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Anonymous Coward User ID: 72341210 United States 02/17/2020 12:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)] Whoopie Goldberg? That would be horrendous casting and insulting to the entire mythology of the book. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72341210 United States 02/17/2020 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Needful Things was a very fine book about Lucifer using Christian intolerance between Roman Catholics and Baptists to start a religious war and annihilate each other. The film was weak when there was a lot of meat to the supernatural horror book. I would like to see a remake of that. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 72558093 United States 02/17/2020 01:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And the you have THIS - [link to www.netflix.com (secure)] ^ 2020 - Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak And this - [link to www.imdb.com (secure)] ^ 2020 - Medical Police And THIS!!! ..... [link to www.imdb.com (secure)] ^ 2020 - Épidémie WTF!!!!!! Coronavirus is a HOAX!!!!!!!! Yes hoax..its 5g testing |
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Jalayaja
User ID: 78474738 Australia 02/17/2020 02:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Read the whole book instead which was reissued in 1990 and 1152 pages. The miniseries is rather weak although Gary Sinese does a fine job and Molly Ringwald is charming as Frannie. Few actors could play a deaf-mute so well but Rob Lowe sort of pulls it off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72341210 With "woke" Hollyweird, the remake will be a disaster. Randall Flagg was portrayed by Jamie Sheridan. He's very creepy. I tried watching it due to Covid-19 but it's largely unwatchable. Even Ed Harris is not at his best which is strange. Very few Stephen King novels have translated well to the screen or television. It, the Shining, Stand By Me, the Mist, Shawshank Redemption, and Misery are the good ones, but there are very bad ones out there. Salem's Lot has never been properly done which is a shame. Tommyknockers could be great but it's science fiction tinged with humor as the townfolk end up all as humans transformed into alien inventors. I watched the mini series recently, Gary Sinese, Rob Lowe and the guy that played Tom Cullen were all fantastic. Molly Ringwald as Frannie was miscast IMO but she was alright. Really enjoyed the series until about 2/3rds of the way in when it started to turn into a soap opera. If there is a remake I hope they do something to improve the ending. Don't expect much in terms of casting, no one can top Rob Lowe as Nick the deaf mute. I like Stephen King based tv shows and movies, most even the bad ones are still watchable. Most book based movies these days are awful, with the exception of a few gems like bridge to Terabithia. |
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User ID: 77380077 United States 02/17/2020 03:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've known a out the reboot for about a year now. The stand is my favorite book of all time and since I was a high school freshman I have read it maybe twice a year. I know every detail in and out. I've even traveled to boulder a couple time from CT just to visit the amphitheatre on Flagstaff mt. I The Larry Underwood being black think hurt me alot, only because Larry is who I envision myself closest like in the book. But I'm starting to have hope, love the new a for from the show The leftovers so I will wait to judge. But if it's a miss I will be heartbroken. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer - Dogma (1999) |
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The Analog Guy
User ID: 77099368 United States 02/17/2020 04:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You'd be surprised how much of our beloved science fiction novels and movies were influenced by cosmic horror writers like Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, or Robert W. Chambers. So much so I believe there are actual hidden cults that follow the path these men had taken in order to remember that which has been forgotten. The ultimate comedy to our life's beatific tragedy. Though they wrote of unspeakable horror, there is always that glimmer of the eucatastrophe that always see's the stories protagonist survive the series of maddening events, regardless of how much they were changed from the trauma therein. Likewise, so too does the cosmic terror survive as well. Almost, a different kind of eucatastrophe in so being it's polar opposite, ensuring the darkness remains bound, beyond the realms of the mortal plane(s). Quoting: Zoinkaeon +1000 I say burn all of your bridges while you still have control of the flame. We are like flies crawling across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: We cannot see what angels and gods lie underneath the threshold of our perceptions. We do not live in reality; we live in our paradigms, our habituated perceptions, our illusions; the illusions we share through culture we call reality, but the true historical reality of our condition is invisible to us.” |
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Rorschach Watchmen
(OP) Gratitude is the greatest currency User ID: 77105561 United States 02/17/2020 08:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | they are always remaking King stories why don't you look at how many times it been made before posting this BS Once you fucking moron, in the 90s. I don’t have to look because I have read the book and seen the tv series pleb. Last Edited by H. Rorschach on 02/17/2020 08:02 AM “When you’re dead you’re dead, but you’re not quite so dead if you contribute something” -John Dunsworth |
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User ID: 76783046 United States 02/17/2020 08:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Whoopie Goldberg stars in it, also. Sounds like liberal progressive bull-shit to me. I won't be watching this one. I'm sure it will be conservatives causing the end of the world, and liberals saving it. I will be watching the original, again. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76984449 United States 02/17/2020 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It’s going to be on CBS All Access so you’ll have to buy their streaming service to watch it. I already subscribe so I’ll definitely watch. I’m a big fan of The Stand original mini series and the book. I can’t wait to see an updated version. Since it’s streaming they can be more graphic than they could with the mini series back in the day, or even today if it was remade for TV for broadcast. Quoting: McDOOMY I would rather use my imagination that see so much graphic content. It actually takes away from stories. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76984449 United States 02/17/2020 09:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Stand miniseries apocalyptic horror is offset largely by Stu and Frannie, two very different people who never would have met ordinarily, then end up as friends and fall in love. It's sweet and innocent and Hollyweird just can't fathom such normality as those extreme leftists are so perverse. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72341210 The remake will ruin the legacy. We still have the original |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72341210 United States 02/17/2020 09:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I rewatched Contagion last night and kept pausing and noting how often the guys were either total omega males versus heroic liberal women. Or how many times trained epidemiologists said stupid things just so they could spout exposition. Or how characters acted in stupid liberal ways that would end up exacerbating the infection. Hollyweird is a plague that infects the mind and then that subversive influence then is meant to replicate self-sabotage in the sheep during an emergency. Hollweird is so detached from reality that it inculcates reality detachement in mindless viewers. |
Rorschach Watchmen
(OP) Gratitude is the greatest currency User ID: 76715386 United States 02/17/2020 02:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Flagg wasn’t Satan, he was possibly possessed by a demon, but before he became the walking man he was a normal guy. At the end of the book, after he gets blown away by the a bomb he reappears in a jungle around villagers. “When you’re dead you’re dead, but you’re not quite so dead if you contribute something” -John Dunsworth |