I saw the remake a couple of times but I never saw this one, the original one. Is it better than the remake or is it not worth renting?
'I said I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in!' - The Shining
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Everyone will prefer the version they saw first so the odds are you're gonna be disappointed with this one.
shareRemake is better, no question.
Both movies have no gore, just a lot of creepiness. The pacing, music, and plot specifics are better in the remake. I found that the original spelled things out too clearly and explained everything, which made it less frightening. The unknown is frightening. Telling us exactly who and why people are takes away a lot of the suspense. I had trouble watching the remake, it was just so eerie. The original was easier to get through. The feeling of horror just kept building and building in the remake for me, but I got some breaks from that in the original, such as during the scene where they talk to the old man and he explains the women.
Both movies are well acted and have great style. The remake is better because they took everything great from the original and just tweaked it a little bit to make it eerier. They did a great job!
The remake hands down. It scared the beejezus out of me when I saw it in the theater when it first came out, and it still does whenever I see it. I just saw the original last night and I have to say I was very disapointed; not too many things that will scare you.
shareProblem is that nowadays people only cares for jump scares and gore, and that the american remake with bigger budget and the secular "jump scare techniques" gives you more.
Watch it a second time and the table turns.
This kind of american remakes are most of the time pure mercenary projects, with directors that are not doing the movie because he believes in the movie but just for the money. This makes it difficult to get a better result.
The atmosphere in the original one is not comparable with the remake. It's a Polanski kind of horror movie feeling, not an Eli Roth explicit gory kind of movie feelings (maybe fun first watch, boring in all rest).
remake is a joke...the remake & the Scary Movie 3 parody of it, might as well be the same thing. honestly the makeup & effects are too similar. can't take the remake seriously
shareWe can argue about which one is better, for me personally, its the original, but the weakest part out of both films is the ending - its the same for both so, that should tell you. Why did I think it was weak? They end up helping the little girl that could kill anyone with a passing thought and did to the point that her rage itself is killing people, all on its own. Something about that didn't make sense to me.
"I have always valued my lifelessness."
The remake has a lot of really effective additions. The cinematography is really beautiful, the twisted faces of the corpses is nightmare fuel, and Naomi Watts is a pretty good actress.
But something about the original just has a simplicity to it that makes it all the more harrowing. If the remake is a house of horrors with all the bells and whistles, then the original is just a log cabin in the woods. Ringu starts off as a pretty standard mystery, with the journalist investigating these deaths, but once she watches the tape you have a strange suspicion that something is very wrong. Whereas the remake is setup from the beginning as a typical horror flick, even the opening scene is like something the Scream series would parody.
The videotape in the original is weird in a subtle way, whereas the remake videotape is like something an art school student would come up with. And then the movie has to add a typical action scene involving a horse on a ferry, which makes zero sense.
As for the pivotal scene involving the television set, the original wins hands down. The remake has these ridiculous effects of Samara flickering in and out like she has bad tv reception, and her face is just ugly, not terrifyingly inhuman like the Japanese one. And then they had to go and put a stupid car chase scene right in the middle of it, which completely ruins the sense of isolation, typical Hollywood. The original is way creepier because you're trapped in the room with the boyfriend while she slowly crawls out of the TV. And her eye, twisted in a look of hatred!!! Gah!!!
So yeah, Ringu > Ring
~ I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.
Both are brilliant and it's hard to pick a fave. Both are maybe in my top 10 Horror films of all time.
shareThe remake is better.
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