How in the world are they similar? I hate it when people compare those movies. As far as plot goes, Ring was actually quite original... it was still your basic dead girl is pissed that she's dead story, but the way they went about telling it is like nothing like I've ever seen before. The Grudge, on the other hand, was nothing more than a haunted house movie. The only way that they're similar is, A) they're both based on Japanese horror films, B) they both have dead chicks that emphasize the long black hair in the face thing... point B is irrelevant, considering ghosts in white nightgowns and long black hair in the face is just how ghosts look in asian culture and they're JAPANESE MOVIES. Check out any asian ghost movie or book or whatever and you'll see it. That's like comparing Underworld with Interview With the Vampire.Originally Posted by darkchrono
Anyway. I really loved both movies. I was fascinated with The Ring and how stylish the movie was. I was really interested in what was going on through the entire movie. The Ring Two does not exist. The Grudge, I found had a very dull plot, but it scared the crap out of me in a way that The Ring never came close to. So I like them both equally.
And when it comes to adaptions... I thought Ju-On was an okay movie. It really wasn't a movie as much as it was a collection of short-stories, but it was really hard to take the scary scenes seriously when the monster was a chick with bad make up and a photoshop blur for a body. The story was never interesting in the first place. Ringu and The Ring were pretty much exactly the same word for word (and I don't care what anybody tells me!) except a few culture specific things... ie horse island vs volcano island. It was still all the same. You want to see a horrible adaption? Compare Ringu to the novel it was based on. COMPLETELY different. Ring was originally all about science and a sort of supernatural virus with a male lead charactor.
K, I'm done. ^.^
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