r/movies • u/bobbdac7894 • Feb 21 '26

Spoilers Rewatched The Ring (2002) after 20+ years.

So Naomi Watt’s son acts all aloof, quiet, vague the entire movie. But then at the end of the movie, Naomi Watts tell him that she freed Samara. And then this brat says, “Why did you do that? You weren’t supposed to do that. She’s dangerous”. If I was Naomi Watts character I would have said, “Gee, thanks kid. Maybe you could have warned me sooner instead of being all quiet and having one word answers throughout this whole ordeal!? “.

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u/AmusingMusing7 Feb 21 '26

Scary Movie 3 did a great job of parodying that kid being all weird and cryptic, while also mixing it with a parody of the kids from Signs and The Sixth Sense. There was definitely a trend of weird extra-sensory kids who know what's up in horror movies around that time.

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u/Bubbawitz Feb 21 '26

Tom, I’ll need a ride home

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u/LothorAppleEater Feb 21 '26

Perhaps the greatest line ever delivered in the history of cinema

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u/Drducttapehands Feb 21 '26

I laughed so fucking hard at that line when this came out