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Cardcaptor Takato:
Who here is a fellow Ringworm?  One of my fav movies of all time is Ringu!  Normally, I'm not someone who watches horror movies because I'm someone who's easily scared, but whenever the Halloween season rolls around, I always get tempted to watch a horror film.  So at the recommendation of a friend, I decided to check out Ringu last year, and while I didn't think it was particularly horrifying, I thought it had a very good plot with interesting characters, but there were a few moments in this movie that made me jump (mainly the part where they show Tomoko's dead body in the closet and the well scene near the end).  I also just watched Ringu 2 the other day.  The Japanese sequel  was even less scary than Ringu, but it still was very interesting, if not more confusing, and I actually liked this movie more than the first film.  The ending to Ringu 2 was especially freaky.  Unfortunately, I thought the American version of The Ring was very disappointing.  I didn't like how they made all the characters ten times snobbier than their Japanese counterparts or how they screwed around so much with the plot, especially with Sadako's/Samara's backstory, and the ending to the American version just doesn't hold a candle to the Japanese version's ending.  I'm still not sure if I want to go see The Ring 2 or not, but I've read that the American sequel is an original storyline rather than a re-make of the Japanese sequel, and it's being directed by Nakata Hideo-san, who directed the first Ringu movie this time, so maybe it'll be better than the first American movie....I also recently bought the Ringu book, but I have yet to actually read it.  ^^;;

Ruby Chan:
Ooooh....I never saw the american version, but I liked Ring 1 and 2 of the japanese...my friend got fed up with the subtitles though

Nyoko:
The american version is pretty good. They are two of my favorite movies... -^^-

AiKo:
I never saw any of the Ring jap version... -_- but i read the story and how it is different from the American version... The American version was kinda... weird... for me, it was more of suspense than horror

Ruby Chan:
From the clips I've seen...the japanese was way better...america just came along, swiped the plot, squished half of ring 2 into their first film, and then added weird stuff to their second....

Japan took it much slower, made it more scary, and added real characters and emotion in it as well! It's sad when the journalist woman thinks the curse is broken, but then realises her husband's dead....I think they were falling in love again.

See? The japanese had an actual plot, but the american was made to psych people out, and bring in money.

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