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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 14, 2020 2:28:05 GMT
At least Clancy Brown is pretty great here. The rest of the movie is just a strange mess.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 14, 2020 2:40:12 GMT
Very entertaining, I find. I've seen it several times and am always happy to see it in the tv listings.
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Jun 14, 2020 2:45:41 GMT
Clancy Brown at the dinner table is a great scene.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 14, 2020 3:23:39 GMT
I always liked it. Grim and deprssing as hell
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Post by jamesbamesy on Jun 14, 2020 3:43:57 GMT
Clancy Brown alone makes it worth seeing. The movie is pretty enjoyable, but admittedly corny. The original did it better.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jun 14, 2020 8:00:39 GMT
Terrible sequel. And the first was such an unsettling gem. Strange to think the two movies were directed by the same person. Shouldn't have bothered.
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Post by claudius on Jun 14, 2020 8:35:42 GMT
In the late 1990s this film got a lot of personal viewing because I had become a major Anthony Edwards fanboy (TNT had started airing the first 4 seasons of ER). Especially notable was that during the making Edwards met his future baby-mommy and future wife.
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Post by Vits on Jun 14, 2020 16:48:34 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 Hurdy Gurdy Man on Nov 13, 2020 16:05:36 GMT
I find it much more entertaining than the first film. Yes, it's a mess but I find it to be an entertaining kind of mess. The first film, just like the novel, was too self-consciously heavy and depressive. Yes, death sucks and it comes for us all, we get it. Add to it the horrible acting from the leading guy!
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