Confident that the US version will be a hundred times better and scarier

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Theres an american version of grudge 2?!?! Where is it available?!?

The American version of the Ring had somewhat of the same ending, keeping in Mind Rachel's parents were never mentioned. But someone did them the same "favor". As for Ringu I really didn't like the end. It was dissapointing to me. The Grudge US version didn't have any lose ends, if you watch it until the end it shows how each person died. That was a given. I suppose Toshio was more effectively used in Ju-on than the grudge, but Ju-on wasn't that scary and was also somewhat dissapointing to its American Counter part.

All in All I like the Remakes slightly better then the Japanese Orignals, but the Orignals are in a different leauge than the American ones. They are almost dramas.

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"The Grudge (they left too many loose ends in the US version, didn't explain how when each person was killed, they too joined the curse, except for yoko, while in Ju-on, they clearly showed that). Also, in Ju-on, Toshio was far more effectively used than in The Grudge."

It does explain how each people die; they were scared to death (I'm assuming this because of the breathing thing they do before they die). The only death scene I didn't get was when that Peter guy committed suicide at the beginning of the movie.
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But you still didn't get what he said.
It did not explain that everyone who was killed by the curse, joined the curse. (= the ones who got killed joined in the killing.)
This is shown in only one case in the american version. (When the maid who was killed first shows up at the stairs in the office and gets her boss killed.)
While in the japanese version you get that explained in several cases. (One is when the schoolgirl dies by her old friends who died after being in the house.
Another is the police who sees his daughter in a room, right before he dies.)


IMO, the japanese one was alot better than the american. Indeed, the american one had some better effects, but for me they don't matter. I don't watch horror movies for special effects. If you want to see effects, better watch some action/sci-fi movie.
Americans have a tendancy to stupify movies, as if the producers thought that the audience would be stupid.
Example: In the japanese movie, the story focuses around the house.
In the american version, the story still focuses on the house, but they have drawn very much attention to SMG's character. This alone makes a very big rift between the two movies. The american was easier to understand, but at the same time less interesting.
Then we have the next big difference. The american one focused very much on this sudden fear, the one that just jumped out of nowhere as in a thriller. This kind of fear that is so predictable that it doesn't make you scared anymore.
The japanese one had some of this too, but it felt as if it was alot less of it. Instead there was more of this "psychological fear", as I call it. This one fear that's always crawling inside of you because you don't know when something is going to happen and when it happens, it happens slowly, in a paralyzing way. Even though I could predict most things since I had seen the american one before I saw the japanese, I was still scared when some things happened.

So yeah....IMO, the american was alot more shallow than the japanese one.

The American remake isn't particularly good, is it? Shimizu being Shimizu, there are some terrific scares, but it feels a little more disjointed than even the Japanese ones. Shame, because there are some lovely ideas. I imagine a Directors' Cut will be released, and it will improve upon the theatrical release - was certainly the case with The Grudge. Shame we in the UK will have to wait about a year longer than you Yanks to get the Directors' Cut again, if there is one...

Have a nice day :)

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