two minutes hate?  I wish.

Sick Semper Tyrannis

Pretending? Why not? Apparently everything is double plus good these days. I’ve even heard chocolate production is up!

Agreed, anyone who protest voted or didn’t vote in 2016 is every bit as guilty as red-hat-wearing MAGAts in my mind.

The Kubrick take on The Shining was vastly superior to the original

That’s a pretty shallow reading of the book though because

King’s point is that he wrote a book about a man and his struggle with alcoholism and descent into insanity and set it in a haunted hotel. Kubrick made a movie about a haunted hotel and put an alcoholic, abusive man and his wife and son in it.

King’s idea was a horror story, and that in the end the family and the connection between everyone was needed to defeat it ( aka The Shining). There’s a sense of a tale.

King didn't direct. Mick Garris did.

If you haven’t actually read the book and think the movie is better then your opinion is meaningless. If you have and think the movie is better, I’d say you’re wrong. They’re different animals, but the book is way better. You take the movie out of Kubrick’s hands but keep the exact same story and it simply isn’t as goo…

Wait, isn’t the Kubrick take the original adaptation? If you mean it’s vastly superior to the novel, I totally disagree, though I agree that Kubrick’s version is way better than any other TV/movie adaptation.

I can’t get behind this type of dichotomous thinking. One bad made-for-tv version does not a lesser book make. It’s a brilliant novel, and Kubrick’s film is also brilliant, but for different reasons.

First of all, me thinks this site has a thing against King since I don’t believe they have ever given anything of his a positive review, could be wrong but I can’t remember anything good. The book was a good read and with a few exceptions most King books don’t get proper screen treatment. The exceptions, to me anyhow,…

It felt like the Netflix algorithm manifested in The Haunting of Hill House and wrote the happy ending it thought its average viewer would prefer, over what logically would happen. That house was absolute and pure malice, and everyone should have died.

Seems it was a victim of Warner Bros. not wanting it to get in the way of either It 2 or Joker, which were both much safer bets. 

yeah the ending of Haunting of Hill House was my biggest gripe. It seemed to end on an optimistic(?) type of note, which just...huh? The house is undeniably evil so I’m not sure how we were supposed to reconcile that

“given the nerve-racking wonders Flanagan did with composition and atmosphere in his rather Kingish take on Haunting Of Hill House.”

Nah, most reviews have been excellent. 

So even though this doesn’t really sound like a horror movie per se, am I the only one who thinks its crazy that its not releasing in the USA until a week after Halloween? Coming out this weekend with previews tonight seems like it would guarantee at least one huge weekend even if reviews or word of mouth lead t0 a…

I thought it was pretty good. The leads are all good, especially Ferguson. Certainly the right choice to remove the 9/11 section. And fuck yeah Near Dark (apart from the all too easy ending)!