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Why is this utter trash of a remake still rated so highly on imdb ?

posted 7 years ago by CrystalisK
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This was a joke in comparison to "Ringu", poor buildup, unscary and they even didnt take the iconic "creepy eye" from the original movie into it or managed to get something of that height of scary. Instead they kind of replaced it with a horse eye if i recall which was so poorly executed.

Im wondering if the popularity or the high rating of this movie is due to it being the first exposure of the japanese horror wave that started with Ringu/Dark Water/Ju-on so it kind of got a "pass" just like when anime was truly being exposed to the western market with "Cowboy Bebop" which wasnt a bad anime but if youve watched some of the offerings in the anime department it would most likely be labelled as "just good" or "decent" among anime fans but in the western market people didnt know better or had alternatives so it got known as one of the absolute best.

This movie felt exactly like the first Silent Hill movie, had a decent cinematography and visual style but lacked the substance of capture the feel of horror the source material is known for from the silent hil lgames and in this movies case the first "Ringu" movie, which is still a classic and subtle/tense japanese horror movie that never really managed to get better executed aside from the first Ju-On movie.

[–] larosat 7 years ago

Best horror movie ever made. You have terrible taste. Better than Ringu and I even read the novel it was based on.

[–] jLsterz 7 years ago

Ringu was awful. People tend to praise the original because it's the "original" rather than by the quality.

The remake had better cinematography, score, acting and writing. Gore Verbinski made this film so beautiful and it shows with his new film "a cure for wellness". Both have very similar cinematography.

[–] recyclar13 7 years ago

Best horror movie ever made.

yeah, no.

[–] hobbsmack 7 years ago

Wow you're pretty excited...I'm guessing it's rated where it is because a lot of people really enjoyed it...is that okay with you?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

It's one of the best horror films of the 21st Century. Easily.

Even on an all time scale it fares very well. A top 25 placement wouldn't be amiss. Great film and if anything it's rating is too low.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

This movie was crap.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 2 years ago

Oh, well that well-reasoned argument settles it then. Back to your cocktails.

[–] Volley (3368) 2 years ago

Because when this movie came out, there was nothing like it in North America. The imagery and atmosphere traumatized an entire generation, to this day I still think of particular events in this film, they just don’t leave a person over time.