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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Doctor Sleep OK
Direct sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining made almost four decades later. Stephen King, the author of this and its
predecessor, has been very vocal about his dissatisfaction with Kubrick’s
adaptation but apparently did like the 1997 TV movie remake. I do remember liking that remake enough, but
I love Stanley Kubrick’s version. I did
read the book too and remember it being different, as many King adaptations and
their sources tend to be. I didn’t read
this book, even though I do own it (no excuse), but there’s actually a few (not
many) King books I never got around to reading despite owning them; therefore, I
had nothing to compare to while watching this. It is different than The Shining instead of feeling like a remake/reboot/whatever, and
does contain King trademarks (multiple characters from different locations that
are all connected somehow), but it still had the feel of a TV movie (not that
there’s necessarily anything wrong with that either, but this was theatrically
released). It was decent for a sequel
(regardless of being based on an actual novel), especially since it was made almost 40 years later (as I
said), and it didn’t seem like it was actually 2 ½ hours, but I can’t say I was
entirely impressed. 2/4/2020
Bonus review:
The Gallows Act II B
The Gallows (2015)
was a much maligned film, having received only 1 out of 5 stars on All Movie
and 15% out of 114 critics on Rotten Tomatoes, even being voted the worst film
of that year in Rue Morgue Magazine, but I actually didn’t think it was that
bad. No, it wasn’t great, but it had a
lot of atmosphere going for it; I mean, an empty high school at night? Kind of a creepy setting, no? It also kind of, sort of reminded me of a “Goosebumps”
story (Phantom of the Auditorium).
For those of you that hated the first one, I think you might have a
little more respect for it after this drivel of a sequel that rightfully
received 0% out of just 13 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The victim/villain (Charlie) does return here
as well as the same directing duo, but this film is an entirely different beast
than the first, a much worse beast if I haven’t made that clear. It doesn’t get good until the very end, but
even that kind of negated everything that came before it. I am willing to give an Act III a chance if it’s much better than this Act. I hated this movie…if I
haven’t made that clear. 2/5/2020
Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Abominable (2019) >>>OK/G
Bad Moon >>>OK
The House That
Dripped Blood >>>G
Nothing Bad Can
Happen >>>OK/G
---Sean O.
2/6/2020
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