West Point Aggie said:
Coastal Maine is northern Massachusetts...a m******* extension...truly two different states in one...not unlike this state I live in...
Well, Maine was part of Massachusetts until the Missouri Compromise...
West Point Aggie said:
Coastal Maine is northern Massachusetts...a m******* extension...truly two different states in one...not unlike this state I live in...
YouBet said:
I recommend his nonfiction work "On Writing". Very good book. Just read it last year.
That's a curious term. I will grant you that it is implausible that the character would make the decision to engage in what occurs at that age, and that Stephen King's sex scenes are generally terrible (I think he even received some kind of "award" for Worst Sex Scene of the Year for 11-22-63).SeattleAgJr said:yeah that part was so laughable.amercer said:
As long as they include the underage gangbang scene I'm sure it will be great....
So much of King is this way. The world within a world thing he does so often -- so compelling in the mind's eye... but how do you film it?YokelRidesAgain said:
As far as expectations for the film, I think that the problem has always been that the entire last section of the book is unfilmable (and not just the obvious part above)--the shifting perspective between the two time periods would be really hard to replicate. Moreover, it's hard to see how you overcome the problem of the "Here It is!!!" scene. The spider could be less cheesy than it was in 1990, but as far as the physical action in the final confrontations with the monster, it can be summed up as 1) 1958-Boy stares at spider and 2) 1985-Two middle aged men stare at spider, then kill spider. All of the real interaction between the characters and It is internal psychodrama that fills pages and pages of dialogue. I don't think you can film that and have it translate.
Doesn't bother me at all. Evil clown. Check.queso1 said:
Meh. Has it been discussed here that Pennywise looks so lame?
the fact that he didnt seem so demented on initial sight was what made original pennywise so great. this new version looks more like Eli Roth's "Clown".Ol Jock 99 said:Doesn't bother me at all. Evil clown. Check.queso1 said:
Meh. Has it been discussed here that Pennywise looks so lame?
Ol Jock 99 said:Doesn't bother me at all. Evil clown. Check.queso1 said:
Meh. Has it been discussed here that Pennywise looks so lame?
So, has anyone picked up on Bill stuttering in the previews? I haven't, but may have missed it. I hope they don't PC that up; it was a critical part of the story. And I'm a lifelong stutterer....named...Bill.
King did a damn good job putting stutter into written word. I wonder if he didn't stutter when younger. If not, he spent a lot of time with someone who did.Quote:
Reading the book now. Passages where he talks are a beating.
you know, you don't have to mentally recognize every repeated letter, right? you can just skip them.Pam Poovey said:Ol Jock 99 said:Doesn't bother me at all. Evil clown. Check.queso1 said:
Meh. Has it been discussed here that Pennywise looks so lame?
So, has anyone picked up on Bill stuttering in the previews? I haven't, but may have missed it. I hope they don't PC that up; it was a critical part of the story. And I'm a lifelong stutterer....named...Bill.
Reading the book now. Passages where he talks are a beating.
Ol Jock 99 said:King did a damn good job putting stutter into written word. I wonder if he didn't stutter when younger. If not, he spent a lot of time with someone who did.Quote:
Reading the book now. Passages where he talks are a beating.
Uncle Gunnysack said:the fact that he didnt seem so demented on initial sight was what made original pennywise so great. this new version looks more like Eli Roth's "Clown".Ol Jock 99 said:Doesn't bother me at all. Evil clown. Check.queso1 said:
Meh. Has it been discussed here that Pennywise looks so lame?
thats a pretty good comparison. id be shocked if the result is the samefree_mhayden said:
It really is a Jack Nicholson / Heath Ledger type situation.
I came away from reading that book with a new-found distaste for balloons, and that book did nothing for my view of clowns either.free_mhayden said:
Apparently new trailer came out last month and I never noticed. Doesn't show a whole lot new, just a lot of the kid interactions... Production value looks good. Get probably our clearest shot of Pennywise at the end and... well we'll see. No doubt he has the scary part down (which Curry actually wasn't that great at) -- but remains to be seen if he can pull off the "normal" clown stuff where he looks like just an out of place clown, not a creature that everyone would be pointing at saying "oh hell no wtf is that?".
The triangle of balloons... Not sure I actually like the scene, but it does give another hint that they are going to be much more true to the book. King described at least a half dozen significant times where a character noticed the balloons acting in a fashion that was un-natural -- and just like a lot of King's stuff the seemingly insignificant can be worded in such a way to be terrifying ("but what always bothered me.. something I just couldn't get out of my head... the balloons were floating against the wind... it just didn't make any sense.").
I think that is probably what King is best at. Endings, not so muchAggieChemist said:M.C. Swag said:
Stephen King is a genius with plot concepts, but I can't stand his style. He can't seem to create characters the reader cares about.
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free_mhayden said:
Official trailer released this morning. I've just about resigned to the fact that the Dark Tower movie is going to be crap, but I'll be damned if I'm not really anticipating this: