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Salem's Lot - 2024

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  • #32
    gmisk
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122695766#Comment_122695766

    Yeah I would agree, I thought it was ok.

    Cast was decent alright (Bill Camp and Alfre Woodard always worth watching). Some decent individual scenes as well.

    It just felt very rushed overall and jumped around a lot, maybe it is better suited to the runtime for a mini series.

    The guy who directed this has wrote the remake of last train to busan...hmmm

    I love Stephen King but the hit rate for his adaptations is generally really poor and there are a lot lot more on the way. The Life Of Chuck looks promising (good early reviews) then again that one has Mike Flanagan directing and writing (with King).



  • #33
    fritzelly
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712539#Comment_122712539

    Last Train to Busan is such a great movie (shame about the sequel) he can only do a worse version of it - may go rewatch it later



  • #34
    gmisk
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122712584#Comment_122712584

    Yeah peninsula wasn't great.

    I really doubt a remake could top it, also seems to have been swirling about for a long time which isn't a great sign (also see Salem's lot!).



  • #35
    conorhal
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122711247#Comment_122711247

    Stephen King's adaption if The Shining is…. an interesting mini series…

    Anybody that's seen Maximum Overdrive or Sleepwalkers (both great to watch half-cut, 'so bad it's good' movies) knows that even Stephen King has trouble adapting Stephen King stories to the screen without them coming off as laughably stupid.



  • #36
    Banjaxed82
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    That was pretty mediocre stuff altogether. Obviously hacked to bits in the edit. A lot of actors seemed to be playing the characters like they were in different movies.

    Lewis Pullman has something alright. Very watchable, even in this nonsense.



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  • #37
    Ezeoul
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122610199#Comment_122610199

    Me too! My Dad let me watch it one night when my Mam was out, and she was furious when she found out. How did she find out? Me waking up screaming with nightmares of vampire children trying to climb in my window. She made my Dad sit in my bedroom with me every time it happened (and it went on for a long time). The original still creeps me out completely, I don't know what it was about it, but it stuck.



  • #38
    The White Wolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    I didn't know about the delay in release before hand, but when I saw Homelander's kid in the film as still a kid, before his growth spurt in the latest season of The Boys, it rang alarm bells.

    I haven't much more to add than what's been said already; good cast, but rushed with chunks missing, which obviously would have been better treated as a miniseries. I felt the same about The Many Saints of Newark as another comparison to an ill thought out HBO production.

    I'm starting to think streaming has fucked up all sense of what an well oiled production is meant to be.



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