I believe the books do the same as well by having Takeshi in a new body pretty much every book, which makes sense as transferring consciousness is how they handle interstellar travel.
I personally lost interest in the series as I learned more about the lore + got to about ep. 7? and it started to stray away from the initial concepts that made it interesting to me.
I hated (probably now ambivalent to mild distaste towards) the Harry Potter films because it strays so much from the books. I’m not good at judging adaptations well so I normally avoid them.
Probably the same reason why I wasn’t interested in the film adaptation for Doctor Sleep. I think I’d be inevitably disappointed with the changes made.
I think you’d be pleasantly surprised by how well they did it. Even as a heavy critic of books-to-movies.
I thought Anthony Mack (I think that’s his name) did a good job. The story was just boring compared to season 1. They also moved away from some of the better (imo) concepts.
I didn’t like it at all.
What about it did you not like?
Everything really. No atmosphere. The bad guys were corny. No Kubrik esque Easter eggs.
Fair enough, we’ll have to agree to disagree. The bad guys were true to the book’s image, the movie featured them performing one of the most horrifying rituals one could think of - and Doctor Sleep was a very different book than the Shining - and it had some nods to Kubrik, but it’s a new director, 40 years later. Wouldn’t want them to just make it a throwback for nostalgia’s sake. But, it’s just my opinion of course - definitely useful to have a dissenting opinion.
I thought Doctor Sleep was pretty good up till the 3rd act. I kinda wanted a Legion (The TV show) kind of mind battle built up from the astral projection scene earlier in the movie. I didn’t see the point of repeating the “axe through the hallway” scene involving a kid who was unrelated to Danny. I get the overcoming the “cycle of addiction and violence” theme but they would have had to build up a real surrogate parent/daughter relationship between him and the kid before that.
Still, the high level of craftsmanship was evident, and it was consistent. I just wanted something more character driven though I get that it had to balance being a Stephen King book adaptation and being a sequel to a Kubrick movie.
The Mist is still my favorite Stephen King horror movie. Frank Darabont(The Mist, The Green Mile, Shawshank) seems to be the only one who can really adapt a Stephen King book.
Castlevania seasons III was also meh. It felt like a filler season. Shame too because the animation and fight scenes are really good.
The Mist is a really cool story. And they used a Dead can Dance song at the end
The cartoon? I’ve never watched it lol. I’ve only read the original story and caught bits of a couple of silly HK TV adaptations. The live action movie isn’t out yet but I’m probably going to skip it.
The live action one. I saw that it had premiered, but didn’t realize it had not officially opened yet. Don’t they release movies in Asia first before the US for some reason?
Your man Donnie Yen is in it, how can you not watch it lol?
There’re too many red flags(no pun intended… Or maybe not) lol. Besides, I watched 10mins of The Zookeeper’s Wife.
Tom Ellis has signed on for Sixth Season of Lucifer.
I’m waiting breathlessly for Season Five to be released.
(especially now that we have no sports!!!)
3 From Hell
Fuck! Watching your toenails grow would be more entertaining than this pile of crap. FUCK!!!
0/10.
His films aren’t good.
Yeah but some of them are at least entertaining. I was laughing my ass off during Lords of Salem.
“It was a visual slap in the face – an undeniable message from Disney that the Asian people telling this story on screen are mere puppets on strings, with no real control over how their own stories are told. It was also a stark reminder of the unfortunate reality of our lives as people of colour; as much as we’re seeing more of ourselves represented in mass media, we still don’t have authority over our narratives.”
“Our”? “We”? Fuck off. You’re not Chinese. Being “Asian” doesn’t make you Chinese. And that’s ok. Go be proud of your own heritage, share it and treat everyone else as equal.
No one is expecting something truly “authentic” from a big budget Hollywood production. They’re speaking ENGLISH in the movie for the fucking love of God. The only real “nuance” you can capture from the use of language during that era is if you write fucking Shakespearean dialogue for the characters or they’ll end up sounding like retards like in Memoirs Of A Geisha.
Actually, Zhang Ziyi(the chick in the recent Godzilla movie) sounded so cute like that I let it slide. “She paints her face to hide her face, her eyes a deep water; it is not for Geisha to want, it is not for Geisha to feel; Geisha is an artist of the floating world.” LMFAO.
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people? I don’t go around acting like I’m representing Japanese, Korean, Indian, Pakistani, Malay, Thai, Filipino, Javanese etc cultures even though I know how to insult your parents in most of these languages.