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post #1 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:22am
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Did anyone see the remake this weekend? Couldn't find anyone interested in going... wasn't too interested myself. But just wondering what people thought of it.
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post #2 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:29am
Not a good movie, but it's got great visuals. For me it was worth seeing just for the sights.

Also, it wasn't boring as shit like Kairo.
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post #3 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:29am
It was PG-13, the Kiss-O-Death rating for any horror film, so not even a wait for DVD as far as I'm concerned.

The Arrow has a review up at AITH. Looks like you were smart for missing it.
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post #4 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:33am
I actually loved the original, even if it did move slower than any other movie I've seen.

Does the new version still have the [spoiler, swipe to read] Ghost Town and Air Crash?
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post #5 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:36am
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall
Does the new version still have the [spoiler, swipe to read] Ghost Town and Air Crash?
It does, and it looks much better.

for me, the only thing the original had going for it was the eye candy, and even though this remake takes some things almost shot for shot from Kairo, they look much better every single time.

Of course, Kairo must have had a minuscule budget, because it looked like it was shot on shitty film from the 60s.
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post #6 of 12
8/14/06 at 11:46am
But that is part of the film's power. It has a real etheralness to it, and the low budget also gives moments like the leap a far more visceral and freaky feel.

I still can't figure out how they did that shot.
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post #7 of 12
8/14/06 at 2:58pm
I heard they removed the scene were the girl falls from the factory and the camera catches the entire fall, I can understand post Sept 11 how people wouldn't be able to cope but thats just stupid, it's like the only death in the movie you actully see!!!
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post #8 of 12
8/14/06 at 3:01pm
The fall is removed, sadly. It was one of the best looking shots in both Kairo and the teaser.
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post #9 of 12
8/14/06 at 7:07pm
Ugh, they cut the fall out of the remake?

I'm from NYC and that didn't bother me in the original.

I'm skeptical to see this. I own Kairo, and like most of Kiyoshi's work, it's slow, but I think it gives it ambiance and it's own personality. Less formulaic than all the garbage that comes out of Hollywood these days.

*first post, be nice!*

~B
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post #10 of 12
8/14/06 at 7:13pm
I saw the air crash in one of the TV spots. Nice shot.
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post #11 of 12
8/14/06 at 7:17pm
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Originally Posted by Jason P. Thompson
I saw the air crash in one of the TV spots. Nice shot.
What's interesting about that shot is that when they used it in the theatrical trailers they used the shot from Kairo, not this movie. It's easy to tell because original had propellers and you can see the Japanese girl run into the shot.
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post #12 of 12
10/5/06 at 12:36pm
Saw this Tuesday at a dollar theater in Orlando for 75 cents. It is simultaneously better and worse than the original. Has a genuinely creepy atmosphere, some good scares, and nice visuals (and Kristen Bell's not too hard on the eyes either). The Spec FX budget (that the Japanese version didn't have) allowed the film-maker to create some interesting vignettes.

However, the last act during the climax got a little ridiculous and the whole movie over-explained the origin of the "spooks" in heavy handed exposition. SPOILER: An unleashed virus??? Fixed by a computer program??? It was unnecessary. I appreciated the simpler approach of the original (lonely ghosts that happen to inhabit the internet). And it definitely missed the suicide jump. Why show a plane crash, but not a body drop post 9/11?

But, for only 75 cents (cheaper than renting it), I was entertained... even if it turned from scary to silly on a dime.

PG13 rating didn't really bother me... Like the classic original Haunting, the Ring and Grudge remakes got under my skin just fine without an R.
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