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XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">I love you Stephen King!</div>Just got back from seeing this, it almost made up for the $7 I wasted seeing the new Fantastic 4 (But that's another story). The movie was a pretty good adaptation of the book I thought, good acting, good effects, and pretty horrifying without having to use many cheap tricks.

Anybody else seen it? What do you think?
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Haven't seen it, but a friend of mine has, he said it was fantastic. Hehe, funny thing is, I'm at work (I'm a projectionist) and I just started 1408 like 10 minutes ago. I may see it before work tomorrow afternoon though.
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    it looks good, but i'm not much for suspense/horror movies for some reason. I dont like the whole feeling tense thing all through a movie <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I can't watch scary movies. They just wreck me. Practically the only one I've seen is <i>The Ring</i> which a friend dragged me to; I spent most of the time with my eyes closed and my hands over my ears and for a few weeks after that I didn't want to go in to big rooms because it would be hard to sense if anyone was behind me.

    Same thing with scary games, like DooM3, where I got to the first enemy, shot him before he turned in to a zombie, and quit, or F.E.A.R, which I desperately want to play because of the specacular AI and the amazingly fun gunfights, but I never got past the part in the demo where the girl walks across the hallway, which is about 2 minutes in and before you meet any enemies.

    In real life I'm not a wimp though! Just entertainment, for some reason. It's irrational and I hate it but I can't do a thing about it.
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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Strangely for me Tycho, I've never seen a movie, book, or story that can scare me, but ANY singleplayer game can.
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    It was good for a modern day horror movie. But I thought the ending was kind of a cop out....was just too...blah. If people are cool with spoilers I'll expand...
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited June 2007
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635612:date=Jun 24 2007, 03:21 PM:name=Mullet)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mullet @ Jun 24 2007, 03:21 PM) [snapback]1635612[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It was good for a modern day horror movie. But I thought the ending was kind of a cop out....was just too...blah. If people are cool with spoilers I'll expand...
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    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->To be fair, that's how most of Stephen kings stuff ends. I liked the fake-out ending though, with the surf-board. Two people in my theater walked out because they were dissapointed and thought it was the actual end. Heh, sucks to be them. Besides, it's nice that it WAS real, and wasn't some cliche like "In your mind!" or "You are the ghost!"<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    If that was a spoiler, it wasn't a very good one. I haven't seen the movie and I have no idea what you're talking about. It hasn't spoiled anything.
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1635649:date=Jun 24 2007, 07:10 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Jun 24 2007, 07:10 PM) [snapback]1635649[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    If that was a spoiler, it wasn't a very good one. I haven't seen the movie and I have no idea what you're talking about. It hasn't spoiled anything.
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    Uh.... When you see the movie you will know what Im talking about.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    I'm hoping to see this soon; it looks like the only good horror movie in a while. It helps I love Stephen King, Misery FTW.

    The part that got me giddy in the trailer was:

    "The police are in 1408, there's no one in there."

    I love things like that for some reason.
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1635612:date=Jun 24 2007, 12:21 PM:name=Mullet)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mullet @ Jun 24 2007, 12:21 PM) [snapback]1635612[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It was good for a modern day horror movie. But I thought the ending was kind of a cop out....was just too...blah. If people are cool with spoilers I'll expand...
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    Oooo thanks!
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> <!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->It's just stupid how he went through all of that crazy sheeit and then he defeated the hotel so easily by lighting the room on fire. As if the 56 other people who died couldn't have thought of that...Samuel Jackson even said people had drowned in there before. Who's to say they can't burn alive either?<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    Wow i just watched it with my wife, i cant believe i actually saw a good horror movie that does not involve mindless killing or someone hunting the main character. Constantly had me on the edge of my seat the entire time waiting for the next thing to happen because every time the room played a trick on him, it was unique and shocking. There was very few 'pop-out-at-your-face-doom3-style' style scare tactics but the ones they did do were quite a shock and expecting.
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