[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I’m not sure how far into it I am because it’s stopped listing it in parts...but I’m really liking it as well...

I got up to part 6 watched and they're 10 minutes long so I'm roughly an hour in, probably just under because of a couple of ads and the opening credits etc. Christopher walken is so young in it, he's great though

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I got up part 6 watched and they're 10 minutes long so I'm roughly an hour in, probably just under because of a couple of ads and the opening credits etc. Christopher walken is so young in it, he's great though

...a good cast overall, I think...Martin Sheen also...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...a good cast overall, I think...Martin Sheen also...

Does he come in to after what I've watched or do I just not recognise him?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Does he come in to after what I've watched or do I just not recognise him?

...he’s the Senator guy on the billboard that Johnny has been watching them put up...?....

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I got up to part 6 watched and they're 10 minutes long so I'm roughly an hour in, probably just under because of a couple of ads and the opening credits etc. Christopher walken is so young in it, he's great though

I love him. One of my favourite actors

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...he’s the Senator guy on the billboard that Johnny has been watching them put up...?....

Oh he's not really come in to it yet for the part I'm on

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...a good cast overall, I think...Martin Sheen also...

Yes, Martin Sheen comes on later on.
He's a senator .

[Vanessa]

Have you seen the Dead Zone TV show? It's brilliant.

[Niamh.]

Is it new or an old one Vanessa? (I haven't seen it no)

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Is it new or an old one Vanessa? (I haven't seen it no)

It's not old, I think fairly recent.
With Anthony Michael Hall.
I was obsessed with it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

It's not old, I think fairly recent.
With Anthony Michael Hall.
I was obsessed with it

I might check it out if I can find somewhere to watch it

[Ammi]

...it’s a good recommendation, Vanessa...thank you.....

[Vanessa]

Is it worth getting Amazon prime?
I've been offered it as a trial

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Is it worth getting Amazon prime?
I've been offered it as a trial

You should take the trial anyway and see if you like it. I prefer Netflix personally but I've not been using Prime much. I'm not sure if it's something to do with my internet or Tv or what but some of the movies and shows can be buffery (I don't get that with Netflix)

[Ammi]

...so Dead Zone...

Spoiler:

...seriously Greg Stillson is Donald Trump, isn’t he...it was like a premonition of Donald Trump which is ironic because of the plot line ...I really enjoyed it..it was a good cast and a good plot line...I did find some of it quite predictable but it didn’t detract from any of it../..I had guessed the younger police officer as the killer...but we knew because there was a little way to go still, that there would be some kind of twist ending...and that for me had been impossible to predict...

...a few niggles...when the doctor came to visit Johnny and suggested he go back to the clinic so that he was safe...and Johnny said that he was completely safe there because he didn’t intend to act on any of the letters etc...then straight away he shook the father’s hand and off he went to visit the his son...that was dumb and not really keeping safe at all, surely he would have alway wore gloves as well...the ending felt as though it jumped for me and it had stopped giving part numbers so I have no idea if I missed any or not but it felt as though I did...when he’d realised that Greg would become President and that he would start a nuclear war etc...it then jumped to him with the rifle at the rally...where did he get the rifle, did it jump straight into that and not see him prepare for it and see what he planned to do...?...it wasn’t a great quality either, the screen was always quite dark, but the sound quality was fine...it was a great ending, I thought...there was obviously no future for him because he’d lost the love of his life plus his gift or curse was killing him...and he basically saved the world, didn’t he ...because Greg would never now have that power to press the button as he’d used the child as a shield...and it was a complete twist that I hadn’t seen, even though I know there would be a twist, I hadn’t guessed that to be it...so yeah, really liked the movie../...a good watch...and thought provoking as well as how the world would see someone with such a gift...he just used for experimentation...?..that obviously made me think about Messiah/the series as well... oh another little niggle actually but again not spoiling the movie enjoyment in any way...to be in a coma for 5 years and then remembering everything about the accident and no short term memory loss even, with regard to his parents or girlfriend...surely that in itself would be a phenomenon and yet no one seemed to question it...that was odd...

[Ammi]

...I would take the trial also for Amazon, Vanessa...it takes a bit of getting used to because of the differences with Netflix ...(...but then I don’t think you have Netflix anyway..?...)...but I’ve watched quite a bit on it and it just gives another option when we watch so much TV atm...and it’s free...so there’s that as well...

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...so Dead Zone...

Spoiler:

...seriously Greg Stillson is Donald Trump, isn’t he...it was like a premonition of Donald Trump which is ironic because of the plot line ...I really enjoyed it..it was a good cast and a good plot line...I did find some of it quite predictable but it didn’t detract from any of it../..I had guessed the younger police officer as the killer...but we knew because there was a little way to go still, that there would be some kind of twist ending...and that for me had been impossible to predict...

...a few niggles...when the doctor came to visit Johnny and suggested he go back to the clinic so that he was safe...and Johnny said that he was completely safe there because he didn’t intend to act on any of the letters etc...then straight away he shook the father’s hand and off he went to visit the his son...that was dumb and not really keeping safe at all, surely he would have alway wore gloves as well...the ending felt as though it jumped for me and it had stopped giving part numbers so I have no idea if I missed any or not but it felt as though I did...when he’d realised that Greg would become President and that he would start a nuclear war etc...it then jumped to him with the rifle at the rally...where did he get the rifle, did it jump straight into that and not see him prepare for it and see what he planned to do...?...it wasn’t a great quality either, the screen was always quite dark, but the sound quality was fine...it was a great ending, I thought...there was obviously no future for him because he’d lost the love of his life plus his gift or curse was killing him...and he basically saved the world, didn’t he ...because Greg would never now have that power to press the button as he’d used the child as a shield...and it was a complete twist that I hadn’t seen, even though I know there would be a twist, I hadn’t guessed that to be it...so yeah, really liked the movie../...a good watch...and thought provoking as well as how the world would see someone with such a gift...he just used for experimentation...?..that obviously made me think about Messiah/the series as well... oh another little niggle actually but again not spoiling the movie enjoyment in any way...to be in a coma for 5 years and then remembering everything about the accident and no short term memory loss even, with regard to his parents or girlfriend...surely that in itself would be a phenomenon and yet no one seemed to question it...that was odd...

I love Christopher Walken in it. He's so good!

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I would take the trial also for Amazon, Vanessa...it takes a bit of getting used to because of the differences with Netflix ...(...but then I don’t think you have Netflix anyway..?...)...but I’ve watched quite a bit on it and it just gives another option when we watch so much TV atm...and it’s free...so there’s that as well...

I might try it

[Niamh.]

The Dead Zone

Spoiler:

I really enjoyed, Stephen King does write interesting stories (besides that sketchy scene in IT) it felt a bit short though, I'd imagine the book might have felt more complete

[Niamh.]

Just read your review Ammi and maybe we did miss some scenes because the end seemed very quick to me as well

[Bollo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

You were nothing before you met me. You were playing Barbies with Betty Finn. You were a Bluebird. You were a Brownie. You were a Girl Scout Cookie.

Did you have a brain tumour for breakfast? Or are you pulling my dick? how very..... Just kidding...

I would LOVE a rewatch of Heathers...it was very slick and modern at the time which means it probably won't date well stylewise but if you can ignore that the story and the humour we're just brilliant... a defining movie for my generation...

[Bollo]

So I watched The Dead Zone....

Spoiler:

I couldn't find it on youtube anywhere but luckily I found it on Amazon Prime days before it's due to be removed...I was a really big Stephen King fan in the 90's and read most of his books of that era but always felt like the movie adaptations were terrible and never did the books justice. So i did have low expections but I thought the storyline was great, the acting was good and it kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the movie... I don't recall ever reading the Dead zone though so can't compare it directly the book and maybe thats a good thing because it's one of the few Stephen King adaptations that i enjoyed....

[Ammi]

...just reading some reviews about Dead Zone and also the book and there is a lot more detail in the book, as is often the way...but there is a repeat reference to one specific thing that stands out...(...it’s also more detailed in Johnny’s mother becoming a religious fanatic, which she had t been before...so more covering the ‘before’ stuff ...

...anyway these comments and so many similar ones...


I find it too rushed, the wheel of fortune part is left out (and this was so important), and the Greg Stillson character is made into a one dimensional man.


You know, I've never understood why the wheel of fortune part was cut out. If Cronenberg was going to ditch that, then he should have went ahead and ditched the whole part of Johnny and Sarah going to the amusement park, because it plays out as very odd (and really unnecessary) the way it is.


The film seemed to fly by for me. I agree the pacing is too rushed and they don't do enough to flesh out all of the characters to their potential.



...so I don’t think we missed anything, and interesting that it’s usually because the book has been read that we feel those left out bits but it was felt with this even not knowing the book and how they compared...one of the movies that I’ve always hugely disliked is My Sister’s Keeper because it was not only that so many really important parts were left out but it changed the whole story ending and made it completely different, and obviously ending twists are the whole point of everything that came before....

...anyways, I still thoroughly enjoyed Dead Zone but it did have that rushed feeling and feeling that I’d missed something ...back in it’s time, though... movies in general could have possibly been shorter as a generalisation..?...and it might have been lower end budget as well so had to be kept quite condensed ...and it did work, I hadn’t predicted that twist at all and a good movie...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Bollo

Did you have a brain tumour for breakfast? Or are you pulling my dick? how very..... Just kidding...

I would LOVE a rewatch of Heathers...it was very slick and modern at the time which means it probably won't date well stylewise but if you can ignore that the story and the humour we're just brilliant... a defining movie for my generation...

That 80's style is all the rage in TV Shows atm with things like Stranger things etc I think it will be really cool and retro, haven't watched it in years now so I'm really looking forward to it

[Niamh.]

Heathers

Spoiler:

Still loved it as much as I always did, I love the dark humour, I really loved the style of it, it was good to watch a high school popular girls movie/TV Show where there was actually more male flesh shown than female The clothes were funky, I loved them. I love the colour in the film. I especially loved the script, the dialogue is great, the words and phrases they used as well. When I was remembering some of the lines with Bollo I forgot my absolute favourite of the whole movie when Veronica is talking to her parents and she says "we don't want to be patronised like bunny rabbits" and her dad says "I don't patronise bunny rabbits" and looks the most offended by that than anything else she says

I loved the dream scene, Heather Duke's funeral, that was trippy and hilarious. I know the subject matter is serious and they made light of it in some ways but I think they still managed to get the message across that every other "proper" teen movie does but in a very different and (imo) funnier way. It's dark comedy and a touch of satire but still with a decent "moral" I guess?