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Albert Lanier @ HIFF: Japan's THE GRUDGE; Iran's CRIMSON GOLD; and Turkey's DISTANT; plus more.

First! by Garbageman33	Nov 4th, 2003 08:04:07 PM

It's amazing how much influence some jackasses in the audience c by Alcamaeon	Nov 4th, 2003 11:09:07 PM
It's happened once too many times. Good movies being ruined by dumbasses who think every scene is funny in their own Happy-Gilmore-is-my-favorite-m ovie brains. The Grudge has more substance than 99.9% of the horror films released in the U.S.
Gigglers by jennababe	Nov 4th, 2003 11:12:48 PM
I went and saw Iron Monkey in the theater with my boyfriend, and there were some gigglers there as well. I wanted to jump kick 'em in their faces.
Seen the Grudge and liked it by kite6t9	Nov 5th, 2003 09:22:31 PM
A friend of mine has a copy of Ju-On and I got to see most of it and though it was freaky as shit. Those of you who liked The Ring will love this one.
Ju-On is badly written by buzzstorm	Nov 6th, 2003 01:13:35 PM
Ju-On has an effective horror imagery. But the script makes NO sense at all. Maybe it does when you really start to think of it and ponder the existential and spiritual nature of it all, but I think it's an excuse that too many Japanese movies get. "Oh, they're more spiritual" - bullshit. Nakata's Ringu and "Dark water" - (which are way better movies) have 3 acts structures that work and they're good movies) For all I know, PULSE (Kairo) was better than JU-ON. Ju-on builds some nice atmosphere but that's it. It brings concept and ideas that were already explored. And Yes, I saw the TV versions of Ju-on (1 & 2). Found them almost more interesting caus' they're short stories... Ju-on, the movie, is an attempt to mesh all those TV stories together and it fails. A note to movie producers - I was there when you guys tried to remake "Pulse" with Wes Craven. I worked on the CG test and let me tell you one thing "Execs don't know shit"/ Trying to remake Kairo but minus the "scary black ghosts" - Let's make them big scary CG skelettons that glow in the dark. That was the shittiest idea I've ever seen in a remake. Anyway. If you remake Ju-on, ask Gore Verbinski.

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