tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post5362357279116803676..comments2024-03-29T09:38:50.382-04:00Comments on my new plaid pants: I've Seen the Future, Brother, It Is RedrumJason Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254334131909339157noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-23374181603132011282019-11-19T07:13:13.617-05:002019-11-19T07:13:13.617-05:00This REALLY should've been a Netflix mini-seri...This REALLY should've been a Netflix mini-series. At this point, if it ain't a superhero movie, I think it would be more beneficial to bypass the big studios--no matter how much they offer--because you're going to eat it at the box office. drehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311524590796504505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-69616259655732967062019-11-14T06:33:09.911-05:002019-11-14T06:33:09.911-05:00I have liked Mike Flanagan's films and I have ...I have liked Mike Flanagan's films and I have nothing against him, but it's like... you're no Kubrick. I haven't seen the movie yet, but everything I have seen strikes me as this being the film THE SHINING would have been without Kubrick at the helm. It looks generic. It doesn't look like something that lives up to that reputation which is probably why it has flopped. Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08194113062830373898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-55564516582735252532019-11-12T20:19:02.529-05:002019-11-12T20:19:02.529-05:00I went with no expectations, suddenly on a whim wi...I went with no expectations, suddenly on a whim with two friends. I had not read the book, and had very little knowledge of the story. I saw Kubrick's The Shinning at a midnight tech screening in a theatre on the East Side the day before it opened in NYC. The theatre was packed with excited invited friends and friends of friends. The excitement was palpable. Most of us had read the book. Those first notes from the score and that winding road started everyone out on the edge of their seats. We were all about " ok, we're ready, we want it, scare the shit out of us". Then in the course of the next probably 2 hrs and 20 minutes the excitement drained out of the theatre like a slow leak in a balloon. Honestly by the time we got to the last scene in the hospital which Kubrick cut a few days after it opened, nobody cared. It was an amazing disappointment. In the passing years I've come to respect that Kubrick took King's book and made something else out of it, and perhaps with that time I can acknowledge that it's a way better film than I gave it credit for at the time.Kubrick made something different, maybe better maybe not. But I've never liked Nicholson's over the top performance because he seemed insane to me from the beginning and more ham than psycho. So I was pleased and surprised that Dr. Sleep didn't worship at Kubrick's alter, but instead paid tribute where tribute was due but then became a straight forward well done horror film with a few good jolts and the condensing of what could, as you've said been a mini series, into pretty much a coherent whole. I thought Ewan McGregor's son of Jack Torrence carried the film into the reality of a wholly plausible and damaged human being. In short, I really liked it, surprised as I was. I hope it makes money, but there were only about 8 people in the small theatre I saw it in. I'm rooting for it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13372093.post-34729221313250629572019-11-12T20:14:05.247-05:002019-11-12T20:14:05.247-05:00Side note: Julian Morris is appearing in this play...Side note: Julian Morris is appearing in this play in LA. One of the male characters spends a lot of time, at least in earlier productions, unclothed or barely clothed. He seems to fit that character but can't tell who he is playing. You might need to fly to LA. https://latw.org/event/hard-problem-event-201920Tom Mnoreply@blogger.com