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OCT 22, 2004 10:30 PM
Oooooooooh, good to know. It was one of those movies that was either going to be really good or really bad. Can't wait. 
OCT 22, 2004 10:35 PM
OCT 22, 2004 11:00 PM
I'm planning to see this tomorrow morning (a matinee). I already own most of the original Japanese JUON series which this movie is based on, and I dig them immensely. I need to buy the 4th DVD in the series, titled THE GRUDGE 2.
I just hope that this remake wil as good as the third JUON film, titled JUON: THE GRUDGE.
The movie critics listed on ROTTENTOMATOES.COM seem to be at the present almost evenly divided on this remake, with an edge towards the negative.
I'm hoping that the film will do well with the true hardcore Horror fans, since the Horror/Thriller I'm working on is partially inspired by it, as well as Japanese Horror films like AUDITION, SUICIDE CIRCLE and David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DR. & LOST HOGHWAY.
[Edited on Oct 22, 2004 by Goatfish]
OCT 22, 2004 11:01 PM
my seven year old went to see this tonight, swearing up and down that he would be able to handle it. according to his mom, they left after the first two minutes to go see A Shark's Tale.
and he also says he wants to see The Ring. sure. that's gonna happen...
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OCT 23, 2004 12:34 AM
i really didnt like this movie. way to boring for me. i will be glad when they get back to the blood and gore horror movies again and away from all of these pg-13 movies with their spooky noises and crap. hopefully saw will kick ass
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OCT 23, 2004 02:02 AM
williamj said:
i really didnt like this movie. way to boring for me. i will be glad when they get back to the blood and gore horror movies again and away from all of these pg-13 movies with their spooky noises and crap. hopefully saw will kick ass
I really really love the PG-13ish horror movies with noises and shit, and I'm really glad we seem to be moving in that direction. Gore doesn't scare or excite me. Horror movies always seem to me to have not lived up to their potential simply because people don't put style and craft into them and just show gore. Gore is dull to me. When I go to a horror movie, I want to be riding the edge of my seat, and I want to be scared out of my mind.
I almost invariably like the first act of a horror movie when lots of weird shit is happening and you're trying to figure out why. It's the second and especially the third acts that bother me. The explanation is usually really fucking lame and half-assed, to the point where I don't understand why they don't just leave it mysterious.
A good example of this would be The Changeling, which was a great haunted house story that was really quite creepy. Until the last part, anyway. It really shouldn't be hard to explain ghosts, but somehow, everyone seems to suck at doing so.
If you like the sort of movie I'm describing though, (to review, the old-fashioned, not-to-gory, suspenseful creepfest) which it sounds like Morgan at least does, a halfway good one that a lot of people missed was Stir of Echoes. It came out shortly after The Sixth Sense - not a knockoff, it was too short a time and was based on a story by Richard Matheson anyway. (Richard Matheson, by the way, is a really awesome author who wrote a lot of classic Twilight Zone episodes) It's the same sort of deal, though. Ghosts, creepy kid, one guy trying to figure shit out. It's by no means the greatest movie, but it has a number of points that made me jump and when it finished, I didn't feel let down. I'd recommend a rental of it.
sadisticmika
I'm lost
July 2004
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OCT 23, 2004 11:28 AM
TedKoppel said:
williamj said:
i really didnt like this movie. way to boring for me. i will be glad when they get back to the blood and gore horror movies again and away from all of these pg-13 movies with their spooky noises and crap. hopefully saw will kick ass
I really really love the PG-13ish horror movies with noises and shit, and I'm really glad we seem to be moving in that direction. Gore doesn't scare or excite me. Horror movies always seem to me to have not lived up to their potential simply because people don't put style and craft into them and just show gore. Gore is dull to me. When I go to a horror movie, I want to be riding the edge of my seat, and I want to be scared out of my mind.
Same here. Any director can do gore. To do suspense well and to really frighten your audience, though, you need talent.
Lain
Astoria, NY
April 2004
OCT 23, 2004 11:35 AM
OCT 23, 2004 11:38 AM
Xixax said:
DiamondGeezer said:
Better than "Ghost Ship?"
Shut Up, the opening scene of Ghost Ship is one of my favorites.
Agreed on that one, love that entire section, whats better is when they show how it all started, and ended. 
As for The Grudge, can't say is I'll be seeing it, The Ring (USA) freaked me out enough.
OCT 23, 2004 11:41 AM
I work in a theater and saw it thurs night, it creeped me out... but friday I had to stand in the theater to make sure people werent sneaking in, so i got to see the movie 3 more times
It was definatly creepy, but also very interesting seeing differenmt peoples reactions.
The best is the big gangster wanna-be's who screamed like children then left trying to act all tough
Morgan
SUICIDEGIRL
Illinois, USA
OCT 22, 2004 10:17 PM