Rings : Wait, I thought this was a remake or reboot!

I seen it last night in the theaters because my friend invited me even thought I didnt want to see it, Jesus . I come here and I see people mentioning that this is The Ring 3 when I swore it was a remake/reboot.

Anyways, I was never a fan of The Ring, never seen them, never cared, nothing, they're just crappy ghost/haunting movies like that awful Grudge

The studio doesn't know if this is a reboot or a sequel either. That's one of the reasons it didn't so that well because the marketing was confusing and made it seem like both. They wanted it to be a "soft reboot", a sequel that serves as the first movie in a new series of Ring films.

It did felt like a reboot because the way the movie played out it was like a standalone.

Apparently Paramount asked the screenwriters and the director to downplay the events of the Ring and The Ring Two, which is why Rachel and Aidan are never verbally mentioned and Evelyn's story is hard to connect back to the Ring Two (it works, but they don't explicitly say "Evelyn escaped to a women's shelter where she gave birth to Samara"; it's only implied).

So now Julia is Samara?

That's what's implied by the ending, yes. Samara was reborn in Julia's body.

Ok I thought that too. I saw the movie last night.

Yeah it is the most oddest thing ever, because Rings felt like a sequel and a reboot at the same time.

It is a sequel. But that is only confirmed because they use footage from the 2002 movie.