Ring 2 review and J-horror in Esquire

[Mark Mays]

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From: "J.sharp" <j.sharp at hpo.net>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: Ring 2 review and J-horror in Esquire


> But of course, whether the film actually is lousy or not is a moot point.
> Horror is anyway a virtually critic-proof genre. What works for some might
> not work for others. Take a look at the user comments on the imdb and you
> can see that Ring 2 is hardly the disaster it is claimed to be.

Ah Jasper, the first weekend's IMDB ratings are going to be vastly inflated,
as if you can really rely on a good correlation between that number and box
office. Let's wait a couple of weeks at least. I'm sure the film will do
well this weekend, however.

Also, not sure I buy your implication that horror is instrisically less
challenging than other genres . . .

>
> I've not seen the film yet, but to be honest, I doubt its either markedly
> better or worse than Nakata's previous works, which seems to be of a
fairly
> consistent quality. I know he is not a great fan of horror and would
really
> like to do something more challening, but seems at the moment he cannot
> shake off his typecasting as a Horror directon either in Japan or
Hollywood.
> Lets hope he does just takes the money and runs and a few years down the
> line he might make the type of films he wants to make. Now that will be
> interesting!
>
> Jasper
>
>
>
>
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> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
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> Subject: Re: Ring 2 review and J-horror in Esquire
> Date: 20/03/05 02:26
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> >
> > I was a bit suprised to see D'Angelo's by line on the Esquire piece,
since
> I'd never known him to be a champion of J-horror outside the more avant
> guarde films like many of the Kurosawa K and Takashi films.. When I read
the
> full piece it made more sense, as he suggested that J-Horror films will
> benefit from being remade by Hollywood. I'll have to ask him about that.
> > &nbsp;
> > Nakata has said he's been looking for projects to do in Hollywood for
some
> time. I don't think which one really mattered as long as he got in the
door.
> That said, seems as if he can't shoulder all the blame for it being lousy,
> as he took over an already troubled project in mid-stream, and he's been
> there, done that.
> > &nbsp;
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