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The Ring (Widescreen Edition)
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Naomi Watts, Brian Cox. A journalist investigates a mysterious video that caused her niece and many others to die of fright, only to find its deadly grip closing around herself as well. 2002/color/115 min/PG-13.
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With its disturbing images and a few good shocks, The Ring is the kind of frightfest you'll watch to set a chilling mood or spook your susceptible friends, but when you try to sort it out, this well-mounted American remake (of the 1998 Japanese hit Ringu, based on Koji Suzuki's popular novel) becomes a batch of incoherent parts. The negligible plot follows a Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) as she investigates the death of her niece, the victim of a mysterious videotape that, according to urban legend, causes the viewer's death seven days later. (Fear Dot Com borrowed the same idea while avoiding this film's lofty pretensions.) The countdown structure follows the reporter, her son, and her estranged boyfriend into deepening layers of terror--all quite effective until the movie attempts to explain itself. At that you're better off shutting down your brain and letting the creepy visuals take over. --Jeff Shannon
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : s_medPG13 PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
- Director : Gore Verbinski
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC, DTS Surround Sound
- Run time : 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Release date : March 4, 2003
- Actors : Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Studio : Dreamworks Video
- ASIN : B00005JLTK
- Number of discs : 1
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There are other movies out there that assign super-powers to people who have been victims of horrible deeds.
This film asserts that the victim had some sort of variety of power prior to their tragedy.
There are some twists that help the movie to peak, every so often, but the power scaling becomes so unmanageable that, at some point, its easy to lose interest.
For one, injustice is not a good enough reason to give anybody the power to take life from multiple strangers.
That's what we call a plot-hole, and it's a pretty big one.
When you think about it, this is basically one of those movies that is saying "What If" this unstoppable force existed, and we showed everybody failing to deal with it.
Ooh! Scary Stuff!
Not Really.
"What if" there was a Mustard Bottle in a Diner, and anyone who opened the lid, was doomed to only crave mustard for the rest of their lives.
OHHHH THE HORROR!
(LoL)
So, what if a girl with Evil Psycho-Kinetic Powers was pushed down a well by her parents, but not even death could stop her!
Okay, well then what's the point of making a movie about it, if she can't be stopped?
It's an interesting Twilight Zone episode, I'll give you that, but you can't base an entire movie around people failing to unstoppable forces.
That's just Boring, and it's also not based on a Universe where Justice exists, if you can't do anything to counter the malevolent force.
When it comes to that, it's almost like Rape.
Seriously, if you present your viewer with an Evil force that they can't get away from, doesn't that feel like Rape?
You can't base your plot in a Logical Universe, and decide to break the rules whenever you like, just because you think it'll be fun to constantly lead on your audience.
That's Lame.
Anyways, all the QQ aside, it's an entertaining movie, but the ending, as with many movies unfortunately, is also very poor, and disappointing.
Now, I'm going to watch the second Ring movie, so I gotta go! (LoL)
P.S.
A person could last A LOT longer than 7-days in a well.
So the part where she emerges from the TV scared the bejesus out of me. Had it been in 3D I would have peed my pants i'm sure. I like the whole uniqueness of the story. Hollywood hadn't had an original thought in decades. Well considering this is a remake of a Japanese scary film to begin with.
The movie kept me on the edge of my seat to find out what was Samara's deal. Why did she never sleep, why was she evil, why was she hurting people in life and in death. You never got the answers you were looking for, which I thought would lead to a sequel, Ring II.
People are motivated to do good, for good karma, approval, rewards, acknowledgement to avoid punishment, prison, altercations etc. But what is the motivation to be evil? I guess pure evil doesn't worry about punishment because it does the punishing. Evil doesn't need a reason, evil doesn't play by the rules, and evil doesn't have boundaries.
When you think about pure evil in those terms, if you've ever seen it, or experienced it, or survived it... you know you are dealing with a force to be reckoned with.
{ By the way, I'm seeing a lot of comments complaining that the movie's been edited for a PG-13 rating. FYI: this movie was always PG-13, it just scared you so much at the time you assumed it had to be rated R ;) }
I just revisited this streaming on Amazon, and it looks greener than I remember: I recall the film having a bluer tint. I once wrote an entire paper in college comparing 'The Ring's "analog" blue look to 'The Matrix's "digital" green filter so I'm going to feel real silly if it was always just plain green. I've noticed a lot of movies on Prime Video look darker than normal so it could be a product of that; so turn up the brightness a little and maybe cool the picture tint a couple notches if you're a real stickler for the authentic 'The Ring' experience.
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