1408 -- It's no "Shining"

I just saw on Rotten Tomatoes that "1408" has a 77% fresh rating. I'm not sure what movie those reviewers saw, but 1408 was actually pretty terrible.

1) All right John Cusack, I realize you have no eyelashes, but seriously, you need to talk to your makeup people about the eyeliner. I felt like I was at a goth concert.

2) There were so many ridiculous plot devices that the movie felt like it was a series of impossibilities and random crap strung together. "Oh, we can get Samuel L. Jackson to be in this movie? Now we'll need to add a way for him to say the F-word."

I imagine that when someone told Stephen King they wanted to turn this story into a film he said "Really?" and then said "Whatever bozos, just send me the paycheck."

The writing was garbage, and the film was too long. Additionally, I'm not sure that John Cusack is capable of looking scared, or crazy. The only reason it was scary at all is because you kept waiting for something actually scary to occur. Once you realized that it wasn't going to happen, the movie became kind of like "The Money Pit," with a hint of "Groundhog Day" without being as good as either.