The original Japanese Ring movie was flat-out terrifying at times in ways that the Naomi Watts version couldn't quite match, despite the hard-to-accept psychic-answers-to-scary-questions deus-ex machina-plot turns. When they finally got to the moments where we saw the angry spirit, my skin crawled like it was trying to leave the room without me.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Hayden - Jul 12, 2004 1:02:47 pm PDT #246 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Miracleman - Jul 12, 2004 1:14:47 pm PDT #247 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
MM -- does the second thing in your post happen? (I don't read the comic so I don't know. . . and I don't remember that from the cartoon.)
No it doesn't, sumi. That's what I liked.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 12, 2004 1:41:45 pm PDT #248 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I made my husband repeatedly assure me that possession was not real and there were no demons in my apartment after I watched it.
You are aware that Blatty based the book on a supposedly real exorcism case in the 40s, right?
I saw The Ring the night before "Hellbound" aired last season, and was practically laughing at DeKnight's best efforts to terrify us. Willow's outfits have scared me more than anything in that episode.
I think the scariest thing about the original Ringu is something that was cut: a scene where Asakawa finds Ryuji's thesis with "HELL IS REAL" scribbled on it, apparently during his lethal visitation from Sadako.
Beverly - Jul 12, 2004 2:10:05 pm PDT #249 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Finally saw Spiderman 2 this weekend. Really liked it a lot.
I don't have a lot of comics expertise to bring to movies made from comics. I sort of feel , these days, like it's heresy here on b.org tantamount to admiting hatred of ME shows to say this, but I don't read comics. I don't like comics. I don't get comics. They give me vertigo (And not the McKean sort of Vertigo, either). The art interferes with the story, for me. I can't assimilate the implied movement, figure out which dialog balloon in a given panel should be read first, assimilate a visage change...all stuff schoolchildren do with alacrity. But even as a schoolchild, I found comics impenetrable. If someone would do a text-only version, I'd happily read that. But comics art? Not so much.
In any case, in that picture of Liam ita posted, he looks like Roy Dotrice.
I don't think I'm really happy about that.
Scrappy - Jul 12, 2004 2:14:07 pm PDT #250 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Beverly--also not a comics person, even though I know lots of comic artists (BF's uncle is a famous comics guy who runs a school for illustrators in NJ, plus we just know and hang with a bunch of comics folk), Have actually edited some comic books, and love works ABOUT comic books. I know they're a great art form and have lots to offer which I am missing out on, I just can't get into them.
Sean K - Jul 12, 2004 2:14:16 pm PDT #251 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I don't like comics. I don't get comics.
t shuns Beverly
Beverly - Jul 12, 2004 2:17:55 pm PDT #252 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
shuns Beverly
::hangs head::
I know. It's a shunning offense. But on the bright side? Robin's in my corner! Woo!
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2004 2:19:20 pm PDT #253 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Robin's got a superhero name, though, Beverly. So she's kinda grandfathered in to the cool kids club.
Beverly - Jul 12, 2004 2:21:22 pm PDT #254 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Won't somebody think of the comics-impaired? Would a text version be so difficult to do? Think of it as--braille for the differently-sighted!
Kathy A - Jul 12, 2004 2:25:16 pm PDT #255 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm with Beverly and Robin. I think that my only comic purchase was Fray #1, and I'm not too sure where that's currently at. I only read it once, anyway. I did like watching the '70s cartoon of Spiderman, and I also liked the first couple of Superman movies. But, I didn't see the first Spiderman movie until it had been out on dvd for some time, and still haven't seen Spidey 2, although I probably will eventually.
I can appreciate the artwork behind the best of the comics, and I did think that the graphic novel "Maus" is brilliant allegory (I paged through it on my lunchbreak at the bookstore once). I guess I'm just more of a comic strip fan--I can practically give lectures on Charles Shultz and Walt Kelly.