Doctor Sleep (2019)

[chefzombie]

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

[Trevor]

I decided not to go see it after all.

[bob]

SPOILERS AHEAD













so this wasn't at all what I expected going into it

I was expecting a more traditional horror movie, more in the vein of The Shining

of course, I never read Doctor Sleep so there is that

complaints about the film:

1 - they brought back the iconic characters of Jack and Wendy Torrance and didn't have them played by Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duval respectively

while they people hired to play them looked like them they did not sound like them at all

2 - they used call backs to the Shining, which makes sense

one involved young Danny on his tricycle riding around the Overlook Hotel

the youngster they hired to play young Danny, sort of looked like he did in the original I think they would've been better off inserting footage of this from The Shining - it took me out of the moment

3 - there's a pretty big plot hole

near the end of the film Danny releases the various ghosts he encountered from his youth at the Overlook from a locked box in his mind using a technique Dick Hallorann tells him to kill Rose the Hat ---- including some he didn't see himself including Grady

the good -

1 - Kyliegh Curran makes one of best acting debuts I've seen in a while

she did not seem out of her league and held her own during scenes with Ewan McGregor

I expect to see good things out of her

2 - this film does a very good job of expressing in a realistic fashion how Danny would react/live with the aftermath of his traumatic experiences at the Overlook

3 - it wasn't by the numbers

4 - they did an excellent job of recreating the Overlook hotel - especially The Gold Room, if I didn't know any better I'd swear they lifted footage from The Shining and inserted it in to Doctor Sleep

overall I really enjoyed this and will probably end up buying it on DVD/bluray down the road

[ER]

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.

[RCMerchant]

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.

[indianasmith]

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

[Ticonderoga 64]

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.

[chainsaw midget]

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.

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

[Archivist]

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.

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.

[Neville]

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.