Me... After nine beers and a soul-crushing conversation with an ex-girlfriend.
I hope it's worth the syphilis to you.
Me... After nine beers and a soul-crushing conversation with an ex-girlfriend.
HAHAHAHAHA t:The exact number of men Paris Hilton has slept with.
Since Friday.
Here are my opinions about 1408:
SPOILER ALERT.
Is Enslin still in the room?
Absolutely.
If you deny that Mike is in the room, you admit that everything that occurred in the room was real. That is to say that they were not a hallucination, not imaginary, but real. For example, Mike's daughter was made of matter, thinking for herself and a real person; not a figment of the room's evil; every window on the hotel disappeared during Mike's escape attempt, and Mike really did wake up on the beach in his hometown.
However, if you deny this, and say that those were hallucinations or products of the room, how do you explain the fact that the tape recorder recorded his daughter's voice?
The answer is simple: Mike is still in the room.
A movie that makes you think when you leave the theater is a good thing, once in a while.
I'm interested in hearing what everyone else has to say.
Discuss!
I thought this film was amazing -- you may think that is quite a strong word to use, but it's my opinion. Funnily enough, I thought the best part of the film was the banter between Enslin (Cusack) and Olin (Jackson): Goolies and ghosties and long-legged beasties ha ha.
I'm a big Steven King fan, but I'm not one of those that would swear by his every word -- some of the stuff with his name on it stinks, adaptions more so. 1408 is actually one of my favourite SK adaptions, along with Secret Window and Misery. You see, ask any Stephen King fan why they are so happy to read his work, and I guess the majority would say or at least imply that it is due to his gift for character development; the adaptions of his work that suck generally put the gore first and let the characters drift from scene to scene like cardboard silhouettes.
This isn't the case with 1408. Cusack's character was so damn likeable -- witty, vulnerable, layered. Jackson's cameo was well done, too.
So after watching the film a few times I decided that I would go back and read the short story from Everything's Eventual . . . guess what I found? The film is very loyal to the source, although it does diverge greatly once Mike Enslin goes in the room. The story starts with Enslin entering the Hotel Dolphin, and the banter that follows is pretty much bang on the money what we got in the film (I like Cusack, he's likeable, so maybe bumps the banter up a notch in the film).
Great film, great performances. The best damn horror film in a while. Let's hope that if Bag of Bones is ever adapted (my fave SK book) it gets as good a treatment as this did.
I was right it was horrible. Damn you King for making another crappy story into a movie.
I enjoyed this movie. I was very, very happy when they didn't cop out and make it all a dream from when he was knocked unconscious at the beach. By the way, did everyone catch that Sam Jackson's character was the one who sent him the postcard?