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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2019 22:23:46 GMT
since when was Kings book about damm zombies?
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Post by PreachCaleb on Apr 25, 2019 16:41:05 GMT
I enjoyed the twists on the story.
I don't like seeing the same thing I've already read or watched in the past.
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Post by simest on Apr 25, 2019 17:08:43 GMT
I was largely unimpressed too. Like the first movie, it failed to capture the heavy sense of grief, loss and grim price of escaping these that the book so vividly depicted.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 7:18:07 GMT
It was a mediocrity and even that is being generous. The original isn't really a classic, but the zombie family thing was too much and too stupid. I guess the producers must've watched too many episodes of the The Walking Dead. It was? That is really disappointing 'cause I heard Stephen King liked the movie and I was looking forward to seeing it. We will most likely still see it at the movie theatre when I am feeling better (I am sick with the flu at the moment) but there have a lot of other Stephen King adaptions on the way that could be better and I am hoping we get 'Duma Key', 'From A Buick 8' and 'The Regulators' soon.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 6:59:18 GMT
It was? That is really disappointing 'cause I heard Stephen King liked the movie and I was looking forward to seeing it. We will most likely still see it at the movie theatre when I am feeling better (I am sick with the flu at the moment) but there have a lot of other Stephen King adaptions on the way that could be better and I am hoping we get 'Duma Key', 'From A Buick 8' and 'The Regulators' soon. I enjoyed watching it as it was playing itself out, it just didn't impress me by the end. It annoys me in fact thinking about it now, how they took the deviation that they did. There didn't appear to be much passion involved with it, just a routine presentation of going through the motions of filming the script. Lithgow was very disappointing as Jud. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am looking forward to seeing it as a Stephen King fan and we generally watch all the movie adaptions of Stephen King's novels good or bad. How different would you say it was from the last adaption? Was it as different as the original 'Salem's Lot' with David Soul and the remake with Rob Lowe and Samantha Mathis 'cause those were two very different adaptions and I actually liked both of them but wasn't particularly a fan of 'A Return to Salem's Lot.'
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 7:03:18 GMT
@deblovesbeccy , sorry to hear you have been unwell.... , With the winter months coming on, it is important to keep up ones resistance. I have found that this works, if you are near an Indian Grocery Store and they stock it. I have one teaspoon a day. It tastes sweet and peppery and I like to leave it on my tongue for about 10 seconds. It is like a marmalade. I pay around $15.00. Thanks Toasted Cheese . I am feeling a lot better today compared to how I felt back then and I still have a runny nose and a cough I didn't have until recently but I am eating normally now and no longer feel ill and I am going to the Doctor tomorrow for a check up and hopefully I should be well enough to go to work on Monday. You bring up a good point about winter and I am dreading it this year 'cause I usually get the flu in winter and last year I had it quite a few times but I will look into that stuff and see if it is around here.
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Post by Vits on Jul 3, 2019 20:46:07 GMT
PET SEMATARY 3/10 Because of the story elements that PET SEMATARY PART II focuses more on, it doesn't get the chance of being complex or moving. To be fair, PET SEMATARY PART I had that chance but didn't make the most out of it. Also, there are improvements in other areas. The actors are better, the characters have more personality, Russell Carpenter's cinematography is more interesting and the title sequence now has a real atmosphere that helps set up what's to come. That being said, overall it's once again an unscary film where the music score sometimes feels out of place and where the soundtrack always feels out of place. Tom Finan's editing is horrible. Both movies have a bunch of over-the-top moments but, this time around, it feels like the makers are purposefully going for a horror comedy vibe. In the 1st one, they came off as unintentionally funny stupidity. Stephen King adapted his own book into the script for the 1st installment, but one of his common tropes was missing: The bullies that are willing to go too far (and therefore don't feel like real people). They are present in this installment, even though King wasn't involved. How odd. 4/10 Whenever there's a 2nd film adaptation of a book, people debate on whether it counts as a remake or not. Since PET SEMATARY 2019 includes some elements created for PET SEMATARY 1989 (including the theme song), I'll judge it as a remake. It felt like it was going to be an improvement, with better production values, some additions (including a new antagonist) and the removal of certain characters and subplots that weren't really needed. Unfortunately, it's mostly a retread of the same story, only somehow less scary. While the original's final scene didn't completely work (the situation was tragic, but it took the focus away from the central conflict, thereby losing the opportunity to dig deep into the morality and ethics of the issues), this remake thinks that plot twists are the most important thing. They're not even that shocking. We're supposed to be scared about the toddler's potential death, even though we saw him die halfway through the other movie?! Jeté Laurence's performance is the best of the 3 installments. Jason Clarke's isn't the worst of the 3 installments, but it's pretty bad nonetheless. John Lithgow does an OK job playing his character (JUD CRANDALL) as a sympathetic man (which is what Fred Gwynne did too), but it doesn't make sense anymore. During the 1st half, he's treated as a red herring for a villain. Just pay attention to his physical appearance and some of his lines, as well as how the camera and the music score present him. When he's attacked by the true villain, the latter morphs into NORMA (his late wife) as a way to mess with his head, and then morphs back in order to kill him. However, since this sequence consists of close-ups, all I could think was "Is her head on a little girl's body? How would that look like?" 1/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 3, 2019 21:14:13 GMT
I didn't think it was bad. Inoffensive, a little bland but overall a fine popcorn horror. I'm not in a rush to watch it again but I wouldn't hate it if I caught it some lazy Sunday afternoon years down the line. 6/10
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Post by DarkManX on Jul 10, 2019 21:28:53 GMT
Just saw this. It's terrible. The acting is bad and it's not scary. The story is essentially a rushed version the original save for the daughter being the one that dies. The only new stuff is in the last twenty minutes or so and it's so brief it's pretty much pointless.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 11, 2019 13:02:13 GMT
I didn't hate it at first, but the more I thought about it, the less I like what they did.
It has some solid actors and some nice shots, but man it really rushes through the story, glosses over crucial elements, ignores and doesnt engage with information that would have really helped, and changes a major plot point that does not pay off as the correct move... especially since they blew it in the trailer.
The sequence of events, as it winds down, doesn't carry the weight that it needs to at all, and it's generally bereft of emotion.
I sort of like the super cynical last few shots, that was actually set up well too, but it wasn't earned at all.
Generally, a total misfire.
The original is far from perfect, but it gets more of it right than this new one, by far.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Jul 12, 2019 1:55:59 GMT
It was alright. I thought Church was the star of the show. Ellie being brought back worked ok and better than Gage in the first flick. Lithgow a but dull as Jud maybe because Fred Gwynne us so great in the 1989 version. The entire family coming back except for Gage looks set for a comedy sequel. Something like The Coneheads where they start to make a new life for themselves in the suburbs. Strange family with one normal-ish kid who try to fit in and do but sometimes don't with quite often hilarious results.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 13, 2019 6:10:46 GMT
1/10 I hated it. Its a very generic remake with no scares.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 14, 2019 11:19:17 GMT
I’m sorry I know to each their own, but has anyone watched the original recently? It feels like a tv made movie and not the good kind.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 14, 2019 16:22:09 GMT
It was a mediocrity and even that is being generous. The original isn't really a classic, but the zombie family thing was too much and too stupid. I guess the producers must've watched too many episodes of the The Walking Dead. It was? That is really disappointing 'cause I heard Stephen King liked the movie and I was looking forward to seeing it. We will most likely still see it at the movie theatre when I am feeling better (I am sick with the flu at the moment) but there have a lot of other Stephen King adaptions on the way that could be better and I am hoping we get 'Duma Key', 'From A Buick 8' and 'The Regulators' soon. If King gives a film adapt of one of his works a glowing review, look out. His praise is nearly always in direct inverse ratio to how awful the film actually is.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 14, 2019 20:59:13 GMT
That's not really true. I can only think of one great one that he spoke out against. Some others that he has lauded are genuinely good. It just seems that these days he's doing some of the promotional work for the studios and says he likes everything new that's coming out.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 14, 2019 21:01:35 GMT
I’m sorry I know to each their own, but has anyone watched the original recently? It feels like a tv made movie and not the good kind. The original has it's issues, but it handles the story better on the whole. It lays out the stakes better and has more genuine character motivations and relations. It's not great either, some of the effects are lame, and the lead actor sucks, but it fares better than this new one. The new one has better production values but botches the story.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 15, 2019 1:43:27 GMT
That's not really true. I can only think of one great one that he spoke out against. Some others that he has lauded are genuinely good. It just seems that these days he's doing some of the promotional work for the studios and says he likes everything new that's coming out. Go back and look up some of the things he's had to say about those screen adaptations. I'm not exaggerating when I say that his highest praise has generally gone to the most awful ones. He hasn't been doing that sort of promotional work just recently, he's done it throughout his career. The actual best adaptations of his work he's usually praised at the time, and then gone back later on to damn with left-handed compliments or just pan outright.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 15, 2019 2:54:43 GMT
That's not really true. I can only think of one great one that he spoke out against. Some others that he has lauded are genuinely good. It just seems that these days he's doing some of the promotional work for the studios and says he likes everything new that's coming out. Go back and look up some of the things he's had to say about those screen adaptations. I'm not exaggerating when I say that his highest praise has generally gone to the most awful ones. He hasn't been doing that sort of promotional work just recently, he's done it throughout his career. The actual best adaptations of his work he's usually praised at the time, and then gone back later on to damn with left-handed compliments or just pan outright. I've seen things with him in recent years talking about how much he loved Stand Be Me, Shawshank, Misery, and Carrie, among others. Maybe I've missed it (definitely possible), but the only movie I've heard him trash is The Shining. Which is obviously crazy, especially since he's talked about how great his shitty miniseries was, but I haven't seen this as a trend or a pattern.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 15, 2019 11:18:12 GMT
Go back and look up some of the things he's had to say about those screen adaptations. I'm not exaggerating when I say that his highest praise has generally gone to the most awful ones. He hasn't been doing that sort of promotional work just recently, he's done it throughout his career. The actual best adaptations of his work he's usually praised at the time, and then gone back later on to damn with left-handed compliments or just pan outright. I've seen things with him in recent years talking about how much he loved Stand Be Me, Shawshank, Misery, and Carrie, among others. Maybe I've missed it (definitely possible), but the only movie I've heard him trash is The Shining. Which is obviously crazy, especially since he's talked about how great his shitty miniseries was, but I haven't seen this as a trend or a pattern. I'll admit I don't keep up with him much these days--I haven't read a new novel by him in a while--but during his peak, it was commonplace. You'd have almost thought he was taking studio payola to give favorable comments on their various screen treatments of his books. He praised Kubrick's Shining to the skies back in the day, then started with the snark a couple of years later, after the movie fanfare had died down a bit. I'll agree he's had only good things to say about Carrie and Stand By Me and Shawshank, but then again, he'd have to be nuts to pan those.
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Post by James on Jul 15, 2019 18:32:18 GMT
Yeah the zombie thing was a bit cliched. The original worked because when people were brought back to life, it wasn’t exactly a zombie situation.
Overall, it’s average at best. Disappointed how they just copied most of the original film’s story, apart from the ending and the daughter dying (which isn’t a spoiler since it was shown in the goshdarn trailer. UGGHHHH).
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