YA It was OK!!

I really enjoyed the set up, but felt that as the movie went on it got to be more and more like Ringu.

Can we get a new plotline, please?

Sam

Re: The Eye!
 

Others to watch, Dark water, the Grudge all three Ring movies if you ain't seen them. Has anyone seen Spiral i was thinking of buying it.

What like cheesy dated 80s horror, Friday the 13th part 56 or how about another Halloween movie. I never get bored of seeing dumb fuck teenagers getting stabbed, axed, stabbed, oh shit i already wrote stabbed.

Brilliant strawman there, thanks.

But I think that since I asked for a new plotline that would specifically exclude "cheesy dated" plots from 25 years ago, wouldn't you?

Sam

Fair enough , but what was the last good horror you saw with a original story line?

Strawman??????? what does that mean?

Audition was pretty original. So was May. There are a bunch.

Of course there's nothing that's completely original, I grant you that, but there are some things that wear their influences much mmore obviously than others.

I just feel that The Eye, and a bunch of post-Ringu Asian films, have drawn too much on the plot structure of Ringu and haven't created enough on their own.

Some info about strawman arguments at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lilyth/strawman.html

Sam

I don't think "The Eye" owes much to "Ringu" at all, pretty diffrent films other than originating in Asia ...

I felt that the plot - going back to someone's home town/region, to discover what happened to them/how they died, meeting a disturbed parent, trying to correct the wrong, and (as I recall in The Eye, but don't remember for sure) failing - all seem like pretty major elements of Ringu.

Sam

the Eye , if anything was closer to sixth Sense than Ringu but true what you're saying. The grudge good as it is, the main protaginist is a carbon copy of sadako. Liked that Straw man thing.