dylan5
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7/30/2007 9:43 AM
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it is one sven kings bust move
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marincat
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7/31/2007 8:13 PM
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I had read the book and was very much interested in seeing the movie, but I should have known better! Stephen King write great books but I've yet to find one of the movies based on his books that is at all interesting.
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lukasblu
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7/31/2007 9:33 PM
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"Stephen King write great books but I've yet to find one of the movies based on his books that is at all interesting. " you are right mostly on that. With the exception of Misery (1990);just about evereyone i know that have seen seen misery liked it just like me. Although, i have never read the book so i do not know how it compares to the book. A couple of memorable quotes from that movie i love is "you dirty birdy" and " I am your number one fan". Stephen king did write some non-horror books/short stories which i thought became pretty good movies(again, i never read the books and the movie name might be different from the original story by s.king).They are: Stand by Me (1986), The Green Mile (1999), and Hearts in Atlantis (2001)( this flick did not get good critical appraise,but i liked this flick) I actually saw stephen king once when he performed in a band called "Rock Bottom Remainders" with other famous authors in the miami book fair .He was pretty cool;they played a bunch of old/cassic rock songs
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marincat
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7/31/2007 11:58 PM
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I was so busy thinking about the bad stuff that I completely forgot about Stand By Me, The Green Mile, and Hearts In Atlantis. Those were actually real good....particularly Hearts In Atlantis. Maybe I liked them because I've never read those 3 books. Good catch!
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divinemsjunebug
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8/4/2007 4:29 AM
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Now, I have to say that I really enjoyed IT. I LOVE Tim Curry and he was just so freaky as Pennywise the Clown. I thought the ending was very stupid but I really enjoyed it when they went back in time as kids. I was watching the commentary on the movie and they were talking that MOST of the kids in the movie were spoiled rotten and had some major attitudes (more than the adults), I thought that was pretty interesting. It had some very good parts in it and there are some things in the book that I am GLAD they didn't show in the movie. The book had a part where they were children and they all wanted to find a way to feel closer to each other and each of the little boys had sex with the girl (or just brief entering and exiting...) it was a little to uncomfortable for me. Now if they were adults fine, but the kids...
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lukasblu
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8/4/2007 6:07 AM
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i heard that in the book "it",there was no specific thing that it was,it was not a clown but they used the clown in the movie ,so that it is easier to visualize in film.I think 'it' was anything that a character fears or fears the most;"IT" reminds me a bit of "Witches of eastwick' when the 3 women turned against daryl(jack nicholson),daryl retaliates by making each of the 3 women envision their worse nightmare come to real life I do have a friend that loved "it' the movie and til today,as far as i know, still has a fear of clowns because of that movie.
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joem18b
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8/4/2007 12:17 PM
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 marincat:but I've yet to find one of the movies based on his books that is at all interesting.
Whoa. "Shawshank" has been number one or two for years on the IMDB list, which, yes, is strange, but it does mean that a lot of folks like it a lot. And no love for Kubrick and "The Shining" or for "Carrie"? Or Walken in "The Dead Zone"? Tough crowd. Sometimes if I have enjoyed a book, I just like to sit back and watch it reprised onscreen without being too picky about what I'm watching. Two guilty pleasures for me are "The Stand" and "Dreamcatcher." Haven't seen "1408" yet, but some have liked it.
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marincat
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8/4/2007 7:28 PM
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Sorry, but no, I didn't like The Shining, Carrie or The Dead Zone. It's just my opinion becuase I feel the books are so well written and so much of it is what you envision. With a movie based on an outstanding book, I find that either too much or not enough is shown. For me it is best to see the movie first and then read the book.
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joem18b
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8/4/2007 9:13 PM
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Mick LaSalle in his SF Chronicle podcast this week was saying that we're all so overstimulated in this society that even when we feel like reading a book, we often end up turning on the TV instead. So congratulations to you and anybody else who still reads.
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lukasblu
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8/5/2007 12:03 AM
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"Whoa. "Shawshank" i liked swashank redemption but it is not a fave prison/jail flick of mine.I thought the movie was good BUT not great ,and a tad bit overrated; "It" was also an ok movie for me.it was not bad but it was not the best ;I also though that Apt Pupil (1998)was o.k./so-so Some other king movies i liked(more like guilty pleasures) or honoroble mentions are: Creepshow (1982) Firestarter (1984),Cat's Eye (1985),definitely "The Twilight Zone" (1986), Maximum Overdrive (1986) The Lawnmower Man (1987),Creepshow 2 (1987),Secret Window (2004) OR at least i liked them back then when they first came out Has anyone seen "Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King" (2006) (mini) TV Series (short stories) that originally aired on tnt?there was a total of 8 1hr. stories; I liked 4 of the 8 stories called:You Know They Got A Hell of a Band, Autopsy Room Four, The Fifth Quarter, and i really liked(my fave of all 8 stories) Battleground
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