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[beerbelly]

How come no one is talking about this movie? It's coming out next month I think.

Here's the trailor http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony_pictures/the_grudge/the_grudge_m480.mov

I only watched the second one of the Japanese version and I thought it was really scary. Sarah looks awesome in this one.

edit:fixed

 

[AniHawk]

How come no one is talking about this movie? It's coming out next month I think.

Here's the trailor http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony_pictur...grudge_m480.mov

I only watched the second one of the Japanese version and I thought it was really scary. Sarah looks awesome in this one.

Linky no worky.

 

[FortNinety]

Link works for me.

I swear the original is the most overrated film I've seen this year, but at least this remake is pretty faithfull. It looks exactly like the original, shot for shot.

 

[Manabanana]

GOD! That fucking pisses me off. That's nearly identical to the fucking Japanese trailer. They spend millions making this into a shitty, over-produced, American Hollywood piece of garbage and have the BALLS to set it in Japan with American actresses? Get the fuck out.

EDIT: For clarification.

This pisses me off to no end because they could have subtitled the originals and brought them over giving all the credit to the original film-maker instead of flaunting Hollywood's creative bankruptcy with manufactured, bottom-of-the-barrel actors.

 

[Dead]

GOD! That fucking pisses me off. That's nearly identical to the fucking Japanese trailer. They spend millions making this into a shitty, over-produced, American Hollywood piece of garbage and have the BALLS to set it in Japan with American actresses? Get the fuck out.

EDIT: For clarification.

This pisses me off to no end because they could have subtitled the originals and brought them over giving all the credit to the original film-maker instead of flaunting Hollywood's creative bankruptcy with manufactured, bottom-of-the-barrel actors.

Its directed by the same guy who did the Japanese one

 

[Archaix]

Its directed by the same guy

Sssh, not while he's ranting.

 

[Dead]

/me slowly steps back

 

[LinesInTheSand]

GOD! That fucking pisses me off. That's nearly identical to the fucking Japanese trailer. They spend millions making this into a shitty, over-produced, American Hollywood piece of garbage and have the BALLS to set it in Japan with American actresses? Get the fuck out.

EDIT: For clarification.

This pisses me off to no end because they could have subtitled the originals and brought them over giving all the credit to the original film-maker instead of flaunting Hollywood's creative bankruptcy with manufactured, bottom-of-the-barrel actors.

LOL @ Japan fanboys. Calm down buddy. This is being directed by the same guy who did the shitty Japanese original.

 

[FortNinety]

LOL @ Japan fanboys. Calm down buddy. This is being directed by the same guy who did the shitty Japanese original.

And the key word here is shitty.

 

[Manabanana]

Its directed by the same guy who did the Japanese one

WHAT THE FUCK. WHY SARAH MICHELLE GELLER!?!!? Scooby-Doo, dammit! It'll only REALLY get me if this hits big. People are gonne say things like "You see The Grudge?" And I'll say things like "You see my fist in yo' face? WHAT UP!?" I swear this isn't one of those "I saw it first!" things. They re-made a remake, alright? How did this happen? The re-make is only 2 years old!

Reflecting upon this, though...The director is pretty creatively bankrupt himself. Ring and Juon and very similarly styled. Nothing scary really happens, just intensely creepy things creep around being creepy...Hrmm...

 

[Manabanana]

LOL @ Japan fanboys. Calm down buddy. This is being directed by the same guy who did the shitty Japanese original.

Originals. He re-made Juon to make the newer Juon which is now being re-made again. And I'm feeling ill so I'm extra irritable. My avatar is fitting right now.

 

[Archaix]

Why remake a remake? Because nobody would see the original...or the original remake...in theaters. This movie can make money. A horror film in a language which nobody understands wouldn't sell.

Movies are a money making venture. That's just how it works.

 

[Manabanana]

Why remake a remake? Because nobody would see the original...or the original remake...in theaters. This movie can make money. A horror film in a language which nobody understands wouldn't sell.

Movies are a money making venture. That's just how it works.

I thought movies made their $$ on DVD? I feel like they dumb everything down for American cinema. I'm sure they do, in fact. They have to play to the lowest common denominator (those who can't read). It just gets to me that they're ruining something I liked so much.

 

[shuri]

well the movie have massive chances of flopping here because americans audiences will be like "HOLLA HOLLA OMFG ITS LIKE THE RING OMG GOM HOLLA THAT MOVIE SUCKS!! * cellphone goes off"

The whole theme with the ghost kid (female mostly) seems to be a very common thing in asian folklore. I mean i saw at least a dozen of those type of asian flicks (and some that pre-dated ringu) and they had Sadako/Samara-type characters or visions in theme. Anyone cares to go on with that theory and developped it?

 

[MIMIC]

I saw the trailer at the movies and thought it was "The Ring 2." :lol

I was sold.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

Sarah Michelle Gellar cant fucking act at all.

 

[MIMIC]

"The Grudge" is such a stupid title, though. (I'm still gonna see it. )

 

[karasu]

well the movie have massive chances of flopping here because americans audiences will be like "HOLLA HOLLA OMFG ITS LIKE THE RING OMG GOM HOLLA THAT MOVIE SUCKS!! * cellphone goes off"

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Wario64]

Link works for me.

I swear the original is the most overrated film I've seen this year, but at least this remake is pretty faithfull. It looks exactly like the original, shot for shot.

Heh yeah, I have to give them props for actually being faithful to the original version, but imo the original material wasn't really that good to begin with. I'll still probably see the movie in theaters but damn, Juon did nothing for me

 

[FortNinety]

The whole theme with the ghost kid (female mostly) seems to be a very common thing in asian folklore. I mean i saw at least a dozen of those type of asian flicks (and some that pre-dated ringu) and they had Sadako/Samara-type characters or visions in theme. Anyone cares to go on with that theory and developped it?

Yeah, I guess really pale women with long black hair covered in blood is supposed to be scary, but I find it a turn on myself.

Anyway, Japanese culture has always had a thing for women with really white faces, from ghost to geisha to kabuki.

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

As a Buffy fan I sure hope someday SMG gets a role in a movie that doesn't suck.

 

[fart]

i'm only disappointed that it's a shot-for-shot remake because that means it will still suck

 

[Celicar]

Looks like a rip-off of the Ring. I'll still go see it though.