stephen king c/d?

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

Just realized Dark Tower is out NEXT WEEK...and zero reviews as of yet? An embargo? Whuh-oh.

At this point it's either being accepted as a writeoff or as a backdoor TV pilot as I muttered above. Really bizarre, though.

i think the dark tower has always felt like something for King fans and maybe hardcore fantasy readers rather than the public at large (which is what King's horror and suspense novels are.) i could be wrong but i feel like its cultural imprint is relatively small compared to what something like IT has, even as a thirty year old standalone property.

something about the way in which the story appears to be presented and filmed here feels very muddled and cheap, even something like the FX shots of Elba slo-mo loading his pistol. idk.

Only 90 minutes long too so no idea how far into the story they'll get in that time.

Never had an iota of interest in this franchise, but I'll actually check this out partly because of Elba but mostly because it's only 90 minutes long. Short movies rule I want more of them

yeah i think nomar's right, it has almost no pop-cultural presence. of course part of that is that it hasn't had a movie! but I'd have to assume the paperback sales were wayyyyyyy lower than for his mainline horror stuff. I have limited expectations for the film's box office - I mean for most ppl it's a no-name, brand-new fantasy postapocalypse thing without much marketing behind it, hard to compete with YA book phenomena or video game adaptations or whatever other things that might superficially appear to be the same "kind" of movie.

It basically looks like some Book of Eli post apocalypse movie.

I can tell you first hand that the marketing of It - the kids/the town/the cast - is messing with younger kids who (rightly) detect "Stranger Things" vibes, but don't know King or the book. If this sticks at all to the story, and is indeed R, gonna be a lot of scared tweens! I mean, odds are it will suck like any average possessed doll movie, but they'll want to see it, anyway.

I'm totally interested in seeing it now, but I would've been madly champing at the bit if it had been released when I was 12.

It ir Dark Tower? Either way, I'm going to presume SK was a thing when you were 12. Do 12 year olds now know him or his books?

Probably both, honestly. But it helps that It actually looks good. And yeah, SK was pretty crucial at that age but so was horror in general.

I'm inclined to think that kids are maybe missing out on King. My sister is a big horror freak, too, but at 30 I think even she was too young to have a King phase.

Why would 30 be too young?

Stephen King's 69. Half + 7 = 41.5

Read a ton of King growing up, but never tried IT, fsr. Although I never saw the Curry movie, it still held some hold on my imagination through schoolyard talk, seeing the cover in the video store etc. So, uh, not super-hyped by this, but certainly curious.

Oh, there's an easter egg in the trailer
http://i.imgur.com/ITtrvFG.jpg

I'd say his pervasive cultural prominence was at a low 20 years ago. Once you're no longer reading or watching what your peers are reading or watching, then you're actively seeking out stuff on your own, which is more work. Pretty sure by then, c. 2000, say, his long moment had moved on and kids 10+ had were passing around other bestsellers.

Harry Potter

Exactly, at the least. Monolithically. Those things got passed down younger siblings as older siblings moved on to the next book.

gah new trailer for It is really good. Some of the visuals are so close to how I pictured it in my head as a kid it gave me goosebumps

serioysly i could not give af abt Dark Tower. I know I'm supposed to and i will see it but it looks so toothless and meh

i am currently reading It for the first time, but my main King reading happened in my tween years -- 11-13 probably
misery was the last one i read when it came out

It's weird to me that people still say, "oh, the TV movie was kind of bad but Tim Curry's performance was amazing"

He's fucking terrible. So misjudged

nah curry was good and def looked the part

but i could never get past johnboy walton & john ritter, def took me out of it even as a teen

It's weird to me that people still say, "oh, the TV movie was kind of bad but Tim Curry's performance was amazing"

He's fucking terrible. So misjudged

― Number None, Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:44 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched it just a few months ago! he's excellent!

johnboy walton's mole is the thing i remember most

The scene of him furiously typing his garbage fiction is hilarious

I concur with the prevailing opinion that the first half is pretty decent and the second half is not that hot

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pBgulv5-7YY/Thokxdl-fLI/AAAAAAAAJGI/gAtuojRJLNU/s400/ishot-4299.jpg

It's weird to me that people still say, "oh, the TV movie was kind of bad but Tim Curry's performance was amazing"

He's fucking terrible. So misjudged

― Number None, Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:44 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love tim curry in IT!

It's like someone realized at the eleventh hour that they'd forgotten to tell the casting people about the second part of the miniseries.

Everyone who thinks ABC's It was bad, go back and watch The Stand and The Langoliers and get back to me.

tim curry is solid though i don't think the miniseries is scary unless you're a kid, maybe. idk, i remember some decent imagery. the kid sections were a lot better of course.

You know what I liked and no one ever talks about? Golden Years. Although I was like 14 when I saw it and it could be irredeemably shitty.

The Stand was not very good, yeah. there were a few pretty good performances scattered throughout, Laura San Giacomo probably being the most committed to her role iirc.

haha i rented Golden Years on VHS once and watched it, i remember it actually being not bad.

i am unreasonably excited that la lechera is reading It for the first time

yeah i missed that post initially

v exciting!! i would love to get a brainwipe & reread with fresh eyes

though nostalgia is v powerful, idk how it would hold up without the ~feelings~ from reading it as a thirteen yr old

part of my feelings from reading it as a 13 or 14 yr old come from where i grew up, which was kind of an older town with a lot of rural surroundings and odd areas. an old railroad track, abandoned for years heading off into the country, spanned occasionally by an equally old bridge here and there. a mansion which was purportedly used for occult rituals and had a design that was apparently intended to attract spirits, the occasional mysterious murder, a missing child or two, the plane that exploded over my town when i was 8 and killed 27 people. shit like that, reading King novels but *especially* IT at that time, when you're trying to figure out what's real, what's dangerous, and seeing that you can't always trust adults, etc...it was pretty intense actually.

lol I enjoyed The Stand mini-series and feel no need to read the book because I watched it.

One thing that fascinated me about the Stand series, and I dunno if anybody remarked on it here or at the time, was how Twin Peaks-y it was. Both depict the supernatural in a kind of similar way, both have an embodiment of evil who looks like a motorcylist with long hair and denim, both have Miguel Ferrer

Both have a character named Nadine.

part of my feelings from reading it as a 13 or 14 yr old come from where i grew up, which was kind of an older town with a lot of rural surroundings and odd areas. an old railroad track, abandoned for years heading off into the country, spanned occasionally by an equally old bridge here and there. a mansion which was purportedly used for occult rituals and had a design that was apparently intended to attract spirits, the occasional mysterious murder, a missing child or two, the plane that exploded over my town when i was 8 and killed 27 people. shit like that, reading King novels but *especially* IT at that time, when you're trying to figure out what's real, what's dangerous, and seeing that you can't always trust adults, etc...it was pretty intense actually.

Opening paragraph for your roman-a-clef novel here.

though nostalgia is v powerful, idk how it would hold up without the ~feelings~ from reading it as a thirteen yr old
yeah i have 0 nostalgia about this book. i also have very little nostalgia about childhood tbh so who knows what will happen?!

either way, i look forward to yr book report :D

because i am not a savage i will not blog about it but if i have anything interesting to share, i will :)

speaking of blogs, i don't think all bloggers are savage (i was referring to that "my husband's stupid record collection" blog tbh)
i am reading along with the booklist It Parade

Can we talk about this plane crash? Did the NTSB investigation reveal that a balloon had been sucked into the engine or something?

it crashed a mile NW from our house, the night of the science fair of all things, right after we arrived home. crash location was halfway between school and home. if the crash occurred 15-20 later it would have likely landed on our block. the theory was lightning but it was a leaky fuel pump...it was a military transport plane, their previous plane had experienced trouble so they switched to this one. years later their previous plane crashed as well, killing all aboard. as an eight year old, awakened by booms and seeing the sky orange (and my dad seeing this KC-135 pinwheeling out of the clouds on fire), with the crash site an inaccessible creek area in the woods, one we'd explore months later once the gov't agents had cleared out. ride our bikes the few blocks to the creek and the bridge, disembark, follow the creek down about the quarter mile to the general area of the site, look for bits of wreckage.

once we found a fully intact red balloon, just floating there.

jesus christ nomar your posts today are the true vine