stephen king c/d?

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

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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

Horror fans rejoice

http://www.clickhole.com/article/horror-fans-rejoice-stephen-kings-novel-skeleton-s-6312#1,

yeah, love those posts, nomar. first one halfway gave me goosebumps!

i am about to start rereading ray bradbury's /dandelion wine/ and iirc it and /something wicked this way comes/ are crucial king precedents. the former tends nostalgic with some creepy parts, the latter vice versa, but they're both about king-esque small towns (midwest rather than new england) and they both capture well how, especially through the wide eyes of kids, there can be so much wrong and sinister and gut-grabbing in very very ordinary places if they're dialed just slightly off of what they should be.

i think if you grow up in a blue collar small town with rivers and forests and hang out with a bunch of other dudes your age who have similarly broken families, latchkey kids riding your bikes everywhere with your buddies, and it's the damn 1980s, i suspect you're gonna have some weird vibes from some of those King books. IT for sure, just the kids angle is pretty hardcore and realistic in certain ways.

everything from that era for me is heightened (like anything from that age), like a classmate dying in a shotgun accident, or you have these more innocuous events like underage beer parties you have in the middle of cornfields, hidden by the tall stalks of corn, everyone pooling their money for a Coors beer ball (lol) which is purchased for you by this cool older dude who in retrospect was probably a sexual predator, or the double murder of our middle school librarian and her husband by their daughter's ex (who vanished for a year after and everyone thought they saw him all over, popping up in random spots like a ghoul even though it was later discovered he was in California), and your classmate the next year is that girl's brother who survived with slash wounds to the face (she survived too but left town.) or the middle school across the lake, where it was discovered both the principal and vice principal were actual sexual predators and jeez did you hear what that so and so's cousin had to go to the police about it?

it's all heightened (with the accentuation on the sinister and the violent and the creepy) but hazy, like the more banal version of that bit at the end of IT where everyone forgets everyone else and the town is destroyed.

I don't have an idea in my head what pennywise looks like but I know it has to feel like the pages of the yellowing cheap paperback I read and it must in some similar way also smell of my cousin's room where I read it.

Waves hand at director, to make that happen

Dark Tower, would love it to be good. Books three and four have potential to be great movies. Books one and two great TV seasons.

But it can't be idris imo. And thats not cos I don't love idris, and it's not cos Roland can't be black.

It's cos Roland must be halfwasted, cadaverous, dusty beef jerky lean and gnarled and a walking dry riverbed. Idris ain't that.

Aside from that, yeah the effects, the scenes, locations....what isn't done badly/cheaply still looks wrong to me.

Hoping against hope.

XP at this stage you prob should just be collating these paragraphs for an IT sequel tbh

Tell you what is a great TV series waiting to happen though is the talisman

Hellll yes it would be so weird and good if someone did that book faithfully

Dr C otm something wicked has it all in its kernel

lotta locations in It had me picturing hometown places - my school library definitely. i ~feel~ like the balloon scene happened in my library, i just know it

Early reviews are...not great.

Hush, you... I don't want to know anything until I see It.

Well...it's getting better reviews than The Emoji Movie, anyway.

It's a fairly impressive feat to make me not care at all that a Dark Tower movie exists.

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Inception much?

holy geez this was bad

this one looked bad from the moment the first trailer hit unfortunately.

Thankfully, we live in an era where someone else will take a crack at this in three or four years. And then again three or four years later if the initial reboot flops.

iirc the text of the series sort of leaves open exactly such a scenario

Can't remember if we have a thread specifically for IT, but anyway, in response to some still-butthurt MRA jackass braying about the Wonder Woman screening back in May, Alamo Drafthouse calls his bluff and announces an all-clown screening of IT.

Remember when dudes freaked out about that women-only Wonder Woman screening? Holy shit https://t.co/bOKPTFNwUq pic.twitter.com/S58WPE9fbn

— Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane) August 24, 2017

I've found that some clowns really don't appreciate the scary clown trope.

Yeah, the alcoholic clowns are more than a little miffed.

Yipes

http://io9.gizmodo.com/three-year-old-pennywise-cosplay-will-make-you-want-to-1798636947

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The new IT was...fine.

Yeah I saw it the other day & forgot it pretty quick - kinda feel if it'd had zero hype I might have been pleasantly surprised?

From what I've read of Fukunaga's conception of the movie, I feel they played it really safe with Muschetti. The scenes of the kids swearing and breaking each others' balls were the obvious highlight.

Totally

I mean I don't know anything about fukunaga's plans except that I'm pretty sure I'd have preferred it

while recognizing that they aren't really related, my experience with the dark tower movie has kinda killed any interest i might've had in seeing this. though if my MoviePass in the mail in time i might just swing by a screening.

My experience with both films was kinda similar actually! it is way better but like I saw it for free and saw the dark tower with my mum on a bank holiday, expected it to be really decent and dark tower to be a hilarious stinker and... both just washed over me.