- Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:21 pm
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tim28212 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:15 pmI think he was between a bit of a rock and a hard place there, but i didn't hate what he did.ScoJo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:42 pmAgree with @Scojo on this. I thought it was a pretty good film until the last third where so much of it was referencing back to Kubrick movie.NathanLurker wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:30 pm I read Doctor Sleep too, and didn't watch the movie. I would watch it, but I just have other stuff I want to watch more ( these days I'm going through Gamera boxset, Godzilla boxsetand Jackie Chan collection from 88 films). Doctor Sleep is more of a dark fantasy book than a Horror/haunting book, so that was never going to please everyone I think. But if you're doing dark fantasy, Flanagan seems like a good choice to adapt that. It's just not gonna be the same as Shining. Expectations were always going to be a burden on Doctor Sleep.That's very true @Nate, though my own issue with the film was not that it wasn't straight horror (though there are plenty of genuinely horrific things in it!) but primarily it was because of how much it kept reminding you about Kubrick's film, rather than doing it's own thing.
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.