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Recommend MANY MORE Movies vrs. 3 or something

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Ahhh yes IT is a brilliant book, fucking love it, one of the best ive read, read it when i was a kid, twice i think. shame the film is shit, coulda been amazing. read a few other stephen king ones as well years ago, cant remember which ones now though
 
Still one of me fave authors is Stephen King. Massively underrated as a writer. Not read all of his stuff but have read the majority. Rarely a dud. Films are almost always diabolical though. With one or two notable exceptions. The IT miniseries wasn't too bad though.
 
Carrie and The Shining are the only really decent ones from his full-length novels. I think it's cos in his longer stuff there's so much background and characterisation that you just can't really do properly in a film. What makes his writing so good is the actual writing rather than the plots for the most part. Short stories probably work better as films as they're more compact and condensed.
 
I think the Movie " Stand By Me" was one of his short stories as well.
Should really read some King, what would you guys say was the best one to start with? or should I go chronological?
 
IT or the shining or the stand. although i cant remember much of the stand for some reason, pretty sure ive read it though

The green mile is based on a stephen king book isnt it?
 
I know we've derailed the Movie thread, but I'm going to read King's On Writing too

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in the vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.
 
I'd actually say going broadly chronological would be best, TLM. His earlier books tend to be the stone cold classics anyway. The 70s/early 80s was his most creative period (when he was on all the booze and coke coincidentally ;)) but his new stuff ain't bad either. His style has matured though and doesn't really have the energy he used to have (or perhaps the cocaine and booze to fuel it :D). Can be argued his newer stuff tends to rehash old plotlines and can feel like he just retells the same stories over and over but if you'd written as much as he had... The quality of the writing itself has definitely improved from a technical standpoint but perhaps lost a bit of the magic along the way. It still pisses from a great height on yer average bestsellers though.

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The green mile is based on a stephen king book isnt it?
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Yup. Not seen it or read the books though (was released as one novella a month over the course of a year or summat like that).

Also, forgot about Misery - the other film adaptation that did a good job of it.
 
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Watched the new (Judge) Dredd film last night - trailer here. Was better than I'd expected but not as good as it should've been. Started off with high-hopes as there were some great lil twisted visual gags straight out the comics but it went a bit downhill as it went on. Nicely shot though. Reminded me a bit of Gaspar Noé of all people from a visual standpoint. Didn't seem to ever make up its mind whether it wanted to be a properly faithful translation with all the black comedy that entails or a more straightforward "superhero" action-type film though. Plot was paper thin too which wouldn't be such a problem if the action wasn't such a weird mix of full-on and strangely castrated. A near-miss, I'd say.
 
The thing you need to remember with Dredd is that it was done on a relatively tiny budget. I thought it was excellent.

I watched The Hobbit last night, which I can only imagine was done on a monster budget, & thought it was awful. I've never read the book though.

I'm currently watching The Man With The Iron Fists. Total shite so far, as expected, but it kicks off with 'Shame On A Nigga' playing, has kung-fu, Lucy Liu & The Rza so... %)%)
 
Was it really a (relatively) low-budget flick, PTCH? Looked fukkin stunning considering - must've looked uberlushy at the cinema in 3D 8o

It was a massive improvement over the Stallone abortion but I have to say it's a near-miss rather than a bullseye. Much better than it had any right to be as an Americanised version of summat so intrinsically British though. Maybe didn't help that I was quite ketted but it certainly did look pretty that way =D

As for The Hobbit, yeah, it's not gonna appeal to anyone who's not already a fan of the book, and I suspect it'll be the weakest of the three films anyway. Was my fave book as a nipper so I liked how faithful it stayed to the original text but for folk who aren't into all the elves, orcs 'n' goblins kinda stuff it'd definitely not convert them. Was more of a nostalgia thing for me. Would've cum in me pants if it had been around when I was a kid. Preferred the old animated version actually but probablly cos I actually was a kid when I saw that.

Will be acquiring The Man With the Iron Fists for next time I've got a lil summat to smoke in. I suspect it will help :D
 
I expect I've said this before but I thought the biggest downer was corrupt judges turning up as adversaries when the comics have so many colourful and exciting villains to draw on. I mean, imagine if the Angel gang had manifested at that point... but I suspect the judges were used for budgetary reasons.

I practically popped a boner when I saw CHOPPER scrawled on that central shaft.
 
That's actually pocket change by modern budget standards. Very impressive to produce summat as sexy-looking as that on a budget. I also thought a sequel would be more likely to really hit the mark now they've introduced the concept to American kiddies. The marketing was terrible though - I don't really remember hearing anything about it in advance aside from one tiny snippet that it was in the works in some film magazine years ago (I'm assuming it took quite a while to get off the ground then).

It did come close to pulling it off - definitely started off well and were some great moments - but didn't quite hang together for me and kinda petered out towards the end. I really hope somebody manages to pull it off properly one of these days but I just don't think Americans "get" the idea of it really and can't resist trying to turn it into a straightforward action flick. Judge Dredd is nothing without the black comedy and social commentary really and they only managed to squeeze in a the bare minimum of either unfortunately. Far from being a total write-off, mind. I am a bit of a fanboy for the comics though :o
 
Thought the slow mo druggy sequences were brilliant... one place where the sfx were noticeably less than wonderful was the point where Ma Ma (was that what she was called) fell all that way and the glass that fell with her kept pace with her body all the way. That wouldn't happen, surely?
 
Not on a planet with an atmposphere it wouldn't no. Did look pretty though =D

The visual side was probably the major plus-point for me. Looked pretty stunning from beginning to end - especially with a few snifters of ket to help it along the way :D
 
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