They made a movie...

[Flynn]

Remember though that Caddy Shack is the Daddy of golf humour!

How old are you???

I just found out about the movie Animal House.

also I recommend Penguins of Madagascar, its hilarious and stupid at the same time.

Hmmmm...I guess anything about birds is semi-okay.

At least you're not bleeting about wanting to suck off Martini.

 

[Flynn]

I think the last really great book I saw from him was 'The Regulators'. After about that point, it seemed like every new book he put out was about (or for) old women.

That was one of his worst books ever! I put that right up with The Dark Half.

How can you even chirp about The Regulators? There are novels like Misery, Stand By Me which was in a collection of stories titled, Different Seasons. The original title was, The Body. Even the Langoliers was a better book, but not by much.

Do you even know what Bachman was trying to say in The Regulators? The town is shot up by cartoon caricatures who are The Regulators brought on by some weirdo named Tak through some boy. The town is middle America. And Bachman was writing the demise of what used to be the middle American family. In the end of the book the people have to band together to fight off some nightmare supernatural creatures. That represents middle America needing to come together to fight off the very things that are threatening the American dream.

If you knew what you were talking about and not just picking out random mainstream titles you never read and only saw in passing to fit in, then you should know that Desperation had the same characters in different roles and that it was a mirror to The Regulators. Also King published Desperation at the same time as The Regulators under the Bachman name.

 

[Frood]

The movies, especially the older one's just don't do it for me.

I find that reading the classics, the original writing, takes me more into the story than anything I see on TV. That just goes for the classics like Gone With The Wind, Alice In Wonderland, Romeo and Juliet, All Quiet On The Western Front, etc. I just get more description, and a glimpse into the mind of the protagonist or/and antagonist.

Another great example is Hemingway's Farewell To Arms and For Whom The Bell Tolls are good movies, but reading Hemingway with his light brushing and smatterings of daily life and romance during World War 1 and The Spanish Civil War is a heart wrenching journey into the unknown. The writing is very crisp and fine. These books are airy, but it takes nothing away from the plot and the emotion Hemingway draws out with his low calorie writing.

If you enjoy the classics then I invite you to read the "novel" Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak, then watch the movie. You'll see some differences and some of the writing will bleed out because of the fine performances by Julie Christie, and Omar Sharif. If their bittersweet love story doesn't haunt you, maybe Lara's theme from the movie soundtrack will.

I prefer the show me over the tell me.

I was an avid reader up until my later teens. I'd read the most obscure works... stuff that most people here never heard of or the authors.

And I read a lot of shit too. My great grandfather left a massive 3 foot high by 4 foot wide box of Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, and other assorted works of fiction in our attic, and I read through them over a 3 month summer break. Most of them carried the local library stamps and I still wonder till this day how he got them or why he didn't serve time.

I get what you say about the original novels to film... I seriously do... but my mind is geared to show me instead of tell me these days, and I think it's a distant desire to view or hear or both....something...around a campfire.

 

[Flynn]

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[Flynn]

 

[Dove]

His early works were superb.

"The Shining" was possibly the best book to movie adaptation ever made.

but "The Stand" stands alone as one of the great works of its time.

He sucks now. Ever since he got hit by that van he's been a little deranged.

See i hated The Stand. I just absolutely hated it.

I think thats a personal bias thing. Ive mentioned a few times i grew up in a Pentecostal church. One that followed that IBLP (Institute of basic life principles) shit that the Duggars are known for following.

So i grew up believing that i was gonna see the end of the world and the antichrist was gonna come and all this horrifying shit was going to happen.

So im always kind of put off by any end of the world story lines.

I know everyone loved The Stand so maybe im just unfair about calling it crap and its just an issue i have with that sort of story line.

I also normally hate remakes but i prefered the remake of It to the original. I say that as someone who loves Tim Curry. I was okay with the first....but the remake was better.

 

[Dove]

I prefer the show me over the tell me.

I was an avid reader up until my later teens. I'd read the most obscure works... stuff that most people here never heard of or the authors.

And I read a lot of shit too. My great grandfather left a massive 3 foot high by 4 foot wide box of Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, and other assorted works of fiction in our attic, and I read through them over a 3 month summer break. Most of them carried the local library stamps and I still wonder till this day how he got them or why he didn't serve time.

I get what you say about the original novels to film... I seriously do... but my mind is geared to show me instead of tell me these days, and I think it's a distant desire to view or hear or both....something...around a campfire.

I wouldnt admit this in real life, but i read almost ever V.C Andrews series that exists. Mostly because my great Aunt had all of them and i just loved reading so i got into all her books. She had them...so i read them.

 

[Murdy]

I like King's earlier stuff.

A variety of stories that are well written. I think Stand By Me is King's greatest achievement. Come to think of it, the movie was adapted in a way that it was like an audio visual book. I guess there is a good book to movie adaption from King.

wait wut?

the body was a short story in a collection

the movie was brought all the attention to him, but embellished the friendship of the boys and divulged into their backstories

 

[Dove]

wait wut?

the body was a short story in a collection

the movie was brought all the attention to him, but embellished the friendship of the boys and divulged into their backstories

And?

Can we not pretend you read?

 

[Garraty_47]

See i hated The Stand. I just absolutely hated it.

M-O-O-N, that spells "disgust".

Sorry... couldn't resist.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

That story was from the time he wrote as Richard Bachman, which I believe was fairly early in his career?

I know I know... it doesn't matter.
Just throwin' it out there.

Not sure if anyone is familiar with ytube's Mr Ballen who tells stories but one of the stories he tells is about a husband & wife and the husband writes furiously and when he is about to give up writing... he breaks through to success. It's Stephen King.

Unlike Frood, I won't ascribe hate towards King's works even if I differ with the man on a political level. Just like a Roman Polanski film can be great even if Roman himself had interactions with underaged folks & I can still laugh at a Woody Allen movie while acknowledging that he married his adopted daughter and that's all kinds of fucked up.

People aren't flat placemats or placeholders. We are all diamonds in the rough with many facets.

Sydney Sweeny just did an American Eagle ad & people are already trying to hate on her & cancel her. For what the fuck? Selling bluejeans? Jesus Christ. Grow up. Evolve. Should we cancel the Hardees/Carl's Jr sexy ladies for biting into cheeseburgers because they aren't aware enough to preach the evils of cholesterol & body shaming?

Fuck the fuck off.

And Garraty, I'm honored to find out the origin of your nickname. So fuck these King haters. Any movie based upon King that sucked.... wasn't because King sucked. It was because the movie sucked.

Look at me. A dude with a terminator avatar long after many many many stupid attempts to restart the terminator franchise.

But I loved the original. And no gaslighter can ever take that away from you. Nor me. Normie? LOL

 

[Jack]

And Garraty, I'm honored to find out the origin of your nickname. So fuck these King haters. Any movie based upon King that sucked.... wasn't because King sucked. It was because the movie sucked.

I was surprised I knew him as a different poster more than a decade ago. He posted with one of my best online friends ever.

 

[Lily]

Not sure if anyone is familiar with ytube's Mr Ballen who tells stories but one of the stories he tells is about a husband & wife and the husband writes furiously and when he is about to give up writing... he breaks through to success. It's Stephen King.

Unlike Frood, I won't ascribe hate towards King's works even if I differ with the man on a political level. Just like a Roman Polanski film can be great even if Roman himself had interactions with underaged folks & I can still laugh at a Woody Allen movie while acknowledging that he married his adopted daughter and that's all kinds of fucked up.

People aren't flat placemats or placeholders. We are all diamonds in the rough with many facets.

Sydney Sweeny just did an American Eagle ad & people are already trying to hate on her & cancel her. For what the fuck? Selling bluejeans? Jesus Christ. Grow up. Evolve. Should we cancel the Hardees/Carl's Jr sexy ladies for biting into cheeseburgers because they aren't aware enough to preach the evils of cholesterol & body shaming?

Fuck the fuck off.

And Garraty, I'm honored to find out the origin of your nickname. So fuck these King haters. Any movie based upon King that sucked.... wasn't because King sucked. It was because the movie sucked.

Look at me. A dude with a terminator avatar long after many many many stupid attempts to restart the terminator franchise.

But I loved the original. And no gaslighter can ever take that away from you. Nor me. Normie? LOL

I agree with most of your point about the Sydney Sweeney brouhaha.

She didn't write the script, she just voiced it. However, what do blue jeans have anything to do with blue eyes?

 

[MrNiceGuy]

If I could erase his entire existence and memory of him out, I would without a second thought.

I literally despise that coward of a man.

He's worse than pineapple on pizza.


***spit***

Well, I agree pineapple on pizza is zenith shit. One time my sis in law ordered pineapple on pizza because she is the one in ten billion peeps that think it okay and the pizza place used pineapple sauce on the pizza like what you put on banana splits. It was total failure even beyond the failure that actual pineapple pieces are upon any pizza pie ever baked. My sis in law scoffed.

I felt like karma rocked my sis in law's face off that day... my fellow fiends.

And insomuch as I love my sis in law to death; I was also so very much so not sorry.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

I like King's earlier stuff.

A variety of stories that are well written. I think Stand By Me is King's greatest achievement. Come to think of it, the movie was adapted in a way that it was like an audio visual book. I guess there is a good book to movie adaption from King.

Stand By Me is like a very grittier version of Breakfast Club.

Different cliques & peeps banded together towards a goal.

People are all different.

People can either choose to come together to get through shit situations or they can bicker and fall the fuck apart.

It's not rocket surgery nor brain science.

It's common sense.

There's a reason common sense & common goal both have the word common preceding them. Because acknowledging the commonality amongst us brings us together enough to learn about each of our specialities.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

Anytime authors or actors or artists change their names like that i get icked out. I know authors do this....i hate it.

Do you remember when Garth Brooks did that weird fucking Chris Gains thing and he was never the same again? LoL.

I don't think there's many country & western music fan mother folkers here.

I grew up on country because it's all my parents listened to. So even though I listen to metal to soothe my savage soul I appreciate country & I always will.

Brooks tried Chris Gaines like Mötley Crüe tried Generation Swine.

Brooks is still in Vegas I think.

I give props to people who try to move on. Because I'm more forgiving. Life is not forgiving. It moves on. Whether you do or not.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

It was just so bad. Very few of Kings ever translate well into film. Dream Catchers was a huge let down. So much was left out. God i read that back in like....i wanna say 1999 or 2000. Had to be at least 20 years ago. I dont even remember the story very well. I remember the shit weasles. The moldy stuff and the astro projection and how the main character kept having flash backs to his childhood.

I thought Pet Semetary was fantastic in film. BUT the book always give more. You could still experience Louis Creeds descent and kinda pick up enough about the curse on the land. I know when i revisited the story as a parent it really gutted me in a way it didnt the first time. The scariest part of the movie BEFORE becoming a parent was always Zelda. After becoming a parent its a whole new horror story.

Delores Claiborne did good on film. And Green Mile is one of the FEW movies that made me ugly cry.

Sleep Walkers was great. Ill always love Kings love of cats and how he includes them and the context he includes them in. How he writes them as misunderstood heros.

He definately is creative with story lines but i notice a tendency with him to write the same character over over. When he writes a female character, shes pretty much the man from the other story. I dont know maybe thats just me who thinks that.

I actually watched a more "recent" movie of his called 1921 and it was not bad. It was gritty and creepy and much more in line with his older style of story telling. I wanted to order the book and read it but i just dont have the time or the mental capacity to knock out books like i used to. Id like to though.

I have read some Dean Koontz. I have not even heard of Micheal Crichton. Im probably gonna check him out right now.

Just earlier today my man and i were discussing those old teen/young adult authors everyone our aged loved back in the day. R.L. Stein and my favorite was Christopher Pike. I used to have A LOT of his books and i would honestly love to have that whole collection. Just to have it. Save it for Squish when she gets older so she can enjoy them.

Dont laugh at me but i bought the whole Anne of Green Gables series years ago because i loved them as a kid and wanted my daughters to love them. So far they have. Now the series waits Squish to get into them ♡

I WANTED so bad to love Clive Barker. I still have Imagica (?). A really good friend of mine loved that author and gave me that book as a gift and i love her so much, i try so hard but i just cannot read that damn book. I cant even put my finger what makes it such a rough read for me. My brain just leaves. I wasnt feeling Hell Raiser either. Galilee was....eh. I try hard with him...every few years ill try with that book lol. My friend loves that shit though and she loves dicussing it even more lol.

Michael Crichton is the reason why Jurassic Park has more remakes & redos than the terminator series.

The guy melded science with reality to create gripping shit. The guy received a medical degree but chose to use it to make compelling fiction stories rather than recite hippocratic oaths.

R.I.P. Mister Michael.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

I'll wait for the porn version.

Nine iron anal is bliss.

Slo mo for the win.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

How old are you???

I just found out about the movie Animal House.



Hmmmm...I guess anything about birds is semi-okay.

At least you're not bleeting about wanting to suck off Martini.

My god Babe you're a virgin.

The greatest scene in Animal House... at least to me... is when some simp fuck is plucking a guitar and singing about how he gave his love a cherry and Bluto grabs the guitar to smash it against the wall.

This is fantasy meeting reality.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

I agree with most of your point about the Sydney Sweeney brouhaha.

She didn't write the script, she just voiced it. However, what do blue jeans have anything to do with blue eyes?

I think they were just trying to sell jeans.

American Eagle, Ambercrombie & Fitch, Jordache. Companies trying to survive.

I don't think companies are inherently racist same as I don't think people are inherently racist.

Sorry if my hope for the best but prepare for the worst goes against grain.

People want to blame fentanyl being in America because users of it are in America.

Same people blame guns.

So which is it? Blame users of drugs & guns or blame drugs & guns?

To quote Captain America... "I can do this all day."

 

[Garraty_47]

Michael Crichton is the reason why Jurassic Park has more remakes & redos than the terminator series.

The guy melded science with reality to create gripping shit.

If you aren't familiar with Daniel Suarez's two-book series 'Daemon' and 'Freedom' I highly recommend them.

That same melding approach is superbly done.

 

[Dove]

Not sure if anyone is familiar with ytube's Mr Ballen who tells stories but one of the stories he tells is about a husband & wife and the husband writes furiously and when he is about to give up writing... he breaks through to success. It's Stephen King.

Unlike Frood, I won't ascribe hate towards King's works even if I differ with the man on a political level. Just like a Roman Polanski film can be great even if Roman himself had interactions with underaged folks & I can still laugh at a Woody Allen movie while acknowledging that he married his adopted daughter and that's all kinds of fucked up.

People aren't flat placemats or placeholders. We are all diamonds in the rough with many facets.

Sydney Sweeny just did an American Eagle ad & people are already trying to hate on her & cancel her. For what the fuck? Selling bluejeans? Jesus Christ. Grow up. Evolve. Should we cancel the Hardees/Carl's Jr sexy ladies for biting into cheeseburgers because they aren't aware enough to preach the evils of cholesterol & body shaming?

Fuck the fuck off.

And Garraty, I'm honored to find out the origin of your nickname. So fuck these King haters. Any movie based upon King that sucked.... wasn't because King sucked. It was because the movie sucked.

Look at me. A dude with a terminator avatar long after many many many stupid attempts to restart the terminator franchise.

But I loved the original. And no gaslighter can ever take that away from you. Nor me. Normie? LOL

I LOVE Mr Ballen

 

[Lily]

I think they were just trying to sell jeans.

American Eagle, Ambercrombie & Fitch, Jordache. Companies trying to survive.

I don't think companies are inherently racist same as I don't think people are inherently racist.

Sorry if my hope for the best but prepare for the worst goes against grain.

People want to blame fentanyl being in America because users of it are in America.

Same people blame guns.

So which is it? Blame users of drugs & guns or blame drugs &

Honestly, from a marketing perspective, if you want to sell women jeans, you don't need a model with big tits...

You want a model with a great ass. Women care about what their butts look in jeans.

 

[Flynn]

Stand By Me is like a very grittier version of Breakfast Club.

Not even close. The disparities between the two movies are too far. Sure you have Corey Feldman playing a pre-criminal Judd Nelson. That's where it ends. The timeline, the economic and the overall class level between the two groups propels them from each other at light speed.

What Stand By Me is prolly a semi-personal memoir of what Bachman wanted incorporated into his childhood, had he had the chance to change it.

Here's another fact. Stand By Me was a book first, whereas The Breakfast Club was written as a screenplay by John Hughes and was never a book.

So, quite some differences.

Different cliques & peeps banded together towards a goal.

People are all different.

People can either choose to come together to get through shit situations or they can bicker and fall the fuck apart.

It's not rocket surgery nor brain science.

It's common sense.

There's a reason common sense & common goal both have the word common preceding them. Because acknowledging the commonality amongst us brings us together enough to learn about each of our specialities.

What the story Stand By Me is trying to convey is the profound loss of innocence. The body being the very catalyst of making the boys into men, and them fending for themselves. If you remember the camping scene, you'll also remember Jerry O'Connell's character dropping his burger on a stick into the fire, thus causing him to omit dinner that night. It was little dollops of detail that made the story a page turner.

In the climax, the gang finally sees the body and has a run in with Kiefer Sutherland's Lost Boys character and his gang. Again, the symbolism is when the boys fight back and Gordie pulls out a gun to repel the bullies, is a metaphor for innocence lost.

You've read the short, right?

 

[Flynn]

My god Babe you're a virgin.

Only to movies with a cult following.

The greatest scene in Animal House... at least to me... is when some simp fuck is plucking a guitar and singing about how he gave his love a cherry and Bluto grabs the guitar to smash it against the wall.

This is fantasy meeting reality.

That was a funny scene.

My favorite scene for more than one reason is at the end of the movie, where I think the guys ruin a parade and the Dean's wife who slept with Tim Matheson, lands on the Dean's thumb.

 

[Flynn]

Michael Crichton is the reason why Jurassic Park has more remakes & redos than the terminator series.

The guy melded science with reality to create gripping shit. The guy received a medical degree but chose to use it to make compelling fiction stories rather than recite hippocratic oaths.

R.I.P. Mister Michael.

In that regard, if we're talking about those kinds of books then I gotta go with John Grisham.

I love how Grisham dumbs down alot of the legal terminology, while adding some legal background info without it messing up the flow of the story.

Grisham may be a dime store story teller, but the vulnerability he gives to some of his protagonist's is nothing short of miraculous.

 

[Frood]

Honestly, from a marketing perspective, if you want to sell women jeans, you don't need a model with big tits...

You want a model with a great ass. Women care about what their butts look in jeans.

Sweeney has got both... great arse and tits.

 

[Jack]

Sweeney has got both... great arse and tits.

And good jeans.