The Ring (2002)

Very best movie i ever watch

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie must certainly be a feast for the eyes of horror film lovers with all its tension and suspense. However, it can't escape the cliches by touching all the twisted imagination buttons ever created throughout the movie history. As a person who has done with supernatural crap long time ago, I expected some intelligence after seeing Naomi Watts on the cast. Indeed, she was the reason for me to spare some time for this genre but the end result was total disappointment. The part involving the research about Anne Morgan looked promising for a while but towards the finale, nails coming off the walls by themselves, a zombie girl climbing out of a well and then coming out of a CRT screen to scare people to death... Those were all too much occults marring a flimsy story which was struggling to be coherent up that moment anyway. I also read that the director initially wanted to avoid big names from the cast with the idea of movie being discovered by itself (well, if you believe it...) Sorry for dashing your dreams pal, but this is just another run off the mill horror flick who'd never find this much success but for Watts. As for the movie itself, the storytelling is patchy and lacks cohesion. Some reviewers complain about the lack of character development but I guess this would be too much to expect from a horror movie, anyhow. I should finally give the director some credit that by using blood and gore sparingly, he acted wisely enough to jack up the creepiness level a notch high.

This film is a terrible "remake" of the Japanese miniseries, those were so much better.So much more suspension, so much more "jumpscare value". When I watched the American version I was seriously disappointed.Not every movie or series should be redone....

Some points:At the beginning, how did exactly Katie's friend (Becca) know about the video tape? Somebody already found out that he/she needs to make a copy to survive and tell someone else the story?When they gonna watch TV, they sit very close to them, and no one wear glasses.Two of Katie's friends who watched the tape too, died in a car accident (crashed into a tree). They had TVs on their car? Or was they just running?So, Samara can control water, cameras, photos, and TVs (or at least their remotes), open refrigerators, call people and talk or leave a message after the beep, burn things. All of that, when she's a ghost. We must just accept it without any explanation.When Rachel is visiting Becca, how did Becca know that Rachel watched the tape? Does Samara control friends of people who watched the tape?What was that nose bleeding and taking a fly from TV?Typing fast into a local HTML file (from Desktop) and still using the mouse (with slow motion) to click the Search button. Just press Enter.How does Samara's father know about the tape?Why did Rachel suddenly attract to the horse in the ship? Just leave him alone. You're hurting him."Are you OK?" "Yeah, I'm fine." Seriously, your daughter just died in a horrible way, you just watched a man electrocuted himself in front of you.Too much symbolism and not-important events.

There's a fine line between creepy and silly, and this movie crosses it more times than most of its admirers would care to admit. A remake of the vastly superior Japanese film "Ringu", this film is about a videotape that causes everyone who watches it to die seven days later. This premise is ripe for all sorts of commentary on the novelty of video vs. more modern forms of entertainment, but this film is far too focused on being gloomy and disgusting. To be fair, there are some good moments: a scene with a horse on a ferry, the moody visuals, and a few performances. For everything that works, however, there is something that doesn't. Naomi Watts is great as the plucky journalist heroine, but the actor who plays her inexplicably psychic kid was apparently auditioning to be the next Haley Joel Osment. Brian Cox is great, too, but he has barely any screen time, and his death scene is so over-the-top as to be unintentionally hilarious. (Seriously, why did he need to bring all of his electronics to the bathroom in order to kill himself? Dude, just drop your TV in the bathtub and be done with it.)I said that the Japanese version is better, and that's primarily because it understands what kind of story it's telling. Watts spends the bulk of the film trying to unravel the mystery behind it, but the twist is that none of it matters. How did the girl shown in the video get her psychic powers? Who shot it? None of this is ever explained, and it shouldn't be, because the only way to escape death is to show the video to someone else and pass the curse on to them. The Japanese version's scares were subtler, allowing the whole thing to build to a conclusion that would be funny if it weren't so terrifying. The American version features so many jump scares, body horror moments, and visual tricks that it's as if director Gore Verbinski didn't have any faith in the source material. I'll give him credit for a few moments here and there, but whereas the video in the original was nonsensical and otherworldly, the video in this one just looks like a really bad student film.If you don't watch the original first, you will probably like this one a lot more. I just couldn't get over how unnecessary all of the changes were. It's more middle-of-the-road than actually bad, but it's worth watching more for how iconic it's become than its actual quality.