Support NeoGAF

digitalrelic · Feb 3, 2017

A new chapter in the beloved RING horror franchise. A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before...

Trailer

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rings_2017

Now at 6%

2017 is off to a great start.

Variety - It's now the file-share that kills. I don't know why that's less threatening, but it is, kind of like seeing your favorite album cover reduced to a digital postage stamp.

Blu-ray.com - An entirely useless film.

Hollywood Reporter - Unlikely to fire up the faithful and almost sure not to attract new fans to this J-horror-derived property.

We Live - What is The Ring when nobody uses VHS anymore and instead watches all their video online? Rings does not explore that. Instead it just rehashes The Ring but using copied video files instead of tapes.

Jarmel · Feb 3, 2017

0

^ Anaylze that ring.

Looks funny though in a so bad it's good sort of way.

Greatest Ever · Feb 3, 2017

Very appropriate tagline

NotLiquid · Feb 3, 2017

Well if the critics all died while watching the movie no wonder it's 0

Schlorgan · Feb 3, 2017

NotLiquid said:
Well if the critics all died while watching the movie no wonder it's 0

Dead

Admiral Woofington · Feb 3, 2017

Waiting for someone to post the Mike endless trash gif

valkillmore · Feb 3, 2017

Jesus Christ enough with these fucking horror films. I'm sick of the genre. It should go away for a while.

Sephzilla · Feb 3, 2017

Grizzlyjin · Feb 3, 2017

It's only February and the trash is already piled to the ceiling.

Peter Ian Staker · Feb 3, 2017

Watch it beat the next DC movie.

Feel the Swift · Feb 3, 2017

valkillmore said:
Jesus Christ enough with these fucking horror films. I'm sick of the genre. It should go away for a while.

There are bad movies in all genres

If you don't like it don't watch it lmao

sixteen-bit · Feb 3, 2017

lol, this sounds atrocious

Frozenprince · Feb 3, 2017

Grizzlyjin said:
It's only February and the trash is already piled to the ceiling.

And yet still not as bad as last year.

hampig · Feb 3, 2017

Did anyone expect any different? The movie's been delayed due to bad screenings, the director doesn't really have any sort of good track record, the trailers looked terrible.

That said, I'll still see it, hoping it's bad enough to be entertaining.

Shmuppers · Feb 3, 2017

endlesstrash.gif

I don't think we'll even be able to derive bye-bye man type humor out of it

Izayoi · Feb 3, 2017

endless trash . GIF

Shmuppers said:
endlesstrash.gif

Welp.

Count Dookkake · Feb 3, 2017

Kandinsky · Feb 3, 2017

Greatest Ever said:
Very appropriate tagline

lol amazing.

CaviarMeths · Feb 3, 2017

All ya'll tripping over yourselves to be the first one to say "endless trash" need to wake up a little earlier in the morning.

valkillmore said:
Jesus Christ enough with these fucking horror films. I'm sick of the genre. It should go away for a while.

What lol

What kind of opinion is this?

Schlorgan · Feb 3, 2017

hampig said:
Did anyone expect any different? The movie's been delayed due to bad screenings, the director doesn't really have any sort of good track record, the trailers looked terrible.

That said, I'll still see it, hoping it's bad enough to be entertaining.

I was doing to go see it for discount Tuesday next week but now I'm not so sure.

evanmisha · Feb 3, 2017

Suicide Squad to Cipher Peon will be Rings to me. Calling it now.

digitalrelic · Feb 3, 2017

I just can't believe that they apparently failed to address the advent of online streaming and viral videos in a sequel to the Ring. How fucking out of touch can you be?

This should be hilariously bad.

Ninja Scooter · Feb 3, 2017

The movie looks like trash but the lead actress is very attractive. She's got a future in movies.

thecouncil · Feb 3, 2017

Greatest Ever said:
Very appropriate tagline

true of all movies, really.

Captain Smoker · Feb 3, 2017

Greatest Ever said:
Very appropriate tagline

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

valkillmore · Feb 3, 2017

CaviarMeths said:
All ya'll tripping over yourselves to be the first one to say "endless trash" need to wake up a little earlier in the morning.

What lol

What kind of opinion is this?

lol I overreacted. I actually don't watch the genre at all. I guess it's more frustration at having seen a number of them over the years and . . not getting scared while watching. Jacob's Ladder is the scariest movie I've ever seen and I'm not even sure it qualifies as a horror film. Sorry for popping off haha

rashbeep · Feb 3, 2017

NotLiquid said:
Well if the critics all died while watching the movie no wonder it's 0

lol

hampig · Feb 3, 2017

Schlorgan said:
I was doing to go see it for discount Tuesday next week but now I'm not so sure.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, there are some middling reviews out there that suggest maybe it's not 100% bad. I've been hearing The Ring > Rings > The Ring 2.

To me it sounds like a "The Blair Witch -> Blair Witch" kind of deal, and even though I thought that movie was bad, I was happy to have seen it. People are mentioning that Rings is more focused on mystery instead of horror, which is actually what the original novel is like anyways, so I could be OK with that. Don't like the sound of cheap jump scares though, which this is apparently full of.

jrush64 · Feb 3, 2017

Peter Ian Staker said:
Watch it beat the next DC movie.

strafer · Feb 3, 2017

Sephzilla said:

this gif is really starting to get on my nerves.

NightShift · Feb 3, 2017

Not surprising. I thought for months that the trailer was fake and made by someone making fun of the state of hollywood. It blew my fucking mind when I found out it wasn't.

Kayhan · Feb 3, 2017

Here is a ring for ya: 0

evanmisha · Feb 3, 2017

NightShift said:
Not surprising. I thought for months that the trailer was fake and made by someone making fun of the state of hollywood. It blew my fucking mind when I found out it wasn't.

Oh, come on. Was the trailer THAT BAD? Outside of Vincent D'onofrio who gives a performance that seems so terrible it does admittedly border on parody

jett · Feb 3, 2017

strafer said:
this gif is really starting to get on my nerves.

is it because all your faves are in the background

Sho_Nuff82 · Feb 3, 2017

It can't possibly be worse than the Ring 2 can it? Because that was one of the worst films I've ever seen in theatres.

strafer · Feb 3, 2017

jett said:
is it because all your faves are in the background

fuck off

BoosterDuck · Feb 3, 2017

lol, so RE7 is a better horror movie than Rings

MMarston · Feb 3, 2017

jett said:
is it because all your faves are in the background

In seriousness, it reached peak usage way too fast.

illmatic22 · Feb 3, 2017

Give the rights back to Japan?

Sephzilla · Feb 3, 2017

jett said:
is it because all your faves are in the background

evanmisha · Feb 3, 2017

Sho_Nuff82 said:
It can't possibly be worse than the Ring 2 can it? Because that was one of the worst films I've ever seen in theatres.

I've heard it's not good, but it's not quite that bad.

illmatic22 said:
Give the rights back to Japan?

You wouldn't say that if you'd seen the last 2 Japanese Ring movies.

Fudgepuppy · Feb 3, 2017

That's one awfully sloppy poster. I'm not a trained graphic designer, have done some freelance work, and can say that even I can look at that poster and say it's horrible.

Vinc · Feb 3, 2017

Jarmel said:
0

^ Anaylze that ring.

Looks funny though in a so bad it's good sort of way.

It really isn't, it's just completely boring. The trailer made it look "worse" than it actually is. And when I say worse, I really mean better/funnier.

Xe4 · Feb 3, 2017

Haha.
I bet people wish they died after watching the movie.

Lord Frieza · Feb 3, 2017

hampig said:
Did anyone expect any different? The movie's been delayed due to bad screenings, the director doesn't really have any sort of good track record, the trailers looked terrible.

That said, I'll still see it, hoping it's bad enough to be entertaining.

Yeah, pretty much. I wanted to hope it wouldn't be that bad and maybe something would be salvagable enough to be decent, but this project never inspired hope.

CaviarMeths · Feb 3, 2017

valkillmore said:
lol I overreacted. I actually don't watch the genre at all. I guess it's more frustration at having seen a number of them over the years and . . not getting scared while watching. Jacob's Ladder is the scariest movie I've ever seen and I'm not even sure it qualifies as a horror film. Sorry for popping off haha

Yeah maybe. I love horror movies, even bad ones, but I don't really get scared many by them. It's a different sort of sensation they give me. The good ones put me at unease, the bad ones are just smorgasbords of "so bad it's good" entertainment.

It's bad PG-13 horror movies that have no value. This stuff made to scare small children with loud noises and stuff popping into the frame is just garbage. They're not even movies, they're cheap haunted house attractions with a bored teenage staff.

Foxtastical · Feb 3, 2017

strafer said:
fuck off

Haha, so it is then. Probably not the best way to respond to that.

Log4Girlz · Feb 3, 2017

Schlorgan said:
Dead

All dead

evanmisha · Feb 3, 2017

This was never going to be a good movie. Akiva Goldsman wrote it. Good was not the goal.

Roo · Feb 3, 2017

If you were wondering how a movie series about a killer VHS tape would transition from the analog age to the digital age, keep wondering.

This review made me laugh for some reason.

Now you can die in HD. Buy the Samara blu-ray Now!

Support NeoGAF

Reviews for Rings (2017) Currently at 0% on RT

Banned

Banned

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that

Member

Member

Member

Banned

Member

Member

Banned

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Banned

Member

Banned

Member

Member

Banned

Member

Banned

member

Member

Member

Member

D-Member

Member

member

Banned

Was getting caught part of your plan?

Banned

Member

Member

Banned

Member

Banned

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Similar threads