fermentor666 Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Ok, most of us saw the Ring and liked it, I thought it was a great little horror film. I got passes to an advanced screening last night and went to see it. Here's the spoiler-free IMDB synopsis: ""The Ring 2" picks up six months after the horrifying events that terrorized Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) in Seattle. To escape her haunting memories, Rachel takes Aidan and moves to the small coastal community of Astoria, Oregon, to start fresh. However, Rachel's resolve quickly turns to dread when evidence at a local crime scene - including an unmarked videotape - seems eerily familiar. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death." This is the only picture I could find: Part with spoilers: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Notice the date says November 2004 (edit: the first picture did, but it didn't show up)? That's because the film was supposed to come out then but they decided to reshoot a bunch of scenes. This is generally a bad omen in Hollywood-land, when a film needs to reshoot scenes, it's usually because it tests badly or the producers aren't happy with the final results or both. The film starts off the same as the first one, two teenagers are talking about the tape, but this time it seems like it's common knowledge that the tape needs to be copied and given to someone to watch before the 7 days are up in order for the person who watched it to live. A teenage boy is tries to get a girl to watch the tape before his time is up, but isn't so lucky. In the first film, the back-story to how the two girls in the beginning got ahold of the tape is shown, and is an important part of the plotline. The major problem with the Ring 2 is that it doesn't bother with any of this. We see Samara's real mother (Sissy Spacek) in a mental institution, and rather than give answers or even half-answers as to what Samara is, who her father was, why she says Samara is dead, etc, all we get is a bunch of hooey about having to kill the girl to be a "good mother". There's no explenation about how the tape got from Seattle to Naomi Watts' new small town other than "Samara wants to get her" or whatever. The main plotline is that Samara takes Watts' kid in the film and makes him kill a couple of people and not sleep. Watts spends the first half of the film trying to figure out why Samara is back, and the second half of the film trying to figure out how to stop her from taking over her kid. And that's about it, just about none of the great cinematography and ambience of the first film is present. All of the scenes seem pretty shallow, and almost all of the scares in the film had people laughing afterwards instead of like the first film when everyone left afraid to answer their cell phone. Part of this can be explained by the idea of the film no longer being new. But mostly it's because this movie is just like every other horror film sequal. It has no depth and treats the viewer like an idiot. I wouldn't waste your money on it this weekend unless you're fanatical about the Ring 2. Wait for DVD or download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraday Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 is it directed by the same person as the first one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 mothafucker!! i KNEW they were gonna ruin it. the previews look like warmed up asssjuice. :mad2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 The first one was directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Ehren Kruger (who did Arlington Road, but also did Scream 3). This one is directed by Hideo Nakata, who did the Japanese films that these were based on, and written by Hiroshi Takahashi, who wrote the original Japanese films. I think that's part of the problem, the american Ring was a western film, and despite the fact that Ringu was a good film on it's own, it doesn't fit very well with The Ring even though the storylines are similar. This plays like a bad Japanese horror film, instead of being a worthy sequal to the American film. Really, they shouldn't have even bothered making this with such a sub-par storyline. Granted some of the effects were cool, there's one scene in a bathtub where water is falling upwards, hard to explain but very cool, and there were a few good scares, but it was really just stupid, played like a stalker flick. It was just a couple of steps removed from the cheese of Darkness Falls. Not as bad as that film, though. Like I said, a rental at best and that's if you're into horror films. There's nothing new in this one. And they don't even show the full tape. If this were it's own film, not a sequel, it would be terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest willy.wonka Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 i didnt really like the first one.. i just liked the trippy black and white film. sure the first one had its little quirks and all, but it didnt do anyhting for me everybody was telling me how scary it was, but it really was boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 aww damnit.. I expected the second movie to be real entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Dazzle Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 I thought the first one was pretty damn gay..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DREDZ Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 ...werd one was a'ight...but it was a bit weak...two doesn't look too hot either ...the grudge was on the huff tip too...what is it about horror these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigjvo Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 FUCK!!!!!!!! i already ordered some tickets online!!!! but the first one was dope as shit to me ohhh well i guess im just gonna have to see it....sequals usualluy suck anyway...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 the ring was horrible....they made it twice and it was shitty both times. amazing. good thing they made the grudge to prove that... a) japanese horror movies are shit and b) the american remakes are even worse when all is said and done i think god owes me 4.5 hours of my life back..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 Originally posted by thebigjvo@Mar 17 2005, 08:16 PM FUCK!!!!!!!! i already ordered some tickets online!!!! but the first one was dope as shit to me ohhh well i guess im just gonna have to see it....sequals usualluy suck anyway...... Quoted post People order fucking MOVIE TICKETS online now? Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeine Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 Was there a sequel in Japan? Anyone seen the Japanese version of the Ring? I wanted to know which one is supposebly more scary. People say the Japanese one is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Leader Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 You know what, fuck this movie. I haven't seen it, but I do have an ad in my AIM buddy list box that makes a motherfucking pop up add every time I do anything. Seriously Ring 2, just for your assfaggotry I will not watch you. I mean, I wouldn't have watched you anyway, but now I'm going to make a point of not watching you pretending I have friends that would ask me to go and see you. Fuck you Ring 2, and your fat mother too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcappycap Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 well i'll be seeing it this week end so if it sucks balls then i'll just leave and go see another movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neskoner Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 looks just as pointless as the first one.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Leader Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 All movies are pointless though, so you don't really have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr430n5_666 Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 The amount of advertising that is projected to me about that movie makes me not want to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ink face Posted March 18, 2005 Share Posted March 18, 2005 Originally posted by willy.wonka@Mar 17 2005, 06:56 PM i didnt really like the first one.. i just liked the trippy black and white film. sure the first one had its little quirks and all, but it didnt do anyhting for me everybody was telling me how scary it was, but it really was boring. Quoted post i agree with everyone who didnt like the first one. i thought some of the cinematography was good, but i wasnt impressed or scared by the ring at all. i laughed at everyone i was with who did think it was scary...sissies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Originally posted by caffeine@Mar 18 2005, 05:59 PM Was there a sequel in Japan? Anyone seen the Japanese version of the Ring? I wanted to know which one is supposebly more scary. People say the Japanese one is. Quoted post there isnt really a japanese ring 2 but there were a few offshoots like a ring 0, all crap. i didnt really like the japanese version. it had no pace to the storyline and the US version made a great improvement on that. although i did like the japanese samara better. i think her name was sadoko. because the j version had less of a budget the look tended to be darker instead of the US stylistic version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boredstiff Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 save your money, this movie sucks, although theres a cool seen of reindeer bustin the shit out of the hot moms car, but thats about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHorton Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 uh dude those were deers not reindeers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 That scene was sooooooo stupid, once that shit happened I knew that it would just keep going downhill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraftone Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 MOVIES COMING FROM HOLYWOOD ARENT FUN NO MORE... NOW THEY HAVE SUBLIMINAL RACIST MESSAGES FOR YOU TO UPDATE YOUR CHIP! AND REMEMBER... WEAR THE YELLOW WRIST BAND SO I KNOW WHOS A FAG... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shufty Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 I swear the japanese version are meant to be alot better than the american ones? I thought the ring was ok....it werent great it was pretty damn funny when the horse just randomely jumped off the boat....some fucked up shit. The trailer for ring 2 looks like its just gona be another happening of the first movie....I dont see how they could have changed it that much to bring out a sequel?? :huh2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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