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Firestarter movie reviews

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  Firestarter

  Thursday, January 11, 2024 11:34:51 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  Still a classic 40 years later, despite its flaws. Some serious overacting by the lead actors is compensated for by a good story (it’s Stephen King after all) and great special effects for the time (no CGI, all “hand-made” and for real). Tangerine Dream’s hypnotizing score stays with you for a while!

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  Firestarter

  Tuesday, May 17, 2022 3:03:29 PM | (Age Not Specified)

  It has a really good Tangerine Dream score, and the supporting actors like Freddie Jones, Martin Sheen, and especially George C. Scott are good, but leading actors Barrymore and Keith are terrible: their scenes together are laden with a cloying sentimentality that's downright nauseating. You'll want to hurl tomatoes at the screen after Keith tells Barrymore he loves her so much for the one-hundredth time. Chunky Barrymore's miscasting is probably the film's biggest debit, but she seemed to be the only famous little girl in Hollywood at the time. They should've gone with an unknown. A script rewrite and a recast and this might've been something.