Misery - Lighthouse (2014) Discussion

[–] kindred122 10 years ago

Yeah, as soon as I saw the previews I said this was like Misery for the teen/20 something crowd. Most of the kids who will like this movie probably haven't even heard of Misery though.

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[–] waldenpond88 8 years ago

My generation (1950's) loved watching old movies on late night TV (that was in the 1970's).
The young generation probably does not even know that any movies existed, before they were born :). Unless they have parents who watch TCM.

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[–] yg-7 10 years ago

Maybe it's an homage to King. I mean, if you're going to copy it you may as well make it very obvious.

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[–] JVIvies 10 years ago

Was thinking the same thing........only this won't lead to any awards like Misery did!!!!!

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[–] Slwebb71 10 years ago

I know right!! Awful imitation !!

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[–] hilduff29 10 years ago

He even is calm in the beginning too and it's a storm also and the car flips

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[–] LaraCroftLegacy 10 years ago

The thing is people will remember Misery for long time this movie be forgotten by end of the year

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[–] rmcrae_deluxe 10 years ago

"The thing is people will remember Misery for long time this movie be forgotten by end of the year"

Of course it will. It's a Lifetime movie.

Don't eva let nobody tell you you ain't strong enough

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[–] Jayson_Orleans-Perez 10 years ago

I just didn't know people were so bold to just blatantly copy a plot to a very recognizable movie. Most people are too scared of potential legal action.

Knock it off, Hudson.

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[–] mlleiter 10 years ago

Haven't you noticed that Hollywood ran out of ideas a long time ago. Look how they are taking all the children's fairy tales and turning them in to movies. They make remakes of even the bad movies. No originals ideas.

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[–] waldenpond88 8 years ago

Quote: Haven't you noticed that Hollywood ran out of ideas a long time ago. Look how they are taking all the children's fairy tales and turning them in to movies. They make remakes of even the bad movies. No originals ideas.
End of quote.

I wouldn't blame them for running out of ideas, BUT why can't they just film all these great (crime) novels from the past 40+ years which still have not been filmed?
I read a lot of them and quite often think what a great movie this would make!

Am I the only person on the imdb who enjoys reading old books (the older the better) and wondering why these books were never filmed?
Probably most people in the movie business don't have time to read or they only read the new best sellers which are very often bla (except Stieg Larsson).

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[–] waldenpond88 8 years ago

I've watched so many spy movies with Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson over the past 10 years that all I notice is they all resemble each other.:)
Nothing new, no surprises. Just more and more violent.

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[–] aef-6 10 years ago

Yeah it did take different things from movies like Misery (1990), Final Analysis (1992) and Swimfan (2002), but i dont care as long as it turns out to be a good blank from hell thriller. TV movies are usually bad, this one was actually ok (for a lifetime movie). It just had too much stupidity although i had low expectations, i couldn't give it a pass, but Nolan Gerard Funk was a good psycho.

From the recent genre movies theres very few that were worth watching- Orphan (2009), Lakeview Terrace (2008), Obsessed (2009), Chloe (2009), The Resident (2011), Plush (2013), Missionary (2013) and maybe Crush (2013). Check out some of these, if you are a sucker for that sort of thrillers like me.

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[–] ebonyruffles 10 years ago

LOL, as soon as I read the description in the TV listings I thought "sounds exactly like it was copied from Misery. I was exactly correct. I was waiting for him to come in & bash her ankles with a baseball bat. But that would be copying.

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[–] waldenpond88 8 years ago

Quote: Seriously, Hollywood is running out of ideas. It even takes place in Maine like Misery and many other Stephen King movies. End of quote.

Which is such a shame, because there are hundreds of excellent crime novels with unique plots which never have been filmed (like "Landscape of Lies" by Peter Watson or "Plum Island" by Nelson DeMille...even some of the very best Mary Higgins Clark books were never filmed).

I could provide a long list of un-filmed books if TV movie directors would be interested, but I doubt they are. They rather keep making more lousy remakes and more lousy remakes. Saves them the script writer costs.

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