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The Berzerker posted:Perfect response "No great loss" is probably the best individual chapter King has ever written. It is perfect.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:No love for the Langoliers miniseries? Bronson Pinchot Not to mention Dean Stockwell as the author insert.
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Oct 28, 2013 04:26
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I found a list of Stephen King movies/TV shows/miniseries/short films here. I thought I'd post the ones that I've seen, mostly because I'm curious what I've missed that might be worth watching. I have seen: 1976 - Carrie 1979 - Salem's Lot 1980 - The Shining 1982 - Creepshow 1983 - Cujo 1983 - The Dead Zone 1983 - Christine 1984 - Children of the Corn 1986 - Maximum Overdrive 1986 - Stand By Me 1987 - Creepshow 2 1987 - The Running Man 1989 - Pet Sematary 1990 - Graveyard Shift 1990 - It (TV mini-series) 1990 - Misery 1993 - Needful Things 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption 1994 - The Stand (miniseries) 1995 - The Mangler 1997 - The Shining (TV miniseries) 1999 - The Green Mile 2004 - Salem's Lot (TV miniseries) 2006 - Desperation (TV miniseries) 2006 - Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King 2007 - 1408 2007 - The Mist 2013 - Under the Dome (TV series) I was curious if anyone knows much about these: 1985 - Cat's Eye - I've never seen this, but I'd like to, because Quitters Inc. is in it and that's a great story. Any good? 1987 - A Return to Salem's Lot - I just googled this and it sounds horrible. I am surprised at the number of short stories that have been adapted into short films but even more surprised at how many short stories have been adapted into full-length movies. Graveyard Shift is a stupid story to begin with. Dragging it out to 90 minutes seems ridiculous.
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Oct 28, 2013 05:19
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Cat's eye is must see, if just for The Ledge alone. Return to Salem's Lot is... a thing that exists but shouldn't. Don't bother.
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Oct 28, 2013 05:31
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Hahahaha holy crap I need to find the Bollywood one. My best friend and I bonded over Stephen King when we first met in high school and watch as many King movies as possible - We even saw the terrible Carrie remake in theatres this Thursday, and have plans for this weekend. I guess I know what we're doing now! Here's my list of what I've seen... 1979 - Salem's Lot 1980 - The Shining 1983 - Cujo 1983 - Christine 1984 - Children of the Corn 1986 - Maximum Overdrive 1986 - Stand By Me 1987 - A Return to Salem's Lot 1987 - The Running Man 1989 - Pet Sematary 1990 - It (TV mini-series) - I had no idea that this was originally a miniseries! I would love to see IT in theatres. 1990 - Misery 1993 - The Dark Half - not 100% sure if I've seen this or not... I remember lots of sparrows, but maybe I pictured the book vividly? 1993 - Needful Things 1993 - Chinga (episode of The X-files) 1994 - The Shawshank Redemption 1995 - The Langoliers (miniseries) 1997 - The Shining (TV miniseries) 1998 - Apt Pupil 1999 - The Green Mile 2002 - Rose Red (TV miniseries) 2002 - The Dead Zone (TV Series) 2003 - Dreamcatcher) 2004 - Secret Window 2004 - Salem's Lot (TV miniseries) 2006 - Desperation (TV miniseries) 2007 - 1408 2007 - The Mist 2009 - Dolan's Cadillac 2013 - Carrie Lots that I want to see - Strawberry Spring and Survivor Type especially.
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uptown posted:Hahahaha holy crap I need to find the Bollywood one. Wait, go back, what's this about.
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Oct 28, 2013 14:33
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ProfessorProf posted:Wait, go back, what's this about. In the link I posted: "2007 - No Smoking (Bollywood movie)" uptown, you should go back and see the original Carrie. It's a good movie.
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Oct 28, 2013 15:19
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http://vimeo.com/m/52236142 This Reaper's Image movie looks kind of rad. But isn't it DeIver (capital I) not "Dellllver?"
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uptown posted:Hahahaha holy crap I need to find the Bollywood one. My best friend and I bonded over Stephen King when we first met in high school and watch as many King movies as possible - We even saw the terrible Carrie remake in theatres this Thursday, and have plans for this weekend. I guess I know what we're doing now! There are loads of Dollar Babies, some of which are on YT or other places. The best one is Frank Darabont's student film The Woman in the Room which is on Youtube.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:http://vimeo.com/m/52236142 That actually doesn't look bad, but its kinda funny watching that trailer because it covered literally everything that is described as happening in the story. If they extended that trailer into a four minute video they would have a very accurate adaptation. I wonder what they are planing to ad to pad the thing out. I really really hope it isn't anything along the lines of 'Final Destination'.
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The Berzerker posted:In the link I posted: "2007 - No Smoking (Bollywood movie)" Whoops, yes, I have also seen the original Carrie a few times. I must have accidentally deleted it.
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Oct 28, 2013 18:13
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regulargonzalez posted:There are loads of Dollar Babies, some of which are on YT or other places. The best one is Frank Darabont's student film The Woman in the Room which is on Youtube. I really want to see Lunch at the Gotham Cafe.
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Oct 28, 2013 22:50
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juliuspringle posted:I liked Cell. I just finished Under The Dome and it was pretty decent except for that part where suddenly we're the ghost of dome present looking around the town. I wish he'd gotten into the aftermath of everything once the dome was up though. Started Full Dark, No Stars because I saw it's a story collection and so far 1922 is decent. Gonna reread Cell after I finish Full Dark. I'm nearly finished with FD, NS and it is indeed a very good collection. Each story has its merits and the whole collection is just as good as Night Shift and Skeleton Crew.
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Oct 29, 2013 04:51
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I also liked Full Dark, No Stars. The stories in it are really creepy. A Good Marriage was a fun one. I also liked that the villains were basically all people (or if not they were something that the person did to themselves anyway).
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Oct 30, 2013 17:07
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Helsing posted:That actually doesn't look bad, but its kinda funny watching that trailer because it covered literally everything that is described as happening in the story. If they extended that trailer into a four minute video they would have a very accurate adaptation. In the short story the guy just disappears right? Yea it would be kind of stupid to show him getting hit by a bus Final Destination style.
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Oct 31, 2013 15:44
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Didn't King have something to do with the stinker of a movie, "Sleepwalkers?" I remember it having his name attached, but for the life of me I can't figure out what his connection was...
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Oct 31, 2013 16:37
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Edwardian posted:Didn't King have something to do with the stinker of a movie, "Sleepwalkers?" I remember it having his name attached, but for the life of me I can't figure out what his connection was... He wrote the screenplay. And had a bit part in it.
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Oct 31, 2013 17:07
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Brocktoon posted:He wrote the screenplay. And had a bit part in it. you mean the Best Cameo of His Career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohz9AHZw_Ng His acting is so much better when he's just allowed to be a rube.
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Oct 31, 2013 17:46
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Basebf555 posted:In the short story the guy just disappears right? Yea it would be kind of stupid to show him getting hit by a bus Final Destination style. I don't even think the ending is that specific. After hearing the story of how anyone who see's the Reaper disappears shortly thereafter, the protagonist looks in the mirror and notices a little black blur in one corner. When he comments on it, the other guy goes 'oh poo poo, you just saw the Reaper.' The protagonist then leaves the room, and the other guy sits there thinking about how after seeing the Reaper someone will simply disappear without a trace. So I don't think you you don't even get to see the guy disappear, its just heavily implied that it is about to happen. The reason I could imagine a 'final destination' or 'The Ring' style plot is because if you told the story accurately it would be over in about five minutes. The trailer really does cover everything the story covers. I could imagine them making a movie where they extend the action over a couple days. "Oh no! You saw the Reaper! Now he's cooooming to get yoooooou!"
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:you mean the Best Cameo of His Career: That is awesome, never seen it before.
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Edwardian posted:Didn't King have something to do with the stinker of a movie, "Sleepwalkers?" I remember it having his name attached, but for the life of me I can't figure out what his connection was... A stinker? What the gently caress? I love it when dinner puts up a fight! Stop staring at me, you loving cat.
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His Creepshow segment was pretty bad, but I'll be damned if I dont laught at "Department of Meteors" every Halloween.
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Oct 31, 2013 23:33
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Your Gay Uncle posted:His Creepshow segment was pretty bad, but I'll be damned if I dont laught at "Department of Meteors" every Halloween. Well, colleges are awfully busy. They need their own department to handle all of that METEORSHIT! I apologize for nothing and wish to add that Creepshow is an amazing film despite some of its stories.
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FreezingInferno posted:Well, colleges are awfully busy. They need their own department to handle all of that METEORSHIT! I like the end of that segment because its one of those creepy King endings where everything is just about to get a lot worse.
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Has anyone seen You Can't Kill Stephen King? It looks like a lovely horror spoof, and it was on the shelves at my local video store. http://influxmagazine.com/you-cant-kill-stephen-king/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64XdWcf8zqQ
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Creepshow owns, and is one of my all-time favorite standby movies. When my buddy and I were college stoners, we watched it no less than 500 times. Still to this day, it NEVER gets boring. I dressed up as Jordy Verrill this Halloween. 
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Found a friend, Harry! 
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Count Chocula posted:Has anyone seen You Can't Kill Stephen King? It looks like a lovely horror spoof, and it was on the shelves at my local video store. Sounds interesting, I think I saw a couple characters entering a thinny in the trailer.
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My first time trying to read Stephen King was when I was in my early teenage years when, knowing that my father was a fan of him, I picked up the book Cell while on a flight to some Caribbean country. I don't remember much but I stopped reading it after stuff happened and the terms Pixie Light and Pixie Dark came up referring to people or characters... I'm a bit fuzzy on the book other than that I did not enjoy it. I was young, I did not think about things I read, and to be fair to King did not hold much interest in things. Fast forward almost a decade and I'm in college watching horror films like mad and finding profound interest in them, mostly in how they present fear and deal with issues of sex, race, and violence. I also have this whole anxiety disorder managed so I can watch things that scare me without it meaning I am crippled in fear, so that is a plus. My girlfriend reads a whole bunch, I've started reading again, and after she read Carrie and we watched the new movie I began thinking a lot about Stephen King and with friends watched the miniseries IT before deciding to read the book itself. I'm only a little of a ways into the book, but so far it has proven enjoyable to me- and although I know his quality of work varies I'm going to read The Shining next and Full Dark, No Stars because my girlfriend gave it her approval. I think what I like about his movies, and his books (so far, from my limited few chapters) is how he explores the horror of small towns. A friend of mine from Maine talked to me in school after The Mist came out and I asked him, "Wait, maybe I'm just a confused suburban child but do people really go and gather round each other when the town has issues?" and I've found this Horror of Small Town Culture theme to be in a lot of works I like. Not that I'm against small communities, they are fine, but I think the reason IT is so interesting to me is that it explores a lot of issues that are everywhere but does so in isolated small communities which presents them differently than how I've experienced them. To speak specifically on IT because I know the Miniseries and a bit of the book, the central idea that the town of Derry is a part of IT is really interesting to me. Not all small towns are composed of bigots, but those that do have a culture of "we don't talk about some things" is a real life horror that makes the book/movie so interesting. The parental neglect and abuse in the movie is the greater horror than IT, and in the book the themes of hate crimes and people just not getting involved in things mirrors real life and once again proves to be more horrifying. The entire second chapter I read is horrifying because of the hate crime, one based on many real events, and the clown at the end is not the gruesome part to me. Anyhow, I'm obviously new to King and have a lot to read and learn- but so far I'm enjoying his work. I've made a point to take advantage that hardcore used copies are cheap so I can write thoughts in the margins and lend it to my friends to do the same. Seems to be a lot of good and bad in his work, but all of it interesting to talk about.
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Lurk Ethic posted:Creepshow owns, and is one of my all-time favorite standby movies. When my buddy and I were college stoners, we watched it no less than 500 times. Jordy Verrill, you lunkhead! Still my favorite King performance. I hope you walked around yelling "METEOR poo poo!" all night.
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It is one of my favourite books. Maybe my favourite. I love hearing people's experiences of books as they read so keep this up, young man. I first tried to read It when I was about 12 and that didn't work out because the book was thicker than my chest at that age. I had watched, and loved, the TV movie. I picked it up again when I was 24 and am gratified that I did. Books mean different things to you depending on what's going on in your life, and what age you are when you read them. Yay books. WattsvilleBlues fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Nov 1, 2013 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Found a friend, Harry! This is probably the best line in the movie. That vignette is a rare gem between Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson that not many people know about. Both are probably the best / most recognizable actors in the movie, and the exchanges between them are priceless. This story is probably the strongest, its premise being one of those classic creepy King ideas. What if you were buried up to your neck at the beach, completely submerged in sand and unable to move, while an ocean tide comes in to slowly drown you? It's a shame the ending is so campy. This story comes after two completely goofy vignettes, so it delivers a sucker punch of a legitimately scary idea. Go see Creepshow, it's worth your time. Where else will you see Ed Harris awkwardly dance to disco music? quote:I hope you walked around yelling "METEOR poo poo!" all night. Haha I would have, but very few people got it. Most thought I was a run-of-the-mill zombie with moss on my face. I'll tell you, though, King's segment is fun enough to quote even when you're alone.
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Count Chocula posted:Has anyone seen You Can't Kill Stephen King? It looks like a lovely horror spoof, and it was on the shelves at my local video store. Ok, holy poo poo. That's the Wicked Good Store in the trailer there (the gas station) and that is unmistakeably Center Lovell, Maine. Which is where Stephen King's summer house (and my family's summer house) is, on Kezar Lake. After being truly shocked by that I did a bit of googling and two of the kids who made the film were Maine kids like me who had houses on Kezar, so it definitely makes sense. Stephen King has always just been a fixture there - it's a tiny town where maybe 700 people live in the summer (and even less in the winter I think) so yeah. This was where he had the accident, incidentally, right on the main road in town. I mostly remember him from the '90s when we'd go up when I was a kid, and he still was very down-to-earth then and you'd see him around town in this big old truck he drove. After the accident he drove expensive sports cars. So yeah apparently that film sucks but it *is* legitimately filmed in the tiny town where everyone sort of knows Stephen King and it's always one of those slightly-odd slightly-funny things. This is the small Maine town on the lake featured in the last Dark Tower book. I mostly just remember that a scene takes place in Dick Beckhardt's cabin and I was legitimately too freaked out to continue, because Dick was this friendly old man who lived next door to us and shared the same cove with us. Meaning when I was a kid I'd always be swimming across the cove with my brother or friends or something to their dock and his wife would give us popsicles. They were very cool we had dinner there all the time... His cabin was actually between ours and the Kings, and I know Dick was friends with Stephen King, partially why he wrote him into the book. He gave a way bigger role to the old caretaker (who was also our caretaker initially before he died) as I recall. Anyway, yeah. So the town that awful film was made in is all tied up in the worst Dark Tower books, too!
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I just saw that John Cusack is starring in the adaption of the Cell. That is a step in the right direction.
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kaworu posted:Ok, holy poo poo. That's the Wicked Good Store in the trailer there (the gas station) and that is unmistakeably Center Lovell, Maine. Which is where Stephen King's summer house (and my family's summer house) is, on Kezar Lake. After being truly shocked by that I did a bit of googling and two of the kids who made the film were Maine kids like me who had houses on Kezar, so it definitely makes sense. Stephen King has always just been a fixture there - it's a tiny town where maybe 700 people live in the summer (and even less in the winter I think) so yeah. This is great! Tell me more about stuff like this, please. One of the weird things about Stephen King, at least from the standpoint of horror/weird fiction/sci-fi/fantasy, is that the genuinely seems to be A Good Dude. Like everything I hear or read or see about him makes him sound like a nice guy who loves the Red Sox and classic rock and who you could genuinely hang out with. Most of my other favorite writers are kinda prickly and weird, and King's biggest New England horror inspiration, Lovecraft, was just a horrible person all around. I know part of that is a persona SK has built up but I think it goes a long way to why I excuse his authorial tics like adding self-inserts to every book.
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Just popping in to say that there were some serious problems with the later DT books, but the King self-insert worked GREAT for me. When Roland did the hypnotism trick and King went under, I got legit goosebumps. Sorry it bugged you guys, but I really enjoyed it.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Just popping in to say that there were some serious problems with the later DT books, but the King self-insert worked GREAT for me. When Roland did the hypnotism trick and King went under, I got legit goosebumps. The entire cabin portion is one of my favorite parts of DT. That cabin is like me de-facto "cabin in the woods" in my imagination/dreams. I really dug the self-insert storyline.
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rypakal posted:The entire cabin portion is one of my favorite parts of DT. That cabin is like me de-facto "cabin in the woods" in my imagination/dreams. I really dug the self-insert storyline.
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Today, after finishing up the last 50 pages or so of this thread, I finished Desperation, which handily marks me having read all of King's published works - Bachman Books, all the collected short stories, the old, hard to find ones like Rage, The egregious Eyes of the Dragon, and yes, nonfiction, On Writing, and most recently Doctor Sleep - everything, except. Except the 6 last Dark Tower books. I can't help but wonder, as a 30 year old playing catch-up since devouring King books good and bad, and several mediocre ones, if I want to read them. So many older tales don't need or allude to the Dark Tower, then later seem only to focus on the Pennywise/Derry idea that Something Bad Got In, but don't need to go past that. I caught a lot of hints, I saw a lot of supporting story over the last dozen books, but I've only read the pre-revised The Gunslinger, and nothing else Dark Tower. I don't really remember much of The Gunslinger, as it was about 2006 when I read it, and I honestly can't say it grabbed me the way It, The Shining, or The Stand did. Am I nuts? Am I crazy to like this big, big mythology better unfulfilled? I'm told several times that what I will read in the last 6 DT books will not live up to expectations, or handily tie everything in the World together - which doesn't shock me, as tying everything up in a neat little bow is not the King way. So, advise me here, as I feel like I'm in a unique position to do this either way. Do I want to read the next 6 DT books? I've got everything else under my belt, now. Would you go back and unread them, just having the idea that it all ties in somehow, or do you want to see the gears and guts of it all? I kind of want to, and I kind of worry it would be a mistake to do so.
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