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indigi posted:yeah this is his real strength and he’s great at it, he should just come up with plots and like 85% of an outline then let someone else execute it + write an ending This sounds like a good explanation of why the most successful movies based on his work came from his short stories.
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Eric Cantonese posted:This sounds like a good explanation of why the most successful movies based on his work came from his short stories. Yeah, probably. What's confusing to me is that his books seems like they would work really well as plots for an American Horror Story anthology style show. Like, I understand that maybe he just reflexively says NO as soon as he hears "mini-series" because of what those looked like 30 years ago - but how do you think that a TV show that stretches the concepts of The Stand or Under The Dome out indefinitely are any better?
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he doesn't reflexively say no to miniseries, though, there was a new, bad version of the Stand just like last year I'm genuinely struggling to come up with SK endings I enjoy that aren't short stories. 11/22/63 comes close, but it's a time travel book and those are easy. The Detective books are satisfying, but also don't feel particularly Kingy
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Zvahl posted:he doesn't reflexively say no to miniseries, though, there was a new, bad version of the Stand just like last year I don't recall a particularly bad Stephen King novel ending, but as I said before, I don't remember much of any books he has written since Misery. I'm surprised Eyes of the Dragon hasn't gotten a big budget adaptation yet.
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I like the end of Pet Sematary, the book. I think that's one of his better self-contained books. I rewatched John Carpenter's version of Christine last October and I liked it a lot. I think people have issues with the changes from the book as far as what 'makes' the car evil. In the book, Christine is sort of possessed by the ghost of her former owner, who is taking control of Arnie slowly as he restores her back to her former glory. Carpenter isn't really interested in any of that, and decides that Christine is simply an evil car. She was a sentient car capable of healing her own damage, observing the people around her, and choosing to do them harm from the day she rolled down the production line. If you can accept that, and that some greater explanation isn't coming, it's a pretty fun horror movie about losing a nerdy friend to a toxic relationship. I especially like Harry Dean Stanton as the Detective who's investigating all of the death and mayhem Christine has caused - and accepts that the car was evil and driving itself from two teenagers at the end with no issue.
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Dreylad posted:also speak of star wars aethsetics, but apparently the guy who inspired a lot of the scuffed up sci-fi just died. jean-claude mézières. Mézières was actually angry at Lucas because he believed that he had taken imagery from him without acknowledging it:  So he made this drawing as a response: 
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Stephen King famously hates writing endings and his whole thing is coming up with a really cool horror premise and then letting it kind of trail off
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smarxist posted:lol, i just loved how bug poo poo it was, like i have random memories pop up from it and i'm like 'there really was a scene with an old russian WW2 sniper with fur pelts loaded with gold who gets to drive out to the front lines and pink mist a chinese general isn't there? that's the one where the us develops an iron dome but for nukes and knocks out a first strike from china
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Zvahl posted:he doesn't reflexively say no to miniseries, though, there was a new, bad version of the Stand just like last year In hindsight I have softened on my hatred of the Dark Tower ending it was right for that Roland
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you cannot trust my opinion on anything, I love the dark tower series, every book.
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I liked the ending, as silly as it got with the HP sneetches, I had been on the path of the Beam too long not to be in awe for the whole final 200 pages or so regardless of what you think of King, you can tell the guy just loves storytelling and getting his hooks in people's brains and i respect that RandolphCarter posted:you cannot trust my opinion on anything, I love the dark tower series, every book. 
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Dreylad posted:that's the one where the us develops an iron dome but for nukes and knocks out a first strike from china ya lol i think President Ryan reconfigurates the targeting protocols or some such just before it hits the eastern seaboard (or somehow facilitates some software fix, i forget)
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smarxist posted:regardless of what you think of King, you can tell the guy just loves storytelling and getting his hooks in people's brains and i respect that The man is a genius and a workhorse on top of that. Sure he has some misses but when you're pumping out that volume, you always will. I will always wish for that version of the tower series that comes from the reality where he doesn't get plastered by that van but eh, at least he didn't leave it unfinished. And yeah there is such a pure unrestrained joy in most of his writing - I think perhaps best adapted in something like creepshow where they really lean into the pulp nature of his work. But he does also let himself rise above the trappings of his genre appeal/fame which is easy to overlook. He is mass-market but not incapable of writing literature when the mood takes him
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I really enjoyed the Dark Tower as summarized on Wikipedia, read the first book and while I got through it I had no interest in continuing the series
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:I think I heard this on the giant bomb cast or comic book club live. But a guest loved this one stormtrooper cosplay that looked like it had been beaten up: blackened and chipped armor. George Lucas is a better capitalist than all the execs at Disney. The prequels expanded the IP and provided greater opportunities for merchandising with all their new designs. Not all of them took off, but not all the original series designs did either. The sequels rehashing of designs from the original trilogy was a conservative choice for the storytelling, but also when it came to merchandising. A battle droid and a stormtrooper are obviously different things even to people who haven't seen a Star Wars film. If you're buying a toy for kid who loves Star Wars, those are two clear options and you might buy both over the course of a few birthdays. A sequel stormtrooper and an original stormtrooper are technically different, but the whole point of the movies is that they are the same thing. If you give a six year old both at Christmas they will think they just got the same toy twice. Even among adults that collect funko pops, only the most extreme are going to collect multiple eras of stormtroopers.
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Atrocious Joe posted:George Lucas is a better capitalist than all the execs at Disney. uh no, see look at the box - this is a SITH Trooper!
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been reading these and i love them https://imgur.com/a/S3k3C
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We got Apple TV with a device and so far I've been enjoying what's on offer. Central Park is catchy and funny For all Mankind is a refreshing take on the space program, produced by Ronald D Moore  Ted Lasso is pleasant, though I expected a little more out of it. Schmiggadoon has a funny premise and was enjoyable. Not going to keep the service forever, but it's good for a run.
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skooma512 posted:We got Apple TV with a device and so far I've been enjoying what's on offer. quote:Ronald D. Moore explained how history had been different in the series: "Sergei Korolev, who was the father of the Soviet space program, in reality, he died during an operation in Moscow in the mid '60s. And after that point, their moon program really never pulled together.... Our point of divergence was that Korolev lives, ... and he made their moon landing happen." Moore knows his poo poo and seems incredibly good at what he does, but this comment reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvuhazMDpeg
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Maya Fey posted:been reading these and i love them The bus is fantastic, one of the best comics ever made imho. This one is especially well-suited for CSPAM: 
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i watched paris, texas for the first time. i thought it was a really good movie and started jotting down thoughts about 2 hours into it, with 20 minutes to go i wasn't expecting that crescendo and feel drained
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:In hindsight I have softened on my hatred of the Dark Tower ending The ending suits the character. It's the kind of ending that chews on you and then you chew on it and are able to digest it. And it indicates that things will, one day, get better. King made a mistake to try to continue it through a movie.
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lmao https://twitter.com/VICEWorldNews/status/1485590974881574914 
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Tyler died on his way back to his home planet
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Triumph of the Blue.
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We should have more of this. People will bitch about what's the point but violence is dirty and pointless in our lives. https://twitter.com/HeadExposure/status/1485001686334726160
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spiderverse was an okay, simplistic childrens cartoon but some people connect with cartoons easier than real people so they went mad for it however RandolphCarter posted:you cannot trust my opinion on anything, I love the dark tower series, every book.
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Dean Koontz sucks I found these two books of his at a church rummage sale in 2001, they're about a guy who's allergic to sunlight who lives in a town where all this creepy poo poo is happening because of government experiments gone wrong, the second was published in 1999 and Mr. Koontz has promised a third book in the series ever since then. He's left all these mysteries hanging and will probably never answer anything. Stephen Edwin King would never do that to his loyal readers.
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dean koontz fans are all chuds, or at least the biggest koontz fan i knew but then she transferred to Texas A&M
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Nonsense posted:dean koontz fans are all chuds At least the books have good dogs in them.
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king said he wrote cujo in 48 hours on a coke binge that he doesn't even remember lol
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someone who posted on gamefaqs around 2004 had the phrase "Dean Koontz is human garbage" in their signature and i still remember it. is Dean Koontz human garbage?
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Communist Thoughts posted:spiderverse was an okay, simplistic childrens cartoon but manchildren connect with cartoons easier than real people so they went mad for it Ftfy It was fine, great animation and soundtrack but the story was laaaame even for kids imo
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*goon goes to see a cartoon* "wow... this cartoon is like a cartoon"
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