Can’t help myself, I’ve watched this 5 times now expecting it to not hold up. It’s probably the third best SK adaptation, ever. Grimness to spare.
What are the best ones?
I like Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep, 11/22/63. The Shining is great, too, of course. What else?
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
IMDb has Shawshank as best, but Green Mile, to me, just has that extra “oomph” that pushes it out front.
King’s best stories are really about the horror that is Man. 
The Thin Red Line, starring every actor who wasn’t doing anything at the time. It’s a good film, despite everyone trying to make the most of their screen time. Even Nolte was palatable, and I’m not a fan. Hulu.
He Never Died - streams on Netflix
This was a great and surprisingly funny horror(?) movie about a man who, well, has never died. Like, we aren’t told how old he is at the beginning of the movie, but it is clear he is old.
Henry Rollins plays the man and he does something really interesting. He plays him kind of realistically to the situation. He is super unemotional, kind of just bored and disinterested in the world. This is a man who has seen everything. Everything. Nothing excites or elevates his emotions much above “meh” at any point. I love it.
It was a really fun movie and I would recommend it to anyone.
Thanks to @Smid for the recommendation. I’m watching “From Within” right now, another from your list.
I watched Eastwood’s Richard Jewell today. It was good. Don’t know if the real guy was that stupid, but Jeez, I hope not. Sam Rockwell was good as a crabby lawyer.
I like most of Clint’s movies, except “Garden of Extreme Tedium and Boredom”.
I remember this being interesting and different, they might not stack up as well when compared against other, perhaps better films.
As mentioned above, She never died is a kind of sister/sequel to He never died, not as fun, but ok. People interested in He never died might wish to know, that yes, you do kind of find out why he was the way he was.
My criteria for those films is that they’re ones I remember enough to want to rewatch, or have already done so. I’ve not rewatched From Within yet.
On the fun end of the spectrum, Better Watch Out and Mom and Dad, a CageRage movie, are quite enjoyable.
Saw it this weekend and agree with all this - if you find Ryan Reynolds funny you’ll like this; if you don’t, you probably won’t. That said, despite having previously seen so many clips I was worried I’d seen the whole film, it was actually better than I expected. There are a lot of little jokes, Easter eggs and spectacular cameos (some voice-only, some in person) that I won’t spoil (and would ask that others not spoil either) that elevated this beyond your usual “RR looks handsome and says goofy things” film.
It also probably made a difference that between my teenage daughter and myself we got most of the gamer references (she knew who all the YouTubers were and I got a lot of the older stuff); you don’t need to be terribly game-savvy to watch it but it helps.
I also watched Summer of Soul which I believe was mentioned upthread. A fascinating documentary about an event buried by history for half a century.
As I said in post #2470, I don’t think anyone consciously buried the Harlem Cultural Festival and publicized the Woodstock festival. The Harlem one was spread over an entire summer and had no significant problems. The Woodstock one lasted four days and had 400,000 people there, much more than the Harlem one did at any one time, and it rained much of the time. Alas, there are lots of music festivals, and most of them are soon forgotten, even the ones that were filmed and have that film still remaining. There is so much fascinating stuff that doesn’t get made into a movie for no good reason.
It would seem there would be good reasons for music festivals: don’t you need rights deals with all kinds of people (songwriters, performers, recording companies…)? Something very expensive and time-consuming. [as well as all the usual costs and difficulties of making a movie.]
Reunion - A pregnant woman visits her childhood home just as her estranged
mother is preparing to sell it. It has a nice creepy atmosphere and the acting is pretty good (Julia Ormond!) but I’m glad I didn’t pay to see it. Good enough to pass a couple of hours as long as you’re not expecting too much.
Censor (Amazon Prime) - I was really looking forward to this and it (mostly) did not disappoint. A movie censor in 1980’s England finds something extra troubling in one of the many horror movies she’s tasked with reviewing. There’s lots of (schlocky) gore, as the audience gets to view the movies she’s viewing.
The Sister (Hulu) - This is actually a limited series, but as it’s only four eps and I watched it in one sitting, I figured I’d mention it here. Without the commercials I think it’s probably about as long as an average film.
A nice little thriller with a bit of a ghost story thrown in. Worth the watch for Bertie Carvel’s performance as a sociopath and Russell Tovey’s sympathetic role as a man consumed by guilt (although in some scenes he gave me Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump vibes). I did read some reviews where people were disappointed in the ending but I thought it was actually pretty good.
I don’t think it’s an either-or. But I do think that the demographic involved was a significant reason in the footage being shelved.
This is in my top 5 of 2021 so far. It’s helpful to be at least a little bit aware of “video nasties” and the way they were censored in early 1980’s. The protagonist is a censor that screens these movies and…you kind of need to see the movie to see what happens.
One question: Are we meant to understand that Enid killed her sister?
Yes, almost certainly. I believe her parents are aware of that and discouraging any more looking into it. She’s clearly mentally ill.
Watched Nomadland last night.
It got very high reviews, and I understand there are some other Dopers who loved it. But I found it incredibly boring, and the plot was almost nonexistent. I couldn’t wait for it to end.
There wasn’t supposed to be a plot. McDormand was basically just trying to show life as a modern day gypsy. I thought it succeeded well in doing that.
I just finished Time Machine with Guy Pearce. It was an honest effort, and I thought the CGI for the Morlocks was well done. It held my attention and was wisely ended at about an hour and a half.
I’m watching some piece of shit called American Honey and the exact thing can be said about it. Senseless, annoying, boring and just really a crap movie.
I read a brief description of the movie and was very intrigued. “It’s about a female B-17 pilot in WWII? Cool!” So I rented in on Amazon Prime. What a piece of junk. The action scenes are ridiculous, and it can’t decide if it’s a horror or action movie. Spolier:
A female flight officer gets on a B-17 taking off from Auckland, New Zealand. She is carrying a box that she says contains top secret material. Most of the movie is her seated in the Sperry Ball turret and listening to sexist comments by the aircrew. Gremlins start attacking the aircraft. At one point she falls out of the turret and lands on a Zero flying under the B-17. The Zero explodes and she is projected back up into the turret. She then climbs around the outside of the aircraft. All the while the B-17 is flying of course. Ridiculous!!
I thought it was OK, though I have not thought much about it since seeing it. It kind of disappeared from my thoughts almost immediately. Nice to see that Chloe girl in a non-kid role. Otherwise, not exactly an amazing movie.