stephen king c/d?

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.

^^^ first part of Hearts in Atlantis has some of this too, and I agree.

Worst part of 11/22/63 is his need to shoehorn in specific bands and songs he loved as a kid.

The first half of The Stand, the dissolution of society and wandering, is his peak IMO.

all off these books (up to rose madder) were in my teenage bedroom when I went home for Christmas. I brought exactly none of them back with me. this thread is making me think that was a wasted opportunity.

the talisman was right there, a nice hardback of IT (huge), the long version of the stand (unread), some bookclub edition that randomly combined the shining, Carrie and misery in one volume, the bachman books with the story he retired after the school shootings, several other fondly remembered short story collections...

The Institute is kicking so much ass for me.

really? that’s good to hear. I might give it a whirl

I’m watching “the outsider” adaptation on hbo and once again King pulls out the magic negro card, cf the Shining, the Green Mile, etc. Damn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

if you mean the Holly Gibney character, she's white in the book

Yeah
Guess hbo is at fault then

Yeah, I haven't watched The Outsider, but there was a 3-season adaptation of Mr. Mercedes and the other Bill Hodges books on DirecTV's Audience network, and Holly was played by Justine Lupe.

I’m rereading The Stand, which I haven’t read in about 17 years, and had forgotten how good it is and how much I remembered. The scene with Frannie and her mother in the calendar? Instantly remembered the clock ticking and the rose-patterned carpet. Incredible the things that stick with you, but that scene is great.

The Outsider is feeling a lot like The Dark Half 2

i watched the whole thing even though it felt pretty dumb. it's almost pulled off by the strong cast. but the whole show is so incredibly dark (visually) and then they have the entire climax take place in a cave, good luck figuring out what's happening.

every new HBO drama is required to have a climactic sequence take place in near-complete blackness. budgetary restrictions, what can you do?

i thought mare winningham in particular was excellent in it, plus a lot of the supporting cast was interesting (i particularly liked the private detective with the mustache). too bad about the plot and pace.

IMO, this was the closest an adaptation has come to replicating the pacing of a King novel. Ten hours seems about right, just enough time to let the thing breathe and to let the audience live with the characters and situations before the carnage begins in earnest.

I kinda think that may be a key element missing from many of the less successful King adaptations. You don't really get time for the low-key domestic texture which is imo one of his strong suits.