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BiggerBoat posted:So apart from all that was it OK? Best movie of the year otherwise. For some reason I thought Goldsman had written good movies early in his career, but looking at his filmography, they're all terrible, so I must be thinking of someone else.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:apparently, bafflingly, king was very happy with the film And Goldsmith is practically the poster child for failing upwards. My guess is somewhere in the international market his products do gangbusters because you barely need context to watch his movies, coupled with the usual powerful connections to get his foot in the door.
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Also he might be contractually obligated to praise/refrain from poo poo-talking about it.
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I don't think you can hard-contract that, although I'm probably wrong. It's definitely unwise to, and he's been in the business more than long enough to know that.
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he is getting older. maybe he likes maximum overdrive
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mind the walrus posted:King has weird-rear end opinions on people touching his work. YEs. I'm hoping he really really hates "IT"
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Brocktoon posted:Best movie of the year otherwise. A beautiful mind and Cinderella man are both good movies imo
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They're not bad movies, but I wouldn't say the writing was the strong suit of either.
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oldpainless posted:A beautiful mind and Cinderella man are both good movies imo more like old russelcrowfanboy er.. less.
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Koburn posted:...and Asimov's Caves of Steel listed as his upcoming projects noooooo
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So I just finished Salem's Lot and I'm not sure what to think about it. I loved the back half but thought the first was kind of crappy. Felt like King was really trying to build up the characters in the town to get you more invested but I just wasn't a fan of the way he did it in this book, maybe it's cause I've read The Stand and Tommyknockers before this one and I think King built up those settings so much better. Maybe it's just that this was his first attempt at Definitely a weird King book in that the first half was a slog to get through but then the back half is amazing with a solid ending. Complete opposite of how his newer books tend to be.
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A Typical Goon posted:So I just finished Salem's Lot and I'm not sure what to think about it. I loved the back half but thought the first was kind of crappy. Felt like King was really trying to build up the characters in the town to get you more invested but I just wasn't a fan of the way he did it in this book, maybe it's cause I've read The Stand and Tommyknockers before this one and I think King built up those settings so much better. Maybe it's just that this was his first attempt at I loved every moment spent on the townies of the Lot. That said it was one of my first King books, but I have read it too many times to count over the years. It would be in my top 5 of King books.
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A Typical Goon posted:Maybe it's just that this was his first attempt at
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mind the walrus posted:I think it was, but I'm not an expert on King's bibliography. Yeah he published Carrie in 1974 and Salem's Lot in 1975. He'd been doing short stories for quite a few years beforehand, professionally, but nothing on the level of really building up a location.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Didn't he write The Long Walk when he was 19? A lot of the Bachman works were started when he was a young kid only getting published in his high school and college magazines, but weren't finished and published in book form until later. Long Walk was one of those. The first part of the Gunslinger was also one of those.
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Stephen King would like to see Lisey's Story as the next adaptation of his work. I've never read it myself, but wasn't it the novel full of baby talk and stuff?
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SilentChaz posted:Stephen King would like to see Lisey's Story as the next adaptation of his work. He's said it's his favorite book that he's written. I didn't hate it as much as most and found it sort of OK overall. Not as bad as I'd heard and not very memorable but not terrible. King has a weird relationship to me towards judging his own art, but that's not uncommon amongst artists. I'm a painter and almost everyone puts my least liked work amongst their favorites out of the stuff I've done
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oldpainless posted:Liseys story loving sucks!!!! Welp, that's that then. Next topic. I heard they're making a two part IT movie.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'm a painter and almost everyone puts my least liked work amongst their favorites out of the stuff I've done And yeah I recall an interview with Brando where he was asked what he thought his best work was-- he answered with some 1960s movie no one ever mentions when talking about Marlon Brando. It's definitely a thing that happens. oldpainless posted:Liseys story loving sucks!!!!
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oldpainless posted:Liseys story loving sucks!!!! ive read all his books except that one cuz i couldnt get more than a hundred pages in
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oldpainless posted:Liseys story smucking sucks!!!! Fixed that for you buddy.
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The next King novel sounds like Jose Saramago's Blindness and Orange is the New Black and Children of Men and has cocoons. I'm not planning to rush to my book store for that.
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huh you're not kiddingquote:In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place... this sounds like YA fic honestly. it is also more than 700 pages long. anyway gwendy's button box was good chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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In a future so real and near it might be now... the most implausible poo poo ever occurs
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Mel Mudkiper posted:In a future so real and near it might be now... the most implausible poo poo ever occurs Yeah but that is our now.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:In a future so real and near it might be now... the most implausible poo poo ever occurs You don't know a lot of women who sleep in magic cocoons? Or do you mean the part about a profitable business in Appalachia?
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Next Stephen King movie should be Insomnia, done competently. Also, King will hate it to add icing on the cake.
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Diabetic posted:Next Stephen King movie should be Insomnia, done competently. I could see that, actually, even though I didn't care for the book much. The trouble with translating King to film, especially his scarier more far out stuff, is that so much takes place in the mind of the protagonist and their inner narrative. I actually think Gerald's Game will make a good movie since it's largely grounded and the crazy poo poo can be handled be fever dream hallucinations. Along those lines... No one has any thoughts on the Mr. Mercedes TV show? I didn't watch it but heard it was...um....OK. I didn't realize it was a series and thought it was a one off or a two parter. Was it any good?
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Wait, it already came out? I thought the series hadn't even launched yet?
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Tom Guycot posted:Wait, it already came out? I thought the series hadn't even launched yet? I though it was last night? I saw an AV Club review up.
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BiggerBoat posted:I though it was last night? I saw an AV Club review up. Oh, huh, looks like it did, neat. Looks like I'll have to check up on  ILLEGAL FILE SHARING WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES since this is apparently being broadcast on the absolute dumbest new streaming service yet and there isn't even a roadmap I can find for ever being able to watch it down here.
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mr mercedes is by david e kelly
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BiggerBoat posted:I could see that, actually, even though I didn't care for the book much. Its a lot like Lovecraft, but with a lot less racism and anti-semitism. There is a reason the best lovecraft adaptation is Re-Animator
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bobkatt013 posted:There is a reason the best lovecraft adaptation is Re-Animator In The Mouth of Madness, From Beyond and The Thing would all like to have a word with you.
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Franchescanado posted:In The Mouth of Madness, From Beyond and The Thing would all like to have a word with you. What? The Thing isn't lovecraft.
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Tom Guycot posted:What? The Thing isn't lovecraft. Not directly, but it's Lovecraftian. From Beyond was the only direct adaptation I listed.
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