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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 399930" data-attributes="member: 8">FIRESTARTER (2022)[ATTACH=full]53247[/ATTACH]I was in the mood for an easy popcorn watch, something that wouldn&#039;t challenge me too much.Apart from being a remake it also got a terrible rating on IMDB, but I&#039;m happy to report that there&#039;s no need to avoid this film.I&#039;ve watched the original In the 1980s and thought it was a poor imitation of CARRIE, and at that time I kinda hated Drew Barrymore with her snotty little Hollywood face.I figured this bad memory would give me an advantage on watching the remake, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how emotional it was. It doesn&#039;t feel as if the various fire spectacles take centre stage, it&#039;s more about a superhero coming to terms with her powers. It&#039;s easy to lash out but it&#039;s more rewarding to be kind, that sort of thing.Perhaps, in a way, it can be viewed as an X-Men prequel rather than a Stephen King story, although I probably wouldn&#039;t have bothered if it had&nbsp; been an X-men prequel.But let&#039;s not speculate about things that didn&#039;t happen.The pacing and the dramatic tension isn&#039;t always perfect, but the only thing that really annoyed me was the drab, beige colour scheme. For reasons unknown to me there are still many filmmakers who think that it&#039;s going to look more natural when they suck the colours out of it. Most of the original streaming content have that strange blue-ish filter and it just doesn&#039;t look good at all.For a film made in 2022 I thought the picture quality was really bad sometimes, like watching a VHS rental from the 1990s, but I&#039;m going to assume this was the result of a bad streaming encoding or my computer&#039;s inability to show it in 4K or whatever.[MEDIA=youtube]oDO7HPqPwSg[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 399930, member: 8"] FIRESTARTER (2022) [ATTACH type="full" alt="1716690101585.png"]53247[/ATTACH] I was in the mood for an easy popcorn watch, something that wouldn't challenge me too much. Apart from being a remake it also got a terrible rating on IMDB, but I'm happy to report that there's no need to avoid this film. I've watched the original In the 1980s and thought it was a poor imitation of CARRIE, and at that time I kinda hated Drew Barrymore with her snotty little Hollywood face. I figured this bad memory would give me an advantage on watching the remake, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how emotional it was. It doesn't feel as if the various fire spectacles take centre stage, it's more about a superhero coming to terms with her powers. It's easy to lash out but it's more rewarding to be kind, that sort of thing. Perhaps, in a way, it can be viewed as an X-Men prequel rather than a Stephen King story, although I probably wouldn't have bothered if it [I]had[/I] been an X-men prequel. But let's not speculate about things that didn't happen. The pacing and the dramatic tension isn't always perfect, but the only thing that really annoyed me was the drab, beige colour scheme. For reasons unknown to me there are still many filmmakers who think that it's going to look more natural when they suck the colours out of it. Most of the original streaming content have that strange blue-ish filter and it just doesn't look good at all. For a film made in 2022 I thought the picture quality was really bad sometimes, like watching a VHS rental from the 1990s, but I'm going to assume this was the result of a bad streaming encoding or my computer's inability to show it in 4K or whatever. [MEDIA=youtube]oDO7HPqPwSg[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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