stephen king c/d?

Still a worthy progenitor to be compared against imo.

yeah not a criticism at all just a comment on the feel of it

also... idk... louis l'amour wrote some bad fantasy western stuff that i cant help but bring to mind in some parts of tdt, again not the 'bad' that im paralleling but rather the vibe of the books, western, airport novel, american seventies pulp fantasy.... whatnot

I really noticed the Dark Tower 'connections' in The Talisman. The Territories is the big one. But there's also the train Jack and Richard take through the blasted (waste) lands, the wolves, etc. King really mined it for later Dark Tower elements.

SPOILER FOR INSOMNIA:

Slogging through Insomnia when it came out, and finding the whole point of it was to rescue some random character that had something to do with the Dark Tower (I think?) put me off SK for ten years, I was so disgusted. I've come back big to SK, but jesus that was lame.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-creepiest-thing-about-stephen-king-his-acting-career/

i liked insomnia and i even liked heart in atlantis there i said it

insomnia really just IT for senior citizens tho tbrr

Wrong thread, but maybe Trump's the Man in Black after all.

Just because the kid actor from Stranger Things is in the movie adaptation, my 12 year old daughter keeps asking me if she could read It. I keep telling her it is not really appropriate for her or her age, but

Weird. Anyway, I ultimately told her it was like beer. She is physically capable of drinking it, but she is not ready for it. She seemed to understand the analogy.

I guess it depends on the kid, but I'd read my fair share of King by that age (although, tbf, I probably didn't tackle It until the ripe old age of 13).

Guess that doesn't necessarily mean I was ready for it. I like to think of the attendant trauma as character building.

He writes about sex like someone who can clearly recollect a number of sexual encounters just shy of the number of children he has.

― Jigsaw Pizzle (Old Lunch), Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:22 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like like im reading a 12 y/os pretend diary about their pretend sex life. Its where the true horror shines imo.

their sweaty bellies, still slim in those days, slapped together while her teeth clamped around ger cigarette in ecstasy

i mean thats a composite but i definitely remember something something

Yeah, that quote is from IT. Good memory.

the descriptions of the sex always have a sad-motel/dive bar flavor to them

like even when it's supposed to be attractive people it sounds like a divorced dad & a retired waitress

^^^^exactly

lol. perfect description.

Thirded

I am not really very into fiction in general but was suprised at how sophmoric his writing seemed to me - good ideas but he needs STanley Kubrick to eralie trghem

the last part of that sentence took a Lovecraftian turn

lol

r'lyeh!

Are you all speaking in Welsh?

Llew, h'aey.

valuable np

king-ready plot synopsis of my dream last night: there's a small band of misunderstood outcasts, i think mostly youths or teens, runaways, but it's heavily and repeatedly foreshadowed that each has a secret or isn't who they say they are etc (i think there's an idea about them being a group of seven people and there are "seven anomalies" in the story that they tell people as they travel around fighting the forces of darkness). the latest joiner, we see in extended first-person flashback, is actually a total psycho though he appears to be a misunderstood misanthrope, a slow-witted bully who was in former times such an asshole to the outcast heroes only because of his abusive father. but when he finally "stood up to" and "ran away from" his dad, during a physical altercation, actually he had taken up dad's beloved chainsaw and chopped off his hands and feet before leaving him to bleed to death in the dimly-lit, un-airconditioned, mildewy cottage they called home. now this nutcase is traveling around in the party and none of them yet had any inkling of the grim fate that lay ahead for at least two of them.

Can you throw in a child who "knows" things?

almost certainly one of the outcasts. maybe that's his/her terrible secret, they've already seen everything that will happen to the group but they're pretending like everything's fine.

you should call it The Real World: Cincinnati

lolol djp

Honestly this makes the film look like a romcom

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ioHcxOqc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o0hych3y69yzvunmbqol.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51le5rF-11L.jpg

He's wearing a marvel outfit when it should be dusty tarp

Granted, modern io9, but I have been wondering.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/with-less-than-a-month-to-go-why-have-we-seen-so-littl-1796771460

Waaaaaait, this was co-written by Akiva Goldsman?! Yeah, okay, no thanks.

Why, speaking of!

http://deadline.com/2017/07/akiva-goldsman-tom-clancy-rainbow-six-ologies-avengelyne-paramount-1202126928/

The relevant bit, re the TV show connected to the film:

“The first episode of a show has been written, and we hope to retain Ron’s original idea to mix platforms, something that seemed revolutionary 10 years ago but now is something that others have done,” Goldsman said. “Idris for sure is part of this, and if the movie is Roland Deschain the gunslinger, the show is his origin story, based on the fourth novel in the series, Wizard and Glass.”

All of which is making me thinking the film is the equivalent of that Clone Wars theatrical release.

Too bad Alan Tudyk is too old for Cuthbert now. he'd be perfect.

Man, this is totally going to turf out, isn't it.

Yup

I saw the trailer before Spider-Man on the weekend and you could sense the bafflement in the room

yeah I've been more than a little bemused by the trailers so far

Meanwhile, in terms of the other movie coming...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJmEC5ieOk

I do love the little red balloon that pops up with the studio logos.

I hope they had the judgment to occasionally present Pennywise as just a normal clown instead of ALWAYS SINISTER AND TERRIFYING.

that looks vv good imo

It won't take much for the reboot to outdo the original, but I don't think they have much chance of outdoing Curry's performance.

I hope they had the judgment to occasionally present Pennywise as just a normal clown instead of ALWAYS SINISTER AND TERRIFYING.

― Chock Full of Love and Sexy Feeling (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 27, 2017 5:53 PM (fifty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so a normal clown

based on the trailers the atmosphere of the film looks spot-on