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Hollismason posted:Jason X is the best F13 Sequel.
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Dick Miller's passing led me to his filmography, and his final movie has the greatest poster of all time.
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Jan 31, 2019 09:11
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Dick Miller was in so many B movies, many of them horror classics. He was always a delight and he'll be missed.
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Jedit posted:Dick Miller's passing led me to his filmography, and his final movie has the greatest poster of all time. Holy poo poo LesterGroans posted:The original miniseries has a really good cast and a few decent moments, but it definitely short-changes the book. The Dark Tower had the right Flagg in the wrong movie (uh, technically) Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 31, 2019 |
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LesterGroans posted:The original miniseries has a really good cast and a few decent moments, but it definitely short-changes the book. How could you, you know?
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LesterGroans posted:The original miniseries has a really good cast and a few decent moments, but it definitely short-changes the book. Like with the IT! miniseries from the '90s, it does suffer a bit due to the limitations of the era. Though I don't know if they could top how it opened with Don't Fear the Reaper playing as the camera pans over the lab. It still makes the hair on my arms stand up.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Like with the IT! miniseries from the '90s, it does suffer a bit due to the limitations of the era. Though I don't know if they could top how it opened with Don't Fear the Reaper playing as the camera pans over the lab. It still makes the hair on my arms stand up. Hell yeah! At age 13, that was the moment I became obsessed with an apocalypse. I then read an 80's version of it that I got at the thrift store, so I honestly have no idea what's in the complete and uncut edition.
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CBS will gently caress it up somehow, they'll cast Michael Weatherly as Flagg or something.
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Iron Crowned posted:Hell yeah! At age 13, that was the moment I became obsessed with an apocalypse. Read the uncut. Aside from some clunky little attempts to update the odd thing that end up kind of funny, it’s amazing. The original edition is literally less than half of the book.
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Iron Crowned posted:Hell yeah! At age 13, that was the moment I became obsessed with an apocalypse. Mostly some addition of some parts which clarify others better that I can recall.
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Jan 31, 2019 16:57
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The only thing I remember from The Stand is the part where the guy walks out of the desert and dives into a fountain then stumbles inside and goes to sleep on a pool table. That sequence is burned into my memory for some reason.
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I think I remember an old lady sitting on a porch in the middle of a desert and a guy with a mental handicap trying to get another guy to eat a sandwich. I think those are from The Stand.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Mostly some addition of some parts which clarify others better that I can recall. The chapter of people who survived the outbreak dying in stupid ways is amazing, and that was totally cut from the original edition. And The Kid was cut to the point of being totally superfluous.
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Deadguy2322 posted:The chapter of people who survived the outbreak dying in stupid ways is amazing, and that was totally cut from the original edition. And The Kid was cut to the point of being totally superfluous. This is always peak King fun. Hopefully IT: Chapter 2 includes the scene where a woman is blown to pieces while sitting on the toilet when the Derry sewer system implodes at the end.
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Deadguy2322 posted:The chapter of people who survived the outbreak dying in stupid ways is amazing, and that was totally cut from the original edition. I could have done without a three year old child dying of thirst because they survived but their parents died, thanks.
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Jan 31, 2019 17:28
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I guess I need to grab a new copy of the Stand
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Jedit posted:I could have done without a three year old child dying of thirst because they survived but their parents died, thanks. Sure, pic the one tragedy out of the whole chapter of people doing dumb stuff and collecting dumb prizes. Killjoy.
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Jan 31, 2019 17:50
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I hope they cast Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flagg again since he was the man in black in Gunslinger, but they dress him head to toe in jeans like the Flagg from the 90s version.
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ruddiger posted:I hope they cast Matthew McConaughey as Randall Flagg again since he was the man in black in Gunslinger, but they dress him head to toe in jeans like the Flagg from the 90s version. That was always my assumption.
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Between his performances in Mandy and Vikings I actually think Linus Roache could pull off Flagg pretty well.
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Honestly you want to get asses in seats, get Cage for Flagg.
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Now I just want more Mandy.
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Red in a post apocalyptic wasteland is such a slam dunk imo
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Flying Zamboni posted:Between his performances in Mandy and Vikings I actually think Linus Roache could pull off Flagg pretty well. I 100% agree with this. He'd be perfect. Put me in the camp that prefers the original 700 pages The Stand. I love the chapter with the random survivors dying from other non-plague reasons, but the rest of it is kinda superfluous. It's not like it's all the missing parts that were cut out of the original printing. It's all newly written content based off of notes and what King remembers was taken out of the original printing. It's basically all stuff written 20 years later, so it has an uneven quality that's a little bizarre. If/when I reread it, it's gonna be the shorter original version, and I'm kinda frustrated that you can only buy it used. It's a lot like Lucas's "enhanced" versions of the original Star Wars trilogy. Not bad on it's own, for the most part (besides obvious flaws), but it becomes offensive because it's the only available version. Fart City posted:Honestly you want to get asses in seats, get Cage for Flagg. Cage would make a good Larry.
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My favorite chapter was always the one about how everyone was dead except for the cats.
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Fart City posted:Honestly you want to get asses in seats, get Cage for Flagg. Cage for Trashcan man.
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ruddiger posted:Cage for Trashcan man. That would be perfect!
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The Stand but Nicholas Cage plays everyone.
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chitoryu12 posted:The Stand but Nicholas Cage plays everyone. Eventually Deep Fakes will be good enough to replace all actors in all films with Nicolas Cage, there's already youtube videos that do this .
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Y'all need to watch One Cut of the Dead NOW Edit: Seriously, this movie is so loving good, jesus christ. I hope it gets all the attention it deserves. Edit 2: Also don't watch the trailer or read anything about it. Just watch it. Also don't quit before you see the title card at around ~35 minutes. Popelmon fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Miguel Ferrer should have really just taken the plunge and gone for Randall Flagg instead of convincing Jamey Sheridan to take the role.
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I had a weird thing going on with The Stand. I struggled with reading in high school, just do to lack of attention, but I tore through Stephen Kings shoet story collections. For some reason, if I knew it was just a bunch of 20-80 page stories i could read 1000 pages of it quickly. My mom got me into SK as she was a huge fan and eventually I read quite a few of his novels, and the entirety of The Dark Tower. This whole time i told myself i eoulf read The Stand, but only if it came to me. I checked used book stores waiting, but it didn't. Last year I moved back in with my family and decided to read my moms cut version of the stand. It was lame. I finished it, but it felt like a born again Christian novel. The greasy writer kid was obviously based on a young king, and the morality of it all was stupid. Very disappointed. Would recommend probably 10 Stephen King books before it.
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I think its just like this epic story that kind of scratches the same itch that got King to write Dark Tower but in a simpler, more accessible form. It was a favorite of mine as a kid so I can't really judge it fairly now. I concede the religious aspect of it is pretty cheesy. But I contend that its no more cheesy than any of King's other supernatural deux ex machinas and like we know King's not some crazy evangelical hiding his preaching in writing so we should just kind of take it for what it is. He wrote a typical King story of otherwordly good and evil and humans stuck in the middle taking action through shaky means. He just decided to make it God and the Devil this time.
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Otherworldly good in this case being a magical negro
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Fair. But that's not really a unique King thing either, is it? I'm definitely not saying it doesn't have its problems. Its more I'm saying "What King novel doesn't?" edit: And again, THIS is my copy of the Stand that I had to repair as a kid with the back of a school notebook when I broke the binding. So I can't be objective on this one, I admit. I'll just defend it to my death.   edit2: Oddly the back is apparently a Ring Dings box and there's a 2005 copyright on it. I can only assume that means I had to repair it a second time and I just forgot about that one. 
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Jedit posted:Dick Miller's passing led me to his filmography, and his final movie has the greatest poster of all time. lol, what the hell is this? This is amazing.
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King’s an interesting guy because his career has been so long that you can kind of trace the evolution of White Guy Wokeness as it developed over decades. He’s always attempted to fold minority or underrepresented people into his stories, but he can’t shake the fact that he’s just a Maine good ol’ boy, and that can cause... issues with how he captured their voices. Like I legit believe dudes heart is in the right place, but he really doesn’t have a great record with black characters. - a Spooky Steve aficionado
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Gejimayu posted:I had a weird thing going on with The Stand. I struggled with reading in high school, just do to lack of attention, but I tore through Stephen Kings shoet story collections. For some reason, if I knew it was just a bunch of 20-80 page stories i could read 1000 pages of it quickly. My mom got me into SK as she was a huge fan and eventually I read quite a few of his novels, and the entirety of The Dark Tower. This whole time i told myself i eoulf read The Stand, but only if it came to me. I checked used book stores waiting, but it didn't. Last year I moved back in with my family and decided to read my moms cut version of the stand. It was lame. I finished it, but it felt like a born again Christian novel. The greasy writer kid was obviously based on a young king, and the morality of it all was stupid. Very disappointed. Would recommend probably 10 Stephen King books before it. The original edition you read is so scared-down and defanged that you honestly haven’t read The Stand.
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I'm not into The Stand like a lot of people, but my favorite thing about it is the short story Night Surf (in Night Shift anthology) which is just a snapshot of the world of The Stand, some teenagers hanging around the beach after the end of the world. I like the snapshot, and imagining the rest, better than that world being realized in a long book.
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STAC Goat posted:Fair. But that's not really a unique King thing either, is it? This is the most well-loved book I've ever seen
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