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See, if you'd read the comic, you'd have been in foaming-at-mouth fury like I was.
Not that I can say for sure, but I'm pretty sure I'd still have had this reaction even if I hadn't read the original comic. There was just nothing good about that film on any level. rassenfrassencarchaseinfuckingnineteenthcenturyvenice
Oh god, Jim! That was the best spoiler ever!
I think the $1.50 theater would be the best place to see this movie -- if it doesn't show up at a Brew & View.
Cereal:
Nutty-YES! Rebecca (Susan Lynch) completely wins the day and, frankly, wipes up the screen with the collective remaining cast. Netflix can't have the second disc back yet because I keep rewatching her scenes with de Bois-Guilbert. (Ciaran) He's a bastaaad, but he's very pretty in his pain.
Jim-THANKS for the excellent spoilage. Somehow, without reading or hearing anything about the Village, I knew the twist. It just seemed so obvious. Now, I can so comfortably wait for the dvd, since Night's extras are generally more interesting than the movies! (although, I have to confess to loving the 'we are all superheroes' theme in Unbreakable.)
Hayden-I already had a big grin on my face from all the fun Village banter but your comment about Charlton Heston sent me over the gigglefalls. Ha!
Mick LaSalle says that Catwoman's "unintended message is that independence is great, so long as women don't take it too far."
Aw hell. Now I have to go skin him.
Would that be taking it too far?
Eh, he's wrong anyway. Catwoman's actual unintended message is that clear skin is a cause worthy of coming back from the dead for.
Eeeek. Scary Japanese little girls with long black hair!
t shudders in The Ring flashback
The only encouraging thing about the flick is Sam Raimi's name in the producer credit. Is this an English version of a Japanese original, similar to The Ring?
Hey waitaminute.
Ju-on, the Japanese version of the Grudge comes out on the 23rd of July and while SMG's version debuts on the 22nd of October.
Has any original/remake/adaptation pair like this ever screened so close together? What could the marketing strategy be?
Oh, I know. The subtitles, versus no subtitles camps.
Hmmph.
Yes! The same movie, different versions.
And, speaking of the Ring, Ju-on is made by the same team. Looks way, way creepier than The Grudge.
Is this an English version of a Japanese original, similar to The Ring?
Yep. Even more confusingly, the Japanese original is part 3 in a series. (The first two were direct-to-video in Japan, and did well enough for the third to get a theatrical release. The first two aren't available here, that I know of, so when the third comes out, most American audiences are going to think it's a standalone, and be terribly confused by all the references to plots and characters from the first two.)