Dr. Sleep

I pray he doesn’t use a New England accent.

Ewan cannot do an American accent.

but I will say Ewan looks damn good in this movie

Will he show peen?

I'm not feeling this. Didn't Stephen King hate Kubrick's movie? Wonder what he'll think of this one.

It's directed by Mike Flanagan.

^thats promising. i've never read a single SK novel but find the subject matter interesting when I read descriptions or summaries. so far the adaptations all seem to have been neutered or altered to the point of why even bother, besides throwing in Kings names, but they can be fun to watch sometimes.

YAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bump

I’ve seen lots of mentions of this movie on the internet the past few weeks. Why? Doesn’t open til November.

Hmmm... questionable. The Shining has a particular grandeur. This looks pedestrian.

seems like they would've done a remake of The Shinning more to SK's liking before doing Dr. Sleep

They did a remake for ABC that was adapted by SK. It was a piece of shit.

I loved this novel. Very keen to see the film.

[quote] It's directed by Mike Flanagan

He's the same guy that directed The Haunting of Hill House and Oculus, so yes, I'm interested.

Those flashbacks in the trailer are recreations of scenes from The Shining. Only the elevator scene was used from the film.

Did SK green light the re-hash of scenes from Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining or did Flanagan do that on his own? If SK was okay with it, why? If Flanagan went off on his own, will SK hate this film too?

The book was disappointing and surprisingly dull.. I hope this has the King turnaround where the film ends up better than the book. Ewan's hotness is massively promising. so...toes crossed.

Good trailer, anyway.

r19 Hi moose! I like your signature. Good choice!

No mystery R10, it’s that the official trailer just came out.

Thank you, house @ e20 .

Remember when a lot of us got so excited about the latest Pet Sematary movie? It sounded so great, but ended up being a dud for the most part(I have not seen it). I loved that thread though, as I learned more about King's work than I thought I already knew, and found many more books and short stories to dive into .

Sorry, yet not surprised, this movie sounds like another "eh". The book was dull as fuck, and the Danny character was disappointingly limp at best.

R11 Yes Shelly Duvall was nominated for a Razzie and Jack looked deranged from frame one. What an overrated film The Shining was.

Will Dr. Sleep be getting in and out of bed in this one?

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R23, apparently the film was greenlit on the basis of the success of the film version of IT. Pet Sematary never looked good to me but then I have a fairly irrational dislike for Jason Clarke. Ewan McGregor is a much better and more charismatic actor at least.

Anything with Ewan I’m in. Unless it’s Star Wars. He rarely makes a bad film.

Even the lowest rank Ewan movies are 10x better than most American actors worst.

You morons really can't be bothered to write STEPHEN KING? Jesus.

It looks underwhelming, and, as r11 points out, rather pedestrian.

I hope Mike Flanagan doesn't ruin this with mawkish, upper middle class navel-gazing, like he did with the Haunting of Hill House.

This movie looks terrible. OF COURSE Danny Torrence peeks through the hole that Jack made in the door with an axe because, well, Hollywood needs to remind the audience of the brand! I'm sure in the next trailer we'll see Ewan sitting at a typewriter. Yuck.

Yes, looks like it is stealing bits from the film The Shining. The rest looks uninteresting and generic.

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It looks like a television show, not a film, if that makes sense. It lacks cinematic scope. Given the director's credits, I suppose that makes sense.

[quote]Will he show peen?

We've all seen it a hundred times.

[quote] looks like it is stealing bits from the film The Shining. The rest looks uninteresting and generic.

All films are bad these days. Even the ones that are supposed to be good.

Ewanhas one of the great big showbiz cocks.

He's a manwhore who will fuck anything.

Surprise! Buzz is excellent

I'm very interested in this film and will probably see it but I'm still pissed at Mike Flanagan for that crap he pulled with Haunting of Hill House . It was presented as a remake of the fantastic Shirley Jackson book but Flanagan changed every single key aspect of the novel except for the names. In the book the characters were all strangers brought together but he decided to turn them into a family. WTF? Why did they call it Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House? Why didn't he just call it Mike Flanagan 's Haunted House Sad Family Melodrama?

[quote]It looks like a television show, not a film, if that makes sense. It lacks cinematic scope. Given the director's credits, I suppose that makes sense.

Actually, they should’ve made this a 6 or 7 episode show and sold it to streaming. I mean...unless it’s big, flashy and loud, ain't nobody going to a theatre to see this shit.

I hope it's good; the book was rather dull, but maybe that's not a bad thing for a movie in that the screenwriters aren't so tied to the content-they can take more liberties with the story because the underlying source material isn't that great.

Maybe we'll luck out and find that it was given the Kubrick treatment like The Shining was. Whether you love it or hate it, that movie definitely wasn't boring.

I'm one of very few people who liked the two-part TV version of The Shining. (I didn't see it as better or worse than the Kubrick film. To me, it was a different entity and more of a close adaptation of the novel.)

Having said that, the novel Dr. Sleep is a bore.

It starts off OK. But then it becomes so increasingly uninteresting, I completely lost interest and gave up about halfway into it.

I agree, r46. All the AA preachiness became tedious and most of the suspense was lame as fuck rather than scary.

The idea of casting McGregor as a grown-up Danny is a pretty good one!

Saw it this week. I loved it. I didn't read the novel, nor have I seen THE SHINING, but THE SHINING looms so large in the pop culture that I understood the references. After seeing the film I read the Wikipedia entry for the novel to see if it was a faithful adaptation. Luckily, the film deviates greatly from the novel.

You have never seen The Shining? WTF is wrong with you?

Fucking millennials.

Saw this today and it's excellent - vastly superior to IT Chapter 2 (which I still enjoyed). I hated the Pet Sematary remake.

Rebecca Ferguson steals the show as Rose the Hat. No jump-scares, just very creepy and intense. I don't want to spoil anything but the violence in one scene in particular is shocking.

I've only read The Shining, not seen the Kubrick one. You don't really need any knowledge of The Shining to appreciate the story in this one.

I’m going to see this because Alex Essoe from the excellent indie satanism film Starry Eyes is in it.

And that’s the only reason.

I never would have guessed that's Henry Thomas playing Jack Torrance. Ironic considering his recent DUI.

McGregor...no peen, not watching.

He shows ass.

R55. Yawn.

Are we so jaded we no longer care about man ass? 😔

Yep.

I enjoyed all the callbacks to The Shining. The guy who played Hallorann was great.

Saw it tonight. Perfect in every sense of the word. It was a new story that honored the original story in a classy manner without being cheesy. 8.5/10

THe book dragged in parts and was a bit esoteric and not that scary, but the movie was great. Agree that Rebecca Ferguson was wonderfully creepy. I liked it much more than I thought I would.

I also loved this film, and Rose the Hat is now one of my all-time favorite villains.

Several critics have carped that it was a cheap plot device to go back to the Overlook Hotel. But I think the fans would have been disappointed if it didn't.

I only care when a film does poorly when it's truly excellent film I hate that the box office for DOCTOR SLEEP is so dismal. Hopefully people will discover it on Netflix.

Alex Essoe did an uncanny impersonation of Shelley Duvall.

The original film did poorly at the box office. So in 30 years Dr. Sleep may also be a classic.

Bump.

Did anyone else notice when Danny was being interviewed by that doctor they were in the same office where Jack Torrance was interviewed for his job at the Overlook?

Mike Flanagan is directing the new season of The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix next year. It's going to be amazing!

Saw it Sunday. Was really good. Creepy. Much better than It 2. It does run a little long. But it's worth it. Was surprised how much I liked it.

Why did Ewan's career hit the skids?

I'm glad to see the positive comments. The trailer looked terrible.

Saw it, loved it. The cast was great. Truly frightening. Loved the way they used the Overlook.

Reallly liked it. It actually improved on the book which rarely happens.

Haunting of Hill House was a masterpiece of tension and atmosphere, with amazing visuals, and great acting. The few jump scares that were there were used to phenomenal effect. One of the only things I've watched in recent memory that has actually kept me awake way past my bedtime.

I was sort of lukewarm on the book, and diverged way too much from the Shining mythos. The movie, however, does the book justice and makes up for a lot of its shortcomings. I can actually say that after this movie, there is no need to read the book.

Trivia: the original Danny (Danny Lloyd) has a cameo as one of the dads sitting in the bleachers of the little league game, and has a couple lines.