w/ it, it's still HIS production company and anything having to do w/ him these days is box office poison! the movie made no sense! but that's what you get when we try to make an adaptation of a japanese film (ringu) PLOT HOLES up the YING YANG! Nothing was ever explained. like THE CELL it had great visuals and NOTHING else! the kid was supposed to be evil and they never showed how. loved how they kept flashing that stupid ring toward the end and had to incorporate the audience..they showed US the video tape now we're all going to die! hollywood is right...some ppl can be sold ANYTHING!!!

[Arioch]

i liked how the ring used psychological unsettlings like loud sounds, and instant flashed images to unnerve the audiance. Yes it is kinda slow, but its so refreshing to see a different kind of horror movie.

Im so tired of the same, type of scares used in horror movies. The violin holding that 1 high note to make you suspensefull. Its just tired. The way the ring was filmed was a somewhat different approach to a horror movie, its obviously not going to be appreciated by everyone. Some people just love the same old working idea.:rolleyes:

[Javyn]

I haven't seen The Ring yet, but from the looks of your posts, I'm not going to bother. I saw Ringu and loved it. But I read that the sequels to Ringu weren't that good either. That it ends up being a virus that kills people, not the video, or ghosts. Competely ruins it heh.

[Aylmer]

I liked the movie much more the second time around. Didn't really care for it too much the first time around either though.

[Signs515]

Obviously people all have their own opions but I really liked this movie, it's definetly in my top 10. Horror movies to me don't always have to be fast paced and action filled, psychological thrillers that unravel the story as it goes are great too. I wish for the sequel they would go in the past and try to explain the tape and Samara better but from what I've seen that's not what's going to happen.

[freddy69]

that is the most dumbest movie i have ever saw

[Midgard Dragon]

Originally posted by freddy69
that is the most dumbest movie i have ever saw


Do I really have to say anything? *sigh* Okay, I will.


"That is the most dumbest..."

There is no need for a most here. That is the dumbest...etc. would have worked.


"...i have ever saw."

I'm fairly sure this is wrong, but don't quote me. First off, there is no need for the "ever" part. Second, I think "..I have seen." would be more accurate.

Put it all together, and you have:

"That is the dumbest movie I have seen."


Sorry to play the grammar police, but if you are going to dis something, saying it is dumb, please try to use correct grammar, or you just make yourself look dumb.

[2killornot2kill]

You should all so watch the japanness version on THE RING. Now that is scary. You will have to read sub-title but hey its scray.