{"id":9057,"date":"2014-02-23T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9057"},"modified":"2014-02-23T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T21:09:58","slug":"john-dies-at-the-end-2012-don-coscarelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9057","title":{"rendered":"John Dies at the End (2012, Don Coscarelli)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feels like it’s trying too hard to be a cult hit, and the pacing is often weird, with our somnambulist hero Dave always moving and speaking slower than you’d expect, and its universe and logic seem simultaneously under- and over-developed (maybe since it’s an incomplete adaptation of the source comic), but overall a damned fun flick, unlike anything else out there, and a welcome return to weird-movie-making for Coscarelli<\/a> ten years after Bubba Ho-Tep<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Attempts at plot summary would be ridiculous, but here are some people and things.<\/p>\n

Tall Man as dark-eyed priest:
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Basement meat monster summoned by Obscure Object<\/em> snake girl, destroyed by Dr. Marconi phone call:
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Paul Giamatti as viewer-surrogate reporter:
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Good weapon:
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Glynn Turman as evidence-destroying, hero-threatening rogue cop:
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Church of Dave & John: clothing and masks optional
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Dave nearly falls into pit of Korrok before monster is destroyed by humanity-saving suicide-bomber dog:
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Feels like it’s trying too hard to be a cult hit, and the pacing is often weird, with our somnambulist hero Dave always moving and speaking slower than you’d expect, and its universe and logic seem simultaneously under- and over-developed (maybe since it’s an incomplete adaptation of the source comic), but overall a damned fun […]<\/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":[1049,1778,1538,136,655,40,100],"class_list":["post-9057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-alternate-universe","tag-don-coscarelli","tag-drugs","tag-paul-giamatti","tag-psychic","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057","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=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9082,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}