My question is, how many times can you rehash a single story??
The answer - an untold amount of times, apparently.
Rings is a 2017 psychological horror movie, part of The Ring film series, which has its roots in 90's Japanese cinema.
The basic premise is, you watch a video with some weird shit on it and then you receive a phone call telling you that you will be dead in 7 days.
I went into this thinking for god's sake, give it up now! The first one was creepy as fuck but this is just silly. Not sure why I got so annoyed as this is only the third film ha ha whatever, I'm easily irritated.
I was pleasantly surprised if i'm honest, yes the story is an old one but they fleshed it out a bit and certain questions were answered and mysteries revealed - not going to share here, as that would be considered a spoiler.
I enjoyed this film purely because it was a pleasure to watch, I thought it was beautifully shot and it had this muted green/sepia tone about it that gave it a grim but intriguing, visual quality.
There was lots of close camera and dolly tracking shots that made it all quite unnerving, accompanied by some beautifully centred, Wes Anderson-esque wide shots.
This may sound ridiculous, but I judge the look of a film by whether or not I would have stills on a canvas in my house - there was more than one occasion when I found myself thinking, that's stunning, where would I put that??
The acting was average, the scares were minimal but then once you get over the initial phase of being shit scared of Samara in the first film, shes kind of a secondary, non entity, by the third.
The dialogue was lazy and the unashamed, spoon feeding of the plot, was cringey.
Johnny Galecki was miscast as the professor and everyone else was pretty unremarkable, especially Vincent D'Onofrio, who seems to have become a token boogie man in the horror genre, lately. Probably me over exaggerating but he seems to be everywhere and its a waste of his acting talents.
I would say this is a film that can definitely be missed but if you appreciate the work of set designers and cinematographers, go and watch it in all its glory on the big screen. It's beautiful.
The answer - an untold amount of times, apparently.
Rings is a 2017 psychological horror movie, part of The Ring film series, which has its roots in 90's Japanese cinema.
The basic premise is, you watch a video with some weird shit on it and then you receive a phone call telling you that you will be dead in 7 days.
I went into this thinking for god's sake, give it up now! The first one was creepy as fuck but this is just silly. Not sure why I got so annoyed as this is only the third film ha ha whatever, I'm easily irritated.
I was pleasantly surprised if i'm honest, yes the story is an old one but they fleshed it out a bit and certain questions were answered and mysteries revealed - not going to share here, as that would be considered a spoiler.
I enjoyed this film purely because it was a pleasure to watch, I thought it was beautifully shot and it had this muted green/sepia tone about it that gave it a grim but intriguing, visual quality.
There was lots of close camera and dolly tracking shots that made it all quite unnerving, accompanied by some beautifully centred, Wes Anderson-esque wide shots.
This may sound ridiculous, but I judge the look of a film by whether or not I would have stills on a canvas in my house - there was more than one occasion when I found myself thinking, that's stunning, where would I put that??
The acting was average, the scares were minimal but then once you get over the initial phase of being shit scared of Samara in the first film, shes kind of a secondary, non entity, by the third.
The dialogue was lazy and the unashamed, spoon feeding of the plot, was cringey.
Johnny Galecki was miscast as the professor and everyone else was pretty unremarkable, especially Vincent D'Onofrio, who seems to have become a token boogie man in the horror genre, lately. Probably me over exaggerating but he seems to be everywhere and its a waste of his acting talents.
I would say this is a film that can definitely be missed but if you appreciate the work of set designers and cinematographers, go and watch it in all its glory on the big screen. It's beautiful.