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Movie Reviews of Thinner
Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best special effects king film, a must see and own, great story and superb acting....Enjoy.Movie Review: Thinner by Stephen King
Summary: 5 Stars
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Movie Review: Thinner (1996)
Summary: 4 Stars
Stephen King books, almost every single one has been made into a film. Even out of his short stories we got Children of the Corn & Maximum Overdrive. Now we have novel based "Thinner".
Our movie focuses around Billy. A lawyer who ways a whopping 297 pounds. His wife and daughter often tell him he has to lose weight, and his respince is casually "Eh, maybe these diets take awhile to work". One night, Billy and his wife start getting frisky in his car, and he accidently hits an elderly woman corssing the street. After he shows no signs of caring about it, his friends help him avoid trouble in the courtroom, the womans husband puts a curse on Billy, making him Thinner whenever he eats something. After his life starts becoming miserable because of it, he pleads to the man to take the curse out of him, which he does, but then transplants it into a pie. He then comes to think that his wife is cheating on him, so he leaves the pie for his wife to eat, it works, but his daughter has also been murdered from eating the pie, Billy takes a slice of the pie, and is about to eat it, when he gets an unexpected knock at the door....
Alot of people I know do not really care for "Thinner". I didn't think it was bad at all, as a matter of fact i really like this film. Its eerie, creepy, and has great music my Daniel Licht. (who also did the music for Children of the Corn 3). Its got Joe Mantegna, who I love his work. Hes got that perfect mobster voice, and a perfect attitutde in movies like this and even in The Simpsons. So I would recommend, to either buy or rent Thinner if you come across it.
I give it a 4/5
Movie Review: "come on, I insist...white doctor from town"
Summary: 4 Stars
I must say, I really enjoyed this movie. We all know that most, if not all book based movies are not as good as the book. Stephen King movies are a good example of that. But, unlike movies such as The Tommyknockers or The Golden Years, Thinner is one of the better book based movies by King. First off, I really enjoyed the cast, especially Joe Mantegna. The evil old Gypsy (depending on what point of view or "side" your on) is especially creepy because he seems so ruthless. Tom Holland, who plays the main character as the cursed man who seems to be growing "Thinner", did a great job fulfilling his role.
Also, I must say that the production team of this movie really made Tom Holland's character look extremely convincing, mentally and physically.
In conclusion, This movie is extremely creepy and seems as if it's possible in real life, because it's simply a curse/hex that is at play throughout the movie. It has nothing to do with Aliens, mythical creatures, Ghost's etc. I highly recommend this movie to everyone, even if you aren't a horror fan, you should give this movie a chance.
Movie Review: GOOD MOVIE
Summary: 4 Stars
Thinner is one of kings better movies along with children of the corn and creepshow. His worst movies were maximum overdrive and dreamcatcher. I enjoyed this movie but this a movie u cant take to serioussly or think of it as horror to much- it was horror but took diffrent approuch then most horror movies. Its about an overweight lawyer who kills an old gypsy in his car one night and then gets cursed by her gypsy father and the gypsy says thinner. the lawyer dosent know it but he soon enough finds out that a curse was put on him when he starts losing weight quickly and his judge friend also gets a diffrent curse stuck on him- this movie keeps u watching to the end - u will want to see what happens as u see him losing more and more weight and wondering what will happen - sure the makeup looks a little fake in the shower scene but other than that it was ok and the ending was really good- i recomend this film to rent or buy - 4 stars