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Post by kevin on Nov 13, 2019 22:49:36 GMT
I watched it earlier today and I'm very surprised by how great it was. Based on the promotional material and the trailers I didn't have that high hopes for this one, but I really liked it. Besides a few minor complaints regarding the final part of the movie, I think this is a rare sequel that builds upon its original without tarnishing the original story and feeling cheap. This might actually be my favorite King adaptation since The Shawshank Redemption, 8/10.
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Post by darkpast on Nov 14, 2019 5:25:30 GMT
6.5/10 about as good as you could expect for a Kubrick/King The Shining sequel
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Post by Vits on Dec 1, 2019 10:22:18 GMT
Heeeeere's Vits to tell you that he agrees with most people's opinions on THE SHINING, except that 2 things ruined it: A) Imagine a tennis match where your opponent throws the ball at your face by accident over and over again and keeps waiting for you to hit it back. That's how I felt watching Shelley Duvall's performance. B) The way that JACK TORRANCE (the protagonist) transitions from normal to crazy was too rushed. As I was watching the movie, I was thinking "What if we had seen the downward spiral into madness?" and then I read that it was different in Stephen King's novel. I've said many times that changes in adaptations don't matter as long as they don't ruin the essence. By removing the element of JACK's struggle to stay sane, it comes off as if he had been evil yet sane all along. It ruined the character. Stanley Kubrick clearly had enough ideas to write an original script and that's what he should've done. Even if you think that's wrong, I still stand by what I said first because, while watching the movie (with no knowledge of the novel), I found the character to be flawed. That being said, there is a change that was for the better: Making the movie much more ambiguous. I'm not saying that the novel had too much exposition; I'm saying that I appreciated the ambiguety while watching the movie without knowing that I could find answers elsewhere. I'm also glad that DANNY TORRANCE (JACK's son) no longer meets his future self (Kubrick turned him into an imaginary friend). King sometimes tries to mix too many elements in his stories. We already have ghosts, telepathy and clairvoyance; time travel would've been overlook overkill! 8/10 DR. SLEEP tries to be a stand-alone movie and a direct sequel to THE SHINING. That's a problem, because both movies are very different in terms of tone, narrative and visual style. Things feel more jarring whenever an iconic shot is recreated. Honestly, I don't have a problem when a sequel severs ties with its predecessor if it's made decades later (especially with a different cast and crew), so I would've accepted it here. Everything was working without the references. In fact, the performances, characters, dialogue, plot, imagery, scares, editing and sound are top notch. 8/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2020 3:06:25 GMT
8/10. Flanagan had one of the toughest jobs to do, and he pulled it off so well. It feels like a Dean Koontz novel, and I mean that in the best way possible. Very suprised it exists, but even happier that it does. Great companion piece to The Shining and refreshingly different than its predecessor. I could go on and on by the many things about this movie that impressed me but perhaps my favorite things about it was how The True Knot villains, and King's penchant for telepathic power were visualized. SO great.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 20:57:48 GMT
I watched the director's cut and I was very impressed overall. Three hours long but there was a lot going on, interesting characters, the plot works well enough to end up back at the hotel from the original. Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson are both very good. Tying up loose ends near the end not as good as I had hoped. Fantastic production values throughout. Not as good as The Shining, it's still worth watching for sure. 8/10
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Post by James on Feb 28, 2020 2:40:06 GMT
7.5/10, but close to an 8.
Better than it has any right to be, except when it explains a bit too much that takes away the mystery if Jack was just crazy or that he was possessed. Clearly this movie made it out to be the latter. Then again, I didn鈥檛 really care in Halloween 6 when they gave Myers a motive (as well as having a cult in that film too).
But back to the good stuff, the direction is very solid, Ewan McGregor does a fantastic job as adult Dan, and while it does have plenty of fan service, it isn鈥檛 enough to take you away from the movie thus it can work well on its own. Is it as good as the original Shining? Of course not, but that doesn鈥檛 make it entirely pointless.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 28, 2020 5:19:28 GMT
2/10 Just about hated it.
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Post by chalk3 on Feb 28, 2020 23:29:31 GMT
8/10.
Was better than I expected it to be.
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Post by sjg on Oct 4, 2020 9:25:13 GMT
6/10
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Post by Reynard on Oct 4, 2020 13:24:29 GMT
4/10 for being so ridiculously stupid, though at least it was well paced and not exactly boring. I didn't care about the plot or any of the characters at all. The Overlook Hotel part, which I had some hopes for, had no atmosphere and felt like the worst kind of fan fiction. I don't think director Flanagan understood anything at all about how Kubrick's movie worked and what made it so memorable.
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Post by E位蔚蠀胃蔚蟻委 on Oct 4, 2020 15:11:16 GMT
5/10
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