[Tom4784]

Even though both are pretty woeful, the 2004 version of The Grudge was slightly better than the original since it presented the story in a slightly more linear fashion when the original did everything out of order to mask the fact that there was no real story there.

You go into a house, you get cursed, you die. It's annoying that, in a lot of ways, The Grudge has a great concept but it's too thin of a concept and they never expanded on it. The Ring/Ringu works better because there's more thought that goes into the curse and you can actually fight against it which inherently makes it more interesting than The Grudge.