Why didn't he just throw them a basketball?
Stephen King is a zesty hack
>>219521037Because it was in the past. The soda had no fizz, the match had no spark, and the basketball had no bounce
This was actually one of the better King adaptations of the time. It shat the bed when the flying meatballs made their appearance, but the story before that was interesting.
>>219521037The CGI was so shit in that movie.
>>219521037This was a great movie until we saw the creatures
>>219521498To be fair, this was pretty standard at the time. Execution was poor. Leaving nothing to the imagination.
This movie would be a good candidate for a remake with better actors and effects.
>>219521807His books just don't adapted that well imoexcept for the original pet semetary
I remember seeing this on tv back in the 90s and it was split into 2 parts so they showed half of it one night and the other half the next night
>>219521965why
>>219522046made for tv movies were a novelty back then>don't miss the two-part premiere!so on
>>219522046dunno why desu but this anon is probably right >>219522069
>>219521875I think The Mist adaptation is better than the original story. It's paced faster and it trims the boring domestic scenes at the beginning.
>>219522236I forgot about that one, it was just 'alright' to me, I thought they did the leap to 'we're the only humans left' apocalypse stuff pretty quick and the end where it's like >Oh don't mind the passing yogshogth blarhg'oths it's cool we're the armyWas another "..huh.."
>>219522334Are you legally retarded? Do you have another adult who is a court appointed guardian?
>>219522334Darabont's film gives the story a different ending, and I suppose it was meant to speak to the post-9/11 mood in America, back in 2008. Its message is, "Don't give into despair, because the US military will soon save the day." That is not the message of King's story, and by tacking it on at the end, Darabont creates a twist that seems abrupt and inorganic. And as you said, it's not clear how the army are going to deal with the eldritch titans now roaming the Earth. But it's still a good film imho.
>>219521965Yep, that's how I saw it too. I think IT and the Stand were similar.
>>219521037For years, nobody would believe me that this movie existed and I didn't remember the name to actually look it up.Been a long damn time since I saw it.
THEY FLY NOW!?!?!?!?!?
>>219522236Nah, Carmody was much better as the kooky but harmless local eccentric who cracks under the pressure and turns into Jim Jones. The movie turned her into a mid-2000s fedora tipping atheist's concept of a fundamentalist Christian.
>>219521037This was the kind of shit that scared the absolute fuck out of me as a kid because it was the exact sort of thing that I'd believe as being plausible.
>>219524553Well I enjoyed that because I am a fedora-tipper. The cartoonish local witch of the original story was not as interesting to me.
>>219521438>This was actually one of the better King adaptations of the time. It shat the bed when the flying meatballs made their appearance, but the story before that was interesting.This. I remember when it first came out as a two partner. I'm pretty sure it gave me bad dreams from the way the world was completely empty.(Literal Backrooms before it was cool)But the the giant cgi meatballs showed up and it wasn't as creepy. (But still creepy)
>>219522334It's a far, far more optimistic ending than the story. The narrator in that is just coping hard when he says he heard a radio transmission at the end. That shit is an extinction level event and the whole planet is FUCKED. The dude in the movie iced his kid and some randos but everyone who wasn't fucking retarded will be just fine. All the other people from the store will be lmaoing at him while they watch B-52s carpet bomb Cthulhu.
>>219521438dead zone is my favorite King movie, personally
>>219522236The Mist short story also gave me bad dreams and the original ending is almost as fucked up as the movie ending but in a completely different way. With his new gf from the supermarket and his son in the car he rolls up to his house where his wife was before he left to go to the store. His plan was to go into the house to check on her to see if she was still alive but he chickens out and says to himself she's probably dead and instead just drives away. The End.
Obligatory mention of "Timekeepers of Eternity", a fanedit of the Langoliers only made with thousands of printed still images, the bad VFX aare replaced with paper animation and there's more focus on Bronson Pinchot's character.https://vimeo.com/866783910?msockid=206a6144ebff6cd82d9f77f4ea1f6ddf
>>219525113>All the other people from the store will be lmaoing at him while they watch B-52s carpet bomb Cthulhu.We don't know the extent of the invasion. There could be thousands of Cthulhus out there. There might also be flying Cthulhus and Cthulhus lurking in the oceans. That the soldiers showed up and burned a few small spiders is no guarantee they'll be able to save the world.
>>219521037I read something recently where a woman is recounting an event similar to this where she's part of a group that gets trapped at an empty airport but the focus of that is that her sons legs start growing like an inch every day and eventually his legs are so long that he disappears into the mist but they can still hear him crying and I think maybe the legs get a mind of their own and start killing people. I'm pretty sure this was either in a book or a text log in a video game. Does anyone know what im talking about? I can't remember what it was from and it's driving me nuts. I suppose it might have been an SCP?
>>219521037Nintendo 64 looked so good
>>219525649A mechanized force conducting what appears like an organized and relatively leisurely evacuation of civilians seems like a good sign
>The MistOn rewatch, to be desu, I was really disappointed in Thomas Jane's character. Try to survive no matter what until you're dead. I flatout don't buy it anymore that they'd all give up so easily.
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>>219526115Why didn’t he just sit down?
They forgot the coolest part in the Mist where some kind of crazy geological catastrophe also happened. Like half the grocery store parking lot just broke off into a bottomless chasm and there's similar holes and places where the ground was thrust upwards all over the place when they escape. The most the movie shows is a little tremor when it first hits.
>>219525023>scared of giant meatballs>posts webm of giant meatballswhat did anon mean by this?
>>219526447That's rad as fuck.
the craziest part of The Mist is how, with the movie's ending, we get a movie about Marcia Gay Harden deciding that she needs to sacrifice a kid so the mist lifts and they all survive, and when Thomas Jayne actually does sacrifice the little shit... what does happen?
>>219526115Neither Gemini nor Chatgpt can find it, and both suggest you may be conflating two stories.
>>219526477Zero cardio. I would still be running.
>>219526562She wasn't supposing that sacrificing the kid would dissipate the mist, she wanted to appease their invaders. But man that would have been a cool detail.
>>219521438Maybe a hot take but literally none of the Stephen King miniseries are good. They're all cheap and corny and flat and poorly aged even when they were new.
>>219525542**He finds the road blocked, he doesnt really chikens out. The ending has some hope in it since he catches a possible radio transmission**
>>219526653From my memory he parks at the curb in front of his house.
>>219526642IT and The Stand were 90s kino.Langoliers and Storm of the Century were okay.Tommyknockers, The Shining (1997), and Rose Red were trash.But they were all made for network tv, like Star Trek, whose effects also didn't age well, but we overlook them if the stories and acting are good enough. We understand shit made at the time looks of the time.
The Night Flier is the best Stephen King adaptation.It's also one of the best vampire movies ever made, also a fantastic "protagonist dives too deep into a mystery he shouldn't have despite multiple warnings and chances to back off" storiesMiguel Ferrer was always kino as fuck
>>219526754he can't reach home because it's a long driveway and an enormous tree fell across it in the storm, and he doesn't dare go on foot
>>219526504It's probably where Silent Hill got the idea for the collapsed streets. I always imagined it looked almost exactly like the games show. Just falling off into a deep hole full of fog you can't see the bottom of.
>>219526754I read skeleton crew some months ago, i'm pretty sure a fallen three blocked the road to his home.
>>219526847See I knew you were lying. He chickens out because he has a hot new young piece of ass. It's fucked up.
>>219526828He did a great job playing Lloyd Henreid in the Stand too.
>>219526828this scene fucking rules https://youtu.be/iC7E64OoWrY?si=c-pXzpUvrQPzUamK
>>219526828He was perfect for the role. The ending is also better compared to the short story even if the ghosts are a bit too much
>>219526969No the way the book describes it it's a low point and failure of his character. It's supposed to be a fucked up bad ending just like the movie is a fucked up bad ending but different.
>>219526642They were fun when we were kids. They probably don't hold up, I haven't watched them in recent years.I did watch Salem's Lot again, and yeah, that is very corny. Funny though.https://youtu.be/eDULrVSS0Tk?t=69
>>219526986He fucks her after the first night while his son is sleeping, that is fucked up for sure and i'm glad it was removed from the movie
>>219527084I didnt like the movie ending. I'm fine with bad ending but the movie's one was almost comical, they went overboard. The novella ending is a little better but not really memorable
>>219521037You think they can play?
>>219527143That's what I'm saying. The book ending is fucked up because it's a total moral failure of his character. They went for a different ending in the movie that was supposed to be just as fucked up but it's arguable which one is worse. Which is the point. They are both supposed to be really bad endings. Just for different reasons.
>>219526642Rose Red and Storm of the Century bang ass. You're talkin' 'tarded.
>>219527285The two endings are not equally fucked up. Cheating on your wife is hardly as bad as killing your son and three other people who thought you would save them.
>>219526613I think that was intentional as a dramatic irony
>>219527470Cheating on your wife and leaving her for dead because you have a hot new young piece of ass to take her place is pretty fucked up. It means the crazy lady in the store that was calling them sinning moral degenerates was kind of right.
>>219527642You want to go around the road block and check your house with alien killers running around?
>>219527642>the woman who demands a child sacrifice calls others evilCarmody is not the voice of morality in this story. She's just a nutjob.
>>219527806What if it was just him in the car and and his son was left in the house? What if he had a nihe year old daughter in the house?A hundred monsters couldn't stop him from going in there. It wasn't even implied that there were marital problems between him and his wife before he left for the store. He's just supposed to resign himself to deep down knowing he's a sack of shit. The End.
>>219521438They were scary as fuck when I was 8 years old or so when it came out.
>>219528120That first bit is an excellent counter, but to be desu I'd have to read the story at this point.
>>219522069They weren't movies they were mini-series. They were then cut down into movies.
>>219528590>redditspacing>pretending a tired internet theory is his recent invention
>>219527474It wasn't. She wasn't supposing that sacrificing the kid would do away with the mist.
>>219528686>>219527874 #The point of the crazy lady on some level being correct in her assessment just came to me while making my point in this thread. Nearly 40 years after first reading it.The old crazy lady was on to them and knew they were fucking and called her a degenerate whore. She thought they were both sinning degenerates of low moral character the whole time.She may have been a complete but job but the way the book ends she was kind of right about them and especially him. Literal pottery. Just realized after almost 40 years
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>>219529019I'm gonna act like The Whale...
>>219528717I think you overstate the betrayal. The protag and his new girlfriend both have good reason to believe that their spouses are dead. They don't say it out loud, and they don't quite admit it to themselves, but on some level they know. That's why they can have their fling without it weighing on their conscience. Plus they're in an extremely stressful situation, and sex is a form of stress relief. Also a deadly situation, where each day might be their last.
>>219528120They tried to check the farmacy next to the store and it was a slaughter, even worse than in the movie, the monsters hunt using smell and they were spared only because the store kept the doors closed. There is also the fact that during the trip the keep seeing weird shit moving throught the woods and the protagonist house had a huge hole in the living room window due to a three falling
>>219529627I think the problem is that it happens really too soon
>>219525023>look her up>she got a breast reductionAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>219529373In the same batch of short stories there's a story about this shut in that never leaves his couch and just drinks a fuckton of beer. Like literal tons and of beer while never never getting up and leaving his apartment. The story is told from the perspective of an 80's version of an Uber Eats type delivery person that delivers the food and beer through the door. At the end the hand that grabs the beer through the door is barely even human.
>>219529628From the way it's written it's pretty obvious that it's just cope from the protag.
>>219521037the second e in basketball is silent
>>219530109It's not a cope. There's a bit where he parks the car at night and then has a swarm of bug-monsters glomming on his windscreen. He can't go walking around out there.
>>219525023It's quite faithful to the story right down to most of the dialog as I recall. It's only hampered a bit by bad Made for TV early 90's CGI. I also think the 1994 version of "The Stand" is a pretty solid adaptation of the book.
>>219530509I liked the 2020 version of The Stand, but I haven't read the book and I can't judge the show's merits as an adaptation. I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who enjoyed that series. /tv/ didn't like it because Harold had been reimagined as a modern incel type, and of course /tv/ took that as a personal insult.
>>219530440He also sees some of the giant tentacles near the road. At the end of the novella they are hiding inside a gas station restaurant and he is terrorized of having to go outside to refuel the car
>>219531038>I feel like I'm the only person on the planet who enjoyed that seriesIt didn't exactly break any records, and most of the people who did watch were likely familiar with the book>/tv/ didn't like it because Harold had been reimagined as a modern incel type, and of course /tv/ took that as a personal insult.That's nonsense and didn't happen, Harold is one of the characters that changed the least, and was one of the better actors in that version.That show had pacing problems, race-swaps, gender-swaps, the ending was changed, the best episode was the epilogue episode that was written by King himself and not the people who wrote the rest of the show.Before it came out, I assumed it would've been impossible to make something worse than the cheesy, low budget 90s version, but they managed it.
>>219521037SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!
>>219531038I can't say much about the 20/20 version as when I read about the changes it sounded terrible, though it might have had a few interesting ideas. It is very, very different from the book. It changes a lot, way more than the 1994 version which was faithful other than condensing some characters and storylines. I think you having not read the book definitely shapes very strongly how you'd view it. It's a great book and you should read it sometime. Harold was kind of an incel before incels were a thing. In the book he is a very intelligent but neglected and bitter young man (he's 16 in the book). His bitterness is understandable, but rather tragic because he does get an opportunity to reinvent himself but refuses to do so and doesn't grasp what that could have meant for him until it is too late and he lays dying. In the book is intelligence is shown much more as he has lots of great ideas and solutions that keep people alive in the aftermath. You also see him vulnerable, briefly, in the book, as after the plague has swept through Frannie finds him at one point mowing the lawn outside his house while crying, grieving for his parents and sister. It's the only time she or the audience ever see him without his shields up, so to speak. He and Nadine are both very tragic characters, and it is made more explicit in the book that Flagg never wanted Harold and was just using him to attack the Free Zone, casting him aside once that was done. In the book Stu and the others find his body on their walk to Vegas and cover him up, puling the gun out of his mouth, but don't bury him. Obviously in the modern day Harold is very polarizing and feminists always want to condemn him completely with no regard to his age or the trauma/neglect he suffered before the plague. I think what people refuse to accept these days is that while Harold's fate is tragic, it is also perfectly just. He succumbs to bitterness "worms eating up his brain" and deserves his fate.
how is "cat's eye" ? i just read quitter inc and loved it, is the movie version any good?
>The StandMan that's one novel I really wish I had the time for. I bought an original hardcover "For The First Time Complete & Uncut" from 1990 someone was selling on Amazon. Really good quality, like the seller never read it. I read the first few chapters but haven't since. Completely hooked me, but life gets in the way. I scarcely have time to be on /tv/. I hate that there's never enough time to do everything we want. /blogpost.
>>219530440It's a cope. Anons ITT sound like that guy that bounced and left his wife and kids at the movie theater when the bullets started flying.
>>219531539It's my favorite book of his.
>>219531200>That show had pacing problems, race-swaps,To be honest, race swaps are inevitable and essential if you remake the Stand and set it in modern day because America is a very different country compared to 1978 or 1990. It's much less White, unfortunately, so even if I were remaking it I'd probably have to change the race of some characters just for the story to be believable. However, that said, I think one problem with the 2020 remake is that they change the story and charactrs arbitrarily; there is no thought put into it. Considering how different America of 2020 is compared even to 1990 I think you'd need to thoughtfully reconsider and reimagine every aspect of the story. For example people these days are way less trusting of the government, are politically more divided, racially more diverse, and you have the internet and smart phones. If I did a modern remake I'd at least have some subplot of people posting online about the dreams in the last days of the plague. It'd be nice for a remake to at least touch on a bit more of the global response to the plague too.
>>219531617Nta and not related at all. I remember reading Lucifer's Hammer (decent novel) and being pretty amused that a major antagonist faction were (semi-major spoiler) a group of blacks, the leader of which had a white girlfriend.
>>219531617>To be honest, race swaps are inevitable and essential if you remake the Stand and set it in modern day because America is a very different country compared to 1978 or 1990. It's much less White, unfortunately, so even if I were remaking it I'd probably have to change the race of some characters just for the story to be believableThat's greatBut it doesn't apply to Ralph being changed from a big dumb meathead farmer with a heart of gold to a little Asian woman who barely has any dialogueSo go fucking play devil's advocate somewhere elseThey did the hilarious thing where they made Larry black, and then also added in a plotline where he stole Baby Can You Dig Your Man from a white guy, it's like when Netflix made Death Note, turned L black, and then added in a scene where he spazzes out and steals a gun and tries to shoot people
>>219531539The Audio Book on Audible is pretty decent. Listen to that while driving/working if you can? >>219531617>>219531200Also, if they were going to reimagine the story anyway then why not reimagine it to a more definitive and bold degree? Like, in the book you get the previews of what America will look in the near future if Flagg has his way with his army rolling over the country and burning it and enslaving or killing those who have opposed him. So, why not do this in a remake? Flagg can still fall, but it can come later. Have him execute Larry and Ralph and then launch his campaign, scattering the survivors at Boulder and elsewhere, with Stu and Franny fleeing from him. He'd be taken down by his own people in the end, I imagine, anyway. I think a good twist would be that at the ceremony where is to execute Larry an Ralph that he'd reveal he had General Starky or Cololen Creighton as a prisoner, the two men in charge of the Super Flu cover-up. It'd be ironic if one of them were immune and still alive. Flagg could broadcast his capture and judgment/execution of them as justice and retribution, pulling more people to his side, who are too eager for catharsis and don't (want to) see through Flagg's lies.That's what I'd have done. In the book you only get an upclose look at Vegas in the final act, but the people there aren't violent savages or lunatics. It is a very clean orderly place with friendly but scared people, even children.
>>219531539is this what gaygay's bizarre gayventure is based on?
>>219531766Like I said, thoughtfully. America is infested with browns now, so there'd be a lot more browns around after the plague unless you want to suggest God and the devil disproportionately selected Whites for their end-game. Which I'd be fine with too.
>>219531547>but muh wife!Simps won't survive the Lovecraftian apocalypse. Wives get left behind, deal with it.
>>219531766Additionally, Asian lady Ralph also cowers in fear while crying like a baby at the end before the nuke goes off instead of the book and the 90s miniseries where he's like "Well I did this for Jesus and I'm happy to die"
>>219531838Again, your dumb logic doesn't apply to some hick from rural Kansas or whatever being turned into a vaguely bohemian Asian woman
>>219531791The show turned Vegas into a weird 24/7 orgy party palace, it wasn't interested in nuance
>>219531888I don't think you are a reasonable or rational person. You are clearly upset about the browning of America, and so am I, but it seems you are incapable of talking about the topic or this book in a civil way, so have a nice night and good day.
>>219531573BASED all my homies hate The Dark Tower. I remember in the 2000s when King was publishing more books in the series and you could not escape>KING'S MAGNUM OPUS>BETTER THAN THE STANDThe Stand is THE Stephen King novel. The one you recommend if they can only read one Stephen King book. A true American epic, a classic that stands shoulder to shoulder with any other great American novel.
>>219531931Yes, I know. It's one of the reasons I didn't bother with the remake.
>>219531954Get fucked, retard.Ralph is a mechanic who lived a farm somewhere, the "blackening" of America wouldn't apply to himAnd: >>219531849 it wasn't even the same character but an Asian woman, and was arguably not a character at allAlso Asian-Americans are statistically less likely to be devout Christians than rural hicks, and that is a fundamental aspect of the character
>>219521037This is unironically my favourite Stephen King adaptation.
>>219532115https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6jhoscv-U
>>219531846Well at least now you're being honest. Because if it wasn't meant to be cope they would have shown that the wife was pretty much definitively dead instead of leaving it wide open whether she was dead or alive. As it is now he simply nopes out because he's got a hot new tight young waifu so he's good.
>>219531502pure kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4AKzNzsLYY
>>219532357The mist originated on the lake next to their beach house. When he was at the store, he saw the mist, now moving very quickly, sweep from the direction of his house and cover everything in its path. Then he learned that the mist was full of deadly monsters that would kill a person within seconds.All things considered, how could he possibly expect his wife to be alive?
>>219531981I read the first two Dark Tower novels way back and I was good. It wasn't all that. Cool concept though with a Gunslinger from an alternative world. It was just a slog with all of the supporting characters like the junkie white guy and the cranky black woman in the wheelchair.
>>219533427Maybe there's a whole alternative tale with the wife being smart and resourceful and managing to survive until the moment she really needed somebody to come to her rescue and then we see the husband going: "nah, I bet she's done for." and leaving.
>>219533496That's a genuinely good idea for a fanfic.
>>219521037This looks fucking weird and interesting.
>>219533496It's kind of telling how sensibilities have changed in the decades since the story was first written. Like at the time it was meant to be shocking to where now it's like..welp... you know the guy had a point and it sucks to be her.Like how long will it be before it's not just the wife that people are willing to sacrifice for their own benefit but the kids as well that they are willing to be chopped up and sacrificed to literal demons....oh wait...
>>219533852Is this some sort of schizo rant about abortion?
>>219533897No. But I find it though provoking how things have changed in what is deemed to be morally reasonable and acceptable.
>>219533897How many people were sacrificed by the Mayans or whatever compared to how many abortions there are every year.
>>219534426Come on, fetuses aren't people, CHUD. It's imperative that we constantly chant this otherwise we have to cope with the fact that our framing of "reproductive rights" is literal mass human sacrifice at the altar of a Satanic form of personal "freedom" for demon-possessed women.
>>219534532There's no demons, just people not wanting to raise children, and you need to take meds for that obvious bipolar disorder. Please, anon. Get help.
>>219534570A demon is you. Please eat shit and die, NPC demon robonigger.
>>219534570I'm the one that made the original post and I wasn't talking about abortion. Holy hell.
>>219534570If you're not familiar with demons as a psychological concept then you really have no place trying to discuss morality. Or anything, really. >just people not wanting to raise children Yes, better to murder the innocent and helpless on an industrial scale rather than accept responsibility for your hedonistic actions.
>>219521159Finally, a sane person. Stephen King never wrote anything good.
>>219533399i'll check it out then, thanks
>>219521159His plots go off the rails and his prose is rushed, but the result is serviceable enough that as long as he remains prolific he will remain fresh in reader's minds. So when they see his next book on the shelf they'll consider it a safe bet that it will at least keep them mildly entertained, thus they'll tend to pick King's next middling novel over gambling on one written by someone they've never heard of.
>>219533581>>219533496It's a terrible idea and just akin to the mother in the store guilt tripping everyone about running off into the mist to save her kids who are likely long dead and they'll all die horribly like they just witnessed dozens of other people die. But of course the mother was right and she ends up perfectly safe with her kids saved too. Those stupid cowardly people were rightfully punished for not immediately facing death for her! No, keeping the story more grounded by having everyone fucking die when expected was a better choice. Makes it more believable and keeps the tension and stakes high since they can die at any moment and any plan is dangerous. We know the reason the story follows the main guy is because he gets through it, but everyone else is fair game. Having the wife miraculously defeat tons of mist monsters on her own would be super lame
>>219521438I love it, I like the actors and I like the weird feeling during their time in the past.I think it would fit well with all this "liminal space" business the kids love these days
>>219535904You know why I can't read long form Stephen King? His obsession with self-spoiling his own plots for zero reason gets on my nerves."Jimmy left the room. It would be the last time anybody would see him alive."So, what, King? The group sees his dead body later? Why tell me? Why not surprise me with the reveal later?And he does that all the time. Like, all the time. It's maddening.And don't get me started with the bullies. Oh, my god. It's been a century since you left school, brother, get over it.
>>219536096>bulliesAnd they're always cartoonishly cruel. Like one in a million sociopaths but there's a whole group of them in a town with a population of 150. It's ends up being the least realistic thing in a story about vampires or alien invasion or whatever the fuck.
>>219536170All small towns have bullies like those though. Just like the police in Rambo. They don't like outsiders nor weaklings
>>219521438Years ago I saw part 1 where its mysterious and they hear a sound approaching then it ends, I thought it was amazing, it wasn't until many years later I caught part 2 on TV and these meatballs showed up and it just seemed so retarded
>>219526477>He saved everyone by leading them awayTruly a perfect stranger.
>>219526642>The coldest take imaginableEveryone said that even at the time, the people trying to gaslight you were 5 and were also terrified by "Are You Afraid of The Dark?" They were.
>>219526820>Star Trek's effects aged poorlyThey look better than anything Hollywood has farted out in the last 10 years.
>>219536811the bullies I remember were physically and mentally weak.not sure why you faggots continuously repeat that retardation.they form little faggy gangs because they're utterly terrified of consequence and hate themselves for being inferior in almost every way, often because their latest step-dad butt fucked them into oblivion and they want to take it out on someone else.
>>219537537>were 5 and were also terrifiedGood since that's the best time to watch horror movies and the only time to actually be scared. You're an immature stunted wimp if you're scared by anything on screen after the age of 13. What kind of fucking adult can watch any show or movie and be like oh noez it's so scary I'm pissing myself?! But you're the loser in ever scary movie thread loudly announcing how it's not scary at all and you're so brave as if there actually is movies that scare adults
>>219536096I think his most absurd bully-story is Sometimes They Come Back. A gang of dead bullies return as ghosts and start attending a high school as regular pupils, and they hand their school records into admin, giving the name of the cemetery where they are buried as their previous school. And no one except the protagonist notices that something is amiss.
>>219541523Is that ever explained? Like, were the kids hallucinations or something?
>>219541733There is some ambiguity, because the narrator, who is a school teacher, is suffering from PTSD after those bullies killed his older brother during his childhood. So you could think, yeah, maybe it's all in his head. But there are too many things contradicting that interpretation. These ghosts are coming to his class in broad daylight and interacting with other students and teachers. And like I said, their paperwork is filed with the school office.
>>219534951Some of his short stories are good and he has good ideas, then he ruins them later.
>>219541523i like the short story, the ending especially, him finding a occult book in a library was the most unbelievable part
>>219521875Or Shawshank or Green Mile.
>>219523037The moster are just interdimensional fauna, nothing paranormal. How would a modern military kill a walking whale? Explosives
>>219521159he was on cocaine 24/7
A lot of child rape/sex in Stephen King books. Just sayin.
>>219543905Truly the Holy Bible of books.
>>219521438How would you have made it better then?
>>219543905Well, we had our MeToo arc and Stephen King was not accused of anything.
>>219543934Given that the budget was low, it would have been better to keep the meatballs offscreen as much as possible. Show a few brief glimpses of them, just to get the idea across. Because when you have them rampaging around in plain sight like this >>219526477 it becomes a ridiculous cartoon.
>>219544025He wore a mask.
>>219544096Nah, it was fine. It was back in a time when people weren't so high and mighty, giant stick up their ass, expecting multi-billion dollar budget and perfection out of everything. It's a weird little tv miniseries and it's entertaining. It was good enough to watch and enjoy. Back then anything with cgi was amazing and some of the most ridiculous looking shit appeared "real" to viewers.
>>219543905Kids have sex and rape is real. King is just being honest about reality where everyone else wants to pretend nothing ever happens.
>>219544535But The Langoliers came out two years after Jurassic Park. We had seen much better CGI. We had also seen creatures better depicted by practical effects in the 80s.
>>219544771If soda has no fizz, if food has no taste, if the air has no smell... then surely CGI would be just as flaccid.
