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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Pffft! If by slow you mean brain-numbing, pronderous tedium then I don't think it works at all.
Also, the CGI is very obvious and poor.
For once, I'm looking forward to a zippier, flashy American remake.
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Thats fair enough, but in that case you're just waiting for an american horror movie not a japanese horror movie. They've made it into a film where the dead are seemingly evil and all after the living, jumping out of washing machines and such.
The guy who fades into the black is taken against his will by something evil, when this wasnt the point of the original. In the original the people realise they are lonely, and no better than the dead, scared of their fate but willing to except that even in death they will be alone. Then they fade away to nothing. A big metaphor for all those people sitting alone at their pc's who arent better than the dead...alone with not much reason to live.
The american remake has made it as though everyones going to get taken away by an evil force and by monsterous ghosts running about etc. Thats fine if thats the sort of thing you want to see, but its actually quite far from what the original was trying to do. I agree it would be zippier etc, with a lot more obvious frights and jumps, but thats just classic hollywood horror.
I like american horrors for what they are, I also like japanese horrors for what they are. The mixing of the two never seems to work, and only lessens the two types of horror...In my opinion they shouldnt mix just to line movie companies pockets with money.