From Japan To The Us

[Raymei]

So I'm sure most of you know that "The Ring" was an American remake of the Japanese movie "Ring" (known as "Ringu" in the US for whatever means)

Now we've got the sequal to the Ring coming out (there are 4 or 5 movies in Japan of this series) AND "The Grudge" (aka "Ju On")


So why is it we've got all these remakes from Japan but we've got the straight-up movie from China ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Hero" for example) or France ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") etc etc?


Personally I liked the original of "Ring" a lot better than the remake (made me laugh at some parts, actually....) and already I like "Ju On" better (simple for the fact that it doesn't have Sarah Michelle Geller in it T.T;;;;)



any thoughts?

[Bahl_Rohg]

ringu was aslso a manga, I read it once.

Hell, I'd go to see "The Grudge" just cuz Sarah Michelle gellar is in it! But somehow I cant picture that movie as a japanese movie.
Dunt know why though.

[UltimaMewtwo]

"The Grudge" looks pretty eerie.
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[Tikuu]

I realy liked the ring allot, I personaly think the sepense kind of scary is the best. Never got around too seein Ringu, wanted too, read the first manga and i was realy good.
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Just got back from the grudge, it was very erire O_o, it scared the crap out of me a bit too, it's like allot of nonstop sepense though the whole thing, there was stuff popin out ever 5 seconds.

[DG-sama]

Whoa deja-vu... me and a friend of mine were just talking about this earlier today when we were in Blockbuster. And it's not just remakes there are several movies that have heavy influence from Japanese pop culture and anime (Kill Bill and Sky Captain for example). Not only that but I have noticed a ton of subbed Japanese movies one the shelves, can't really recall any of the names... I think one of them might have been like "Facing the Ocean" or omething but don't quote me on it.
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[imprisoned-dreamer]

hi ^_^ . ya know what I went and saw The Grudge and well to be honest.....it wasnt scarry.(to me) but there were a few(annoying) <_< ppl down in da bottom rows of the theater who would SCREAM and some ppl kept making comments very loudly and well all in all, I basically said at he end of the movie that it could pass as a comedy rather than a horror.

I had such high hopes of being scared, but alas It was a dissapointment.(Hows a 15 yr old suppose to have some fun!?) oh well saw comes out tomorrow. guess whos going

[jb_dominick]

[quote]comedy rather than a horror[/quote]
Yeah, considering there was ZERO comedy element through the whole film. <_<

[imprisoned-dreamer]

huh? Im a slow fifteen yr old, J.B. ummm are u sayin im stupid or somthin? *cause you are mostly right....but still* what I ment when I said that is that parts that were supposed to be *scary* were so stupid they were funny.

Have seen it yet?

U_U sigh im so slow.....I thank T.V. for thes

[hacklanderj]

cool, i didnt know they were japanese, but i have a ton of japanese channels over satelite

[OMNI-X]

My personal take on this is, Hollywood is simply running out of good ideas, that they need to pick up stuff from other countries and "adapt" them, Whorelywood style.

The most recent, and reallly decent movie I've seen is [i]The Incredibles[/i] from Pixar. You can say this was for kids, but hell, I've enjoyed more mushy moments in this movie than the recent "drama" crap coming out of Hollywood.

What really ticks me off is, Jennifer Lopez playing the dance instructress for the Whorelywood version of [i]Sall We Dance[/i]! What a friggin travesty!

[imprisoned-dreamer]

LOL Im w/ ya OMNI! oh yeah I went and saw The Incredibles. it was really funny especially Edmand(sp? ya know that short guy that makes da uniforms) he cracks me up. I brought my mom to da movis on Saturday to see it(quality time ya know)
and she.......fell asleep during the movie <_< :ph34r: I was afraid she'd start snoring. luckily she didn't*sigh*

All in all I recomend that movie to all!

[Arisu]

I've only seen a trailer to the american version of the Grudge (it's not out here in Holland) so I can't say anything on that. But I liked the Japanese version. I have Ju-on 1 and 2 on dvd. They were kinda scary. And judging by the trailer they didn't change the story much.

And I did like the Japanese Ringu better than the American one.
But I also saw the other parts of ringu. Ringu 2, Ringu 0 basudai and Spiral. And they get more weirder every part. Still I don't regret watching them.

I'm a big fan of Japanese films, especcialy Japanese horror films. So I don't get why they have to remake them in America. Just release the original ones is my opinion. But I guess I don't have much to say in that.

Which film will be next? Dark water perhaps? Or Kakashi?

[OMNI-X]

[quote="imprisoned-dreamer ((Abbie))"] LOL Im w/ ya OMNI! oh yeah I went and saw The Incredibles. it was really funny especially Edmand(sp? ya know that short guy that makes da uniforms) he cracks me up. I brought my mom to da movis on Saturday to see it(quality time ya know)
and she.......fell asleep during the movie <_< :ph34r: I was afraid she'd start snoring. luckily she didn't*sigh*

All in all I recomend that movie to all! [/quote]
Yep yep!

[i]The Incredibles[/i] RULE!!!!

By far the best super hero movie I have seen. Great characters, a James Bond-ish setting and enjoyable story. What is refreshing to see is how the usual comic book powers we already know were done on a not so usual fashion.

[imprisoned-dreamer]

hee hee fasion(thiks of Edmond) mwuahahahahaha.......ha.
so did you see Saw I did! it was great! it did not scare me but I loved it. it scared my sister, ya should have seen her. she was hilariaus!