{"id":13912,"date":"2020-12-12T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13912"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:32:33","slug":"doctor-sleep-2019-mike-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13912","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Sleep (2019, Mike Flanagan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Running away from myself, I guess.&#8221;  From the moment Ghost Scatman appeared to dump exposition, we know this is gonna be a big obvious movie.  This was my token stinker of the month, which I watched in segments while falling asleep after having watched a proper movie&#8230; most of my notes consist of the timecode where I left off, and variations on &#8220;movie is so bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that head of yours is like a radio sometimes&#8221; &#8211; nice <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13138\">True Stories<\/a><\/em> reference.  <em>Shining<\/em>-era flashback actors are recast, and present-day Danny (Ewan McGregor) teams up with his 12-step sponsor (Cliff Curtis of M. Night&#8217;s <em>Last Airbender<\/em>) and a young psychic named Abra.  Meanwhile, King turns this into a mini-<em>Stand<\/em>, the villains also gathering.  We get an intro to Rose The Hat&#8217;s vampire gang who feeds on shining-kids when Rose (Rebecca Ferguson of the <em>Missions: Impossible<\/em>) recruits Snakebite Emily Alyn Lind (who was in <em>Enter The Void<\/em> when she was six, oh my) outside of the Plaza Theater (!) and we meet the others, led by Carel &#8220;it is happening again&#8221; Struycken, who soon dies of shining-starvation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/drsleep1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Billy dies when our heroes ambush the baddies, killing most of them, then Danny leads Rose to the Overlook to trap her somehow.  He chats with Lloyd the bartender doing a mild Jack impression, played by the E.T. kid (another Spielbeg-Kubrick crossover so soon after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12613\">Ready Player One<\/a><\/em>).  Danny blows up the hotel (what, again?) to kill the vengeful ghosts that killed Rose, I guess.  Think I heard a <em>Dark Tower<\/em> reference&#8230; definitely noticed one house address was 1980 (ugh).  Real TV-movie energy with very talky villains &#8211; the actors seem game, so I&#8217;ll blame this on King and Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/drsleep2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Running away from myself, I guess.&#8221; From the moment Ghost Scatman appeared to dump exposition, we know this is gonna be a big obvious movie. This was my token stinker of the month, which I watched in segments while falling asleep after having watched a proper movie&#8230; most of my notes consist of the timecode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,169,2767,2768,40,2490,181,2358],"class_list":["post-13912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-awful","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-mike-flanagan","tag-psychic","tag-rebecca-ferguson","tag-sequel","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13952,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13912\/revisions\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}