Hopefully it can live up to game of thrones.
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2 more days kiddiesā¦
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Except for the last season of game of thronesā¦
I never fully got into it but my wife read all the books and has watched the series multiple times, she is a junkie for this show, and she was very upset at how they abruptly wrapped up the show. I have to say as a casual watcher I thought it was rushed too.
Will be interesting to see how this prequel goes.
But more importantly, Canāt wait for Tuesday night!
Iām one of those snobs who read all the books before the series and canāt get into the series
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Donāt blame you! I love Stephen kingā¦ but the books are always better than the movies. And I feel thatās generally true for most book to movie stories
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To me this is particularly galling for GoT because Martin stopped writing once HBO got involved
Iām still waiting for him to finish the series
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I can totally see the rise of the Lions, as seen through the eyes of Stephen King.
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Stephen King had some movies better than the books. (imo) Shawshank Redemption, Stand by me, the Running Man, Green Mile, Misery, The aforementioned Dead Zoneā¦And I still love Cats eye and Creepshow
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Oooh ok you make a good point. Cats eye is one of my personal favorites. And cannot argue with Shawshank although the book was good tooā¦ maybe one of the rare instances where the movie equaled or surpassed the book.
You make a strong argument. I love Carrie and Misery and dead zone and I havenāt read those books but loved the movie. Pet sematary was a better book than movie to meā¦ and I still have the stand in my book stack. I was going to start reading it and then covid happened and I got through a few pages and I said to myself I donāt think I should read this right nowā¦ but that is one of his best from what Iāve heard.
Also, read the green mike back when it came out in a 6 series book thing I think, and I loved it. Itās been awhile and need to read it again but the green mile is awesomeā¦ and I hate to say it but never saw the movie
Cats Eye and Creep Show is whatās upā¦ dude i thought I was the only one who loved those!!!
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I also think Silver Bullet was pretty on point with the book. It was a super short graphic novel. I did prefer the novel. I must have read it dozens of times as a kid. Oh yea Salemās Lot. That creepy shit scared the daylights out of me as a kid. The book was a little slow. The scene when those vampires were crawling out of the attic toward the kid with his back turned. Good lord - Gave me nightmares forever
The Stand book is good but it really meanders. I think the story could have been half as long. I thought the 90ās series was pretty fun if not a little corny. Gary Sinese did a good job and as a child of the 80ās Iāll watch Molly Ringwald in anything
I loved the Gunslinger books and thought the movie was an atrocity
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You are a Stephen King fan dude, right on! Man after my own heart. You are right and I agree with you.
Salemās lot was good but the movie was like three hours long, but the vampires scared the hell out of me too as a kid. I mightāve read the book or started and never finished it.
You know what gave me nightmares? The scene from pet sematary with Zelda the sister. I think I saw that movie when I was 10 or 11, and I didnāt sleep for like two weeks. It was that scene that scared the living hell out of me, not to mention the whole thing with children dyingā¦ why did my parents let me watch that as a 10 year old??? Lol anyway, itās a great story and very morbid but I need to read that again as an adult. And it really is a great story and I can only imagine how much it might hit home for parents who have lost a childā¦ itās heavyā¦
One book we didnāt mention was The Shining. I love that book and I love the movie even though King didnāt like it. But the book is awesome. I remember I was in college and reading it, we had a sun room, and I was on the last 100 pages and so engrossed a car drove by and I fell off the couch I was laying on.
Anyway as a smoker, the part from cats eye about the cigarettes, the first short story always cracks me up but also serves as an inspiration to stop smoking. But that part where the guy has like 50 cigarettes in his mouth and says āhow about a cigarette???ā Lol I make that reference all the timeā¦
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Damn I remember thisā¦ Iāve watched it as an adult and laughed at some of it because it has its cheesy momentsā¦ but this still bugs me and really bothered me as a kid
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Shit I meant to type the Shining in my first response! One of my top five movies of all time. In fact King has two of them
I never read Pet Semetary but saw the older
movie. Poor Herman Munster. Achilles injures take a long time to heal. haha
This is the scene that gave me nightmares as a kid. The vampires crawling toward him
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Also not to mention the Gabe sceneā¦ which was the premise of using Ramones songs in disturbing scenesā¦ which I kind of appreciate but also has been overdone nowā¦ like rob zombie did it in house of 1000 corpses but itās kind of a trope or something nowā¦ hey letās do this scene where we play a ramones song and something really bad happensā¦
Probably because I love the ramones and donāt associate their music with awful stuff but I get how it worksā¦ but itās worked so to all the filmmakers out there stop doing it itās been done!
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Top five movies for me (In no particular order)
The Shining
Shawshank Redemption
Lost in Translation
Cinema Paradiso
Star Wars (of course. Iām a 70ās/80ās kid)
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I need to see lost in translation and cinema paradisoā¦ will definitely check those out.
Agree with the rest! Although Iām a huge David lynch fan and I gotta say my favorite films are hisā¦ eraserhead, inland empire (especially inland empire!) and then twin peaks tv show, all of it.
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Never read Geraldās Game but I enjoyed the movie. Mostly because Carla Gugino is a great actor and super hot
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I also really enjoyed 1922
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I used to travel to Japan a lot so it resonates with me in a way it might not otherwise. I have a ritual of when I land in Tokyo, if Iām alone, I take the train to Shibuya, walk to my favorite ramen place, Ichiran. Then find my hotel or flat and watch Lost in Translation
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