Doctor Sleep 2020 - Watched it Last Night.
Mar 22, 2020 3:17:12 GMT
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Post by Salzmank on Mar 22, 2020 3:17:12 GMT
Unlike you, Pinky, I’m a big fan of The Shining, but I also didn’t much like Doctor Sleep. (Haven’t seen the director’s cut, which is supposed to be better, though.)
While the story and acting were fine, it still felt somehow underwhelming, as if this were a major production for a minor story. It wasn’t a bit scary (even that murder scene was more gruesome than scary, per se), and the villains were disappointing and too easily dispatched. Worst of all, the director didn’t seem to understand Kubrick’s Shining at all, reducing it to a dull ghost story whose ghosts were like characters in a video game, made to be released and to attack anyone in their path. The Overlook Hotel itself is boring in this, remarkably.
That said, I liked the girl who plays the lead; I thought she did a great job of making her character, which could be irritating in the wrong hands, believable and likable.
It’s amusing that the script borrows the ending from King’s novel The Shining, as if to finally give him the Shining movie he’s wanted after all these years, but it’s really an unearned deus ex machina here.
Well made, yet extremely disappointing.
While the story and acting were fine, it still felt somehow underwhelming, as if this were a major production for a minor story. It wasn’t a bit scary (even that murder scene was more gruesome than scary, per se), and the villains were disappointing and too easily dispatched. Worst of all, the director didn’t seem to understand Kubrick’s Shining at all, reducing it to a dull ghost story whose ghosts were like characters in a video game, made to be released and to attack anyone in their path. The Overlook Hotel itself is boring in this, remarkably.
That said, I liked the girl who plays the lead; I thought she did a great job of making her character, which could be irritating in the wrong hands, believable and likable.
It’s amusing that the script borrows the ending from King’s novel The Shining, as if to finally give him the Shining movie he’s wanted after all these years, but it’s really an unearned deus ex machina here.
Well made, yet extremely disappointing.