Apart from what you've already heard?briefly, it's a good old ghost story at heart, in the Edgar Allen Poe mode, with a nice hefty twist at the end. The American version is a remake of a Japanese classic, but both of them stand up as good films, because although they have the same beginning and end, they take very different routes along the way. And, it's pants-wettingly scary, and films don't normally do that to me.
Oh, and I suppose there's not alot of point asking where you got your username is there?
(Oh, and I suppose there's not alot of point asking where you got your username is there?
supermoore: HUNG,
Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:18,
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just looking on amazon as I typeI can find the Japanese version. Maybe I'll get it.
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rob,
Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:19,
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I recommend itthere is also a prequel, and a sequel, you can probably get a DVD set, but they might not be subbed, in which case useless, unless you speak Japanese
( supermoore: HUNG,
Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:24,
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japanese versionis supposed to be better than the american one.
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Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:24,
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Most originalsare better than the hollywood remake.
el Mariachi and la Femme Nikita are two recent ones that come to mind.
I still find it hard to look favourably on a people who cheer the explosions in a film...
(el Mariachi and la Femme Nikita are two recent ones that come to mind.
I still find it hard to look favourably on a people who cheer the explosions in a film...
Ratsta,
Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:43,
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particularly when said explosions(and the scenery around them) is obviously fake and probably done just outside London. I went off films years ago, and accidentally catching bits of Sleepy Hollow a while back confirmed that I'd made a good choice.
Even TV dramas went the same way a long time ago (probably round the 2nd or 3rd Prime Suspect); that new Amanda Burton shite that was on tonight.....wtf? Particularly when they showed what was going to happen tomorrow night....good job actually, saves us watching more Lynda LaPlante bollocks. Good job we have control over the OFF button :)
(Even TV dramas went the same way a long time ago (probably round the 2nd or 3rd Prime Suspect); that new Amanda Burton shite that was on tonight.....wtf? Particularly when they showed what was going to happen tomorrow night....good job actually, saves us watching more Lynda LaPlante bollocks. Good job we have control over the OFF button :)
witchy is covered in BEES,
Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:50,
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