Doctor Sleep
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zendomen I had very high expectations for this movie since the book is brilliant. Tbh the movie sucks. It's missing most of the important parts of the book and thats why doesn't live up to the expectations. If you enjoy movies watch something that's actually good. If you enjoy Stephen King read the book.
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zendomen This was better than I expected but nothing will live up to Kubrick's vision. As much as I love pretty much all of Mike Flanagan's movies he seems like he held back on certain aspects of his unique style like in Hill House for example. The first 80% or so of the film actually stands alone as a great flick and it does deviate to my dismay from King's ending which would have served better simply because the issues that didn't work for me was recasting Jack and Wendy Torrence for no name actors. No one can live up to that, PERIOD!
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zendomen My theory, which may or may not be true, is that King agreed to do this movie based on the fact on how it ends and not because he wanted a sequel to the movie version of The Shining. We all know he hated Kubrick's version so then why did he green light this movie? Well. it's simply because I think he wanted to shove that ending into Kubrick's film without actually travelling back in time. He succeeded to take a dump on Kubrick's ending even though Doctor Sleep doesn't even end like that. So. Mike and King talked about why this film should be an adaptation of not only the new book, but also a true sequel to Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece right? Right? Wrong. I see the Overlook as a gimmick in this film that served no true purpose. It's one thing to do a full adaptation like Kubrick but it's a whole different ball game when you take that same masterpiece which was not King's vision anyways and turn it upside down to get movie goers excited to see the film based on that alone. The reason I gave it 8/10 is simply because the ending did not feel like a nod to the Shining at all, but it felt disingenuous whether it was or not. I don't think Mike felt that way but I can only imagine King was super excited to see his Shining ending finally see the light of day on the big screen and not the absolute crap-fest that was the TV mini-series. Of course that's just the way I look at it whether or not it's true and if it was true I highly doubt King would ever admit to it. The new girl and Rose the hat characters were excellent as was everything that built up to the mini climax of the film. It's certainly worth seeing in a good theater. The use of surround channels was great so if you don't hear them, you're theater sucks.