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RC and Moon Pie posted:No. Nor did they have the banner on the back page. It's not based on the NYT at all. The Evening News was a London paper of the time, and it used exactly six columns. Here's a front page from almost exactly the same time: 
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I'm not sure it was wise to run on Laurel and Hardy's iconic hats at the expense of John C. Riley and Steve Coogan's faces.
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Huh, I didn't even know they still made those books. Is this going to be a movie or a series?
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Feb 3, 2019 14:31
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I mean, they don't, since the last one was published in 91. And it's a movie.
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Larryb posted:Huh, I didn't even know they still made those books. Is this going to be a movie or a series? There was a whole thing where they republished it not too long ago and removed all the good scary art.
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They republished the Stephen Gammell editions 2 years ago, so they're widely available again.
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muscles like this! posted:There was a whole thing where they republished it not too long ago and removed all the good scary art.
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Not to enable marketing but the first footage for Scary Stories drops during the Super Bowl apparently
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It would make sense since the movie is being made by CBS.
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FilthyImp posted:I'm convinced it was some dumb licensing thing and the best idea they had for the series was to New Coke the line. Wasn’t the new artist the same one who did the Harry Potter illustrations or something? I could see them wanting to take a bite of that.
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It was Brett Helquist, who did A Series of Unfortunate Events. I don't think anyone was trying to get a piece of the pie, it's just been that those books have often run into trouble because of the illustrations and I think they wanted something more marketable.
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Waffleman_ posted:It was Brett Helquist, who did A Series of Unfortunate Events. I don't think anyone was trying to get a piece of the pie, it's just been that those books have often run into trouble because of the illustrations and I think they wanted something more marketable. The thing is the stories were all completely lame, though morbid. The book's reputation hinges entirely on the original artwork. Not to say I'm a purist. I've read both versions of Killing Joke and the comic was barely adequate each time.
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I had to sit through that whole terrible Super Bowl for a shitass web teaser for Scary Stories?! 
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FilthyImp posted:I had to sit through that whole terrible Super Bowl for a shitass web teaser for Scary Stories?! Yeah, suck my rear end on that. It was the only commercial I actually gave a poo poo about, and I had to wait until the fourth quarter of a fifteen year game to see three seconds of footage.
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FilthyImp posted:I had to sit through that whole terrible Super Bowl for a shitass web teaser for Scary Stories?! You didn't have to do that at all. you could have just looked it up online a little later
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Fart City posted:Yeah, suck my rear end on that. It was the only commercial I actually gave a poo poo about, and I had to wait until the fourth quarter of a fifteen year game to see three seconds of footage. You didn't have to do it
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:You didn't have to do it drat thank u I won’t
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Fart City posted:drat thank u I won’t I mean, you already did. But you didn't have to
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:I mean, you already did. But you didn't have to whoa poo poo whoa
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Fart City posted:whoa poo poo lmao dude what are you doing he right
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Dissapointed Owl posted:lmao dude what are you doing he right He is... okay. EDIT: to be clear, I like you and like your posts. But what is homeboy adding to the conversation besides "lol shouldnt have done that?" Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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There isnt a convo to have. No one should watch the super bowl for trailers.
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CelticPredator posted:No one should watch the super bowl
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Idris in this Hobbs n' Shaw character poster makes me think of Tom Selleck in Runaway for some reason. 
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Fart City posted:He is... okay. I think it’s just to emphasise the (in the grand scheme of things, minor) absurdity of spending time watching a game you seem to dislike only for a trailer you could have found online 5 minutes after it’s aired. Beyond that it’s just joshing.
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So were the stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark actually any good or do people just like the pictures?
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Teenage Fansub posted:Idris in this Hobbs n' Shaw character poster makes me think of Tom Selleck in Runaway for some reason. TBH I'd watch a Runaway remake with Elba starring.
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Calico Heart posted:So were the stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark actually any good or do people just like the pictures? A lot of them are just folk stories and urban legends. The real draw was the artwork, which was loving terrifying. Also, once again, the story about the homemade man-shaped punching bag that gains sentience is still scary as gently caress. I picked up the reprinted editions from Amazon a while back and went and checked yesterday if that story was still scary and yeah it's still fuckin scary.
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The newspaper doesn't bother me, but that Stan & Ollie poster is pretty bad. Aside from simply not looking very good in general, and even though I recognize the hats pretty well, it just isn't very exciting. And I say that as a Laurel & Hardy fan who wants to see this movie. A boring design that just shows the actors would actually be far superior in this case.
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Calico Heart posted:So were the stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark actually any good or do people just like the pictures? The stories are 'scary for an elementary school child' good, but the art is where the nostalgia comes from. To kids growing up when those books were released (i.e. pre-internet), that art was almost transgressive with how creepy it was.
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Untrustable posted:A lot of them are just folk stories and urban legends. The real draw was the artwork, which was loving terrifying. Also, once again, the story about the homemade man-shaped punching bag that gains sentience is still scary as gently caress. I picked up the reprinted editions from Amazon a while back and went and checked yesterday if that story was still scary and yeah it's still fuckin scary. Uh I don't remember that story at all
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Calico Heart posted:So were the stories in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark actually any good or do people just like the pictures? The title isn't just evocative, it's literally campfire stories. A lot of repetition for effect and endings that are something you would shout the last line for effect and make everybody jump. Also lots of urban legends like thinking a sewer rat is a dog or a pimple being a spider bite full of baby spiders.
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Untrustable posted:A lot of them are just folk stories and urban legends. The real draw was the artwork, which was loving terrifying. Also, once again, the story about the homemade man-shaped punching bag that gains sentience is still scary as gently caress. I picked up the reprinted editions from Amazon a while back and went and checked yesterday if that story was still scary and yeah it's still fuckin scary. Are you uh... talking about Harold, the scarecrow?
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Chris Knight posted:TBH I'd watch a Runaway remake with Elba starring. I just watched it a few months ago. I'm amazed how well it has held up and how relevant parts of it are today.
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Harold is such a weird outlier in that series. Like a lot of it is kind of silly and comedic (complete with prompts to shout or make loud noises, because its meant to be told aloud), but you have Harold and it's this really dark and kind of visually intense story that is unlike anything else in the trilogy of books. I'd argue that it's the only story that can actually truly hang with the artwork in feeling like it's absolutely not meant for children.
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