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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,373
    listened to Dr Sleep on audible. Pretty good
    picks up with Danny as an adult and heavily references the shining.
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,962
    So, this year we have Mist, Tower, Clown, Stand, and maybe Castle Rock from J.J..we gonna have lot of fun!!!!!
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,962
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    23scidoo said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_uqiSQOY
    This looks awful.... Like Under the Dome level of embarrassment for Stephen King's source material....  The Mist film was actually one of the best adaptations made to date (other than the ending)
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Maximum Overdrive and Silver Bullet are guilty pleasures.  You can't go wrong with crazy drunk Busey and an AC/DC soundtrack.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_uqiSQOY
    This looks awful.... Like Under the Dome level of embarrassment for Stephen King's source material....  The Mist film was actually one of the best adaptations made to date (other than the ending)
    one of the worse adaptions i saw was Needful Things.  Weird cause i was reading the book and the day/night I finished it the movie was on tv.  I was like cool, then i saw watched it and it was horrible.
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,962
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
    Come on, don't be negative..
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
    Just relax and let go of all expectations.  Enjoy it for what it is, because it won't be the books.  
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    rgambs said:
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
    Just relax and let go of all expectations.  Enjoy it for what it is, because it won't be the books.  
    It would take Peter Jackson and a gazillion dollars to really recreate Midworld.
    I was really hoping for this, (and the Stand) to be a series on HBO or Showtime (maybe even AMC).  Just one of these times, I would like to see a true adaptation, and these 2 are King's most prized stories.  

    I guess it is kind of a sequel, which based on the 'many worlds' theme, anything is possible.  But I dont trust anybody
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    eeriepadave said:
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_uqiSQOY
    This looks awful.... Like Under the Dome level of embarrassment for Stephen King's source material....  The Mist film was actually one of the best adaptations made to date (other than the ending)
    one of the worse adaptions i saw was Needful Things.  Weird cause i was reading the book and the day/night I finished it the movie was on tv.  I was like cool, then i saw watched it and it was horrible.
    I agree.  Saw that on Showtime years ago while flipping through channels and what I saw bordered on unintentional comedy.  That bad.


  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623

    23scidoo said:
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
    Come on, don't be negative..
    Can't be as bad as Children of the Corn or Cell.
  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,962
    InHiding80 said:

    23scidoo said:
    MayDay10 said:
    23scidoo said:
    https://youtu.be/4C0A2GpMNP8
    Looks like it wont be good.  Sold out to be an action movie from the looks of it
    Come on, don't be negative..
    Can't be as bad as Children of the Corn or Cell.
    Haha..no can't be..
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    trailer #2 :smiley:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpif-4BzHcs
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  • 23scidoo
    23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 19,962
    http://ew.com/article/2016/09/21/dark-tower-tv-series-stephen-king-wizard-glass/
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    23scidoo said:
    http://ew.com/article/2016/09/21/dark-tower-tv-series-stephen-king-wizard-glass/
    Thats more like it!
  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    https://youtu.be/GjwfqXTebIY
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    Anyone else really dislike the Dark Tower series? I tried it, but I couldn't even get through the first book. To me it's fantasy combined with western... the only two fiction genres that I specifically don't enjoy, lol. I really wanted to like it, because I know all about how it has links to the rest of SK's books, but I couldn't do it. I find reading the grocery store weekly flyer more fun. :lol: Anyway, I'm wondering if this unfortunate dislike of the books will allow me to enjoy the new movie more than those who love the books? I will be obvious to whatever isn't the same as the book. I do love the actors in it.
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    PJ_Soul said:
    Anyone else really dislike the Dark Tower series? I tried it, but I couldn't even get through the first book. To me it's fantasy combined with western... the only two fiction genres that I specifically don't enjoy, lol. I really wanted to like it, because I know all about how it has links to the rest of SK's books, but I couldn't do it. I find reading the grocery store weekly flyer more fun. :lol: Anyway, I'm wondering if this unfortunate dislike of the books will allow me to enjoy the new movie more than those who love the books? I will be obvious to whatever isn't the same as the book. I do love the actors in it.
    The first book is a difficult read.  I struggled through it the first time.  You have to remember, this was basically a series of essays by a very young and unpolished Stephen King.  

    The second book is where it gets into King's trademark storytelling groove.  I think the story takes off.   It loses a lot of that abstract element (as much of the story takes place in NYC).

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    edited May 2017
    MayDay10 said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    Anyone else really dislike the Dark Tower series? I tried it, but I couldn't even get through the first book. To me it's fantasy combined with western... the only two fiction genres that I specifically don't enjoy, lol. I really wanted to like it, because I know all about how it has links to the rest of SK's books, but I couldn't do it. I find reading the grocery store weekly flyer more fun. :lol: Anyway, I'm wondering if this unfortunate dislike of the books will allow me to enjoy the new movie more than those who love the books? I will be obvious to whatever isn't the same as the book. I do love the actors in it.
    The first book is a difficult read.  I struggled through it the first time.  You have to remember, this was basically a series of essays by a very young and unpolished Stephen King.  

    The second book is where it gets into King's trademark storytelling groove.  I think the story takes off.   It loses a lot of that abstract element (as much of the story takes place in NYC).

    Well, I actually gave The Waste Lands an attempt a couple years later because someone randomly gave it to me as a gift. I couldn't get through that either. I had to quite maybe 25% of the way in. I just couldn't stand the whole tone/mood/whatever of it. So yeah, I feel pretty confident that this series just isn't for me at all.
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