Movies The Shining Sequel DOCTOR SLEEP

If you have seen DOCTOR SLEEP, how would you rate it?

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not sold. too much referencing back...

id be happy to be wrong
 
I tried to read Doctor Sleep and couldn't finish it. I thought it was stupid.
 
ufcfan4 said:
Anyone read the book? Is it anywhere near as good as its predecessor?
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It's pretty excellent, and real, real dark. I'd be surprised if the movie goes quite so dark as the book. And it's not really a ghost story like the Shining, which i'm assuming a lot of people will be expecting.
I don't think anyone ever thought he would write a sequel, but i'm glad he did.
To be totally clear, though, it really is not a ghost story (although they do show up). The Shining played on slow, creeping tension, claustrophobia, isolation, internal screaming. This is a different kind of story.
 
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I only liked Nicholson and cinematography in the original, I found it to be vastly inferior to the book.
McGregor's good, if they dont make it a stoopid screamer-filled mess it may actually be good
 
Did anyone watch the TV version of The Shining? I felt it was a lot better than the Kubrick version.
 
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I have never read the book but the synopsis actually sounds promising. I’ll give it a shot.
 
He's coming to get you Barbara!

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Spoooooooky!
 
Is not giving this movie a chance and dogging it the cool thing to say now? It looks good to me.
 
The Shining is far and away my favorite King book but I couldn’t even make it through 50 pages of Doctor Sleep...too all over the place and when it introduced the traveling band of female gypsy psychic vampires I was out.
 
Skeptical they can do justice to the original with a sequel... but Ewan is a huge feather in the cap for this effort imo.

They need to create that ominence. That's what got the original so much attention. It may be partially due to sub-quality cinema by comparison to today's capabilities... so coming in with all the necessary cinematic quality of today may or may not be able to create that same ominence. Just a thought there, but I recall a lot of liberties given to subquality cinema that aren't given to modern cinema & so that's the dynamic that I'm exploring with that comment. Hope that makes sense.
 
Looks really interesting imo. Trailer creeped me out.
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
First Trailer for The Shining Sequel DOCTOR SLEEP Starring Ewan McGregor

“Doctor Sleep” continues the story of Danny Torrance, 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and newcomer Kyliegh Curran star in the supernatural thriller, directed by Mike Flanagan, from his own screenplay based upon the novel by Stephen King. In Theaters November 8.

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In! Had no clue this was happening. Love the Shining and love Ewen, great combo! Thanks Dragon for this info
 
I've always wondered what could make me snap and join Al Quida's war on America.

Now I know.
 
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