Gerald's Game, based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus and Ouija: Origin of Evil, so there lies my interest), is for the most part a very efficient thriller about a woman left handcuffed to a bed when her sex-game-playing husband dies from a heart attack on top of her. Her mind snaps, and her struggle to survive is hampered by her own past, with her father and her husband, characters acting as fragments of her mind and livening up what would normally be a very static set-up. There's the horror of the situation, and then there's the horror within, a lifetime of repression and insecurity. It's quite well done, but for the terrible 10-minute, tacked-on epilogue that actually hurts the narrative with its "revelations". It would be better to stop watching when it looks over and fades to black. If you get to the bit where someone is writing a letter, you've gone too far. Switch off.
A nice little bottle thriller with one of the most confronting singular moments of gore this side of Green Room that unfortunately (but somewhat fittingly) completely shits the bed in the final ten minutes.
Lots of complaints about the ending by those here. For better or worse, it remains unchanged from King’s ending for the most part, and the director is on record saying he had not intent of changing King’s work, so take that for what you will.
This was really a surprisingly good movie... Until the ending, as has been mentioned previously, although personally I think it's more like the last 20 minutes, not just the last 10, that just ruin the entire fucking movie. Although I do agree about the epilogue being the absolutely worst thing, not only in this movie, but in anything I've seen in some time, complete with an almost impressively dumb VO.
Honestly, I wish they'd done without the whole Death guy completely, even without that idiotic epilogue. Oh, and the whole escape scene I thought was just poorly executed as well, I don't mind about the gore, but cutting up your entire fucking hand, only to then smash a fucking car into a tree minutes later was a bit too over the top and unrealistic for me.
Also, they didn't bring a charger for the cell phone?
Superb performance by Gugino and a very creepy Henry Thomas and a very interesting direction from Flannagan who turned what could have been a very static film into a full fleshed movie. Disappointing ending but hey it's Stephen King, what else did you expect? The guy's only good ending was Shawshank.
Bag of bones :-) Although I'm skeptical about screening Mr. Kings books, because most of them are disappointing, this one was good. It was quite fast, acting and script were excellent. The hole adaptation was... good.
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What a shitty endingCrunchySumbitch
I cannot believe Bruce Greenwood is that ripped. You go, Brucey!Siskoid
Gerald's Game, based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Mike Flanagan (Oculus and Ouija: Origin of Evil, so there lies my interest), is for the most part a very efficient thriller about a woman left handcuffed to a bed when her sex-game-playing husband dies from a heart attack on top of her. Her mind snaps, and her struggle to survive is hampered by her own past, with her father and her husband, characters acting as fragments of her mind and livening up what would normally be a very static set-up. There's the horror of the situation, and then there's the horror within, a lifetime of repression and insecurity. It's quite well done, but for the terrible 10-minute, tacked-on epilogue that actually hurts the narrative with its "revelations". It would be better to stop watching when it looks over and fades to black. If you get to the bit where someone is writing a letter, you've gone too far. Switch off.lachyas
A nice little bottle thriller with one of the most confronting singular moments of gore this side of Green Room that unfortunately (but somewhat fittingly) completely shits the bed in the final ten minutes.acoltismypassport
That degloving though...Adrian B AWESOME
Lots of complaints about the ending by those here. For better or worse, it remains unchanged from King’s ending for the most part, and the director is on record saying he had not intent of changing King’s work, so take that for what you will.ryano1076
Well that took a hard turn...johannez1
This was really a surprisingly good movie... Until the ending, as has been mentioned previously, although personally I think it's more like the last 20 minutes, not just the last 10, that just ruin the entire fucking movie. Although I do agree about the epilogue being the absolutely worst thing, not only in this movie, but in anything I've seen in some time, complete with an almost impressively dumb VO.Also, they didn't bring a charger for the cell phone?
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So not a feature-length live-action adaptation of Pixar's Geri's Game?BadFluffy
Superb performance by Gugino and a very creepy Henry Thomas and a very interesting direction from Flannagan who turned what could have been a very static film into a full fleshed movie. Disappointing ending but hey it's Stephen King, what else did you expect? The guy's only good ending was Shawshank.Taca5
Bag of bones :-) Although I'm skeptical about screening Mr. Kings books, because most of them are disappointing, this one was good. It was quite fast, acting and script were excellent. The hole adaptation was... good.