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Originally Posted by urgeok2
i was very entertained by Ringu ..
above all else - the image of that girl crawling towards the viewer/victim with that jerky slow camera motion - will be forever burned into the minds of horror fans - and many non horror fans - alike.
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That
was a cool effect until it became overused in Japanese and American films alike (The Grudge, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Fair Haired Child.....). It's still a creepy shot, but it gets old after a while.
I watched Ringu because everyone I knew was talking about how good 'The Ring' was, and I wanted to be the purist snob that I am. I figured that if people were talking about 'The Ring' then 'Ringu' must be that much better. I was mistaken. I suppose it tried for the cinematography over story or anything, but I walked away thinking that I had wasted a small portion of my life.
I'm almost bored with J-Horror these days. Maybe it's the subtitles making my eyes get tired, or maybe it's that I keep seeing the same thing over and over again, but I almost never pick something up anymore just because it's Japanese (c'mon, we all had that stage where ninja weapons, anime, and Japanese culture was hip to follow)