Scary? Not
I saw The Grudge and was very disappointed.
Angela:Was The Grudge scary at all? I know you said it sucked, but was it scary? John said it was scary and I laughed and called him a wuss, but now I want to know if I was right to call him a wuss.
Myr: LOL Yes you were right. I slept just fine that night.
Ange: Hehe excellent
Myr:I mean, sure the images themselves were scary, but they dragged out the anticipation so much that I'd already figured out what I was going to see before they showed it. So there was no big shock of fear (just shock of a loud noise).
Ange: Ah. What about the boy/cat thing?
Myr: And you know that boy who meows?... Well I went in knowing I was going to be freaked by that (and the first time I was), but he did it like 12 times, so by the end I just wanted to kill the kid myself, lol.
Ange: lolol
Ange: Whats the story?
Myr: Umm... okay, there's like 2 time lines.
1- (Set 3 years in the past) There's a nice little family (father, mother, son, cat). Mother takes a class in university and becomes obsessed with her professor and writes about it in her journal. Her husband reads about it and goes crazy; beats wife to death, drowns his son, and hangs himself (he also kills the cat).
2- A western family (married couple and his mother) moves to Japan and buys the house. The mother is sorta catatonic so they have this care giver come by. Gellar plays the replacement caregiver (the last one didn't show up for work that day = dead).
Myr: One of the reasons the movie is so bad though is that the people don't react like normal human beings. I mean, if a husband reads that his wife is getting a full-on obsession with a someone (she was at the point of stalking), he should bring her to the psychiatrist, not kill his whole family.
And if you see blue arms reach out to grab a cat in the stairway in your house... would you follow or get out of the house?
Myr: And I also hate that the movie sorta broke it's own rules:
The haunting is supposed to just be in the house, yet it followed some people out to their work place and homes.
There was the rule that if it 'happened to/around you' then it wouldn't let you go, yet it killed someone that hadn't seen any manifestation when he was in the house, but didn't kill someone that actually touched a ghost.
And the married couple was killed (and therefore were supposed to become ghosts too), but when the 'haunting' decided to go after the man's sister, it wasn't him or his wife that killed her, it was the initial stalker-woman.
Myr: Sigh...So many things that were just bad, lol
Ange: Hehe kick it.
Myr: So if John found this one scary, then he must have been terrified with The Ring (the one where I couldn't sleep for 24 hours, and even after that I needed the light on for almost a week, lol).
Ange: He said this was scarier than The Ring.
Myr: Wow lol
Ange: The kid's a freak, what can I say.
Myr: lol
Angela:Was The Grudge scary at all? I know you said it sucked, but was it scary? John said it was scary and I laughed and called him a wuss, but now I want to know if I was right to call him a wuss.
Myr: LOL Yes you were right. I slept just fine that night.
Ange: Hehe excellent
Myr:I mean, sure the images themselves were scary, but they dragged out the anticipation so much that I'd already figured out what I was going to see before they showed it. So there was no big shock of fear (just shock of a loud noise).
Ange: Ah. What about the boy/cat thing?
Myr: And you know that boy who meows?... Well I went in knowing I was going to be freaked by that (and the first time I was), but he did it like 12 times, so by the end I just wanted to kill the kid myself, lol.
Ange: lolol
Ange: Whats the story?
Myr: Umm... okay, there's like 2 time lines.
1- (Set 3 years in the past) There's a nice little family (father, mother, son, cat). Mother takes a class in university and becomes obsessed with her professor and writes about it in her journal. Her husband reads about it and goes crazy; beats wife to death, drowns his son, and hangs himself (he also kills the cat).
2- A western family (married couple and his mother) moves to Japan and buys the house. The mother is sorta catatonic so they have this care giver come by. Gellar plays the replacement caregiver (the last one didn't show up for work that day = dead).
Myr: One of the reasons the movie is so bad though is that the people don't react like normal human beings. I mean, if a husband reads that his wife is getting a full-on obsession with a someone (she was at the point of stalking), he should bring her to the psychiatrist, not kill his whole family.
And if you see blue arms reach out to grab a cat in the stairway in your house... would you follow or get out of the house?
Myr: And I also hate that the movie sorta broke it's own rules:
The haunting is supposed to just be in the house, yet it followed some people out to their work place and homes.
There was the rule that if it 'happened to/around you' then it wouldn't let you go, yet it killed someone that hadn't seen any manifestation when he was in the house, but didn't kill someone that actually touched a ghost.
And the married couple was killed (and therefore were supposed to become ghosts too), but when the 'haunting' decided to go after the man's sister, it wasn't him or his wife that killed her, it was the initial stalker-woman.
Myr: Sigh...So many things that were just bad, lol
Ange: Hehe kick it.
Myr: So if John found this one scary, then he must have been terrified with The Ring (the one where I couldn't sleep for 24 hours, and even after that I needed the light on for almost a week, lol).
Ange: He said this was scarier than The Ring.
Myr: Wow lol
Ange: The kid's a freak, what can I say.
Myr: lol