Of course you forgot about it. It takes a true book expert like LeeMajors to remind you about that stuff.
Way to go LM.
Very true. You almost have to just abandon that part of his storytelling for the screen.coming of age train, yeah not sure how you film a girl saying "shoot it all over me" as Pennywise is preying on them.
Agree that Netflix and HBO should try to adapt his stuff, that seems like the best fit. Another issue is that King is great at putting you inside the mind or psyche of a character and that's hard to translate to cinema. Things like internal dialogue get lost, so that's why his short stories are more successful imo, because they tend to have broader strokes so the director can fill in the rest.
Yeah, I agree with that too. Some of those characters are extra creepy because of the way he describes them and reveals just what they are thinking.
I know it's not King but it's like reading Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs and then watching the movies. Hopkins kicks ass and helps the character come to life but all the rest of the characters...
Ray Liotta was pretty good too in his role.
I liked Sleepwalkers too, but it wasn't very good
IMO part of the issue with some of the movie adaptations is that the supernatural elements don't really translate that well to the screen. The best adaptations (Stand By Me, Shawshank, The Green Mile) seem to be the stories that are more reality/character based without vampires, homicidal clowns, etc. That's why I think some of the Bachman books would make really good films in the right hands; they're more reality-based for the most part.
How weird would it be to see "From a Buick 8" made into a movie. I want to see it done just to see the weird bat thing.
I was about to say, "Bend over, I'll ing show you a weird bat thing".
But then I said to myself, "Hey...can the silly bull guy. Ok?".
What about 1408? I haven't seen the movie but the cast looks pretty good.
Oh yeah. Forgot that one too.
I thought it was very good. Well done.
Really? Not sure why I haven't seen that one yet.
I think I've gotten it confused with "77 Shadow Street" in the past. Which is Koontz and not King.
Damn...I just remembered another one...Misery.
Now that I've really thought about it, I think there's been more good than bad movies that came out of King stories.
& "Dolores Claiborne." It's held up nicely thru 20 years. Straight up & down.
damn...another one. Yep.
Secret Window.
It works best when viewed as a comedy tbh
Bend over, I'll show you straight up and down
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You didn't like it?
Strathairn leads the cast there. Bates, almost beautiful (younger mother sequence) before the discovery, then the murder. The murder is not treated as an aside, or, a comeuppance, or, an end. There is no end here.
Yes, it's stocked with King's obsession with locking man to bed post and beating him for being man, but, at least in "DC" it's not said that way, not aloud for hours on end. We're shown instead of verbally harangued. We're given credit for having half-a-brain.
When Leigh confronts herself in the mirror and can only see the back of her head it's a decimating jolt. There is no end.
& from "outside" we're pumped & primed by the local magistrate, played finely by Plummer. He really stokes the fire.
It's got that swell cuck scene when Depp gets the motel room key and bargs in their room so he can see.
I need to watch it again. It's been years. One thing I do remember quite well is the sense of foreboding that was built starting with the boat ride.
I'm confused now. I was thinking Timothy Hutton was the star but it's Johnny Depp. But Timothy Hutton was in it. But Timothy Hutton was the lead of the Dark Half which seems to be the same story.
Depp went corny in the last 30 minutes or so, it was hilarious and kinda didn't jive with the rest of the movie from what i remember
Yep, the young girl actress did a swell job there. As did Strathairn. It edges on normalcy (hot chocolate for father & daughter) even though we know where it is intended & headed.
& even though Bates & this fellow have had a rocky time of marriage Bates strives to make the best of it, perhaps even find a shred---the place where once they loved one another. That's important to the center of the film. The production knew it and Bates delivers it. So, as you're watching it, even though you know the truth, the viewer can go along with it as long & as far as "Dolores" takes us.
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