08-11-2005, 05:26 PM
Batz Kage Wrote:Fear Dot Com was based off a Japanese film? Holy Hell, it sucked balls. It reminds me a bit of Saw, only Saw didn't totally suck.
Not quite based off a Japanese film. Ripped of the Japanese film/book Ringu, definitely. (View a tape, die in seven days..... view a website, die in three days).
Unforuntantely, even MORE Japanese movies are being remade in the US. Tom Cruise is remaking The Eye (mind you, I don't think he's starring in it). But shit, The Eye is already a great movie, what's the point in remaking it? Then on IMDB, there was a thread in the Dark Water forum about more Japanese films being remade in the US (almost all of them horror). It was appalling, really.
Something which MIGHT be interesting is that another one of the short stories from Koji Suzuki (author of The Ring)'s Dark Water book has been picked up for movie right by (I think) Dreamworks. The first short story is what was made into the movie Dark Water, and now the short story "Afloat" is going to be beefed up into a full film.
IMO, I good TV miniseries of Dark Water with straight adaptations of all the stories would have rocked. Afloat was my favorite of all the stories, but I don't think it would translate into a very good full film.