Avatar

Sergio

Sergio@slrpnk.net
Joined
20 posts • 84 comments
Direct message

Yeah at one point his parents are like: “Bob, you got a letter from some guy in New England… do you know a Howard Phillips Lovecraft?”

permalink
report
parent
reply

D’Onofrio is one hell of an actor – he played Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, The Kingpin in a Daredevil TV show, and was co-lead on one of those Law & Order shows. He does an OK job here, but tbh I only watched the first half then I got distracted and never finished it.

permalink
report
reply

Hey, it wasn’t that bad. It was definitely TV-movie quality in terms of plot and dialogue, but the basic idea was great and the aesthetic was cool, especially the cars, the clothes, and Amanda Seyfried’s look. Yeah, Justin Timberlake’s acting was distracting, and Seyfried’s wasn’t that much better. I bet if they’d got a better leading man and a top-notch director, they could have made a classic. As it is, the movie made a pretty good profit, so I’m not the only one who thought it was all right.

permalink
report
reply

Seems like it might be a pretty good movie. I think early King was the best, and the movie almost gets the feel of some of his early stories. But tbh I stopped watching halfway through, it got kind of predictable.

permalink
report
reply

BTW if you go to “Subtitles” and select “Auto-translate” to “English” on youtube, the results are usually very good.

permalink
report
reply