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Otherwise Unrelated Poster Six-Pack! Good poster, terrible movie. AKA the Stephen King Effect.  Adrienne Barbeau is sick of your poo poo.  "I can see through time!"  Worst Pun of the week. Month. Decade.  France re-titles THEY LIVE, somehow makes an equally good poster.  It's hilarifyingly craptastic!  Call off the search, I may have discovered the greatest poster ever! 
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Vagabundo posted:
The font reminds me of the BATTLE ROYALE poster, so I'm optimistic he gets killed off halfway through the flick....
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Nov 9, 2014 10:14
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I hate that I knew who that was when I saw the picture. I don't get what he, or any of his vine buddies have done to deserve fame. Give King Bach a movie. He tries, and often succeeds.
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Nov 9, 2014 10:26
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Distorted Kiwi posted:It's hilarifyingly craptastic!
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Nov 9, 2014 11:28
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I love the Mangler. The monster is literally bolted to the floor for 90% of the movie, so the script has to keep finding reasons for people to lean over or stick their hands into it.
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Nov 9, 2014 13:36
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The Mangler owns and I even remember thinking The Mangler Reborn was pretty entertaining. I never saw The Mangler 2 but I looked it up and apparently it's about a computer virus? 
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Nov 9, 2014 13:43
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I love the Mangler. The monster is literally bolted to the floor for 90% of the movie, so the script has to keep finding reasons for people to lean over or stick their hands into it. This reminds me of The Shaft, the elevator horror movie with Naomi Watts.
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Nov 9, 2014 16:52
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morestuff posted:The Shaft heh
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Nov 9, 2014 20:59
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He's a bad mutha... (Shut your mouth!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8sSfaBhIk0  Nothing Freudian here..  Nope, you're imagining it.  Seriously...  Yeah, way to gently caress it up, France. 
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Nov 9, 2014 22:24
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I saw The Mangler exactly once, at a friend's house a few years ago while I was half-asleep. It felt like a weird nightmare. I almost never hear anybody talk about that movie, so that usually just helps reinforce that it actually was a nightmare of mine.
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Nov 9, 2014 22:40
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I love the Mangler. The monster is literally bolted to the floor for 90% of the movie, so the script has to keep finding reasons for people to lean over or stick their hands into it. I like the story concept where an infinite number of monkeys will eventually summon Satan, but that's really all there was to the short story. I don't think I've ever seen more than a couple of minutes of the movie and I haven't heard anything that makes me think there's anything more to it. Also, Nun of That is the greatest title for anything, ever.
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Random Stranger posted:I like the story concept where an infinite number of monkeys will eventually summon Satan, but that's really all there was to the short story. I don't think I've ever seen more than a couple of minutes of the movie and I haven't heard anything that makes me think there's anything more to it. The short story is freakin' badass.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The short story is freakin' badass. Seriously. Whoops, our laundry press has become a conduit for Satan/Cthulhu because thanks to a one-in-a-billion freak coincidence the ingredients of a summoning spell were scattered in people's pockets when we did their laundry.
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Nov 10, 2014 00:16
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Distorted Kiwi posted:France re-titles THEY LIVE, somehow makes an equally good poster. That's literally the Assault On Precinct 13 poster with the skullfaced alien head added behind in the fire cloud...  The Italian poster somehow has Chuck Norris... 
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Nov 10, 2014 02:03
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I saw The Mangler exactly once, at a friend's house a few years ago while I was half-asleep. It felt like a weird nightmare. I almost never hear anybody talk about that movie, so that usually just helps reinforce that it actually was a nightmare of mine. Honestly, this is how I feel about this movie too. I saw it wide awake, and it's pretty loving weird. I don't think in a good way. But I will say, Robert Englund's death scene is loving horrifying to me, and I don't know why. It's the only gore scene that actually makes me feel uneasy. Maybe it's the way he sells it? The effects aren't even that great...so I might just go with the idea that getting your legs folded 4 times is horrible and freaks me out. 
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Nov 10, 2014 02:13
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Random Stranger posted:I like the story concept where an infinite number of monkeys will eventually summon Satan, but that's really all there was to the short story. I don't think I've ever seen more than a couple of minutes of the movie and I haven't heard anything that makes me think there's anything more to it. The tagline is somehow even better.
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Nov 10, 2014 07:43
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Where did the legend of "Stephen King short stories make bad movies" come from anyway? There's the Mangler yeah, and there was a miniseries on The Langoliers that was pretty laughable. But Storm of the Century was passable-to-good and Kubrick's Shining is fantastic. Is it just because he hands out the rights to his stuff to film students on the cheap? That isn't really his fault and is pretty laudable besides.
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Nov 10, 2014 10:20
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Pierson posted:Where did the legend of "Stephen King short stories make bad movies" come from anyway? There's the Mangler yeah, and there was a miniseries on The Langoliers that was pretty laughable. But Storm of the Century was passable-to-good and Kubrick's Shining is fantastic. The Shining can only be considered short in comparison to The Stand.
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Nov 10, 2014 10:47
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Pierson posted:Kubrick's Shining is fantastic.
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Pierson posted:Where did the legend of "Stephen King short stories make bad movies" come from anyway? There's the Mangler yeah, and there was a miniseries on The Langoliers that was pretty laughable. But Storm of the Century was passable-to-good and Kubrick's Shining is fantastic. I think it's his 80s fare of X is possessed by a demon. Whether it be a car, dog, lawnmower, mangler, trucks or whatever it got a bit cheesy.
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Nov 10, 2014 10:54
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I think a lot of the problem is, when everything you write that's longer than a grocery list gets made into a film, you'll always have a few stinkers people remember. Frankly, I think he's batting at least .500 on his adaptations. The good ones are uusally VERY good, but for every SHAWSHANK or STAND BY ME, theres a  or a  This one I used to dig, although it's been years since I watched it  This is still pretty fun  I never made it through this, or went back to try again.  This one? Never ran across it. 
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Nov 10, 2014 11:41
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Nov 10, 2014 11:46
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Distorted Kiwi posted:This one? Never ran across it. I remember enjoying The Night Flier. But I was like 12 and it has Miguel Ferrer in it so it's automatically hard to hate.
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TetsuoTW posted:Unless you ask King, apparently.
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A lot of King's short stories that get adapted are pretty good in and of themselves but they tend to a single idea of scene that simply can't support a full-length movie so they get blown up and distorted and the movie either feels padded as hell or bears little resemblance to the story.
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The Time Dissolver posted:Behead those who insult Maximum Overdrive That movie lost me when the car with the gun showed up. The car is moving the gun around and shooting it, but you can see it's just a gun on a pole. there's no mechanism that would allow the car to move the gun, it's just on a joint. That gun can't me moved or fired unless an outside physical force pushed it around and pulled the trigger. There's no wires leading to it, how is the car moving the gun around and firing it? If there was that pole with a gun on it mounted to my back, I wouldn't be able to aim it and fire it like it was just another limb. Didn't make any loving sense
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boom boom boom posted:That movie lost me when the car with the gun showed up. The car is moving the gun around and shooting it, but you can see it's just a gun on a pole. there's no mechanism that would allow the car to move the gun, it's just on a joint. That gun can't me moved or fired unless an outside physical force pushed it around and pulled the trigger. There's no wires leading to it, how is the car moving the gun around and firing it? If there was that pole with a gun on it mounted to my back, I wouldn't be able to aim it and fire it like it was just another limb. It's a magic car.
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boom boom boom posted:That movie lost me when the car with the gun showed up. The car is moving the gun around and shooting it, but you can see it's just a gun on a pole. there's no mechanism that would allow the car to move the gun, it's just on a joint. That gun can't me moved or fired unless an outside physical force pushed it around and pulled the trigger. There's no wires leading to it, how is the car moving the gun around and firing it? If there was that pole with a gun on it mounted to my back, I wouldn't be able to aim it and fire it like it was just another limb. That's where that movie lost you?
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A sentient ATM calling a customer an rear end in a top hat? Well, I never!
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:That's where that movie lost you? I don't know how cars work. If you told me that cars could go underwater if you remove the radiator, I wouldn't believe you, but only because it doesn't sound true, not because I have any actual information that would lead me to believe otherwise. But I could just look at the gun and tell there was no physical way for the car itself to manipulate it.
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boom boom boom posted:I don't know how cars work. If you told me that cars could go underwater if you remove the radiator, I wouldn't believe you, but only because it doesn't sound true, not because I have any actual information that would lead me to believe otherwise. how did you feel about this scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GQg06SX90 or this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3OiAvUjH4
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boom boom boom posted:But I could just look at the gun and tell there was no physical way for the car itself to manipulate it. I've seen this kind of thinking before and the result was Fallout Equistria. Turn back before it's too late and you start writing Cars/Road Warrior fanfics longer than War & Peace.
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Nov 10, 2014 14:06
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I always get Maximum Overdrive and Duel mixed up, it's a heavy burden
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Okay, but Lawnmower Man really doesn't count. The story is about a dude that mows your lawn by eating the grass naked and then kills you. I mean, it's entirely unrelated except the movie is about a guy who at one point does have a lawnmower. It's like if Game of Thrones the show was a modern police procedural about a guy who plays chess occasionally and calls it "thrones."
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Pierson posted:Where did the legend of "Stephen King short stories make bad movies" come from anyway? There's the Mangler yeah, and there was a miniseries on The Langoliers that was pretty laughable. But Storm of the Century was passable-to-good and Kubrick's Shining is fantastic. Storm of the Century was actually written and published as a screenplay, I guess King figured he may as well do something in every format now that he'd done every genre.
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Nov 10, 2014 14:55
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The 20 Children of the Corn movies and the Sometimes They Come Back Again Too series do a lot to hurt his batting average.
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The Dark Tower is going to be an interesting adaptation not because it's complicated (it's not, he doesn't do a whole lot of world building, he just likes to show a lot of weird poo poo), but because they'll likely completely change the events of the last three books. I was just rereading them, and wow, those last three are just absolutely ridiculous, and that eraser at the very end there is the most anticlimactic poo poo I've ever seen.
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