Mr. Gray is headed for a reservoir to pollute the water with a Weasel.
Henry takes Owen's weapon and kills Mr. Gray's Weasel.
So, at the outset, Mr. Gray intends to pollute the water with a LIVING weasel?
Also LOL @ capitalization of weasel.
― discovery witch has "provide you are reciptives" (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The "Weasel" is the alien thing that kills people by exploding out of their asses.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, shit, that is def. worth a capital W.
― discovery witch has "provide you are reciptives" (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha, wut?
― Pillbox, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
What they don't tell you is right after that, the Henry character simply says "Jonesy!" and THEN the movie ends.
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
incredible film, imo
the book is basically a silly frankenstein mashup of everything king had written to that point.
it ends up coming across as even more ridiculously batshit when adapted to the screen.
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I will admit that everything I've heard about the movie has made me want to read the book more.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
serious, actual mega-lols here HD & JL.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
me and my friend have a running joke about this... before we even saw it we loved that line from teh trailer... the way he says it so lovingly... its amazing
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I've gotta see this movie.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The orchestral score by JN Howard is pretty fun (tho not up with Howard's best).
(It's stupid how many genre films I haven't seen but have listened to their scores umpteen times...)
― discovery witch has "provide you are reciptives" (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
dreamcatcher and the mist are probably my favorite king adaptations in a sense, cuz they're the only ones that FEEL crazy in that special stephen king way. all the others are just turned into hacky thrillers or taken over by an auteur's stylistic choices.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it on Watch Instantly? (I can't look bcuz parent company filters NetFlix)
neither are streamed on netflix, no
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ya for sure... dreamcatcher is so beautifully nuts.
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
while we're one the subject of crazy-ass king plots, sadly the "faithful" 12-minute short film of The Lawnmower Man from 1987 does not appear to be on youtube.
In Stephen King's short story, Harold Parkette hires "Pastoral Greenery and Outdoor Services Inc." to cut his lawn. Yet a mystery surrounding the service is that no one has ever seen the person who owns and operates the enterprise. Parkette decides to find out the identity of the mysterious lawnmower man. In the earliest hours of morning he discovers the strange and horrible truth. The serviceman is not a service "man" at all but a strange inter-dimensional being that takes the form of a symbiotic organism, a machine that mows the lawn by itself while a strange naked man follows behind the mower, eating the grass. The serviceman has the appearance of a satyr who works for the Greek god Pan. The event is terrifying and beyond the comprehension and intellect of Parkette. In a panic he tries to call the police, but it is too late, and the mower and its human slave violently turn on him.
King got $10,000 a day when New Line ignored a court order to remove his name from that rumination on virtual reality starring pierce brosnan
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember being very confused when I saw the movie "The Lawnmower Man" after reading the book.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i just remember somethign about green pubes from that story
― 'steen suicide (don't drive it) (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
imagine being so successful that you could put a pre-teen sex romp at the end of a 1,000+ page best seller and NOBODY SEEMS TO NOTICE FOR OVER A DECADE
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
and yeah green pubes was the lingering image i had too
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The best thing about that is that the train happens TWICE; once when they first confront IT as kids and once when they vanquish him as adults.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
lol no it doesn't
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
IIRC, they all have sex again in order to get out of the cavern, as part of the "recreate the past as closely as possible" thing they were doing to get rid of IT in the first place. I'd need to look it up in the book, though.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, eddie's dead and they basically just split. though it'd be great if bill was like "oh shit, looks like we're lost in the sewers again, bev. let me just put my catatonic wife down over here..."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, she never had sex with them again the second time.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xpst she has a flashback to it while shagging bill as an adult
Okay why do I have such a clear recollection of them doing all that nonsense again, then??? Probably I was yelling at the end of the book by that point and made that up, and it stuck as an actual memory of the book.
xpost: oh maybe that's what I'm remembering
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz they're the only ones that FEEL crazy in that special stephen king way.
let us not forget King's own directorial debut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K44PqV2Idk
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Creepshow is a pretty faithful translation of King's tone, I feel.
― A Foul Night-Weird (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
No.... I think Beverly and Bill do spend a night together, but there's no crazy similar scene with the adults.
Which would have been way more appropriate than middle schoolers, but whatever; this didn't disturb me when I read the book when I was 15!
The more I think about this book, the less I remember about it. wtf
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember the kid who was found with his half-chewed head in the toilet, yeesh.
― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: agreed, & same goes for the relatively undersung Creepshow 2, esp the raft-in-lake & zombie hitch-hiker segments.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for the ride, lady!
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Which would have been way more appropriate than middle schoolers
If you can call the summer before 6th grade middle school.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen the Nightmares and Dreamscapes miniseries? I'm curious, as I feel like King's short stories are some of his stronger work, but I fear that it might be as crap as everything else of his that's been adapted for television.
― A Foul Night-Weird (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I watched a recent haunted house mini-series. Bloody Tiffany or something like that. Really depressingly bad, like "damn, House 2 was pretty decent" bad."The Mist" is by far the King I have the fondest memories of. That was some exciting stuff for a wee lad.
― Øystein, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Err, should've googled that BEFORE posting. The series in question was "Rose Red".
Okay, this is freaking me out totally since my son is going into 6th grade this year!
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
http://chud.com/articles/content_images/NICK/DUMB/aug09/jacobpappe.jpg
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i re-read a bunch of the shorts recently and they were better than i thought they'd be with time ("survivor type"!) but not half as scary as when i first read them as a wee thing obviously ("survivor type" :(). dude really is incapable of pulling back and reconsidering when the opportunity to go o-t-t (as regards the prose or characterizations) presents itself. yeah yeah genre fiction and yeah yeah covert biography but did the guy really have to be a raging asshole junk-head who hates his father for the baldest embarrassed-child-of-immigrants reasons? also, for a horror writer (at least in the early days), pacing is *not* the man's forte.
kinda afeared to revisit any of the novels. and i think even at 11 or 12, when i barely had my head around the concept of sex period, i was unsettled by the gang bang starring the little rascals.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember The Library Policeman has a pretty graphic depiction of a little boy getting raped out back.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
nb: wound up at the It wiki from the Dreamcatcher wiki because a friend texted me that she might have "pooped out a Dreamcatcher alien." (Budweiser in a can, it does a body good)
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Is anyone reading Under the Dome ?
― calstars, Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that porn?
― Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
still muddling through the last short story collection
― kamerad, Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I downloaded his entire oeuvre. Woohoo. Mainly interested in his seventies work.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
that last story in just after sunset. oh my god
― kamerad, Monday, 7 December 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I have no memories of posting to this thread over the years.
Still, just finished the Tommyknockers for the first time. Why does it seem that every King book needs a massively high body count, and a climax involving the hero suffering some massive injury described in high detail?
― kingfish, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
messiah figures?
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I just recommended the shining to one of my esl students cause it's you know, interesting, but hen he showed me the first page and I had no idea he is relatively idiosyncratic as a writer (for an esl student anyway)
― (҉) (dyao), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link