Pet Sematary Remake

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

That's too bad, though not entirely surprising. Sounds like a classic case of Hollywood hiring fresh new talent, only to strong-arm them into making something generic and boring. Maybe this should have been a miniseries instead of a feature.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

That's too bad, though not entirely surprising. Sounds like a classic case of Hollywood hiring fresh new talent, only to strong-arm them into making something generic and boring. Maybe this should have been a miniseries instead of a feature.

It was more a case of a screenwriter making changes for really stupid reasons and failing to understand what made the original work.

[anthony1138 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close anthony1138]

It was more a case of a screenwriter making changes for really stupid reasons and failing to understand what made the original work.

Agreed. The new ending is for shock value and nothing more. It could have been a cool idea for an original project, not for Pet Sematary.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Agreed. The new ending is for shock value and nothing more. It could have been a cool idea for an original project, not for Pet Sematary.

And changing it from the toddler to the older kid, and aging that kid up to a teen were also bad ideas, as well as changing where the family moved to Maine from.

Basically, every element of the story with a psychological/emotional weight got changed for idiotic reasons.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

So this wasn't as bad as I expected. Nothing very memorable, but it had some nice atmosphere and it wasn't as dumb as some of the more recent big studio horror releases. It's a good story, so any adaptation is going to have its moments. The scenes when the daughter first returns were the best and the ending is amusingly nasty.

Unfortunately, I had to watch a cropped 1.78:1 version that was only revealed after I had purchased it on VOD. I can't fucking believe cable providers are still fucking doing this! I previously had to watch cropped versions of UPGRADE and the DEATH WISH remake. So annoying.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Is it the cable providers, or the studios? In any event, what the fuck?

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Is it the cable providers, or the studios? In any event, what the fuck?

Honestly? It's because fewer people will complain about a cropped movie than the mongoloids that will bitch if there's one line of black pixels on their TV. I know this from my time doing support for a satellite TV company. We got bombarded with calls when a movie channel showed The Fast and The Furious letterboxed one night.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

Sad but true.

[fatboyslim142 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fatboyslim142]

So this wasn't as bad as I expected. Nothing very memorable, but it had some nice atmosphere and it wasn't as dumb as some of the more recent big studio horror releases. It's a good story, so any adaptation is going to have its moments. The scenes when the daughter first returns were the best and the ending is amusingly nasty.

Unfortunately, I had to watch a cropped 1.78:1 version that was only revealed after I had purchased it on VOD. I can't fucking believe cable providers are still fucking doing this! I previously had to watch cropped versions of UPGRADE and the DEATH WISH remake. So annoying.

You should've complained & asked for a refund.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

You should've complained & asked for a refund.

Yeah, I know. I'm a lazy man.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

Yeah, I know. I'm a lazy man.

You are letting the mongoloids win, man.

[Dom D Spoon! Find all posts View Profile Close Dom D]

Is it the cable providers, or the studios? In any event, what the fuck?

It's not cropped to rent on Google Play. I don't know anything but you'd assume the studio would provide the same version to various VOD providers.

[Matt H. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt H.]

You are letting the mongoloids win, man.

The moron majority usually does.