That movie that everyone else on the planet [including the…what’s the cute term? Pre-born children?] saw in the eighties — one of the many I missed out on. I finally watched it. In fact, I just got done watching it.
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I’m probably not quite qualified to review this movie, as I’ve never actually been able to sit through the original. I have, however, read the book many times — but that was back in the prehistoric era of ‘third or fourth grade’. I no longer have the book, which is sad. My grandmother gave it to me. She was cool. ‘Was,’ because she’s been dead for a few years.

Anyway, I’ve forgotten a few elements of the book, but I guess that doesn’t matter. It was pretty much fiction anyway, so the story is just about as open for rewrites for the screen as any other fiction book out there. Even Lord of the Rings got a few rewrites [not that I’d ever know, because I had the same problem with LotR the book as I did with Amityville Horror the original movie].
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I’m in the middle of some more updates, but I just took some time out to watch The Forgotten because it showed up under Starz OnDemand.

I’m sure you probably already figured out what I thought of it just by the title of this post. A further hint would be that I’m following it up with The Village, which was deplorable back when I first downloaded it. That movie was so bad even a low quality cam couldn’t make it seem okay….
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