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Date Posted: 04:49:06 12/09/03 Tue
Author: Silk
Subject: BTW, if you haven't seen it...

...see the Japanese version of The Ring if you're a fan of the American version, (and prepared for some culture, and for some reading).

When The Ring (American) was the in-thing going around here, I had so many teenagers running around recommending it. So I went and saw the Japanese version, which was excellent.

About a week later, I saw the American version, which was good but as subtle as a ton of shit hitting the road after being thrown out of a plane flying overhead at thirty thousand feet. There were too many Schwarzenneger moments in it.

To explain that, if you've seen Predator, while escaping the alien Arnie pulls himself through a lake-bank of mud. The Predator follows, but then doesn't see him. Obviously, the coverage of mud hid Arnie from the Predator's visual radar, but for all the bricks in attendance Arnie had to say, while looking at the mud covering his body, "Id coodent see mee." (Or maybe they wrote that in so Arnie himself would understand - who knows?)

The Japanese version of The Ring treats the audience with far more regard as to their intelligence. (That's also why I like David Lynch and the Coen brother - if you get it, you get it, if you don't it's still entertaining, but they're not going to tell you what they're trying to say).

Have also seen Ring0 (the prequel) and Ring2, (both Japanese obviously), both of which are pretty average, although there are some great scenes. But they went from intellectual to cerebral, and mysterious to cryptic.

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