Reviews

Gage should have won. I genuinely don't understand how he didn't. Conor's was boring. I liked the frog breathing throat thing he did, that was very cool, but his witch was incredibly boring. She was mostly covered up except for part of her face and gages had hands pushing on the inside of her stomach trying to get out and his theme was hansel and gretel. I don't understand how that didn't push his over the edge. Gage's concept, story, execution was brilliant and I will be forever mad he didn't win. In my opinion, Gage > Tate > Conor as the order for the final three. I'm so very sad about Gage not winning. :(( forever bitter.

I finished the book this morning and just finished the movie. I have so many thoughts. I was so disappointed in the movie -- it didnt even feel like a movie, just aesthetically pleasing images/short clips played with no plot. It fell extremely flat to me. Visually, yes, the movie was stunning, but it didn't hit anything else besides that.

The movie itself: I didnt love the music, because it constantly felt tense/horrific with no build up and just felt overbearing, didnt love the casting for Ullman or Watson. I liked the addition of the creepy twins and the blood flood and the cobwebbed and skeleton lobby Wendy saw, but overall, it felt cutty and not flowy at all.

Compared to the book, there's no intro to redrum until an hour and 20 minutes in, the bath tub lady's room number changed from 217 to 237, it seems like when Wendy was describing Danny's injury, it changed from a broken arm to a dislocated shoulder, there's not a lot of Wendy and Jack being in love (when they first get to the hotel in the book, Danny sees them looking genuinely happy and in love and like a normal married couple) and there's none of that in the movie. It was just an automatic, negative relationship, so it didn't feel like a descent into an out of love thing (especially cause we got little to none backstory about their relationship anyway). There was no talk from Hallorann to Danny about how the scary things are like pictures in a book and can't hurt him (Tony reminds Danny later, but it should have come from Hallorann himself). Room 237 was already open instead of Danny having stolen the key and went in, so it makes him feel kinda passive. There was at least two explanations for both the glad there wasn't any mirrors in the bar and then in the movie, there's mirrors in the bar. Switched from 20 martinis lined up to a single glass and bottle of bourbon. They did take the dollars in the wallet till April line straight from the book though and I did enjoy that. No show of Hallorann working when he got the message from Danny (and it was only one message and it didn't feel urgent at all). The lady (all cleaned up and pretty and alive) wasn't supposed to be in the bathroom when Jack went to check it out, he was supposed to notice the bathmat and then the door would be locked, and then he'd be attacked. The whole making out thing was strange and I feel like it was just an excuse for Stanley Kubrick to put a hot naked lady in his movie. Absolutely no scenes in the basement area of Jack looking through the papers and digging up the dirty history, so no call from the drug store in town from Jack to Ullman/Shockley. The doctor scene was moved from post being in the hotel to pre which isn't that big of a deal, but it also cut out the mentions of Danny knowing about Wendy's sister. Tony, also couldn't come out in the book like, once they got to the hotel (or a little after), but throughout the movie, Tony was talking through Danny. The fight between Jack and Wendy (on the staircase with the baseball bat) was anti-climactic, plus I'm pretty sure Danny had come down to help or something, or at least help move Jack into the storage cabinet (he's the one who reminds Wendy to pull the bolt/pin to unlock the cabinet cause she's panicking and forgot to do that). No playground scene or hedge animal fight (but I heard that they had to cut the hedge animals bc CGI wouldn't allow it). Also, no hose situation with Danny and switched from him seeing the dog-boy to Wendy seeing the dog boy (which didnt have any real need either, like in the book, he blocks Danny). There's a moment where Jack kinda comes back and he tells Danny to run before he's back in his overlook possession and that wasn't included, but I thought that was a great moment to have to show some humanity left in Jack. Then, I think the two biggest things that annoyed me: THEY KILLED HALLORANN WHOM THEY GAVE NO FIGHTING CHANCE TO AND THEY DIDNT BLOW UP THE HOTEL AND LET JACK JUST FREEZE TO DEATH IN THE MAZE THAT WAS THE MOST ANTI-CLIMACTIC THING IVE SEEN. OH and the whole using an axe instead of a roque mallet (which in the book danny saw a bloody version of in the seat when his dad came home in the beginning) was also just very annoying cause that was a huge part of it

Overall, I didn't care for movie at all and was super disappointed in it.

Ross was wrong in the previous episode for being overbearing bc rachel clearly said she didnt have time for dinner, so its his fault for the argument starting. It was established Rachel and Mark werent a thing, she just needed a friend, he immediately hung up and didnt bother letting her explain, and then out of self pity, he slept with the xerox girl.

Oh my God....literally. I - what? B R I L L I A N T - I thought the season 3 finale made me shook but this? WOW I just WOW

Editing and the poster could have used help, but overall, I liked it a lot more than I thought. Also Eva deserved better and ill forever be bitter