The Long Walk (2025)
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Pogi.G
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I don't know, Sleepwalkers was pretty bad too. His adaptation movies have been hit and miss.
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If you adjust the settings so it is black and white it's a perfect 1950s monster movie.
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Yeah, I can agree with that. Although, The Outsider was pretty good, and Doctor Sleep director's cut was enjoyable, even though they both need some pretty big changes. I think there's some other stuff out there that I haven't seen, so no telling how they are, but like
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said, The Most is a fantastic horror movie, and probably one of his better adaptations, even if it had some pretty radical changes.
jayrebb
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Yeah I didn't understand the positive reviews and word of mouth either.
"it captured the book banter" like anyone gives a fuck about that. What a slog.
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positive reviews are only from the retards that were dumb enough to read this stupid book and recognized a line or two
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Yeah, I didn't think it was terrible. Luckily it wasn't too long, although I do feel like they could've cut another 20 minutes.
But that said, the ending wasn't good.
The Major seemed like a fucking cartoon character. I didn't realize it was Hamill, but he blew ass in that role. What the fuck was he trying to do? In fact, why was he even cast for this? Seems like a massive miscast.
They really drew out the ending part though. Too much "focus on gun, focus on Major, back and forth for tension." It really ruins the moment. It didn't need a buildup because the whole fucking movie is the buildup.
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The Major, in the book, is a figure we see once at the very beginning and once at the very end only. We learn a little bit about him through the other characters but he's not there talking shit every handful of scenes. With the book I had the impression he was president for life after a martial coup. Movie Major personally kills Garraty's dad so he's like a high ranking member of the secret police I guess? Hamill does nothing interesting. It doesn't work.
The book has a traditional horror story ending that was foreshadowed a bit - there isn't really a winner. It's not to say it's some screwjob where we find our Long Walkers basking in the Maui sun like Whitman, Price and Haddad. It's that to be the last walker left walking you're going to go insane or die from the stress or both. Garraty loses his mind, the end. It's a perfectly serviceable ending. In the film Garraty plans to use his wish to ask for a rifle so he can shoot The Major. It's so...small? That's all you've got? He does have an arc where he realizes that he's committing suicide the same way his father did at the hands of the state but that's kind of it. McVries wants to do something good for the world. Book Garraty wins, goes insane, movie Garraty takes a knee and McVries wins.
Imagine you're Garraty and as Jesus is taking you up in his arms to Heaven you look down and see Mister Hope and Change McVries throw all that positive change shit in the dumpster so he can go with your wish and shoot The Major. Also your mother just watched her son get gunned down in the street after a similar fate befalling her husband years prior. Sucks to suck I guess. It just doesn't work. There's too many "you're my brother naw you're my brother" back and forths between Garraty and McVries and the film tries to use it's score too many times to add emotional weight to scenes. The general pacing on the ending itself is dreadful. It needs take a quarter of the time.
In general it's still surprisingly faithful to the book and it wasn't a chore to sit through. I didn't like that so many of the towns they went through were empty as viewing the event was not allowed outside of some exceptions. As a contrast to the walkers themselves you need to see everyone else having a great time on a beautiful day as the best parade of the year comes through their city. It makes it everything way more fucked up than just having the whole thing be somber.
The book has a traditional horror story ending that was foreshadowed a bit - there isn't really a winner. It's not to say it's some screwjob where we find our Long Walkers basking in the Maui sun like Whitman, Price and Haddad. It's that to be the last walker left walking you're going to go insane or die from the stress or both. Garraty loses his mind, the end. It's a perfectly serviceable ending. In the film Garraty plans to use his wish to ask for a rifle so he can shoot The Major. It's so...small? That's all you've got? He does have an arc where he realizes that he's committing suicide the same way his father did at the hands of the state but that's kind of it. McVries wants to do something good for the world. Book Garraty wins, goes insane, movie Garraty takes a knee and McVries wins.
Imagine you're Garraty and as Jesus is taking you up in his arms to Heaven you look down and see Mister Hope and Change McVries throw all that positive change shit in the dumpster so he can go with your wish and shoot The Major. Also your mother just watched her son get gunned down in the street after a similar fate befalling her husband years prior. Sucks to suck I guess. It just doesn't work. There's too many "you're my brother naw you're my brother" back and forths between Garraty and McVries and the film tries to use it's score too many times to add emotional weight to scenes. The general pacing on the ending itself is dreadful. It needs take a quarter of the time.
In general it's still surprisingly faithful to the book and it wasn't a chore to sit through. I didn't like that so many of the towns they went through were empty as viewing the event was not allowed outside of some exceptions. As a contrast to the walkers themselves you need to see everyone else having a great time on a beautiful day as the best parade of the year comes through their city. It makes it everything way more fucked up than just having the whole thing be somber.
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I knew going into this that it was going to be a lot of just walking and talking, punctuated by a few gunshots to the head, but even so, I was a bit bored.
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