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| I'm guessing the original Japanese version takes place in Japan. For the American version, they localized it by having it take place in...Japan...with American leads. Was this to cash in on the Japanophile crowd? My potential enjoyment of this movie was inhibited by watching obnoxiously presented hip white kids worshipping Japanese culture. "I've always wanted to come here!" exlaimes hot Sara Michelle Gellar. Ha ha, no. I'd believe it if she were 150 lbs. heavier, male, and crammed into a Hello Kiddie shirt many sizes too small.
Points off for heavy handed exposition littered about the beginning (Gellar going on about how great japan is and taking time to pull her boyfriend over to a buddhist graveyard and explain to him how the smoke from incense carries up prayers to loved ones, which just may come into play later on). More points off for "it was only a cat" scare. Points back for creepy zombie ghost kids. Jumbled timeline.....eh. It's definately not new or clever, more of trying to keep this movie from being a dull straightfoward slasher film (without the gore, and with ghost zombie kids magically popping up out of nowhere instead of a killer in overalls) and barely partially succeeding but too little too late. |
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JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (Jap version) SUCKS by 01/01/2005, 11:10pm PST  So why is Japanese "horror" spreading? by 01/02/2005, 12:48am PST Samurai versions of Shakespeare, hmm... by 01/02/2005, 1:41am PST I think he knew that, Blob, hence the reference. NT by 01/02/2005, 10:40am PST Has anybody here seen The Audition? by 09/14/2005, 7:46pm PDT No "The" by 09/14/2005, 8:01pm PDT Japanese Mushmouth NT by 09/14/2005, 8:34pm PDT Re: Has anybody here seen The Audition? by 09/14/2005, 10:03pm PDT I'm watching the American version RIGHT NOW by 09/12/2005, 9:19pm PDT huh? by 09/13/2005, 3:27am PDT Re: JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (Jap version) SUCKS by 09/12/2005, 11:04pm PDT |
