03-15-2020, 06:51 AM
It's the movie, not the book. However, equally disappointing.
You know that you can't be the servant of two masters trope? Well that's the case here. The director wants to honor both the book and the original Kubrick film. Ugg. Didn't work.
And this film is long. And it feels long. Like they couldn't cut anything but then they couldn't use scenes from the book because they had wasted so much time detailing other scenes. It's one of those films that isn't very scary, too.
They did flashbacks to Danny and Wendy Torrance and it was just odd not seeing Shelley Duvall. The Jack Nicholson didn't look very Jack Nicholson, either.
There was just too much reverence floating around. In the Behind the Scenes they spoke of how proud they were of rebuilding the Overlook hotel. And since they had done that, they were going to shoot the hell out of that set. No corner went unexplored. There was not shot that wouldn't linger. And when they would recreate scenes from the original, like following Danny on the Big Wheel, they just didn't have the same scope. They paled in comparison to the original.
Okay, so they didn't do honor to the original film. Onward. The story was dumb. It was dumb in the book. Every time they talked about Steam, I giggled. And they were a group of Steam vampires. Fine. It was just dumb.
You know that you can't be the servant of two masters trope? Well that's the case here. The director wants to honor both the book and the original Kubrick film. Ugg. Didn't work.
And this film is long. And it feels long. Like they couldn't cut anything but then they couldn't use scenes from the book because they had wasted so much time detailing other scenes. It's one of those films that isn't very scary, too.
They did flashbacks to Danny and Wendy Torrance and it was just odd not seeing Shelley Duvall. The Jack Nicholson didn't look very Jack Nicholson, either.
There was just too much reverence floating around. In the Behind the Scenes they spoke of how proud they were of rebuilding the Overlook hotel. And since they had done that, they were going to shoot the hell out of that set. No corner went unexplored. There was not shot that wouldn't linger. And when they would recreate scenes from the original, like following Danny on the Big Wheel, they just didn't have the same scope. They paled in comparison to the original.
Okay, so they didn't do honor to the original film. Onward. The story was dumb. It was dumb in the book. Every time they talked about Steam, I giggled. And they were a group of Steam vampires. Fine. It was just dumb.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
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