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Post by Popeye Doyle on Aug 9, 2020 21:32:10 GMT
These comments are based on the 180 minute director’s cut. Was a blind buy and I may have some regrets. At three hours, it doesn’t earn that length. There never really comes a point where the film really rises to excite us. By the two hour mark, began wondering when the film would finally kick into high gear. Rebecca Ferguson, intensely beautiful, does fine as Rose the Hat. Same with Obi-Wan as the adult Danny Torrance. Just weird is when old man Torrance shows up, but it’s Henry Thomas (yes, Elliot from E.T.) cosplaying as Jack Nicholson. Fan service is almost too-much but seems inevitable when the film returns to The Overlook. 6/10 These are two different locations in the story
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 9, 2020 22:30:52 GMT
2/10 I really did not enjoy or like anything about it.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 9, 2020 23:43:15 GMT
Well, at 2 and a half hours, the theatrical cut doesn't earn that length, either. The Shining is my favorite horror movie and I really wanted to like this, I even gave it a second chance with the DC. But I just couldn't. It's like a salvaged title version of The Shining. It looks like The Shining, but it's all fucked up inside. Not a drop of atmosphere or mood.
And Comic Con Jack Torrence almost made me want to leave the theater and write TIHSLLUB on the door in red lipstick. Seems we're in the minority on that complaint, though.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 9, 2020 23:58:30 GMT
I dug the theatrical cut, ive heard the directors cut is better from most everyone.. ill check it eventually
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Post by Vits on Aug 10, 2020 8:50:12 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.And Comic Con Jack Torrence almost made me want to leave the theater and write TIHSLLUB on the door in red lipstick. Seems we're in the minority on that complaint, though. Because of how the scene was filmed and edited, I didn't immediately realize it was Jack.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Aug 10, 2020 15:26:46 GMT
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Aug 10, 2020 16:17:45 GMT
I enjoyed it quite a bit. It wasn't in the same league as The Shining, but it wasn't really shooting for that either. Effective for what it was.
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Post by janntosh on Oct 25, 2020 17:10:22 GMT
Starts off slow as fuck. My eyes were glazing over. Luckily it picks up as it goes along and is a satisfying movie overall. Though I don’t feel an immediate desire to rewatch it.
The Jack Nicholson recreation in the end was also horrendous
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Post by kolchak92 on Oct 25, 2020 17:38:03 GMT
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I really liked it a lot. I was a big fan of King's novel, so I'm probably biased. Rebecca Ferguson is unbelievably gorgeous.
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