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The main gripe I have with this film is the characterization of Jack. In the book, Jack is portrayed as deeply flawed, but not unredeemable. He is shown to care about Danny, and to feel real remorse for breaking his arm. It’s situation where you want to see him make amends to both Danny and Wendy. Looking at things from Jack’s perspective, you feel slightly exasperated with Wendy for perceiving Jack as a danger to Danny, since he deeply regrets hurting him before. When you step back though, her actions make perfect sense. SHE doesn’t know that, and unfortunately, when you do something like that, you lose the benefit of the doubt. Wendy is right to be distrustful, and that hurts. Hurting your child like that, even accidentally, is hard to come back from, and Danny’s wellbeing needs to come first. Throughout the book you see Jack struggling to be a better person, only to ultimately succumb to the evil of the hotel. Jack is not a good person in the book, but he is written as a sympathetic character. His death is a tragedy in the sense that it is a story about a deeply flawed individual trying to make amends for his past mistakes and to better himself, only for it to end in failure. I remember I cried when I reached the part of the book where he died. I knew that it was coming, but a part of me still wanted to see him overcome the evil. Obviously, because you don’t get that internal monologue in films like you do in books, Jack’s struggle might have been difficult to translate. I honestly find the movie a lot scarier than the book, and the film is definitely remarkably well made. I can see why Stephen King dislikes it though. It’s a good film, but I’d argue it’s a bad adaptation. Movie Jack is an asshole, and when he dies the audience feels no remorse for him. As someone who read the book before watching the movie, I had a hard time looking past the deviations. Now that I’m older, I can appreciate both works as two great stories, that are loosely connected. Great reaction btw! :)

I love all my Rockys but part 2 for me is one of the most inspirational movies of all time.

The real life Biff is the nicest guy in the world

I've only just discovered your channel (searching for first time reactions to Back to the Future, of all things). Your stark and honest emotional response to the first two episodes of Band of Brothers is riveting to watch. Like you (with no idea of the realities of WW2), I had naively assumed that all of the planes flying away at the end of episode 1 would have safely delivered their complement of soldiers. It's one of the horrors of war to realise that men who had trained for years to go into this war could be killed in the air in a single moment. Your reaction to these first two episodes is a true insight into the brutality and senselessness of war, where survival is as often determined by sheer luck as skill or training.

I like to suggest two movies I think you would like 1. The Sting from 1973, 2. The Poseidon Adventure from 1972

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Wow, Kate. You know my alltime favorite poem, the Wilfred Owen. 😢

Thank you, Kate. It is an honor to know you and hear your wisdom-filled reflections upon this timeless masterpiece. God bless.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons … - Wilfred Owen

Amazing movie, thank you for reacting to this.

12:39 "I don't know why, but that made me so emotional." _That_ was the magic of John Williams. 🙂

Not where, but when

34:47 "I thought he was the guardian angel, but . . . he definitely wasn't!" That's Zuzu's teacher's husband. Remember the phone call when George was getting angry at the two of them?

26:57 "That must've been _so_ much money back then!" Indeed. Equivalent to almost half a million dollars today after adjusting for inflation -- for _each_ of the three years under contract!

There are two movies I would very much enjoy seeing you react to that I've never seen anyone react to; God's and Generals and Gettysburg. They cover the American Civil War.

Have you seen the Japanese man candidly getting Kubrick to explain the ending of the film over the phone? I don’t think he knew it was being recorded and he casually says what the ending means, haha.

Has anyone pointed out The Ninth Configuration connection to you and the astronaut? William Peter Blatty was a friend of mine and I still run a website dedicated to his work.

*TUESDAY*

Several of the actors in this series were actually British. They really nailed the American accent. Blythe did not die in 1948, he survived the war and fought in Korea and Vietnam.

If you like 80s music, then you MUST listen to some 60s and 70s music.... it's even better.

Now you have to watch the complete Trilogy, because we shouldnt interfere with the "Space-Time-Continuum" :-)

You seem like a really nice person.

Let's not forget that British troops invaded the beaches of Normandy as well and the French Underground participated.. As sad as the movie was these young men heroically defended democracy and began the end of the Nazi regime so Europe and the world could be free.

I enjoyed your reaction Kate. You seem to be good at picking up a lot of the small things and the nuances in a film. One of the things I recently learned after having watched this approximately 74 gajillion times is that George is left handed and, as was the general custom at the time, he was using his right hand because society had tried to "correct" left handedness. When George threw a punch with his right hand, it was weak and ineffectual. When he used his left, George knocked Biff on his ass. This was an important moment for George, where he began to make proactive, positive choices for himself.

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We are in the same boat, never seen this classic myself, and glad I shared with you. Sylvester also appeared in Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, a stark contrast to this

Saw when I was seven and cried at the end, an epic film where myself and mother had to visit the cinema three times. Was turned away twice as was full houses

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Thank you for great reaction…from the look of Maggie and Babs at the lockers, it appears Lorraine has mentioned Calvin already to them a lot

I loved how you saw how things were about to fall into place just before they did. The set up, the surprise on your face, the execution and the super satisfied look on your face as you realized “It is all fitting together so perfectly!”