Cyler Rubin

Garbage. Beginning to end. Nothing valuable. I love alot of Stephen King movies and books. This makes Maximum Overdrive look like Schindler's List. *Edit: Tom Cullen was still good even if different. Sadly this one spark of light can't fix this trash.

To forward this I loved the Shining. Both the novel and the Kubrick version. However I did not love Doctor Sleep. Hey we have hits and we have misses and I felt that Doctor Sleep as a novel was a miss. The story just felt...unnecessary? The villains were easy to hate but also woefully incompetent and I can't see any way shape form or fashion that they would be a threat to anything other than a small child save for their numbers which SPOILER WARNING ((((95 percent of them are easily taken out in one scene both in the book and movie by 2 guys with rifles. So..there is your opposition.)) So now the movie comes out and I went to see it, moreso for a friends sake. It had some nice callbacks to the Kubrick film that were not in the book, and I feel even improved on the novel in certain ways. I feel it was excellently adapted, and in the ways it wasn't faithful to the book itself, I feel it was even better...but...therein again, it leaves me with this odd situation in which a completely lackluster story was excellently transferred to film? SO....I find myself in a place where I can give 9/10 for form, faithfulness, acting, cinematography, and style...and yet still a 1/10 for being a lackluster story with little character, or ability to hold interest. The film felt like it took exactly as long as the book did.With a running time of 2 1/2 hours it felt just as languid to get through save for a few interesting scenes. Kudo's to the cast, director, ect, but lord am I glad I don't have to see that again.