Insufferably '90s! The only part of that movie I like is Tim Curry. The miniseries is this strange combination of padding, do-nothing scenes, and then trying to cram in book scenes without their context. Like with the damn bike, for example.
This is what I'm doing right now. I'm rereading the book for the 3rd or 4th time to get it fresh in my brain again, but I also rewatched the miniseries. There is something really lacking without all the cursing and the violence, except for the awesomeness of Tim Curry. I still think it had some good casting, but like mentioned above, I really wish they had better pacing and higher production value. I keep wondering what it would be like if HBO did the miniseries (well, with the production value they currently have). I'm still iffy a two-part movie can touch on everything.
One that I caught was having the orderly drop his roll of quarters on screen after being attacked by rottweiler It. Without the build up of him using the roll to beat the patients, it's just like, ok, guess it was laundry day?
Exactly! And really, there's no way for a movie to capture all those little things. Better to catch the spirit of the scene and just have a way to show it's a comeuppance scene in a small degree.
The cast isn't terrible, but their acting is, so I'm gonna lay that on the director since I've seen some of them be good elsewhere.
Weird. I got that link from Stephen King's own Twitter, so I figured it was okay. Maybe he wasn't supposed to share it.
This is the one. Not sure why the link I posted was taken down; both are YouTube.
I'm not sold yet. It looks like it might be good, but it also looks like they are trying damn hard to match the tone and atmosphere of the first one rather than let this be in the same universe, but stand on it's own.
From what I've heard, that's not the case. It got a very careful color treatment, similar to when Fury Road had a limited black and white (which they called black and chrome) release
The civilization and eventual genocide of the Gelflings alone would provide plenty of story material.
Backward, apparently. This is a prequel.
Holy shit am I looking forward to the first two seasons of that.
Those bastards just know what it takes to snare me.
I recently read the novelization (got it from Humble Bundle) and it was damn good. I need to rewatch the movie, because I don't remember the movie having as much detail in it as the book.
Halfway into the first season it just turns into a live stream of pachinko machines.
From what I have read, it is loosely based on Castlevania 3, yes.
Whoa.
Ain't nothin' better than a dripping wet redhead.
