Watch this because Jay recommended it twice

>watch this because Jay recommended it twice
>great story about how a stressed psyche handles imminent death and repressed abuse
>right up until the last fucking ten minutes when (spoilers) there's an exposition dump about how the specter of Death she's been seeing this whole time is actually a dopey serial killer who gets caught at the end
>keep hoping she'll snap back to reality and have imagined the whole escape and aftermath
>roll credits

I've cancelled Netflix. This was the last straw. How did their content go from acceptable kino, to bargain bin at a Blockbuster quality this fucking quickly?

>10 minutes of a 103 minute movie is bad
>only 10% of the movie is bad
>this is enough for you to hate the movie

It's enough when it's the very last ten minutes and pisses over everything established up until that point.

>Netflix successfully adapts one of King's most gimmicky novels
>this is somehow a problem
Sounds like you need to take your bitching to King's awful final acts.

Came to post this. King has always been awful at ending his novels. Blame him for not taking more time to work on his shit.

Just because it's successfully adapted doesn't mean I shouldn't find a problem with it if it's a shit story to begin with. If I'd known how it ended I wouldn't have wasted my time. I suppose I should've expected as much from King though, shitting up a perfectly good ending with a literal psycho killer.

I was eating cereal once and found mouse shit in the bottom of my bowl. it was still great cereal though

Perhaps it was the mouse shit that added the extra bit of greatness to it

>Watch this because Jay said it was a great movie
>Turns out the survivalist was right
>The other guy makes up some story about how survivalist guy is a murderer when the whole time he was trying to make a weapon and kill them all
>Survivalists kills him to save MC and himself but MC decides to kill the survivalists and destroy the bunker
>MC runs off to fight the monsters and fuck up other people's lives when she could have just been thankful and wait out the danger
>No resolution to the missing puzzle pieces plot line
Fucking unsubscribed from Amazon Video

how would you know? are you a babby shit that floods his bowl with milk?

>Just because it's successfully adapted doesn't mean I shouldn't find a problem with it
No, it literally means you have to take it to the original author and shit on HIS creative ideas.

Like, how fucking stupid are you, that you think some higher up on Netflix is actually writing these movies.

What was the deal with that girl who went missing and they figured out that John Goodman was pretending she was his daughter? Did he kill her? Was he an actual serial killer?

Why do I give this many fucks about a shit series of movies?

Maybe you should read entire posts before furiously tapping your autistic fingers.

>>right up until the last fucking ten minutes when (spoilers) there's an exposition dump about how the specter of Death she's been seeing this whole time is actually a dopey serial killer who gets caught at the end
What is wrong with this? Is it not a little creepy that her visions were false to the point that a serial killer had been lurking around in the shadows, able to strike at any time?

The handcuff scene was the first time in a long while I actually cringed at a film.

On the other hand the ending to this was fucking stupid and ruined the entire town of the film. Should have had her escape to see it was true and then just cut to black.

>not flooding your cereal

>What is wrong with this?
Like I said it was a great piece about someone's psychological breakdown when faced with no options but death. She envisioned herself and her husband as the little angel and devil on her shoulders, and eventually formed a vision of Death as well, and his eyes taking the form of the eclipse when she was raped was just symbolic of her being unable to look at the figure, because her abuse was deeply repressed in her mind and confronting it was the only way for her to truly die peacefully.

But no, it's just the mongoloid from Twin Peaks with extra shit glued to his face and he's an actual retard who fucks men.

>The handcuff scene was the first time in a long while I actually cringed at a film.
Yeah I had to stand up out of my seat for a bit. It's been a while since I've seen practical gore look that fucking convincing.

Could it not have been both? A coincidence?

I'd still rate the film 5/7

>Could it not have been both?
Of course not, that's why I'm complaining in the first place, because that's what actually happened. It should have ended when she was saying how she sees him at the foot of her bed every night, and how he's awaiting his bride as she puts it, or waiting to claim her soul, since she effectively cheated death by giving him the ring and walking off because her mind was preparing for death until she managed to escape. It's like her own personal demon that haunts her now. Everything after that when she suddenly starts talking about newspaper articles and the cops arresting the actual guy was absolutely unnecessary and monumentally detracted from the story.

You’re right. That’s why they dumped it at the end. The nice part about it is that you can end the movie ten minutes early and be happy with the movie instead of wasting time with the obligatory Stephen King Rushed, Nonsensical, and Degrading Ending TM. If you read the Shining, you’ll see how unfaithful the adaptation was. It’s a hard thing to adapt a King novel. He writes okay for 2/3 of the book and the last 1/3 or less he shits on the entire book with a lackluster conclusion. I agree with you but it’s the fault of hacky writing not a bad adaptation.

I fucking hate it when Steven King tries to psychoanalyze characters. He thinks he's so smart and snazzy getting right into their psyche when actually he's a stupid fucking hack. He should focus on simple monster stories instead of this """psychological thriller""" shit.

Tbf his short stories are alright. As for adapting them, there's examples like The Body (Stand By Me) that only really moved things around and Quitters Inc. (in Cat's Eye) that improved the short only by filming it.

>King has always been awful
Which is why Kubrick made so many changes in adapting The Shining. Whoever adapted Gerald's Game should have done the same.