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Inescapable Duck posted: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. He didn't care how Kubrick downplayed the supernatural element of his book(which is one of his best books, so I get where he's coming from).
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Phlegmish posted:Come on JoelJoel tell us how many books he wrote http://stephenking.com/library/written.html
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Selling the film rights to your work is also a fantastic way to support a crippling alcohol and drug addiction.
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie 
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie The Exorcist
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie
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Sorry, but I've still got a soft spot that sleeps with the lights on for the original Alien.
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Steven King isn't a real person, you idiots. Nobody can write that much. The body of work attributed to Steven King was written by the one true historical Steven King as well as many other ghost writers who wrote in his style and and had their works published under his name as a marketing tactic. He's like the mall Santa of modern literature. The real Steven King died when he got hit by a car in an alcohol and cocaine induced haze in the 80's.
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie 
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twoday posted:Steven King isn't a real person, you idiots. If only this were true... the last couple books in The Dark Tower series would be much easier to defend. also 
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Randaconda posted:Does it dethrone Shawshank as the best Stephen King movie? Don't worry, Shawshank remains the only Steven King movie that you can say is good without a "but...".
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twoday posted:Steven King isn't a real person, you idiots. Nobody can write that much. The body of work attributed to Steven King was written by the one true historical Steven King as well as many other ghost writers who wrote in his style and and had their works published under his name as a marketing tactic. He's like the mall Santa of modern literature. To many people to have them all write about Maine. Doesn't check out. Someone would have gone rogue.
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twoday posted:Steven King isn't a real person, you idiots. Nobody can write that much. The body of work attributed to Steven King was written by the one true historical Steven King as well as many other ghost writers who wrote in his style and and had their works published under his name as a marketing tactic. He's like the mall Santa of modern literature. That does remind me of my favorite "WTF" conspiracy theory, that King was the guy who actually shot Reagan.
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Rayjenkins posted:John Carptenter's The Thing is the best horror movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4fqgwp4Ig
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Who What Now posted:Don't worry, Shawshank remains the only Steven King movie that you can say is good without a "but...". Dude. The Mist.
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Bombadilillo posted:Dude. The Mist. The Mist is fine! But...
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Who What Now posted:Don't worry, Shawshank remains the only Steven King movie that you can say is good without a "but...". Shining Carrie Dead Zone Misery Stand By Me
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Who What Now posted:Don't worry, Shawshank remains the only Steven King movie that you can say is good without a "but...". I'd probably add "but is wildly overrated" to the end of it. Shining and Stand By Me are both better movies, too.
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And listen. Dead Zone is my favorite DBZ movie, don't get me wrong. But...
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Bombadilillo posted:Dude. The Mist. I like The Mist, but...
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PYF Funny Pictures 2.0: Book Club
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twoday posted:Steven King isn't a real person, you idiots. Nobody can write that much. The body of work attributed to Steven King was written by the one true historical Steven King as well as many other ghost writers who wrote in his style and and had their works published under his name as a marketing tactic. He's like the mall Santa of modern literature. George RR Martin account spotted. Where are the pages George
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Who What Now posted:Don't worry, Shawshank remains the only Steven King movie that you can say is good without a "but...". Uh oh. Sounds like someone hasn't seen Maximum Overdrive
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Bombadilillo posted:Dude. The Mist. The Mist is a decent movie ruined by a lovely, manipulative ending.
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Skippy McPants posted:The Mist is a decent movie ruined by a lovely, manipulative ending. It was horrifying because it suggests that the crazy woman was right all along. 
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Skippy McPants posted:The Mist is a decent movie ruined by a lovely, manipulative ending.  What? That ending is fine, sorry every movie can't have a happy ending with a dance party.
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The MSJ posted:It was horrifying because it suggests that the crazy woman was right all along. It was crap because it warped the established characters and bent them over backward for the sake of having a ~*TWIST*~. Randaconda posted:
I don't care about happy. I care about characters being visibly manipulated by the plot for the sake of an emotional gut-punch.
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Skippy McPants posted:It was crap because it warped the established characters and bent them over backward for the sake of having a ~*TWIST*~. Which didn't happen at all. So again,
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Randaconda posted:Which didn't happen at all. So again, Okay, again, not the thread for this, but the movie falls apart for me when David shoots everyone. Up till that point, he was the one fighting against all odds, and he just gives up when they, what? Run out of gas? He doesn't even wait for the monsters to show up in force. I understand what they were going for, but they didn't do enough to sell the transition into nihilism, in my opinion. It felt like a manipulation engineered for the sake of a gotcha ending.
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Jesus Christ, you loving goons ruin everything
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null_pointer posted:Jesus Christ, you loving goons ruin everything A fair point, 
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If I've heard right, Carpenter loved this when someone showed it to him.
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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, It's cause King sells the tv/film adaptation rights to his stories for $1, and that's no joke
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Parrotine posted:It's cause King sells the tv/film adaptation rights to his stories for $1, and that's no joke Not the novels, and the short stories he does sell for a dollar have strings attached.
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