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Is the entire internet pranking me? Is there some sort of joke I'm not getting?
When I saw a trailer for this before Joker it looked like absolute dogs**t. I figured the internet would tear it to f**king shreds
for even trying to piggy-back off of Kubrik's The Shining and pretending to be a sequel. But the trailer got a massive amount of likes
and few dislikes. My favorite critic gave it a 3/10 and everyone in the comments was like "Hmm... I disagree." I know people have
different opinions but I am absolutely shocked by how many people thought this looked good and enjoyed it.

Is there anyone else here that thinks it looks like s**t?

Well, it's the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel, which in itself is the sequel to his novel The Shining. I haven't read Doctor Sleep, but Stephen King films have had a growing number of hits over the years (some have been real stinkers). I think the blending of the two movies is a good idea.

I have read the book. It is a direct sequel to the Shining. In the book Danny is a a drunk, like his father. And bad s**t happens. The book was ok.

I haven't read the book but the trailer was kind of underwhelming. It didn't get me excited and I didn't notice much excitement on social media either, even though I really like the director. He has made a couple of solid horror movies.

I will check this out when it is available for home video.

I'm going to see it on Saturday and I'll let you guys know what I think.  :smile:

The trailer looked okay.  Not great but not terrible. 

As for it being a sequel, I kinda wonder how that's supposed to work.  I know it's based a book that was a sequel to the novel Shinning, but it seems to be using imagery from the movie, which was quite different (and in my opinion much better) than the book. 

If they're going to adapt this to be more of a sequel to the movie, that seems like it would end up being a major change.

From what I've read the director tried to make it a sequel to both. The events of the movie are how a young, tramautised kid remembers it while the book is more the mothers memories or something.

The mother is not in the book at all. And it has little to do with the Shining, except the main character is Danny Torrance.

The book or the film?

The book. I haven't seen the movie...

I did try to find the review I read where they were talking about how the director had made it a sequel to both the book and movie but I can't seem to spot it in my history. If I can find it though I'll post the link up for you. I haven't watched the film myself.

I've kept up with most of his books. I had 3 years without a paycheck...I went to the library a lot!

I'm going to see this today. I'll let every one know what I think of it.  :smile:

So..... how do I make spoilers in text?

I guess what I'm asking is how do create the color of text where people would have to highlight it to see it?  :question:

You can't, exactly. This is the best you can do. To do so select your text, hit the red "A" button, then select "green" from the dropdown menu that says "change color."

or you could just start your post with SPOILERS AHEAD, DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM like i do, lol!

I decided not to go see it after all.

All I can say is the book was a major disappointment, marketing it as a sequel to The Shining was an outright lie, and yet I feel drawn to see this film, lol.

King is just riding the coat tails of his GOOD work he did when he was young. He turned into a hack. I read the book. I have no interest in seeing this at all.

My daughters went to see it last night; they both loved it!

I saw it recently, it wasnt the most fantastic film ever, but it had some moments and was certainly better than quite a few King film adaptions of his stories.

Pretty much.  King's past his prime.  He lost is way midway through that huge Gunslinger thing he was writting for years. 

As a kid and young adult, I read a lot of Stephen King, like The Shining, Carrie, Salem's Lot, and his anthology Skeleton Crew. I absolutely loved his work. As things went on, his horror took a nastier turn, with at least one unnecessarily brutal or nasty thing happening in each book or story. I felt like he was going for shock value, rather than creating deep characters and interesting plots, like his earlier work. This started happening around Misery and The Dark Half, although Needful Things was pretty fun and innovative, if I recall correctly.

Saw it last night, didn't like it much. Of course the trailer was a good warning: they shouldn't have relied that much on the legacy of "The Shinning" if their material was as good.

I really could see them try hard at some points, like when visualizing when one character enters another mind, or the bartender scene near the end, but for the most part it looked like a TV adaptation: overlong, but the dread just wasn't there.

I do imagine King chuckling, however. It took him a long time, but he finally got to stick it to Kubrick, by shamelessly stealing his best imagery.