Hee. Thomash has read The Ultimates.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Polter-Cow - Apr 25, 2005 10:31:02 pm PDT #2172 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gris - Apr 26, 2005 12:36:53 am PDT #2173 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Lots of stylistic similarities between the Grudge and the Ring. Lots and lots. The originals come from the same school of Japanese horror, and I'm sure the remake director in the US had it pressed into his skull that the only reason he was being allowed to make the film was the success of the Ring, so he probably wanted to highlight what similarities there were.
Jim - Apr 26, 2005 1:18:02 am PDT #2174 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
and I'm sure the remake director in the US had it pressed into his skull that the only reason he was being allowed to make the film was the success of the Ring, so he probably wanted to highlight what similarities there were.
No, the Grudge remake was directed in Japan by the same director as the original Ju-On.
Gris - Apr 26, 2005 1:39:36 am PDT #2175 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Sure, but it was funded by American companies for primarily American audiences, yes? I'm sure that the American company told the Japanese guy to emphasize the connection.
I mean, I'm sure the originals have lots of similarities as well, but I imagine that they're even more noticable in the remakes. I could definitely be wrong.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2005 3:17:03 am PDT #2176 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
From the IMDB description, RED EYE sounds like the Johnny Depp movie NICK OF TIME, except on an airplane.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 26, 2005 5:59:09 am PDT #2177 of 10002
"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
Sure, but it was funded by American companies for primarily American audiences, yes? I'm sure that the American company told the Japanese guy to emphasize the connection.
Aside from the marketing images and one very stylistic in-movie pose that mimicked the one-eye-peeking-from-underneath-black-hair look of Ringu's Sadako, The Grudge was nearly a shot-for-shot remake of Ju-on. The big difference is that the director dropped one exceedingly confusing chapter set in 2008 ("Izumi") and replaced it with the backstory chapter involving Bill Pullman's character that came from the original's Japanese TV-movie precursor.
Thomash - Apr 26, 2005 6:34:10 am PDT #2178 of 10002
I have a plan.
The big difference is that the director dropped one exceedingly confusing chapter set in 2008 ("Izumi") and replaced it with the backstory chapter involving Bill Pullman's character that came from the original's Japanese TV-movie precursor.
Which struck me as the biggest similarity between the two movies. Not the backstory itself, but experiencing it if that makes sense.
Betsy HP - Apr 26, 2005 7:56:53 am PDT #2179 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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Betsy HP - Apr 26, 2005 7:56:56 am PDT #2180 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I saw Pulp Fiction and both admired it and vowed never, ever to see another Tarantino movie.
People keep making Reservoir Dogs references in my presence. Anybody care to give me the five-minute summary? What's all this about shooting people in warehouses, for instance?
Nutty - Apr 26, 2005 8:05:11 am PDT #2181 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Reservoir Dogs: 6 guys in identical suits pull off a heist; the heist is botched; the guys attempt to reassemble at the meeting point; the personalities of the 6 guys end up determining who lives and who dies.
The characters are sort of types, although very vibrant types. The key relationship is one between a veteran thief and his presumed protege, the latter of whom is shot right as the movie begins and spends two hours bleeding to death while the plot unfolds in present tense and flashback.
In a lot of ways, I found the film warm and humane. And gross, but humane. Whereas, Pulp Fiction felt to me like a soulless beauty shot.