Ring Two: eh... First off, I watched the Japanese version and I have the manga. And I'll let you know right off the bat that Ring Two does not use either as a source. Which kinda disappointed me. The original ones didn't really bloat my goat either. But the cool thing about The Ring was that it obviously was based on the Japanese movie but did it better. And that's what I kind of expected here--a better version of the Japanese movie.
But, no, they went completely in a different direction and I think that this movie was probably the script for a different child-ghost-possession movie and it got shoehorned into the Ring universe.
The Japanese version, as boring and dumb as it was, at least stayed within the whole cursed tape thing.
Steamboy: The long long long awaited film by Katsuhiro Ôtomo whose last great film was Akira almost 20 years ago. It was also disappointing. I watched it and the sense that I got was he was trying to make a boy's version of Kiki's Delivery Service. But, he fails be cause he's no Miyazaki. Just like how Blue Sky's Robots was good. But wasn't as good as Pixar's The Incredibles. While both movies are technically good, The Incredibles was better due to non-technical stuff like plot, characters, and acting. I hated Robin Williams in Robots, but I guess that's another review.
I feel he shoulda stuck with the old ultraviolence. Akira was good. It was mature. The characters weren't simply good or evil.
Posted by joel at March 21, 2005 01:45 PM