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The Ring (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1074 reviews
Sales Rank: 5800
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DRWD89980D
ISBN: 0783269870
UPC: 667068998023
EAN: 9780783269870
ASIN: B00005JLTK
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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With its disturbing images and a few good shocks, The Ring is the kind of frightfest you'll watch to set a chilling mood or spook your susceptible friends, but when you try to sort it out, this well-mounted American remake (of the 1998 Japanese hit Ringu, based on Koji Suzuki's popular novel) becomes a batch of incoherent parts. The negligible plot follows a Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) as she investigates the death of her niece, the victim of a mysterious videotape that, according to urban legend, causes the viewer's death seven days later. (Fear Dot Com borrowed the same idea while avoiding this film's lofty pretensions.) The countdown structure follows the reporter, her son, and her estranged boyfriend into deepening layers of terror--all quite effective until the movie attempts to explain itself. At that you're better off shutting down your brain and letting the creepy visuals take over. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
AN INQUISITIVE REPORTER VIEWS A MYSTERIOUS VIDEOTAPE THAT IS LINKED TO SEVERAL DEATHS, SHE SETS IN MOTION A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT PUTS HER LIFE IN DANGER. NOW SHE IS IN A RACE AGAINST TIME TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
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 What a Rip-off!! August 26, 2010
Alexander M. Banias (Amishland)
When I had seen this movie in the theater, I actually booed the screen at the end because there was nothing original to the story. The Ring was nothing more than a total rip-off of the classic and more scary 1979 movie, "The Changeling," with George C. Scott.
Bringing Japanese Horror Stateside July 28, 2010
Zachary Koenig (Fergus Falls, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here in the United States, our horror movie culture is defined by mask-wearing, knife-wielding psychos like Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees. Over in Japan, though, their horror is much more dark and symbolic. "The Ring" (an adaptation of the Japanese "Ringu") brings that cinematic style over here.
For a basic plot summary, "The Ring" introduces a video tape that, when watched, will result in the viewer getting a phone call telling them they will die in seven days...which is usually exactly what happens. However, when the tape is seen by a journalist (Naomi Watts) and inadvertently by her son, they become engaged in a race against the clock to try and decipher the tape's mysterious imagery and the real story behind the ring.
The dark, disturbing imagery in this film is really what makes it a horror stand-out. Since we are accustomed to more in-your-face scare scenes, this oblique style proves to be even more terrifying. The young girl with the straight hair over her eyes, the well, the dead horses, and the horrifying faces of the tape's victims all add up to a cornucopia of disturbing images.
"The Ring" is also an exercise in the cerebral. Not all the answers are given up front or thrown in the viewers' face. Instead, we are forced to evaluate all the imagery and subtle clues to piece things together. To paraphrase Hitchcock, what we don't know/see is often scarier than the obvious.
Overall, I consider "The Ring" to be a seminal horror film for fans of the genre (right up there with Halloween and Saw). Given the chance, I would have bumped the star-rating up to 4.5.
 All she wanted was to be heard! July 27, 2010
Jim-Bob Koenig (Fergus Falls, MN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the last couple of years I have been searching for a scary movie that can actually scare me, and this is that movie. This movie will be sure to have you clinging to the edge of your seat or buried in the arms of your partner. It has the perfect balance between being to gorey but still scaring the crap out of you.
The movie is based around a mysterious tape that has strange images on it that must be decoded to figure out why you die a week after watching the tape! Can she do it in time?
Overall this movie easily deserves five stars and I wish I could give it more! I highly recommend watching this movie and if you watch it at night in the dark it really adds to it.
Secrets never stay buried for long... July 14, 2010
Andrew Ellington (I'm kind of everywhere)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I may get a lot of flak for calling out `The Mothman Prophesies' for feeling incomplete and then kind of gushing all over `The Ring', but there are some stark differences between the two. First of all, nothing about `The Ring' feels incomplete. Incoherent maybe, but never incomplete. The difference between the two films is that the ambiguous ending crafted and delivered in this particular film feels as though it BELONGS there. Yes, you will turn off the television screen and ponder to yourself the truth behind the strange ending, but you will never doubt the filmmaker's credibility. There is a sick sense of closure that develops with `The Ring' that isn't found in `The Mothman Prophesies'. I think the professing to be `based on factual events' makes `The Mothman Prophesies' more accountable for their flaws.
Reality should make sense, at least that's what the growing public expects.
Okay, now that I got that out of the way, it's time to delve into the depths of `The Ring'.
`The Ring' is basically the story of a woman who is in the throws of panic after her son watches a video that prophesies his death in seven days. Knowing that she has to do something, even if there is nothing to do, she attempts to solve the mystery of the video (which is responsible for killing her niece). Naturally, this woman is a reporter and so she serves a better chance at getting to the bottom of things than anyone else would. Truth be told, the bottom of things is a pretty deep, deep pool (well, if you will) that demands further explanation.
Yes, you will scratch your head a little.
I applaud the film for attempting to explain itself. The open-ended ending does create a sense of tension that permeates the room even after the film is over. For this, I actually commend the film. For everyone seeking further answers, there is much to be said for those contented with the films ambitious attempt at creating an unfathomable mystery. The origins of the `video' and it's purpose itself remain rather mysterious in texture, but the overall complexities presented in the films conclusion defy anything a simple `explanation' could have afforded us.
I don't want to `know'.
Naomi Watts is a stunning and very capable actress, and I adore her here. She doesn't raise any bars, because there are none to be raised, but she brings her natural talent to the table in full force, which is always edible. The real standout here is the ridiculously creepy Daveigh Chase who just sinks her teeth into the role of the `ghost' here. What she does with a simple stare is beyond nightmare inducing.
She is terrifying.
There are many who claim this film is a preposterous and confusing mess, and there are probably equal amounts who claim it to be supernatural perfection. I totally buy into the fact that it is confusing, but it is near perfection when you consider the genre and the intensity it is able to build with its ever reaching premise. When you factor in the visual style, which is magnetic to the sight, you have a film that nails a lot of what makes this genre so special.
It scares the pants off of you.
 the number you have reached is disconnected...... June 27, 2010
Beatrice A. Lafave (so falls wichita falls)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
yeah , it's fairly brainy . is it scary and or fun ? not four stars worth . hopefully this will help guide us down the road to correcting that . the asians did it first and best . that applies to all these remakes of asian horror cinema . read a movie from time to time . you may find yourself knocked out . you know you can . you know you should .
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