Can we please take a moment to acknowledge how little Stephen King knows about movies. He raged quit from being a director after Maximum Override (imagine a mixture between the classic films Terminator (1984) and Duel (1971) and then take away all of the talent from those movies) turned up unsurprisingly to be shit.
King also lambasted one of the few good movies that came from his books (The Shining) because it didn't have enough supernatural stuff in it. The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick) was a classic because it didn't require spooky stuff (https://youtu.be/ZYFAzyOFYU4?t=15) but instead showed a very real emotional breakdown of a man who had an annoying wife and a irritating son.
Obviously I'm not gonna argue that Maximum Override is good, nor will I argue that The Shining is necessarily bad (it's a good movie from a great director,) but it's not a good adaptation of King's book and in many ways is an insult to it.
I watched that movie and I couldn't enjoy it didn't make sense. I'm willing to accept a special radiation could make machines go haywire and revolt. But things that had no ability to do the things they did happen. A carving knife has no way to move on it's own, it could activate it's blade but it couldn't leap and cut someone. Or the machine gun on the military jeep. That gun is manual and incapable of firing. I guess the premise just bugged me because I found it interesting but made up the rules as it went.
I have read The Shining but the film is different from the book. In the book all of the antagonists Jack Torrance encounters are supernatural but very much real. Whereas in the film it is implied they are all in his head and he is having a mental breakdown. No one said the movie went into more depth than the books (learn to read you know) just that it is different (and really better). Realism normally beats fantasy unless the fantasy is particularly sublime.
I thought they wanted you to decide for yourself what was real and what was insanity
Cause the kid's powers were very clearly real, and in the end we saw Jack absorbed into the hotel or something, so it was clearly haunted to some degree
Yeah, the film is different from the book, and King had good reason to be irritated at the huge amount of changes. The book is also about Jack having a mental breakdown, and IMO is a lot more heartbreaking even with the "spooky stuff", because half the book is dedicated to his redemption from how bad he was in the past, and his attempts to get better.
The movie, in contrast, casts Jack Nicholson, who (despite being a great actor, don't get me wrong) looks a little unhinged from the very beginning of the movie, ruining the books main theme of "Everyman with some problems goes tragically insane" and making it "Jack Nicholson acts predictably." I'm exaggerating, but the casting here really was off IMO.
Okay, next point. "In the film it is implied they are all in his head and he is having a mental breakdown." Wow, haven't read the book or seen the movie? If there is nothing supernatural how does:
Jack open the door to the store room.
Danny call for halloran.
Danny imagine the twins despite never hearing about them.
Jack appear in the picture at the conclusion of the movie.
Wendy see the furry at the climax.
You can write some of these off to coincidence, but to say Kubrick is some scriptwriting mastermind that took the haunting of a haunted house movie is just stupid.
"Realism normally beats fantasy unless the fantasy is particularly sublime."
Wow, completely subjective opinion and irrelevant due to the above.
Also.
"No one said the movie went more in depth than the books, just that it is different."
You said:
"The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick) was a classic because it didn't require spooky stuff (https://youtu.be/ZYFAzyOFYU4?t=15) but instead showed a very real emotional breakdown of a man who had an annoying wife and a irritating son."
I don't see how this implies anything other than that Kubrick's film was about something "very real" and King's was about "spooky stuff." The book being different was also kind of my point from the beginning as well, so I don't know why you wrote that. Stephen King wanted a good film adaptation of The Shining, and he instead got a good haunted house movie that shares the same name and a few story elements.
the left is going to praise king "yaaas king slay" for bravely banning trump from seeing movies he was never going to see while the right will praise daddy for banning king from reading tweets he was never going to read, everybodys going jerk each other off, and all look like complete fucking retards doing it.
Yup fuck I just remembered it, it goes into like really graphic detail about the girl getting railed by like 5 other 12 year olds because they thought they were all gonna die and how afterwards her insides hurt and she felt all sticky
It's like... Supposed to be their kind of coming-of-age moment, from what I gathered. They're all afraid of dying, they're still young, and that would bring them together. But it kind of just came across as Stephen King writing an erotic fanfic about his own book.
That's not even the worst of it, there's like this other part where the girl has to hide from these two bullies that are also 12 and one of them is jacking the other off and he asks if he wants him to suck it and they get into a fight and it's just a fucking weird book that I'm repressing the memory of
Thinking back on IT, there are a lot of questionable scenes in it. Not sure if King was just trying to be shocking or if some of it, like the scene you describe was just wish fulfillment on his part.
Ugh now that I'm thinking about it it's just getting worse, like the part where the clown pretends to be her dad and talks about putting her clit in the oven and eating it, or the part where it pretends to be homeless and offers to suck the kid's dick for a dime
I have no idea how they're going to make an accurate adaptation without it being Adult Only tbh
I read the book when I was in 5th or 6th grade. It made quite the impression...
I obviouly started reading at an "adult level" early and so my parents let me read whstever i wanted. They probably sbould have policed my reading a bit more but they just figured it was Stephen King so it couldn't be that bad
Cujo bothered me because I felt bad for the dog...
Despite reading and watching a ton of horror over the years there are only two works that have really creeped me out. The first was the Exorcist... watching it as a young teen scared the shit out of me.
The second, was within the last year. A book called "Last Days" by Adam Nevill. It didn't scare me, per se but reading it really creeped me out. Especially reading st night right before bed. Definitely check it out if you like horror
The purpose is that It is specialized at killing and terrorizing children, so to escape It's lair the first time they have to become less like children.
Stephen King once wrote a Novella titled Apt-Pupil in which a former war-criminal was portrayed as the (successful) mentor of a local boy, teaching him to basically be a manipulative shitbag who solves all of his problems through brinksmanship and blackmail.
There are no centrists here. Centrists are people who have at least enough political knowledge to understand the issues, and who either don't care about them enough to form a solid opinion, or who genuinely believe that the status quo is good for them personally (this is why there are few centrists right now; the status quo is not good for most people).
People here are just politically ignorant. They literally don't know enough about most of the issues, political history, etc., to have formed valid opinions, and are adopting 'centrism' because it sounds good.
The tipoff is that they call themselves 'centrists', rather than defining more carefully their positions on these matters, because there's a fair amount of room in the center, and two people can hold very different views while still being considered 'centrist'.
I'm reasonably lefty (certainly by the standards of the belming internet) and I don't give a fuck what your glorious orange buffoon gets up to. Got better things to do.
I don't care about what he gets up to, you daft sod. I have opinions on the fucking ringnut as a human being, how could I not? But his actions don't really register that much for me, hence not ranting about them.
I'm sure that sounded less pretentious in your head, but saying shit like that is why you have no friends in real life. Nobody talks like that, and with good reason.
Dude, you get triggered so easily that bait isn't even needed. I could just dangle string in the water and you'd shove it all the way down your throat and out your asshole.
I went into Dark Tower not knowing anything about the book. I left the movie feeling like it left out so much stuff because they never explained jack shit.
Technically I think the movie is a "sequel" to the book series, which would only make sense if you've read all of the Dark Tower books (which I did).
The movie looks terrible... The Dark Tower just doesn't work as a single movie, unless maybe you just film the first book as a solitary story, not as part of the Dark Tower. It would make a much better TV series. Really I think that's the only way you could tell the whole story.
As for the books, the first 4-5 were great. Then Stephen King wrote himself into the books and they went to shit.
Most of his books are really hard to translate to movies. They almost always come out terribly. His weird writing style builds a lot of tension, but when you strip that away the stories are still really complicated and you cant do it justice in 2 hours.
I don't think anybody but HBO has the money to do it justice, but a Dark Tower HBO series could be really good. It's just such a long project to translate to TV, idk if the risk will ever be worth it.
apparently its happening and the tv series is supposed to continue where the movie left off, and i wouldnt be surprised if HBO does it, game of thrones is now gonna be doing their final season, and it wont be out till sometime in 2019 if i remember rightly, they may test the waters of having that show around 2018 to see if people will watch it, and if so, they will have another show to bring in the ratings once game of thrones ends.
They don't look terrible but from what I can tell the movie is only telling 1/2 of the story. I guess a sequel is supposed to finish up the story with them as adults?
I'm fairly sure he was joking and had no intention of actually informing it (because he knows he can't) but the article has to go make it sound like he's serious. He's sarcastic on social media quite often.
Please don't trigger me, I identify as someone from a Reality where JK Rowlings Basic bitch acting like a 11y/o tumblrina isn't hailed as genius, much less her paint by numbers fantasy world.
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1 MischiefManagers 2017-08-27
Can we please take a moment to acknowledge how little Stephen King knows about movies. He raged quit from being a director after Maximum Override (imagine a mixture between the classic films Terminator (1984) and Duel (1971) and then take away all of the talent from those movies) turned up unsurprisingly to be shit.
King also lambasted one of the few good movies that came from his books (The Shining) because it didn't have enough supernatural stuff in it. The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick) was a classic because it didn't require spooky stuff (https://youtu.be/ZYFAzyOFYU4?t=15) but instead showed a very real emotional breakdown of a man who had an annoying wife and a irritating son.
1 Thulean-Dragon 2017-08-27
Maximum Overdrviive was kíno.
1 Socksockmaster 2017-08-27
Obviously I'm not gonna argue that Maximum Override is good, nor will I argue that The Shining is necessarily bad (it's a good movie from a great director,) but it's not a good adaptation of King's book and in many ways is an insult to it.
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
God Maximum Overdrive had so much potential, it honestly stands as the most disappointing movie adaptation of anything to me
1 Swinship 2017-08-27
I watched that movie and I couldn't enjoy it didn't make sense. I'm willing to accept a special radiation could make machines go haywire and revolt. But things that had no ability to do the things they did happen. A carving knife has no way to move on it's own, it could activate it's blade but it couldn't leap and cut someone. Or the machine gun on the military jeep. That gun is manual and incapable of firing. I guess the premise just bugged me because I found it interesting but made up the rules as it went.
1 MischiefManagers 2017-08-27
I have read The Shining but the film is different from the book. In the book all of the antagonists Jack Torrance encounters are supernatural but very much real. Whereas in the film it is implied they are all in his head and he is having a mental breakdown. No one said the movie went into more depth than the books (learn to read you know) just that it is different (and really better). Realism normally beats fantasy unless the fantasy is particularly sublime.
1 MasterLawlz 2017-08-27
I thought they wanted you to decide for yourself what was real and what was insanity
Cause the kid's powers were very clearly real, and in the end we saw Jack absorbed into the hotel or something, so it was clearly haunted to some degree
1 Socksockmaster 2017-08-27
Yeah, the film is different from the book, and King had good reason to be irritated at the huge amount of changes. The book is also about Jack having a mental breakdown, and IMO is a lot more heartbreaking even with the "spooky stuff", because half the book is dedicated to his redemption from how bad he was in the past, and his attempts to get better.
The movie, in contrast, casts Jack Nicholson, who (despite being a great actor, don't get me wrong) looks a little unhinged from the very beginning of the movie, ruining the books main theme of "Everyman with some problems goes tragically insane" and making it "Jack Nicholson acts predictably." I'm exaggerating, but the casting here really was off IMO.
Okay, next point. "In the film it is implied they are all in his head and he is having a mental breakdown." Wow, haven't read the book or seen the movie? If there is nothing supernatural how does:
Jack open the door to the store room.
Danny call for halloran.
Danny imagine the twins despite never hearing about them.
Jack appear in the picture at the conclusion of the movie.
Wendy see the furry at the climax.
You can write some of these off to coincidence, but to say Kubrick is some scriptwriting mastermind that took the haunting of a haunted house movie is just stupid.
"Realism normally beats fantasy unless the fantasy is particularly sublime."
Wow, completely subjective opinion and irrelevant due to the above.
Also.
"No one said the movie went more in depth than the books, just that it is different."
You said:
"The Shining (directed by Stanley Kubrick) was a classic because it didn't require spooky stuff (https://youtu.be/ZYFAzyOFYU4?t=15) but instead showed a very real emotional breakdown of a man who had an annoying wife and a irritating son."
I don't see how this implies anything other than that Kubrick's film was about something "very real" and King's was about "spooky stuff." The book being different was also kind of my point from the beginning as well, so I don't know why you wrote that. Stephen King wanted a good film adaptation of The Shining, and he instead got a good haunted house movie that shares the same name and a few story elements.
"(learn to read you know)"
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1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
1 dz0id 2017-08-27
Maximum Overdrive owns though
1 Lots42 2017-08-27
I loved Maximum Overdrive
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
I hate the shining AMA
1 Kekistanian9000 2017-08-27
After Trump won he promised to quit twitter so why is he even bothered by trump blocking him there?
1 RichEvansSextape 2017-08-27
The guy gained fame for writing a shit ton, social media is like Candy Land for authors like that.
1 Kekistanian9000 2017-08-27
More like heroin.
1 Going_up_the_Country 2017-08-27
King is more of a cocaine man.
1 tiananmenbear 2017-08-27
"Trump is banned from these TWO HOT NEW Stephen King properties. Dark Tower what?"
Yes, it is a big mystery.
1 MisterHundred 2017-08-27
Why would trump q
1 cannedairspray 2017-08-27
Previous presidents have had a real problem with getting coverage
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1 cannedairspray 2017-08-27
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1 ndizzIe 2017-08-27
Stephen King, not trump
1 MisterHundred 2017-08-27
Oh. I'm retarded.
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-27
Might be doing him a favor there Stephen.
I mean, skinwalkers, maximum overdrive, sleepwalkers... that while stand series... yikes..
1 LSU_Coonass 2017-08-27
the left is going to praise king "yaaas king slay" for bravely banning trump from seeing movies he was never going to see while the right will praise daddy for banning king from reading tweets he was never going to read, everybodys going jerk each other off, and all look like complete fucking retards doing it.
1 autistitron 2017-08-27
Won't last, the SJW left will be made aware of Stephen King again and dig up him microaggressing and declare him a Nazi.
Public grandstanding for the left just makes you a target for the far left.
1 RichEvansSextape 2017-08-27
Surprised they haven't brought up that underage gangbang scene in IT.
1 BigDaddy_Delta 2017-08-27
Why? Is a pretty normal bonding ritual
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
Oh yeah, me and my childhood buddies all took turns railing my first girlfriend in a mixture of rainwater run-off and human shit.
Happens all the time!
1 BigDaddy_Delta 2017-08-27
Indeed, the evil clown just makes it better
1 Ardvarkeating101 2017-08-27
I always thought that was a prank in the Wikipedia article! Is that shit real?
1 Ardvarkeating101 2017-08-27
I always thought that was a prank in the Wikipedia article! Is that shit real?
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
Yup fuck I just remembered it, it goes into like really graphic detail about the girl getting railed by like 5 other 12 year olds because they thought they were all gonna die and how afterwards her insides hurt and she felt all sticky
1 MasterLawlz 2017-08-27
I haven't read the book but....was there a purpose to that? Like from a thematic standpoint?
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
It's like... Supposed to be their kind of coming-of-age moment, from what I gathered. They're all afraid of dying, they're still young, and that would bring them together. But it kind of just came across as Stephen King writing an erotic fanfic about his own book.
1 MasterLawlz 2017-08-27
I could see that working if the kids were like four years older, pretty gross if they're twelve though
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
That's not even the worst of it, there's like this other part where the girl has to hide from these two bullies that are also 12 and one of them is jacking the other off and he asks if he wants him to suck it and they get into a fight and it's just a fucking weird book that I'm repressing the memory of
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Thinking back on IT, there are a lot of questionable scenes in it. Not sure if King was just trying to be shocking or if some of it, like the scene you describe was just wish fulfillment on his part.
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
Ugh now that I'm thinking about it it's just getting worse, like the part where the clown pretends to be her dad and talks about putting her clit in the oven and eating it, or the part where it pretends to be homeless and offers to suck the kid's dick for a dime
I have no idea how they're going to make an accurate adaptation without it being Adult Only tbh
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Wasn't she also abused at home or am I thinking of another book/character?
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
Yeah that's where the clown got the idea from, her dad like gave her baths that were kind of suggestive and shit
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
I read the book when I was in 5th or 6th grade. It made quite the impression...
I obviouly started reading at an "adult level" early and so my parents let me read whstever i wanted. They probably sbould have policed my reading a bit more but they just figured it was Stephen King so it couldn't be that bad
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
Shiiiit same, I read that and Cujo for some of my first book reports and got a lot of weird looks from teachers and Cujo freaked me out so hard
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Cujo bothered me because I felt bad for the dog...
Despite reading and watching a ton of horror over the years there are only two works that have really creeped me out. The first was the Exorcist... watching it as a young teen scared the shit out of me.
The second, was within the last year. A book called "Last Days" by Adam Nevill. It didn't scare me, per se but reading it really creeped me out. Especially reading st night right before bed. Definitely check it out if you like horror
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Yeah, it's supposed to signify them becoming adults so that they can hide themselves from Pennywise and escape his lair.
It's been awhile since I read the book but that's how I remember it.
1 Thhueros 2017-08-27
The purpose is that It is specialized at killing and terrorizing children, so to escape It's lair the first time they have to become less like children.
1 bleasehalb 2017-08-27
Don't forget she marries the fat kid after experiencing his big dick. God that book was tremendous.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
Honestly?
Stephen King once wrote a Novella titled Apt-Pupil in which a former war-criminal was portrayed as the (successful) mentor of a local boy, teaching him to basically be a manipulative shitbag who solves all of his problems through brinksmanship and blackmail.
1 Thhueros 2017-08-27
Sort of successful.
At the end the kid goes on a shooting spree and gets himself killed.
1 MagicGainbow 2017-08-27
Only because the lead detective seems to have psychic powers...im assuming as it does not explain in great depth how he suddenly knows all the events.
1 Thhueros 2017-08-27
I don't remember this part
1 MagicGainbow 2017-08-27
I was being facetious, he doesn't have powers but seems to guess on very little all that has occurred with accuracy...the book was worse though.
1 ironicshitpostr 2017-08-27
The Day of the Horseshoe draws closer, fellow centrist.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
There are no centrists here. Centrists are people who have at least enough political knowledge to understand the issues, and who either don't care about them enough to form a solid opinion, or who genuinely believe that the status quo is good for them personally (this is why there are few centrists right now; the status quo is not good for most people).
People here are just politically ignorant. They literally don't know enough about most of the issues, political history, etc., to have formed valid opinions, and are adopting 'centrism' because it sounds good.
The tipoff is that they call themselves 'centrists', rather than defining more carefully their positions on these matters, because there's a fair amount of room in the center, and two people can hold very different views while still being considered 'centrist'.
1 Thulean-Dragon 2017-08-27
I am now a #cruzmissile
1 Unruly_tism 2017-08-27
http://m.imgur.com/SkY0b6P
1 ironicshitpostr 2017-08-27
D-DELET THIS
1 ragazzo_soup 2017-08-27
It's the American way.
1 LemonScore 2017-08-27
King would have read his tweets. The left is addicted to ranting about everything that Trump does.
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
I'm reasonably lefty (certainly by the standards of the belming internet) and I don't give a fuck what your glorious orange buffoon gets up to. Got better things to do.
1 Kovy22 2017-08-27
Orange buffoon, hmmm never heard that one nice
1 oss_spy 2017-08-27
>doesn't care about him
>cares enough to make an insult
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
I don't care about what he gets up to, you daft sod. I have opinions on the fucking ringnut as a human being, how could I not? But his actions don't really register that much for me, hence not ranting about them.
1 oss_spy 2017-08-27
>doesn't care what he does
>therefore has no reason to hate him
>still hates him
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
You're aware that insults are generally dismissive, right?
I'll let you get back to your no doubt thriving social circle, anyway.
1 oss_spy 2017-08-27
>takes criticism like a dick
>waytoohard.mp4
>thinks he's being insulted
1 TheFallenHero 2017-08-27
Epic may me arrowd
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
Yeah, but typing them out takes energy, and people just don't bother unless they care, so...
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
I'm sure that sounded less pretentious in your head, but saying shit like that is why you have no friends in real life. Nobody talks like that, and with good reason.
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
Fucking loads do where I live, which isn't America. Try venturing outside your own postcode some time.
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
1 SkippyDippo 2017-08-27
MAD
1 theycallmeryan 2017-08-27
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
Yes?
1 theycallmeryan 2017-08-27
I've never actually heard anyone say that
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
Do you live in the north of England?
1 theycallmeryan 2017-08-27
No, I'm not a faggot
1 Lord_Punchings 2017-08-27
Come to the north of England and I'll fucking make you one.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2017-08-27
Awww, don't feel bad. If you're an American, he's your glorious orange buffoon, too!
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
u/Lord_Punchings admits he's a commie here https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/6w9w3f/stephen_king_is_butthurt_that_trump_blocked_him/dm6xtw8/
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
Bait harder next time sweaty
1 LemonScore 2017-08-27
Dude, you get triggered so easily that bait isn't even needed. I could just dangle string in the water and you'd shove it all the way down your throat and out your asshole.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
kek <--- this one
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1 deere442 2017-08-27
meming doesnt make you any less retarded famalam
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
Your whole comment history is you accusing people of being retarded lmao.
1 deere442 2017-08-27
Yeah, turns out theres a lot of retards on here. You guys are strong in numbers
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
Don't flatter yourself sweaty 💞
1 GunOfSod 2017-08-27
You seem to be preoccupied by perspiration.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
It's a joke.
1 GunOfSod 2017-08-27
I'm sure it'll get there.
1 siempreloco31 2017-08-27
Banning Trump from watching Stephen King ruining his own franchise did him a favor.
1 SperglockHolmes 2017-08-27
After how Dark Tower turned out, and the what the trailers say about IT, it sounds like he's doing them a favor.
1 LuntiX 2017-08-27
I went into Dark Tower not knowing anything about the book. I left the movie feeling like it left out so much stuff because they never explained jack shit.
IT looks pretty decent though.
1 cannedairspray 2017-08-27
I heard It was good. That's all.
1 AMannerings 2017-08-27
How good was It ?
1 cannedairspray 2017-08-27
Pretty
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Technically I think the movie is a "sequel" to the book series, which would only make sense if you've read all of the Dark Tower books (which I did).
The movie looks terrible... The Dark Tower just doesn't work as a single movie, unless maybe you just film the first book as a solitary story, not as part of the Dark Tower. It would make a much better TV series. Really I think that's the only way you could tell the whole story.
As for the books, the first 4-5 were great. Then Stephen King wrote himself into the books and they went to shit.
1 Muttonman 2017-08-27
The first book is entirely unadaptable because almost nothing happens. Start at the second and have the first book via flashbacks
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Yeah, I guess you're right. It's been 10+ years since I read all of them.
1 Muttonman 2017-08-27
I started reading then recently, and almost stopped after the first one. Shit was an extended prelude, not an actual story
1 mobearsdog 2017-08-27
Most of his books are really hard to translate to movies. They almost always come out terribly. His weird writing style builds a lot of tension, but when you strip that away the stories are still really complicated and you cant do it justice in 2 hours.
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Some are but some with simpler plots, like Cujo lend themselves to movie adaptions.
The problem is that his most popular books are the most complex so it's really hard to adapt them to the screen.
Like I said above, I can't see The Dark Tower working as anything but a TV series.
1 mobearsdog 2017-08-27
I don't think anybody but HBO has the money to do it justice, but a Dark Tower HBO series could be really good. It's just such a long project to translate to TV, idk if the risk will ever be worth it.
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
Amazon of Netflix could probably do it.
1 KR_Blade 2017-08-27
apparently its happening and the tv series is supposed to continue where the movie left off, and i wouldnt be surprised if HBO does it, game of thrones is now gonna be doing their final season, and it wont be out till sometime in 2019 if i remember rightly, they may test the waters of having that show around 2018 to see if people will watch it, and if so, they will have another show to bring in the ratings once game of thrones ends.
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
based stephen king making sure DR. GOD EMPEROR doesn't waste his time on shit stephen king movies
1 Tobans 2017-08-27
Did all of Daddies' lies leave you deaf, goy?
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
Shit tier trolling champ
1 IvankaTrumpIsMyWaifu 2017-08-27
Lol c level trolling kiddo
1 Tobans 2017-08-27
(((You))) rn
1 botchlings 2017-08-27
They don't look terrible but from what I can tell the movie is only telling 1/2 of the story. I guess a sequel is supposed to finish up the story with them as adults?
1 Chin_Up_Chick 2017-08-27
Im curious how Stephen King is going to enforce this.
1 omelets4dinner 2017-08-27
Literally zero ways. But style over substance.
1 a_jill_sandwich 2017-08-27
I'm fairly sure he was joking and had no intention of actually informing it (because he knows he can't) but the article has to go make it sound like he's serious. He's sarcastic on social media quite often.
1 zahlman 2017-08-27
Sad!
1 Kid_Koon 2017-08-27
King, I love you, stop this stupidity.
1 DownWthisSortOfThing 2017-08-27
He was clearly joking. The people taking him seriously are the people acting stupid.
1 mitzelplick 2017-08-27
No loss, Stephen King writes shit to begin with. He might have been big in the 80's, but then so was Flock of Seagulls...
1 Rockstar_MWG_05 2017-08-27
Are you shit talking A Flock of Seagulls? In front of my salad? Really!?
1 glmox 2017-08-27
you best stop talkin shit about flock of seagulls
1 SkippyDippo 2017-08-27
Weird frog man yells about Twitter stuff because he doesn't like president.
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-27
wow what a child....tbh I never got why people hail IT, the Thing and the stand by me as masterpieces, they were okay as a kid but that's it.
1 RoundRectangles 2017-08-27
Same reason why people think Harry Potter is a literary masterpiece.
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-27
Please don't trigger me, I identify as someone from a Reality where JK Rowlings Basic bitch acting like a 11y/o tumblrina isn't hailed as genius, much less her paint by numbers fantasy world.