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03-11-2020, 08:01 AM | #2 |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
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This thing had been limping out but they still had me until El Cuco became visible. I'm sure that's not an easy concept to make visual, but woof, most non-terrifying monster scene ever.
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03-11-2020, 10:15 AM | #3 |
Stay positive, don't give up
Join Date: Dec 2001
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03-11-2020, 02:15 PM | #4 | |
Champions
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Des Moines, IA
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If they were going to go with the look-exactly-alike angle, they should have at least done a switcheroo at the end. Claude is killed in the partial cave collapse and the creature switches shirts with him so the hole from the shotgun blast shows on the dead guy. Creature wedges his leg under a rock and waits for rescue. Of course none of that is revealed to us until the end when Claude returns to his house and is splashing some water on his face. He looks up at the mirror and then we get one of those facial changes. At least then there would have been a reason for the ho-hum human appearance of this horribly dangerous beast. |
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03-11-2020, 11:04 AM | #5 |
Supporter
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Not a great show. It was well scripted and well acted, but had a flawed foundation.
It's like, rather than telling a story, they were 'going for something.' That something being an ineffable struggle between rationality and the supernatural, and the plodding dread that accompanies the recognition that some things cannot be explained. I can see how they were excited to tackle it, but it's the same old shit with King. Fascinating premise that peters out like a wet fart. The actors did their best, but they started with an idea without a resolution. |
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