#90 - nippon!

guess what? i'm getting excited about movies again! woo hoo! it's been a long long time since i've been into watching movies. for the longest time i thought it was the most boring thing in the world, sitting for two hours watching badly scripted lameness. the only thing good was the popcorn (which is super-mondo-ly good, by the way). i think my movie-hating started around when "titanic" came out, because all the movies were getting epically long and i got tired of super dramatic action flicks very quickly. but in the past couple of years i've been probably a handful of movies, i tried to stick to either one of three categories:

1) little thinking required off-beat comedy - e.g. knocked up ("don't you hate it when your baby steals your food, stop stealing my food baby!")

2) super-hyped "must-see" movies that any of my friends would go see, these must be seen drunk - e.g. drunken spiderman 3, drunken transformers from the second row in the theater

3) japanese horror films

i guess it all started with "ringu" and then the american "the ring," and sequels of that... then there was "juon" and "the grudge" and sequels of that. for both of those i thought that storyline and creepiness of the japanese films were better but the movie making and disturbing-ness of the american films were way better, like, you couldn't get the story or the scary level of the american films without the japanese-type ghosts or the relative lack of dialogue that's common in japanese films, but then the japanese films lacked scariness due to the lameness of the movie effects and super-lame acting.
one missed call is a movie i saw at a hawaii international film festival a couple of years back, i thought it was great! it's like, the first half of the movie was pretty typical japanese lameness with some mixed in creepiness, but the second half of the movie was messed up! wow, i still remember being completely shocked at how suprisingly impressed i was by the second half of the movie, i guess it was good that i wasn't expecting much huh?
now they're making an american version and i can't wait to see it... it's been a long time since i've actually been waiting for a movie to open, but this is one of them. i hope it's not lame. it's got some girl who was in buffy for a couple of episodes (not faith, shucks), but that movie poster is just unnecessarily gross.
anyway, after all those movies started coming out a couple of years ago, my aunty started sending me recommendations for more asian horror movies, one of them was this one, "the eye." it was chinese so i think that made it a little better movie-making wise, and the storyline is pretty good so i thought it was great.
and now i just saw a commerical for an american one, woo hoo! and it's got jessica alba (everything thinks she's super hot... i thought she was hot at first, and then she was in fantastic four and i lost all interest, but i dunno, she might redeem herself). so i'll be seeing that one as well.


anyone seen any other good asian horror movies? oh, i've got one more, they haven't made an american version of this one yet... maybe because the story is a little too convoluted... but if anyone has seen it let me know what you think... it's called "the infection" a japanese one...