stephen king c/d?

The "Weasel" is the alien thing that kills people by exploding out of their asses.

OK, shit, that is def. worth a capital W.

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.

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 will admit that everything I've heard about the movie has made me want to read the book more.

serious, actual mega-lols here HD & JL.

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, 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

I've gotta see this movie.

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...)

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.

Is it on Watch Instantly? (I can't look bcuz parent company filters NetFlix)

neither are streamed on netflix, no

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, August 18, 2009 3:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya for sure... dreamcatcher is so beautifully nuts.

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

I remember being very confused when I saw the movie "The Lawnmower Man" after reading the book.

i just remember somethign about green pubes from that story

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

and yeah green pubes was the lingering image i had too

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.

lol no it doesn't

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.

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..."

nah, she never had sex with them again the second time.

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

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

Creepshow is a pretty faithful translation of King's tone, I feel.

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

I remember the kid who was found with his half-chewed head in the toilet, yeesh.

xxpost: agreed, & same goes for the relatively undersung Creepshow 2, esp the raft-in-lake & zombie hitch-hiker segments.

thanks for the ride, lady!

Which would have been way more appropriate than middle schoolers

If you can call the summer before 6th grade middle school.

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.

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.

Err, should've googled that BEFORE posting. The series in question was "Rose Red".

If you can call the summer before 6th grade middle school.

Okay, this is freaking me out totally since my son is going into 6th grade this year!

http://chud.com/articles/content_images/NICK/DUMB/aug09/jacobpappe.jpg

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.

I remember The Library Policeman has a pretty graphic depiction of a little boy getting raped out back.

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)

Is anyone reading Under the Dome ?

Is that porn?

still muddling through the last short story collection

I downloaded his entire oeuvre. Woohoo. Mainly interested in his seventies work.

that last story in just after sunset. oh my god

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?

messiah figures?

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)

Lunch at the Gotham Cafe is dumb, but I did enjoy the description of the maitre d