The Ring Two: Before you die, you will suck.
As promised, I have thought long and hard over my review of The Ring 2. It will be a tad spoilery but don't worry, I'm not ruining anything that hasn't already ruined itself. My initial impulse was to simply write "sucked" as a one-word review. But I realized that some of you out there require something a little more specific.
First of all, thanks to![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
madush69 and psychswitch for inviting us, and to birthday boy pak_man78 for driving me and giving me pizza afterwards. No you punks, actual pizza. I'm serious! It had pepperoni...
Anyway, this movie enticed me with its returning cast flanked with a few medium sized names. Who can resist a horror movie with Sissy Spacek for crying out loud? I only later learned that Daveigh Chase appears only in archival footage...while watching I actually questioned whether or not it was her. Most of the time, it wasn't. As such, she's the only one whose agent isn't needing a swift kick in the ass for allowing a client to appear in this vacuous waste of celluloid. Thankfully for them, Gary Cole and Elizabeth Perkins as well as Spacek appear only briefly.
This film did do a few things right. There were a few scenes of general creepiness, some suspense and some startling moments. There were some scenes that worked well visually (plenty of people making "the scared face"; as well as some lines of excellent creepy dialogue. The performances were good throughout. Sadly, the script was lacking...extremely lacking. What little story there was made no sense, was based on almost nothing from the first film, and made tons of wild assertions that it didn't support with plot or character. It's attempt at a poignant ending was foiled by an overall lack of climax (don't you just hate that, ladies?) and a nagging desire to figure out just what the hell is going on. The water symbolism that characterizes the first film is so overused you wonder if anyone will ever dry off. It's anyone's guess what the deal with the deer was...scary for a moment then never goes anywhere. That's all this film is, all set-up and no payoff. *Snore*
Of course, my own viewing was made slightly more annoying by having to wait an hour and a half at the theatre for somebody's buddies to show up. When they finally arrived they were drunk, loud and giggling all thru the film. It was re-goddamn-diculous and no one made them shut up. Had this been a decent film, that would have been very, very irksome.
First of all, thanks to
madush69 and psychswitch for inviting us, and to birthday boy pak_man78 for driving me and giving me pizza afterwards. No you punks, actual pizza. I'm serious! It had pepperoni...Anyway, this movie enticed me with its returning cast flanked with a few medium sized names. Who can resist a horror movie with Sissy Spacek for crying out loud? I only later learned that Daveigh Chase appears only in archival footage...while watching I actually questioned whether or not it was her. Most of the time, it wasn't. As such, she's the only one whose agent isn't needing a swift kick in the ass for allowing a client to appear in this vacuous waste of celluloid. Thankfully for them, Gary Cole and Elizabeth Perkins as well as Spacek appear only briefly.
This film did do a few things right. There were a few scenes of general creepiness, some suspense and some startling moments. There were some scenes that worked well visually (plenty of people making "the scared face"; as well as some lines of excellent creepy dialogue. The performances were good throughout. Sadly, the script was lacking...extremely lacking. What little story there was made no sense, was based on almost nothing from the first film, and made tons of wild assertions that it didn't support with plot or character. It's attempt at a poignant ending was foiled by an overall lack of climax (don't you just hate that, ladies?) and a nagging desire to figure out just what the hell is going on. The water symbolism that characterizes the first film is so overused you wonder if anyone will ever dry off. It's anyone's guess what the deal with the deer was...scary for a moment then never goes anywhere. That's all this film is, all set-up and no payoff. *Snore*
Of course, my own viewing was made slightly more annoying by having to wait an hour and a half at the theatre for somebody's buddies to show up. When they finally arrived they were drunk, loud and giggling all thru the film. It was re-goddamn-diculous and no one made them shut up. Had this been a decent film, that would have been very, very irksome.