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@Nicole0416 I see you liked Doctor Sleep 
Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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I feel like Alien alone gets him a seat at the table. He ain't at the head but still.
He's literally all of my first page. That man working OT.@Jello Biafra has been working hard on his profile, I commend his efforts
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BTW I hated Doctor Sleep. Do with this as you may.
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OJ Simpsom
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Doctor Sleep should have been a standalone film with no link to The Shining. shyt was like a long ass episode of American Horror Story.
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I didn’t read the book but how is that possible if the main character is centered around the kid from the shinning
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The movie didn't feel like it had any connection to The Shining, besides the flashbacks, Doc and the Hotel. Could have been a better movie if it was just about a guy with powers tryna save a little girl with same powers. I didn't read the book, so don't relate that to my post.
That's being awfully kind to American Horror Story.
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It reminded me a lot of AHS: Freak Show story.
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But it’s about Danny life as an adult. The connection is Danny himself. The powers they have is called the shinning (what Danny calls it).
It shouldn’t be viewed as a sequel but more of in the same timeline/universe. It’s like how starz American gods is from a book that includes a bunch of characters that have all their own books written by Neil gaiman as well.
Pretty sure Stephen king does this a lot in his books.
I disagree that it should have been a stand alone film.
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Not really, the movie was dumber than dog shyt just like AHS. I mean, truly, for multiple reasons this movie was one of the dumber things ever made in modern horror movies with a budget.
It pairs well with the new Blade Runner as a shytty attempt (by talented filmmakers!) to revive an iconic movie using dumb-as-fukk storylines. Honestly even the blade runner sequel wasn’t as tasteless as the re-shot scenes of The Shining with soap opera actors. That pissed me off to no end.
Apart from the comical and inevitably unsuccessful choice of reshooting iconic scenes, the source material for this story was boring and fukking dull. There is totally mishandled use of plot points, including an absolutely brutal on-screen murder of a kid for nothing more than a way of explaining what was already obvious. On top of that, this redundant sequence uses horrible CGI. I’ll even add-on the fact that the eye effect is completely aped from (here we come full-circle!) Blade Runner! Rebecca Ferguson was not in the least bit interesting, not only because she’s a poor actor but because her character was just written that lazily. There was never any fear of villains because, though they are immortal, they are seemingly weaker and dumber than humans! Wtf! That shootout scene?? Reminds me of how badass the demons looked in “Mandy” but ended up being more easily dispatched than redneck cultists.
It’s crazy how fukking stupid Stephen King is compared to how highly he thinks himself as a storyteller.
K, that feels a little better
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Shut up and go watch V/H/S
Flanagan's work has no business being compared to that trash. I really don't care what any of y'all say.