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best Last-Drive In episodes from season 1? I missed them all. watching Henry to start
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It 2 spoilers: I enjoyed the making fun of King being unable to end a loving book. Making Richie gay is fine and good, but I wish it hadn't been for Eddie. Making it for Bill instead would have made more sense thematically with the book, or maybe even for Ben's new hotness, and either of those would have avoided stepping on that particular trope rake twice in one movie. I actually enjoyed the macroverse stuff, and was disappointed we didn't get more of it, but the strange, non-humanoid look of the tooth-cave and the deadlights kind of hints at it in a way that I liked. Spider-clown wasn't really any scarier than the rubber spider in the TV mini-series. They should have just stuck to the Lovecraftian monstrosities. The Paul Bunyan scene was my least favorite It appearance in the book, and I was glad when it wasn't in the first movie. That said, they didn't do a bad job with it here. It's definitely not as goofy as it was in my imagination. Edit: Oh, I also enjoyed the shoutouts to The Thing and Poltergeist. Petr fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 00:50
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escape artist posted:best Last-Drive In episodes from season 1? I missed them all. watching Henry to start That's one of my favorite movies! A great Joe Bob episode too. Just finished Atroz. It was actually pretty heartbreaking, but the effects were top notch for being a low budget movie. I'd recommend it.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:08
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gently caress, It 2 really sucked! All the jumpscares fell flat, all the Pennywise is Derry subtext gone, no more relation of the scares to the person being scared, literally just an ooga booga clown but they didn't even get that right. I wouldn't even recommend seeing it on streaming, this might be the most uninteresting movie I've seen in ages. Way to retcon IT's true identity too, it's seriously hbomberguy??? vv edit: oh boy married but discreet fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 01:13
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I am excited for Dr Sleep especially because Mike Flanagan is directing it who has one of the best resumes when it comes to current horror. I mean this is guy behind. Oculus Hush Ouija: Origin of Evil Gerald’s Game The Haunting of Hill House
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Sep 8, 2019 01:37
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Way to pick a fight and not even mention Mike Flanagan's one good movie.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:42
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https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1169715644444631043
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Sep 8, 2019 01:43
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I am excited for Dr Sleep especially because Mike Flanagan is directing it who has one of the best resumes when it comes to current horror. this bait is so obvious even IM not gonna take it
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Sep 8, 2019 01:43
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Stephan King's literary works have flaws, but ultimately he's a still a cool dude.
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Sep 8, 2019 01:45
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Stephan King's literary works have flaws, but ultimately he's a still a cool dude. My rule of thumb's been you can't go wrong with King's short stories. With his novels it's a 50-50 crapshoot.
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Sep 8, 2019 02:21
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King owns because he’s a creative who unlocked the ultimate creative power: Just doing it and not stopping. No it’s not called cocaine or drugs because that poo poo isn’t a magical substance that makes work appears on the page lmao.
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Sep 8, 2019 02:25
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Everything that reeks of Muschietti (horrible CGI crooked face with lots of sharp teeth running at the camera) is really, really bad. I thought this was a lot better than the first though. I hope someone fanedits this and the first film into something good. The cast in both is actually pretty solid but there were so many scene-ruining moments like when bill finally overcomes his guilt by peacefully drowning his brother only to see his younger self transform into yet another horrible cgi face with lots of teeth .
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Sep 8, 2019 03:03
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M_Sinistrari posted:My rule of thumb's been you can't go wrong with King's short stories. With his novels it's a 50-50 crapshoot. When I go back to read King, I read his short stories. There might be a clunker or two in a collection, but by-and-large the majority of them whip rear end and demonstrate a control and focus that he usually can't maintain in larger works. Like seriously, I was a grown-rear end adult and N. still gave me the spook-a-doodles, Lovecraft pastiche that it is. Origami Dali posted:Night Shift is a great collection. Might even be the singular best King collection, actually. The Mangler, Gray Matter, Quitter's Inc, Children Of The Corn, Battleground... nearly every story in it is a banger. Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 03:18
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Night Shift is a great collection.
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Sep 8, 2019 03:19
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King rules. Like it’s legitimately awesome that the the most mainstream popular author of our time writes about ghouls and killer cars and poo poo
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Sep 8, 2019 03:55
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KaptainKrunk posted:Everything that reeks of Muschietti (horrible CGI crooked face with lots of sharp teeth running at the camera) is really, really bad. I thought this was a lot better than the first though. Challenge accepted when the DVD comes out.
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Sep 8, 2019 04:06
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That Muschietti! Always stinkin up the place!
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Sep 8, 2019 04:28
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The world would be worse off without at least one mainstream horror writer who has the kind of creative freedom that King has
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Sep 8, 2019 04:32
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M_Sinistrari posted:My rule of thumb's been you can't go wrong with King's short stories. With his novels it's a 50-50 crapshoot.
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Sep 8, 2019 04:33
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KaptainKrunk posted:Everything that reeks of Muschietti (horrible CGI crooked face with lots of sharp teeth running at the camera) is really, really bad. I thought this was a lot better than the first though. Yeah, it got old in the first film. By the time it got to the last part, it was like 'oh, distorted face too many teeth, oh boy, how long til he rushes the camera again?' A lot of it fell flat for me, particularly bringing in the Ritual of Chūd and Bowers coming back. I did like the callback to Richie and Eddie arguing about which door to pick because Pennywise messed with them the last time. I also had a moment of being a snooty elitist movie-goer and rolled my eyes at the homage to The Thing.
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Sep 8, 2019 06:38
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IT 2 is way too long and Pennywise is overused to the point where him showing up lacks any impact. The movie is at its strongest when it's showing the characters under emotional pressure from how hosed up their lives are/were, but way too often it just tries to use some CGI monster as shorthand for this without actually engaging with it and falls completely flat. e: Another problem is that it's frequently unclear whether IT actually poses a physical threat in any particular scene, and he so often doesn't that the movie feels weightless until the very end when he kills Eddie. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 06:42
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People want to see that clown.
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Sep 8, 2019 06:49
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A good zing, but... I mean, come on. It's true. I love King's books but they are simply notorious for going 'oh poo poo we're 1200 pages in I better wrap this up', and just sharting themselves.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:01
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My god Color Out of Space is a real one.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:05
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chitoryu12 posted:Challenge accepted when the DVD comes out. What does it say about me that I'm excited for this to happen as much as seeing a movie I want at the show?
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Sep 8, 2019 07:14
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CelticPredator posted:No it’s not called cocaine or drugs because that poo poo isn’t a magical substance that makes work appears on the page lmao. For some people, it literally is.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:28
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flashy_mcflash posted:My god Color Out of Space is a real one. Do tell! I'm so bummed I wasn't able to get tickets to this at TIFF 
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Sep 8, 2019 07:34
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sigher posted:For some people, it literally is. Maybe. But king still does it without it.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:35
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CelticPredator posted:Maybe. But king still does it without it. Does he, though? All his awful books were written well after he got clean.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:57
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Yeah but like, he writes stuff. I’m projecting a ton here but just very act of creating constantly is amazing. Not a lot of people can do that.
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Sep 8, 2019 08:19
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flashy_mcflash posted:My god Color Out of Space is a real one. I'm really curious how you'd even adapt something like that.
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Sep 8, 2019 08:42
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King’s output is schlocky as gently caress but schlock is the best kind of art.
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CelticPredator posted:Yeah but like, he writes stuff. For what it's worth, I'm with you on this. King has made a lot of stuff, and led to a lot of other stuff being made, and a bunch of that stuff is great! I like goofing on the guy as much as the next person, but the horror genre is a better place because of him.
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Sep 8, 2019 08:59
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RatHat posted:I'm really curious how you'd even adapt something like that. The go-to is to film it in black and white and have the color itself be some gaudy shimmering rainbow.
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Sep 8, 2019 09:05
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CelticPredator posted:Yeah but like, he writes stuff. Most creative types do this though? That's kinda the point. Though a lot of creative people trash a lot of their ideas so it looks like their output is smaller than someone like King who can keep pumping out books regardless of quality.
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Sep 8, 2019 09:29
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el oso posted:Do tell! I'm kind of mixed on it. I think how you receive it depends a lot on how much reverence you have for the original story. It's very much a Nic Cage movie. He's all the way insane in this one and takes over every scene he's in, imo to the detriment of the film at times. If you're okay with the movie being a bit unserious on his part, I think you'll like it. The effects are mostly practical and very well done, with CG mostly being used to retouch things afterwards. It's very b-movieish in a way that made me wonder what, say, Del Toro might have done with the story but it's got the tone you'd expect from Cage doing a Richard Stanley flick. For what it's worth, the Color is pretty much like an iridescent pink that we're told doesn't exist on earth. You really just have to accept that the pink is a stand-in for that color and go from there.
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Sep 8, 2019 12:33
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KaptainKrunk posted:Everything that reeks of Muschietti (horrible CGI crooked face with lots of sharp teeth running at the camera) is really, really bad. I thought this was a lot better than the first though. the scene in bev's old apartment was effective when the giant old woman first stomps into frame but is undercut when they cut to the ridiculous face. Tuxedo Catfish posted:e: Another problem is that it's frequently unclear whether IT actually poses a physical threat in any particular scene, and he so often doesn't that the movie feels weightless until the very end when he kills Eddie. as much as i enjoyed that whole sequence it's kinda goofy they didn't have eddie do it like he did in the book so they wouldn't have IT make a super long tentacle to stab him out of nowhere instead of just grabbing him like i think it does in the book. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Sep 8, 2019 13:32
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Groovelord Neato posted:
Gotta have that Aliens homage though!
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Sep 8, 2019 15:19
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they shoulda had IT look like it did when it caught richie in the deadlights more. that looked cool and weird.
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It’s looking like It Chapter 2 is going to open about 25% lower than the first one ($90 mil instead of $123). Still a shitload of money for a horror movie. I do feel like the pre-release hype for this one was a lot lower even before the reviews hit.
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