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Ghost Leviathan posted:Now I'm picturing Hannibal getting along splendidly with Frasier. Oh baby I hear Bach's variations calling Clarice can you hear the lambs They're screaming again
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I can see King also not liking Kubrick's Shining because its fundamentally a lot bleaker; in the book the main villain is the Overlook Hotel, in the movie its Jack.
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# ? May 22, 2019 07:47 |
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Saw John Wick 3 tonight, and basically there is nothing subtle about that movie. I did enjoy that it kicks off about 20 mins after the last movie ended, so basically he's been killing people for like a week straight and is tired as hell, but still kicking 9 shades of rear end. Apparently John does a shitton of cardio. Only downside to the movie is that I might not get the 4k version cause... gently caress this movie is brutal.
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# ? May 22, 2019 08:22 |
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Cat Hatter posted:I'd heard that the final chapter was omitted in American versions of the book and would have been included in the movie otherwise. In this case they're both at least partially true. Kubrick was given the UK edition to read, but chose to adapt the US edition instead. Burgess disagreed; although he thought the movie was brilliant, he also felt that leaving out the last chapter - where Alex comes to his senses and eschews violence - was potentially dangerous. Then there were a couple of copycat attacks, the moral outrage crowd hit the streets over the movie's promotion of violence and Kubrick let Burgess take the flak for it.
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# ? May 22, 2019 08:40 |
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Man, what I would give to dimension-hop and watch each of the Nicholas Roeg, John Boorman, Tinto Brass, Ken Russell etc -directed Clockwork Oranges adaptations. One attempt was going to star Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.
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# ? May 22, 2019 09:58 |
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ynohtna posted:Man, what I would give to dimension-hop and watch each of the Nicholas Roeg, John Boorman, Tinto Brass, Ken Russell etc -directed Clockwork Oranges adaptations. One attempt was going to star Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. Like, Mick was going to play Alex and Kieth Richards, Charlie Watts, etc. were going to play his gang? I'd watch that.
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# ? May 22, 2019 11:12 |
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Cat Hatter posted:Like, Mick was going to play Alex and Kieth Richards, Charlie Watts, etc. were going to play his gang? I'd watch that. They should totally make this film now.
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# ? May 22, 2019 12:28 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Now I'm picturing Hannibal getting along splendidly with Frasier. Ending aside, obviously, but Frank Darabont was somehow able to perfectly bring that story from page to screen. Like, it's incredible and maybe it's just a coincidence, but wow, that movie was exactly what I pictured when reading the story. Frank Darabont should take on The Jaunt, and he's the only one who I would 100% trust with it. The Jaunt needs to be adapted.
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# ? May 22, 2019 13:24 |
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Only downside to the movie is that I might not get the 4k version cause... gently caress this movie is brutal. Seriously this one definitely seemed to have more "make you squirm in your seat" uncomfortable scenes than the other two. Still fantastic regardless.
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# ? May 22, 2019 13:38 |
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Does anyone know what King thinks of the new Pet Sematary? Because they really blew it on the ending, which is one of King’s few good ones.
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# ? May 22, 2019 14:31 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ending aside, obviously, but Frank Darabont was somehow able to perfectly bring that story from page to screen. Like, it's incredible and maybe it's just a coincidence, but wow, that movie was exactly what I pictured when reading the story. It’s an excellent story, but you’d have to think up a realistic way for the kid to duck the meds. There’s no way they’d just trust you to take them without monitoring the poo poo out of you.
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# ? May 22, 2019 15:15 |
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Torquemada posted:It’s an excellent story, but you’d have to think up a realistic way for the kid to duck the meds. There’s no way they’d just trust you to take them without monitoring the poo poo out of you. I think it'd make a better short film. Something like 30-ish minutes. It's so compact and good, it doesn't need elaborating. To date, it's the only King story that just fucks with my mind the more I think about it. I mean.... it's one thing to go through the gate awake, but it's a different thing entirely to go through one set to 'null'. And that dude didn't get charged for murder, since 'technically, his wife is still alive.... somewhere'. Jesus christ Goddamn, it's so good. I think my love of The Jaunt is why I love Black Mirror's 'White Christmas' so much.
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# ? May 22, 2019 15:21 |
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I'd definitely watch 30 minute adaptations of King short stories as a series on Netflix. That's always where the gold was buried.
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# ? May 22, 2019 15:48 |
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Yea I'm not sure how you adapt the Jaunt into a feature length movie without adding a whole lot to it. Because really the entire story is the father explaining the Jaunt process to his kid, then they wake up after they Jaunt and that's the ending. Doesn't mean it can't be done though, for instance From Beyond is technically based on a Lovecraft story but the movie covers the entire story before the opening credits and the rest is just elaboration by Gordon.
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# ? May 22, 2019 15:54 |
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I'm thinking Stephen King could successfully bring back Creepshow as a streaming miniseries. Now I want to watch Tales from the Crypt again.
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# ? May 22, 2019 15:57 |
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Cat Hatter posted:Like, Mick was going to play Alex and Kieth Richards, Charlie Watts, etc. were going to play his gang? I'd watch that. Yep! I think Jagger owned the rights to it for a while, and wanted The Beatles to do the music.
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# ? May 22, 2019 16:00 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm thinking Stephen King could successfully bring back Creepshow as a streaming miniseries. Oh my god, please... PLEASE. Creepshow was just so good. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it lacked the Crypt Keeper. Maybe both series could amalgamate, or King could just write for TftC. Either way, I need a horror anthology series
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# ? May 22, 2019 16:23 |
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ynohtna posted:Yep! I think Jagger owned the rights to it for a while, and wanted The Beatles to do the music. I'm still a little disappointed we'll never get the version of Fitzcarraldo with Jagger as the bumbling assistant.
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# ? May 22, 2019 16:40 |
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The best thing about this extended Thomas Harris/Hannibal Lecter discussion is everyone not even mentioning Hannibal Rising, a movie that somehow manages to be both completely terrible and forgettable
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# ? May 22, 2019 16:41 |
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Blast Fantasto posted:The best thing about this extended Thomas Harris/Hannibal Lecter discussion is everyone not even mentioning Hannibal Rising, a movie that somehow manages to be both completely terrible and forgettable Thus endeth an era.
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# ? May 22, 2019 18:48 |
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The Hannibal t.v. show tried to glean some stuff from Hannibal Rising but even they failed to make any of that poo poo worthwhile or interesting.
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# ? May 22, 2019 18:53 |
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I liked how the Hannibal tv show looked. Bryan Fuller convinced me he had a visual style I liked, which is one of the reasons I was willing to give American Gods a chance. Shame he left that show too.
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# ? May 22, 2019 20:40 |
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Blast Fantasto posted:The best thing about this extended Thomas Harris/Hannibal Lecter discussion is everyone not even mentioning Hannibal Rising, a movie that somehow manages to be both completely terrible and forgettable I mean i saw it in the theater and made an effort to forget it basically while I was watching it.
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# ? May 22, 2019 21:15 |
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Dino DeLaurentis just openly admitted he coerced Harris into writing it or he'd have someone else do it.
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# ? May 22, 2019 22:45 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:I liked how the Hannibal tv show looked. Bryan Fuller convinced me he had a visual style I liked, which is one of the reasons I was willing to give American Gods a chance. Shame he left that show too. The sound design was also incredible. It’s one of the few shows to give your sub a workout, and the ambiance is phenomenal.
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# ? May 22, 2019 23:52 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'd definitely watch 30 minute adaptations of King short stories as a series on Netflix. That's always where the gold was buried. They kind of did, with mixed results
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# ? May 23, 2019 01:13 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'd definitely watch 30 minute adaptations of King short stories as a series on Netflix. That's always where the gold was buried. That's a really good idea nd I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened. Apparently, The Long Walk is finally getting made. https://deadline.com/2019/05/stephen-king-the-long-walk-new-line-movie-andre-ovredal-directing-1202620157/
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# ? May 23, 2019 01:21 |
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I liked 'The End of the Whole Mess', I think that one had Ron Livingston. 'Crouch End' was hilaaariously bad though, trying to pass off a California suburb as London.
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# ? May 23, 2019 01:56 |
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HopperUK posted:I liked 'The End of the Whole Mess', I think that one had Ron Livingston. 'Crouch End' was hilaaariously bad though, trying to pass off a California suburb as London. The only episode of the show I ever heard anything about was from a guy in my grade who was "a big fan" of Lovecraft but never actually read anything. He thought the episode was fantastic and really really good
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# ? May 23, 2019 02:02 |
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I remember liking the story that's ones adapted from. The two vampire stories and the finger are probably the best stories in that collection though.
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# ? May 23, 2019 03:49 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:I liked how the Hannibal tv show looked. Bryan Fuller convinced me he had a visual style I liked, which is one of the reasons I was willing to give American Gods a chance. Shame he left that show too. Fuller is weird to me. I love his style, but I didn't like how much he changed Star Trek for Discovery, rather than simply changing the setting of the time. I also didn't like how he jumped ship to work on American Gods, and then jumped ship from that to work on the Anne Rice series.
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HopperUK posted:I liked 'The End of the Whole Mess', I think that one had Ron Livingston. 'Crouch End' was hilaaariously bad though, trying to pass off a California suburb as London. I thought that was filmed in Australia?
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# ? May 23, 2019 05:57 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:I remember liking the story that's ones adapted from. The two vampire stories and the finger are probably the best stories in that collection though. The finger story was an episode of Monsters and pretty good.
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# ? May 23, 2019 08:56 |
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BiggerBoat posted:That's a really good idea nd I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened. Rage could make a poignant movie but man no one's gonna touch it with a ten foot pole and King's never gonna license it. I'd like to see someone redo Running Man, too. You could easily apply its manhunt theme to social media harrassment. If I ever come into movie production cash I'm funding that, under the condition that it keeps the ending.
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# ? May 23, 2019 09:20 |
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can you please also remake the dark tower and give roland a gun thats actually big instead of a tiny normal revolver
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# ? May 23, 2019 11:09 |
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roland can load his gun in the blink of an eye because it and the bullets are very small
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# ? May 23, 2019 11:09 |
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I'm glad amazon are taking a run at a show as that makes more sense but Elba owns as to land so it's a shame that casting is lost. Bardem would own also
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# ? May 23, 2019 11:14 |
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The Dark Tower was astonishingly bland for like, 95% of its runtime but the fight between him and McConaughey at the end was worth the wait imho.
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# ? May 23, 2019 11:35 |
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If I'm gonna produce a Dark Tower do-over I'm gonna need like MCU levels of cash cause I'd obviously need to build up to it with a whole shared universe, or it isn't The Dark Tower.
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# ? May 23, 2019 11:50 |
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The dark tower was the first king books I read and I likedthem a lot
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