stephen king c/d?

GIVE IT UP, STEPHEN

How about Netflix bringing back UNDER THE DOME, only starting from scratch and actually doing the book?

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 13, 2019

lol yeah i read that and rolled my eyes all the way back.

It's like you folks have completely forgotten how he and Steven Weber labored to bring us the PROPER adaptation of The Shining we'd been clamoring for since that abomination dropped back in 1980. Never discount the King!

I didn’t watch it but I don’t think the improper adaptation of under the dome is as well regarded as kubrick’s shining tbf

I kid, but I get it. He'd like to see others adapt his work with the degree of reverence he demonstrated when he brought 'Trucks' to the silver screen.

Ha that one I have seen, it’s an outstanding piece of shit and all fun and games until the dp loses an eye

I still remember how incredibly excited I was for that Shining miniseries as a kid and huge fan of the book, the original film, all things King, etc. I think I ended up not even watching the last episode.

King films are notoriously mostly dogshit, it’s interesting now we’re in this moment of ~respectable~ king films and the decent to dogshit ratio is exactly the same as before except that funless competence is now the peak

The new it and pet sematary are the most egregious, you can feel the cumulative hedging of 500 script iterations by committee creating a product that’s less compelling than the trashy 90s versions

The early King adaptations are still the best, obv. I mean when your work is being adapted by De Palma, Kubrick, and Cronenberg the results are gonna be okay! Gotta give a shout out to The Running Man and Stand By Me too but they are obv different from the usual when it comes to King.

His horror works much better on the page and anyone trying to directly translate it has to devote a lot of time to dialogue about shit weasels and so on.

Pet Sematary remake was the most pointless thing. The original was fine, nothing mindblowing but better than most King adaptations. I haven't heard anyone say anything complimentary about the new one. What's even the point. Remake the freakin' Lawnmower Man if you absolutely have to go down that road.

Original ps is mainly bad but entertainingly so and features the single funniest scene in the history of cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5So0SX24u0

that shd be on the sight and sound thread

tbh, as corny as that scene may be, it still fucks me up.

I must have watched it a hundred times and it never fails to crack me up

Pet sematary 2 quite obv the best watch of the bunch, the new remake even nicked a plot element from it

lol its a shame how he gets tripped up by that hidden invisible bear trap when he's just inches away from the kid, really hate to see that happen

was really hoping he'd have a chance to GET THE BABY

GET THE BABY

I haven't seen it since its initial airing obv, but apparently I am the only human being on the planet who liked the Shining miniseries?

Something about the way they film and perform the idiotic beatific laughter just before hilarious gross negligence reminds me of the zoolander petrol fight scene

(Xp)

yeah the way he laughs, does a complete 180 turn to his child, and then they cut back and hes still just laughing with his back turned is like a perfect comedy beat

whereabouts is this film in the history of the "big no" trope?

(or did kubrick invent that also)

post-"Tough Guys Don't Dance", which probably deserves its own category.

idk if this is the originator but it must be the pinnacle, playing it 3 times for no reason just makes it perfect kitsch somehow

For those unaware, the Pet Sematary dad is also the actor responsible for this apex of filmed entertainment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNC9VPBXXI

holy shit

God bless him

i can found "10 hours of principal skinner shouting noooo" on youtube (i didn't watch it all) but no tropes-type history of what the simpsons had in mind when they first used it >:(

i saw PS at a drive-in and the entire place erupted in cheers at that scene

For those unaware, the Pet Sematary dad is also the actor responsible for this apex of filmed entertainment:

― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, June 14, 2019 5:09 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OL, I had no idea this was missing from my life.

he plays a vicious pimp in Roger Corman's '80s classic Streetwalkin' starring Melissa Leo as a runaway(!) who becomes a prostitute who eventually has to FIGHT BACK

You saw Principal Skinner at a drive in?

I saw Principal Skinner at a drive-in making babies with Mrs Krabappel and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me

Not sure if this is the best thread for it, search wasn't coming up with anything promising, but this season of Castle Rock has been great. Lizzy Caplan is really, really good.

I haven't seen it since its initial airing obv, but apparently I am the only human being on the planet who liked the Shining miniseries?

― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Friday, June 14, 2019 4:43 PM (four months ago)

i wonder how many ppl have seen this? i watched some clips on youtube a while ago and thought it looked pretty painful.

I was trying to find somewhere to watch it last week and not having any luck

i did some more googling to see if i could find it (no luck) and found this hilariously over-the-top review of it -- half the review is just the writer ranting about how much he hates stephen king:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/04/26/the-shining-recycled-trash/ff9d7e88-59d2-4ddc-ac38-99138de88fd0/

Will wait for the mini series

Might have found it, will let u know if it works

Doctor Sleep:

Stephen...Stanley...always you wrestle inside me

Not sure if this is the best thread for it, search wasn't coming up with anything promising, but this season of Castle Rock has been great. Lizzy Caplan is really, really good.

Last week's "origin" episode was excellent

Do you need to have seen the first season to watch the second?

Xposts: archive.org is the ticket. There’s a rip of someone’s vhs tape complete with local New Hampshire commercial breaks. File is too large to stream in browser but you can download it.

xp no, completely new cast & storyline

Last week's "origin" episode was excellent

It really was great, reminded me of "The Queen" episode from last season.

Why am I rereading loads of Stephen King atm? Who can say? Anyway rereading The Tommyknockers which i like more the second time, but it probably helps that I’ve completely forgotten most of it, including the ending.

I liked King a lot in junior/high school, though hadn't read anything of his after Dark Tower finished. I mostly read non-fiction these days but needed something breezy but engrossing for lunch breaks and commutes, so ended up rereading most of his bibliography in chronological order this year, since I planned on reading the post-"retirement" books for the first time. Very much my comfort food.

It was pretty fun! I don't recall that many outright stinkers, though Christine and The Dark Half wore out their welcome with the length. I thought The Outsiders was pretty bad after the initial chapters. Really felt like King by the numbers: small group starts to band together after piecing together weird circumstances and overcoming their skepticism at the supernatural, a few secondary characters get killed off to raise stakes, etc. Maybe I'd have liked it better if I read the mystery novels it crossed over with.

I dug the Dark Tower books as a kid but soured on them this time around. Due to that, I increasingly resented references to it in the non-DT novels.

I have weirdly strong memories of The Tommyknockers and am sort of afraid of re-reading it. My sense of it is very much coloured by the anecdote King tells wherein he was doing so much coke at the time, he spent most of his time at the typewriter with tissue stuffed up his nostrils to stem the bleeding.

Mom gave me The Institute before Christmas but I haven't gotten around to it. Gotta get in the right mindset.

Having seen both recent It movies I'm reading the book for the third time, roughly 20 years between readings. While his writing is occasionally terrible, and in spite of the length, he does know how to write a page turner.

I think It is just magnificent

I think he's great at writing what one could un-charitably describe as "Boomer nostalgia". My favorite parts of It, 11/22/63 and Joyland were the mundane "life in the 1950s-70s" character stuff, like the Losers hanging out and seeing movies, reading comic books etc. I'd happily read a non-genre novel like that if he wrote one.