stephen king c/d?

suprisingly graphically

shutupandtakemymoney.jpg

so sick of hollywood thinking they understand story better than stephen king

Sewer orgy is basically the Tom Bombadil of It: the first thing any reasonable human would cut from an adaptation.

I did miss the cosmic mystical weirdness from the book. We don't even get to see It's "true" spider-like form but I assume they're saving that for the sequel. I did like Pennywise's glowing vagina dentata throat though. A suitable hint of the Lovecraftian.

Biggest sins of the movie IMO were shortchanging Mike Hanlon (the decision to give Ben all of Mike's Derry history stuff is baffling) and making the climax about rescuing Bev. That felt awfully forced.

Most of the other adaptation choices I could at least see the logic behind.

i've read the book so i'm not worried about spoilers, but i always felt like the best part of the novel was the hidden/not-so-hidden dark, murderous history of Derry that these kids are a bit aware of and then start to uncover more and see the pattern, King really deployed that to chilling effect in the book. it sounds like maybe that's not the case here so much?

It's not totally baffling. Ben is the first person we encounter in the library in the book as well - dashing in to hide from Bowers and where he pens the haiku, I think. It makes a certain kind of sense why they consolidated all the library stuff into one character. I just wish it wasn't a choice they'd made.

xp: they briefly gloss over stuff like the ironworks and the black spot. There is a mural of the Bradley Gang shootout on a wall in the town, which goes unmentioned. I think that's all.

***SPOILER***
Am I remembering it right that they basically beat It by hitting it with sticks
***END SPOILER***

no they beat It by fucking

i've read the book so i'm not worried about spoilers, but i always felt like the best part of the novel was the hidden/not-so-hidden dark, murderous history of Derry that these kids are a bit aware of and then start to uncover more and see the pattern, King really deployed that to chilling effect in the book. it sounds like maybe that's not the case here so much?

― nomar, Monday, September 11, 2017 12:36 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this was my biggest disappointment. Derry isn't as much of a presence. the adults we do see are def fucked up & gross & creepy, but without digressions into history AND jumping back & forth in time & highlighting how the town goes through collective amnesia every 27 years, the depth of the evil of It pretty much vanishes.

Ah so that's why it's called the lovers club xp

There is like one line where Ben Hanscomb says something like 'this place is different than any town I've ever lived in' and something about the murder rate in derry being whatever number of times the national average.

there was a p good kid malapropism gag in this

do fuckfests really bring unity to teams?

ask the 2005 minnesota vikings

Sewer orgy is basically the Tom Bombadil of It: the first thing any reasonable human would cut from an adaptation.

― The Marmadook (latebloomer), Monday, 11 September 2017 17:28

I haven't read Tolkien but pictures of Bombadil make me wish he was in the films.

I am not completing that analogy

hahaeurrrgh

:D

The Ritual of Hahaeürrrgh

Hey dol! Merry dol! Tom Bombadildo!

I am not completing that analogy

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:59

Please do, I'm not getting the joke.

Love this picture
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tom_Bombadil_2.jpg

Funny website name too.

Thought this was mostly just mediocre, occasionally veering towards outright bad due to some really weird stylistic choices e.g. cheerful gore clean-up montage soundtracked by The Cure, slow-mo bully shouting "fuuuuuck yooooou", couple of others that don't spring to mind just now.

oh yeah, Pennywise did the futterwacken too. That kind of took me out of it

cheerful gore clean-up montage soundtracked by The Cure

oh yeah i forgot about this!

So many odd decisions, tho tbh those were what gave the movie any character.

I at least appreciated that they used a relatively obscure Cure song, in addition to the first verse of an XTC song. I can only imagine how heavy they would've leaned on the 80s references if it had been shot after Stranger Things came out.

oh yeah, Pennywise did the futterwacken too. That kind of took me out of it

― Number None, Monday, September 11, 2017 3:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought I had made this comment here, but apparently it was while I was still fruitlessly trying to comment in the gawker media realm:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/he-looks-like-johnny-depp-as-the-mad-hatter-if-it-star-1785356078

Never really liked how the turtle and It spoke like a jokey kooky uncle. Is that what eons old entities speak like?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:03 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

King can only write in 3 voices, give him a break

you guys are a tough crowd, I thought this movie fuckin kicked ass

Me 2

I watched about an hour of the TV movie yesterday and it was more consistent and had better pacing. The scary parts felt scarier for me too. The acting and the cinematography were better in the new one though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKQxpZFXUAU7OHj.jpg

That photo is more terrifying than his collected works

why, are you scared of dams

70 today

the one good thing about that coiffure on SK is that it conceals his weird face shape

Is that extra zero a Maine Campus typo or some kind of clairvoyance?

perhaps they are sprirtually gifted.

two imminent Netflix adaptations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbGU2CqqQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_fT0aTsjI

gerald's game is a mike flanagan joint so it should be at least decent

but geralds game itself is bad so idk

Any recommendations for authors whose books go down as easy as Stephen King's? He's been my go-to guy whenever I'm looking to turn my brain off for a while, but his books repeat themselves so much I can't justify reading too many more of them. Would love to get that fix somewhere else.

if you haven't read him, I'd say Elmore Leonard -- quick reads, extremely entertaining, likable characters, excellent villains.

Any genre goes? or still horror?

xp yeah Elmore Leonard is a great example

Any genre, so long as its a page turner. I like the horror/suspense elements in King's books but honestly it's the world building that draws me in. He just makes them all so leisurely. They're like hang-out books really

i was going to say the parker books by richard stark

which are much shorter than stephen king books but there are like 20 of them

I want to say Michael Crichton hits a similar 'quick & entertaining & requiring minimal effort' sweet spot but I haven't read his stuff in decades.