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Randaconda posted:Nah, both Evil Dead movies still hold up pretty well. Bad practical effects don't seem to have aged as badly as bad cgi has. Especially because they're deliberately low-budget practical effects. The first one was made for only $350,000-$400,000.
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Randaconda posted:BOYYYYYYYYY You play a good game, boy.
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Randaconda posted:I haven't seen the new IT, but I did work my through the book while my power was out for a week from Irma. Is it good? Saw it this past weekend and loved it, it made like $120+ million its opening weekend. Theater I went to was still nearly full and I went to an early afternoon show.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Saw it this past weekend and loved it, it made like $120+ million its opening weekend. Theater I went to was still nearly full and I went to an early afternoon show. Does it dethrone Shawshank as the best Stephen King movie?
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Randaconda posted:Does it dethrone Shawshank as the best Stephen King movie? Unless Pennywise transforms into Morgan Freeman to dispense folksy self-deprecating wisdom to lure his victims you know it goddamn doesn't.
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Phlegmish posted:Freddy is not a very scary villain, the psychological impact of these movies comes mostly from the disturbing dreamlike atmosphere. Yeah, undermining your sense of reality was the scary bit. What if your nightmares were real?!? What if you're dreaming right now??? The deaths through dream walking suicide were also quite good. Freddy isn't killing you, he's tricking you into killing yourself. I remember one where a girl thinks she has woken up and goes to the bathroom to wash her face, then the tap grows razor claws and grabs her, while in the real world she walked into the bathroom while still asleep and slit her own wrist with a razor. Oh, right, funny pictures.   
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Ha ha she's blinking!
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https://twitter.com/KariVanHorn/status/909803333442969600
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i smoke a lot of weed, so would
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Corn on pizza is crazy.
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Randaconda posted:Does it dethrone Shawshank as the best Stephen King movie? Yes. But nothing has yet to topple Stand By Me.
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Everyone is just forgetting about The Shining or what?
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Ferrule posted:Yes. But nothing has yet to topple Stand By Me. When I stop and think about it, I'm always a bit mystified at how many of King's works have an adaptation. Just look at this fuckin' list, quote:1976 Carrie (based on the novel from 1974) And that's just the motion picture stuff. What is is about his stories that makes them so lusted after by film producers?
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Ferrule posted:Yes. But nothing has yet to topple Stand By Me. I like Misery a whole lot.
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I have to put a vote in for the Emoji Movie as the best horror movie of this year.
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they made a god damned sequel to THE MANGLER e: holy poo poo wait they made TWO SEQUELS to THE MANGLER "Directors Gardner and Cunningham intended the film to be a "rebirth" of the film franchise, with the film not requiring viewers to have seen the prior two films" oh whew what a mitzvah e: e: lmao I'm loving dying   "The Mangler virus was programmed to 'serve' the person who downloaded by simply killing all those who hurt him or her. There is a warning: once the Mangler Virus is released into the system and begins its systematic rampage, there's no stopping it, not even by the person who downloaded it into the system and became an accomplice in the super virus's bloody rampage." Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 18:33 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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True story: this is my neighbors cat, his name is Jack. He's pretty cool.
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Skippy McPants posted:When I stop and think about it, I'm always a bit mystified at how many of King's works have an adaptation. Just look at this fuckin' list, their popularity
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AndyElusive posted:True story: this is my neighbors cat, his name is Jack. He looks like he's about to steal my girl by inviting her to spend a week on his dad's houseboat.
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theflyingorc posted:their popularity Well, yes, but that's just a synonym for my question. What is it about King's work that makes it so appealing in adaptation, arguably more appealing than in the written form? Is it because he's so dominant in his niche? Because he taps into something that other writers don't, and if so, what? Or is it something else entirely? Sorry, this thread isn't really the place for it, but every time it comes up I'm always agog at the fact that King has dozens of adaptations, while other authors–even prolific ones—have maybe two or three.
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Skippy McPants posted:Well, yes, but that's just a synonym for my question. What is it about King's work that makes it so appealing in adaptation, arguably more appealing than in the written form? Is it because he's so dominant in his niche? Because he taps into something that other writers don't, and if so, what? Or is it something else entirely? While there's been far more bad adaptions of his books, some have hit out of the park, is all I can think of. Partial list of good ones: Carrie Shining Dead Zone Shawshank Misery It 2017, apparently Creepshow, and Creepshow 2, to a lesser extent Cujo Maximum Overdrive (  )Stand By Me Apt Pupil
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Skippy McPants posted:Well, yes, but that's just a synonym for my question. What is it about King's work that makes it so appealing in adaptation, arguably more appealing than in the written form? Is it because he's so dominant in his niche? Because he taps into something that other writers don't, and if so, what? Or is it something else entirely? His popularity as an author leads to the movies, not the popularity of the movies leads to the movies. And the dude's stories often translate to "high concept" pitches really well. He's also extremely prolific - dude writes a lot of books.
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theflyingorc posted:His popularity as an author leads to the movies, not the popularity of the movies leads to the movies. And the dude's stories often translate to "high concept" pitches really well. Guess how many books he's written. I was way off.
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JoelJoel posted:Guess how many books he's written. I was way off. gotta be close to 50 or so
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If you include novellas and such I bet he has over 100 stories published.
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JoelJoel posted:Guess how many books he's written. I was way off. 200 It has to be soemthing ridiculous
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Randaconda posted:While there's been far more bad adaptions of his books, some have hit out of the park, is all I can think of. Running Man
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pr0zac posted:Running Man Yes
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JoelJoel posted:Guess how many books he's written. I was way off.            https://i.imgur.com/27KcU4v.mp4
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Skippy McPants posted:When I stop and think about it, I'm always a bit mystified at how many of King's works have an adaptation. Just look at this fuckin' list, The turnaround between publication and adaptation of some of those is pretty mad too. Skippy McPants posted:Well, yes, but that's just a synonym for my question. What is it about King's work that makes it so appealing in adaptation, arguably more appealing than in the written form? Is it because he's so dominant in his niche? Because he taps into something that other writers don't, and if so, what? Or is it something else entirely? There's a bit in Disney War which explains how there were four big "mega authors" in publishing the 1990s - who outsold everyone else put together and whose work was almost guaranteed to succeed as adaptations - and King was probably the best of them (the other three were Michael Crichton, John Grisham and Tom Clancy). Those Grisham courtroom dramas were big movies in the 90s. I think A Time To Kill was probably the biggest?
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's a bit in Disney War which explains how there were four big "mega authors" in publishing the 1990s - who outsold everyone else put together and whose work was almost guaranteed to succeed as adaptations - and King was probably the best of them (the other three were Michael Crichton, John Grisham and Tom Clancy).  at the 90s
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A Time To Kill was pretty decent, from what I remember.
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Horror is popular, Stephen King is popular and writes a lot of relatively short-form stuff that lends itself to adaptations (usually), writes shitloads of stuff so there's a lot to choose from, and seems happy to sign off film rights to whoever, presumably because even if some adaptations stink there's good ones by Sturgeon's Law. IIRC, he wasn't a fan of The Shining or at least said it deviated a lot from his book, while his reaction to the ending of The Mist was basically 'drat, I wish I'd thought of that'.
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Come on JoelJoel tell us how many books he wrote
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