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Summary: Love it but wish it's better
Review: For a Stephen King's fan, I really have to have this DVD in my collection. This is a great movie to watched except that, He shouldn't have cut short the accounts of their year of honeymoon and there's also a slight steepness in the story. Rather have this movie in a more deeper spectative in story. The upper side of this movie is that you left wondering if Rose Red really exist.
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Summary: steven king's mastermind at work again
Review: I actually watched this movie before Rose Red. I think the movie was a great but I think in order to understand "Rose Red" you must watch this film. Out of all the fiction writers I ever read or seen, Steven King is by far the greatest author and most creative writer than all others. His imagination is superb. He is truley a mastermind and a masterpiece for todays readers.
He is indeed the Shakspear of today's world. Ever fiction author looks up to and tries to make their next novel a "steven king" hit. Just think what hollywood would be like if there was no Steven King or Steven king want to be.
Before you make a opinion about this or any other Steven King mastepiece, think what would the world be like if his great mind had never been born. Writers all over the world would lack imagination and would still write after shakspear era.
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Summary: steven king's mastermind at work again
Review: I actually watched this movie before Rose Red. I think the movie was a great but I think in order to understand "Rose Red" you must watch this film. Out of all the fiction writers I ever read or seen, Steven King is by far the greatest author and most creative writer than all others. His imagination is superb. He is truley a mastermind and a masterpiece for todays readers.
He is indeed the Shakspear of today's world. Ever fiction author looks up to and tries to make their next novel a "steven king" hit. Just think what hollywood would be like if there was no Steven King or Steven king want to be.
Before you make a opinion about this or any other Steven King mastepiece, think what would the world be like if his great mind had never been born. Writers all over the world would lack imagination and would still write after shakspear era.
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Summary: The Prequel to Rose Red
Review: I agree with some of the other critiques - I'm not sure how well this movie is made in terms of explaining the background of the story. Rose Red was scary. Diary is more like a documentary almost. More drama than horror. It mainly has to do with a husband and wife ... the wife is permissive and the husband is a jerk who sleeps with other women. Not sure what that has to do with the house exactly. I thought they should have focused more on how the house first became haunted. I feel there should be a prequel to the prequel now. To explain in more detail what occurred BEFORE all of this. Like before the house was built. What was there beforehand (like a cemetery, ancient burial grounds, etc.) and why is it haunted in the first place. It was not scary. It wasn't really even suspenseful. It did keep me interested through the whole movie though and the actress that played Ellen Rimbauer I thought was quite good. I would suggest seeing this movie if you are a big fan of Rose Red though because it does explain SOME things ... I wish they would make a sequel too though. "Rose Red: Part Two - Revenege of the House", maybe? As far as the DVD itself goes, what someone else mentioned is true. If you click on Scene Selections, instead of the scenes for the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, there are scenes from another movie. Which is a pretty major mistake, I say! No one in production caught that??? Come on, that's a pretty big thing to mess up. Unless... they did it on purpose.... I mean, this is Stephen King we're talking about. ;) I plan on writing to the production company to try and figure out the mystery identity of the Scene Selection mess-up. I'll update when I find out which move it is!
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Summary: The Prequel to Rose Red
Review: I agree with some of the other critiques - I'm not sure how well this movie is made in terms of explaining the background of the story. Rose Red was scary. Diary is more like a documentary almost. More drama than horror. It mainly has to do with a husband and wife ... the wife is permissive and the husband is a jerk who sleeps with other women. Not sure what that has to do with the house exactly. I thought they should have focused more on how the house first became haunted. I feel there should be a prequel to the prequel now. To explain in more detail what occurred BEFORE all of this. Like before the house was built. What was there beforehand (like a cemetery, ancient burial grounds, etc.) and why is it haunted in the first place. It was not scary. It wasn't really even suspenseful. It did keep me interested through the whole movie though and the actress that played Ellen Rimbauer I thought was quite good. I would suggest seeing this movie if you are a big fan of Rose Red though because it does explain SOME things ... I wish they would make a sequel too though. "Rose Red: Part Two - Revenege of the House", maybe? As far as the DVD itself goes, what someone else mentioned is true. If you click on Scene Selections, instead of the scenes for the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, there are scenes from another movie. Which is a pretty major mistake, I say! No one in production caught that??? Come on, that's a pretty big thing to mess up. Unless... they did it on purpose.... I mean, this is Stephen King we're talking about. ;) I plan on writing to the production company to try and figure out the mystery identity of the Scene Selection mess-up. I'll update when I find out which move it is!
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Summary: The Prequel to Rose Red
Review: I have not yet seen the Rose Red movie that takes place after the time shown in this film, which I would imagine makes sense if it's a prequel. After seeing this movie I am certainly intrigued and can't wait to see Rose Red to understand the story more and to see what happens in the future with this house. I agree with some of the other critiques - I'm not sure how well this movie is made in terms of explaining the background of the story. It mainly has to do with a husband and wife ... the wife is permissive and the husband is a jerk who sleeps with other women and craves sexual encounters. Not sure what that has to do with the house exactly. And I'm also not sure how these characters play out in the next movie. I thought they should have focused more on how the house first became haunted. I feel there should be a prequel to the prequel now. To explain in more detail what occurred BEFORE all of this. Like before the house was built. What was there beforehand (like a cemetery, ancient burial grounds, etc.) and why is it haunted in the first place. It was not scary. It wasn't really even suspenseful. It did keep me interested through the whole movie though and the actress that played Ellen Rimbauer I thought was quite good. As far as the DVD itself goes, what someone else mentioned is true. If you click on Scene Selections, instead of the scenes for the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, there are scenes from another movie. Which is a pretty major mistake, I say! No one in production caught that??? I'm not sure but I think it might be the scene selections from the Rose Red DVD. But come on, that's a pretty big thing to mess up. Unless... they did it on purpose.... I mean, this is Stephen King we're talking about. ;) I'll update my review later and let you know if the scene selections are from Rose Red.
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Summary: Cool
Review: I Loved this movie, it showed what things were like that we did not see on Rose Red.
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Summary: Good Prequel to Rose Red
Review: I saw Rose Red first then watched The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer when it came out on TV. I thought it answered some of the questions from Rose Red. It's not scary but you get to know the characters better and why the house "takes" the people it does. Overall, a very good movie.
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Summary: Loved it
Review: I saw this prior to Rose Red and reading the book and for some strange reason was unaware it was produced by SK. I loved the movie and then of course had to see Rose Red. Personally I felt that RR was a bit hokey. The character of Joyce Reardon in RR was a comic. The characters in Diary were very interesting and kept my attention. However I would have like to seen more of all of them. For those whose copy had "scene selection" flaws, may want to return or something. My copy works ok.
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Summary: If you haven't read the book . . .
Review: If you haven't read the book then you'd be quite lost and quite disapointed. If you've read the book, well then, you would not be lost but you'd be disapointed at how many elements were left out. Especially the relationship between Ellen and Sukeena. Many even question why Sukeena ended up in Rose Red in the first place or what was the connection between the two ladies and the fact that their relationship was a lot more intimate . . . those things are revealed in the book. The fact that Mr. Rimbauer's passions were feeding the house was only touched upon in passing in the movie, but the book lets you know that it was far more complicated then that. I would suggest that one read the book before seeing the movie(or after, if you've already seen it and then re-watch it- it'll make sense then)
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