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    The Eye remake

    So going to check this movie out this weekend?

    I'm going to see it tonight.

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    Looks like shit.

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    I actually think it looks like one of the better remakes as of late. I will probably check this out.

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    I'll catch it eventually. Not really in a hurry to see it

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    I'll probably catch it when i get around to it either online doubt anyone i know want's to check it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by choptop2 View Post
    Looks like shit.
    Seconded. Jessica Alba can't act for shit IMO.

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    Never, ever seeing this. I love the original, it's one of my favourite flicks. So fuck the remake.

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    will see it just to gawk at alba

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    I might check it out when it comes out on DVD.

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    Not seeing it. I think I considered maybe checking it out, but then I hit my ead on the wall to come back to my senses, then I watched the original. Looks like total crap.

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    why waste your money on this crap
    it does the orginal no justice

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    I loved ILS so I wil be chcking this out.

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    I just saw it. I thought it was decent. It has some parts that were kinda cool same as the other one.

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    It seems that they are keeping a lot of the same scares, but did they bother to add any new ones, and if so, were any of'em effective at all?

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    Well. . .
    The eye scores fairly well in my book. The scares didn't seem forced and the tension kept solid throughout. This is without a doubt Jessica Alba's best role so far. It is not even close to Oscar worthy but I would give it a solid B-. I loved the colors they chose to used. It really made the atmosphere. The direction was also one of the great points of the movie. They did an awesome job at working out the kinks and making it a good film. While it was nowhere near as good as ILS (THEM) it still works. I recommend it

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    One of the better Asian remakes... though thats not saying much. Still not as good as its namesake, but didn't expect it to be either. End of the day, I got more than I was expecting from this film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrighT MasteR View Post
    It seems that they are keeping a lot of the same scares, but did they bother to add any new ones, and if so, were any of'em effective at all?
    Yeah, they duplicated all of the scares and ghosts. The only ghost that doesn't make an appearance is the lady with the tongue.

    The new scares they added didn't do much for me. One scene in the mirror did creep me out and I know some people next to me screamed at one jump scene.

    Scary or not, I enjoyed the movie. This is what the Dark Water remake should have been like.

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    I liked it as well. The original has come to be one of my favorite asian horror flicks and I thought as far as remakes went this wasn't half bad. Didn't surpass (ha) but didn't drag down the original either.

    Does anyone remember if the original had the blind lady do a voice-over narraration as well, or was that something just in the remake? I didn't like it.

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    Oh, My Forking Guard!!! What the hell WAS this????

    Despite Jessica Alba being cast in the main role, I so did want to ride it out to the end and at least give it the benefit of the doubt. As much of a torture as it was sitting through all the loud noise and uninspired performances, I was willing to give it at least some credit for seeming to unfold as a considerably faithful remake of the original... for about the first half-hour, that is!

    My gut instinct told me immediately, when they decided to substitute the "Ying-Ying" character with a girl who was considerably older, to expect that the movie would only get progressively worse as it went along.

    And get progressively worse is exactly what it did! So much so that I almost cried, LITERALLY, at one point -- not because it was so emotionally enthralling but because of all the horrible liberties and diversions and "oversteppings" which so radically departed from the source material (when they transformed the "phantom escorts" into hideous "Golem-esque" angry snarling entities I nearly spilled tears of fist-clenching indignation and I so badly wanted to punch somebody!).

    All the fiery visions in the apartment were total overkill, although I must admit that I did like the Chinese Restaurant fire scene... in retrospect -- a scene I would have genuinely applauded had it not been for all of the other preceding vivid visions of fire which caused them all to blend together as if it was all part of one giant "fire fetish" party or something, so that by the time you realized that the vision experienced in the restaurant was related to a specific and separate event it had lost it's effectiveness.

    The movie was much too loud and chaotic; at times I deduced that it would've been more economical to just toss some heavy metal music in CD player and listen to it while bombarded a darkened room with a couple of multicolored strobe lights -- the effects would have been roughly identical.

    I tried and I tried and I tried to sit through it all, but ultimately I just had to call it absolute quits just, as grandma was being carted away to the hospital (it seemed to me that she got the better deal, because she had the benefit of a coronary to get her to leave the movie before it was over).

    It's frequently like trying to turn a lump of coal into a diamond in order to get me to speak favorably of any Hollywoodized remakes of popular Asian cinema, but this is the absolutely most RABID assault I've ever launched to date against one of these bastardizations! (Granted, I have yet to see "Crocoshit Ari," i.e. "One Missed Call," which, from all I've been hearing about it and judging from the trailers, is well worth missing, and "Punk'd"... I mean "Pulse" -- so who knows? maybe one or both of those remakes could possibly whip me up into even more of a frothing mouthed frenzy.)

    God only knows what damage they intend to inflict on their remakes of "Janhwa, Hongryeon," "Shutter" and "My Wife Is A Gangster." Maybe the Writers' and Directors' Guilds should be forever banned from adapting any more Asian cinema titles for the American market... or they should at least be required to take a few courses in how to properly handle and respect the original material from Sam Raimi, who had a fairly firm grasp of the original story with his adaptation of "JUON."

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravenewworld1 View Post
    or they should at least be required to take a few courses in how to properly handle and respect the original material from Sam Raimi, who had a fairly firm grasp of the original story with his adaptation of "JUON."
    Or maybe it didn't have so much to do with Sam Raimi as it did with the simple fact that they hired the man who original directed Ju-On to direct the US remake.

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