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The only SK movie that I like better than the book:

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Yes, I agree, this was better than the book. But, I believe Kathy Bates was a big part of the reason. Same with Misery. I actually read Misery while I was in the hospital. A nurse looked at the book and said "that might not be the best book to read while you're in the hospital".😂

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Kathy Bates is superb.

@Bix @JoyfullyDazed @peeppeepcircus @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
Fantastic movie.

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Where do we rank Cronenberg’s “Dead Zone”? What about Frank Darabont’s “The Mist”?

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I've got some firm opinions about The Mist.

The short story was really great.

The movie (ending) was infuriating as hell. 🤬

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Seems to be a common sentiment…😏

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I wanted to like "The Mist". It just never clicked for me.

@CinnamonGirlE @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @peeppeepcircus @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

My daughter went to see The Mist in the theater when it came out. She loved the short story so much that she spent some time writing a sequel to it - how she felt the story could continue from where it left off.

She came home in a towering rage with what had been done to the ending of the movie.

I saw it a few years later. She wasn't wrong. I'm low-key still mad about it.

@Tarnagh @CinnamonGirlE @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @peeppeepcircus @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

Was the big scandal surrounding the flick that Darabont had two endings; he screened one and it didn't work with the audiences, then he shot another -- the ending with the, what? extra-dimensional creatures having been let loose by the military accidentally? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

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The ending of the movie involved them running out of gas and all the adults in the car agreeing that it would be better to be shot dead, so the father kills everyone else in the car including his son. Has no bullet left for himself, just in time to see the mist lift and a military convoy go by with all the rescued people.

NOT how the story ended at all.

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"Military accident" was the premise of the story as well as the movie.

I didn't realize there was an alternate version.

@Tarnagh @CinnamonGirlE @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @peeppeepcircus @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

It could just be me; I remember reading something about it when it came out (I'd read the story in the '80s. I pretty much stopped reading King in the '80s. LOL) and then it seemed like I went back on the nettz to see what the kerfuffle was when Darabont went on to do "The Walking Dead." And I never watched the film because meh. 🤓

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I enjoyed the short story. It had a potentially hopeful ending.

Nothing like the abomination for the movie ending.

Which is weird, because Stephen King cameoed in the movie and he only does that with scripts he's approved.

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I did not know about King's cameo!

Speaking of, what did we all think about "Creepshow"? I LOVED IT BACK THEN (the early '80s) and still love it NOW. It might be my fave of the flicks that King had a heavy hand in being involved with...

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I confess to never having seen Creepshow. Or if I did, I don't remember it.

Early 80s I was still living at home and would never have been allowed to see a Stephen King movie. Back then the only movies I saw were ones my father wanted to watch. 😐

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OMG you must see "Creepshow." The sequel ('87?) sucked and I have purged most memories of it from my noggin.

"Creepshow" was directed by George Romero and all the stories were by King. Bernie Wrightson did most still art. Arranged as a comic in short vignettes. And what a cast -- EG Marshall, Ed Harris, Viveca Lindfors, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, etc...

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RE: The Walking Dead, I got about four? books into the graphic novel series - and just couldn't do it any more. Gratuitous over the top violence just doesn't do it for me. I never watched the show.

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Heh, with TWD it seemed to be a common refrain -- whether with the comics and/or the series...at some point it just got to be too much. For me, said point was the same with the comic and the series -- right before Negan. And then I was all like -- okay, enough. 🤷‍♂️ 😆

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Is that the leader of the town that they discovered that used chained zombies for gladiator sports, and the guy got his hand cut off? (In the comic at least. I honestly couldn't tell you any of the characters names, that's how little of a hold the story had for me.)

That's where I noped out.

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I think so; it just became soooo repetitive and boring. Again, both the comic and the series.

I thought (then) -- I could be watching more baseball and playing more guitar...why am I wasting time on this? 😀

@InUnfunky @CinnamonGirlE @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @peeppeepcircus @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

Yeah, I don't understand why TWD was/is so popular. At the point in the story I mentioned, I realized that I was actively nauseous and had a headache ... from trying to read through all that gross crap.

Like, I get it, everyone comes back as a zombie when they die and life is just awful now. Enough already. 🙄

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Speaking of zombies, 28 Days Later is getting a real time sequel 20 years later with some of the same actors.

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We'll see...

https://www.vulture.com/article/28-years-later-sequel-release-date-casting-details.html

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It's been a long time since I've seen them. The Mist didn't leave much of an impression. Dead Zone...I feel like we're living in the movie. Evil politicians and such.

@JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Bix @peeppeepcircus @Tarnagh @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
Kind of is.

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Dead Zone, like Idiocracy, was prophecy.

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If only what caused that guy to lose voter support at the end of the movie (and book) would be enough to finally turn MAGAts off.

Vague because after all these years I'm not sure how much of a spoiler it would be to say it straight out.

@Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @CinnamonGirlE @InUnfunky @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

I sincerely doubt it. He's a sexual abuser (a fancy term for rapist imo), found to be so in a court of law, yet they still worship him. Why would they care about him doing what was done in the movie? I think he'd have to kill their own family members to wake them up, and even then I'm not so sure.

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Re this topic (ex. no. ??? in a continuing series about the Trumpist encultification of the GOP) Bump has the latest and it’s just as fucked up as one might suspect (it’s getting harder to read this stuff and be surprised, urgh). Howevs, Bump asserts that “the right didn’t change Trump. Trump changed the right.” I disagree, but 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://wapo.st/4egzxZz

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I don't know what to think anymore, so I'm just waiting for November to get here

The way Republicans talk, saying the craziest things out loud, seems like they're absolutely certain they'll win. It's as if they're not worried at all about repercussions. I find it unsettling.

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#BidenHarris2024

@Bix @JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @CinnamonGirlE @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @Bobk37 @evamarie @LnzyHou

Why the binary choice? What about a squirrel with a brain worm?

@JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @CinnamonGirlE @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
Absolutely… even more so that some people have said “why vote, it doesn’t matter anyway” 🫣 BTW, in the realm of crazy town … #SCROTUS just reversed the ban on bump stocks saying they’re not machine guns!

@j0n @JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
<sigh>

@CinnamonGirlE @j0n @JoyfullyDazed @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

Sometimes a sigh both all that’s merited and all we can do. The reactionary stupid is overwhelming and constant critique of same that leads to no changed hearts and minds is pointless…almost. So <sigh> indeed. And sometimes one of these — 🙄

@InUnfunky @j0n @JoyfullyDazed @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
Sometimes when I read these things, a sigh is all I can give. I just can't fathom the idiocy.

@j0n @JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @CinnamonGirlE @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie

SCOTUS is making it so I never want to go to another outdoor concert.
A machine gun for everyone.

@Bix @j0n @JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire
@CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie
I refuse to let it stop me from living my life, but at this point we have to consider the possibility every time we leave our house.

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This is why we need to Vote not against a candidate but for the candidate that will stand with us and for the issues that matter to us. & we have to get involved Volunteerism is a civic duty! Back a local candidate or your states Democtic party. Google it. Heres mine CaDem
Show up for an event.

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Please consider volunteering to a campaign or the Democrats. I do what's possible & convenient for me phone banking & canvassing I just had back surgery but I canvassed 2 days before & will probably phone bank until I can canvass. I can't sit & wait
We got our candidate on the ballot in a very red district in California. It's imperative we unseat the Republican

@JoyfullyDazed @InUnfunky @Tarnagh @peeppeepcircus @CinnamonGirlE @Bix @codeWhisperer @UmbaSaffire @CanisPundit @Bobk37 @evamarie November can't get here fast enough.