Pulse And Kairo
 

I'm confused about something and I need some information...I figured you guys were the best to ask...


Is the new 'Pulse' an Americanized remake of 'Kairo', as The Grudge is an American remake of Ju-On?...OR...Is Pulse the EXACT same movie as Kairo, with only the name changed, as in Dead Alive and Brain Dead?


There was an old American movie called Pulse, about electronics (toasters, televisions, etcetera...There were no computers when it was made) killing people...Then there was a remake of that one (I own this remake) a few years ago...These 2 movies have NOTHING to do with Pulse/Kairo...


So, I guess what I really need to know is...Do I need to buy 1 movie or 2?...Are they the same or not?

Umm...I actually just figured this out...I apologize for my idiocy:o

I believe the new PULSE is a remake or Americanization of KAIRO? The old PULSE has nothing to do with these.

I suppose the motive for all the inferior American remakes of great Asian flicks is money. Still, there seems to be an underlying message that American audiences are too stupid to appreciate foreign films. I hope this isn't true, but all it takes is a trip to Wal-Mart to make me wonder.

for the vast majority that is very true.

Hopefully, the Americanised and re-written Pulse will be a vast improvement over the arse-numbingly drab original.

For once, the simplification and gloss of Hollywood might actually execute a story better.

No..... u?

I found it boring, and was willing it to its climax, which always seemed just out of reach.

This was the film when I realised it is a lot harder to care about foreign characters, particularly the Japs for some reason (and nothing to do with Pearl Harbour).

Pulse was the international title for Kairo, and is also the title of the Americanized remake

What about the wet backs? The frogs made some good horror movies, ditto with the limeys

Now we're going to see racist comments in the forums too?

I'm not sure if wet back, frog or limey are particularly racist, more of a slur. But there has been exploitation of the mentally retarded, disabled and homosexuals in the forums for quite some time.

The Brits have indeed made some decent horror movies, but back to audience identification - I think the embrace of Oriental horror in general in the West is largely exotic curiousity, allowing many of the films to escape the net of scrutiny even though the same themes are being repeated time and time again. Unless perhaps you have Oriental roots, it is more difficult to extract a range of feelings from the dialogue and as such we interpret most of the film from the surface. You could perhaps say the same about French or German productions, but in the UK at least, their cultures are closer to home and more easily recognised.

i think he was making a point that the use of the word Jap is racist -
I think so too...would never use the word myself .. but most of the UK folk here use it all the time..

I suspect that most Latinos would consider "wet back" a racial slur. I haven't been around here long enough to see people bashing developmentally disabled or homosexual persons, but I'm disappointed to hear that this is the case. Who exactly are the moderators, and do they enforce the the forum policies?

they try not to rule with an iron fist - and mostly keep their personal feelings out of it and use the general rumblings of the members in the forum as a barometer.

if things get truely nasty .. they'll do what they have to.