Okay, the Ring is not scary!

clowns are the scariest things on the planet. i dont find alot of stuff scary like im the brave one and all out of my friends but i am dead scared of clowns, dolls, ventriliquists (?), manakins, and anything of that sort. especially clowns. anyway, yea hes right no point arguing over whether a movie is scary or not.

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I think everybody had to be scared of clowns when they were little. I know I was. Must be because the way they dress and paint their faces. The movie "IT" explains a lot for some people and for others it's just something different.

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well im 13 and still scared. its the same thing with santa clause and little kids. i dont see why if every kid is scared of santa then why do the parents ALWAYS get the kid on his lap. doesnt make sense. i have so many memories of screaming on santa's lap.

Yeah, the only good stuff in that movie was Tim Curry as Pennywise. Now the book was pretty good though.

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I'm only stating that what Garett said would have no affect on me. The reason I'd be scared of being alone in a abandoned house is because I'd be ALONE in an abondoned house. Anyway, yeah people can think the Ring is scary, I just don't think it has any corilation or whatever to being by yourself in an abandoned house, that's all.

I thought the film had many other attributes worth watching it for. The set design/usage was great. The cinematography was top notch and there were some unsettling scenes that really left an inpression on the viewer. As for scary, not much in film scares a body after they have seen 2000 horror flicks

Want to see something really scary? (no not the twilight zone movie )

Watch The Third Man, and when you are watching the desolate destroyed cityscape. think about how that was not a set, it was an actually city that had been devastated by warfare, and they just shot the film there afterwards.

Scares the hell out of me anyway.

that is kind of a creepy idea

All you people said "ring was so scary" right when it came out and now 5496843856097530 years later u say it isn't. I think thats bs. The movie was scary...not just coz it had some grusome things but also coz it was one wierd ass movie.

The Ring was a scary movie. But. I don't think it was scary in that it frightened you by some fear you have personally. I think the movie made you more scared for what the characters were going through: will she figure out the mystery of the tape, what will happen when she does? Let's face it guys, what kept our interest in The Ring was how, after watching a video tape (in now, a DVD rich culture) it could kill you after watching it. Well, we got our answer. But I don't think the answer was as scary to us as it was to the character, interesting--just not scary. Any fear we had was the fear of what she would have to do in order to survive. Just as Jurrasic Park was scary in that we know we'll never encounter giant man-eating dinosaurs, we were entirely scared for the characters. How did you honestly feel watching that plastic cup filled with water ripple as giant footsteps approached from behind?

Movies really aren't that scary anymore. By "scary" I mean something that makes us think that it could happen to us in real life. Remember Jaws? Nothing in recent memory has scared an audience so much that they were literally afraid to do something they weren't afraid to do before. In the case of Jaws people stopped swimming in the ocean. In the case of The Ring are we all going to stop watching video tapes? Well we've already done that. The Ring might have been more scary, or stayed with us longer, had the tape actually been a DVD.

The last movie that scared me personally was Final Destination 2. The highway crash scene in the beginning had me wondering if a real accident might play out the same way in real life. So there isn't a time that I'm not on a crowded freeway and don't think of that scene. Just like when I'm in the ocean and I still think a shark might be beneath me, looking at my kicking legs, waiting to bite them off.

The Ring may not have delved into the deepest pits of our phobias. But the characters in the movie seemed to believe what was going on around them. And as long as we feel for the characters' lives then the film has succeeded to frighten us in some ways, if only for a second.

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Movies really aren't that scary anymore. By "scary" I mean something that makes us think that it could happen to us in real life. Remember Jaws? Nothing in recent memory has scared an audience so much that they were literally afraid to do something they weren't afraid to do before. In the case of Jaws people stopped swimming in the ocean. In the case of The Ring are we all going to stop watching video tapes? Well we've already done that. The Ring might have been more scary, or stayed with us longer, had the tape actually been a DVD.

I have to agree that the audience can't get scared anymore. But if you're a little kid that's experiencing horror movies... than you'll easily get scared by any horror film.

But whose going to be afraid of watching a videotape? You're going to be scared of watching a video tape just because you saw The Ring? Now Jaws was a movie were it really scared people of going swimming. And that's because sharks can attack you. But putting a videotape into your VCR? That is not scary.

youre right the ring is not scary

The Ring wasn't scary, but it had a nice atmosphere to it, very creepy. It reminded me of the Silent Hill video games.

Yes sickman i agree with you...thats what made this movie scary for me..the atmosphere it was really spooky and flat out wierd...

i know the ring is definatly NOT scary its my fave movie but it isnt scary the bit that scared me most was when

I didn't like the ring, as a movie and as a scary movie. I didn't like the cast, and i felt they wrapped it up to sloppily. I did'nt like the characters at all, especially that girls son was really annoying. In movies the people you want to live have to be the ones who AREN't annoying. And I really tried to make it scary, I turned out all the lights, it was late at night, I tried to get really into the movie, but to no avail. So then afterwards I watched Psycho to make me feel better.

WoW..........Actually maybe i can say a little more...actually nvm ...WoW

yea dis an amazin movie nt scary tho darkness falls creeped me out a bit them noises the tooth fairy makes *shudders*

I only saw the jap version but i tought it was really good.
Much better than the crap hollywood churns out like scream and i know what you did last summer.
The charecters were so annoying i just wanted the bad guy to kill the heroine and get away with it.
And the writers deserve to be slashed for the worst lines i've ever heard.
The ring maybe not be that scary but its hard to scare people nowadays.
Its superior tho to tripe like slasher flics.
The only film that has really scared me was freddy kreuger when i was a nipper and signs, also a good film.
I watched signs in the cinema and was funny when the women kept screaming.

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I agree.