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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 30, 2019 18:41:59 GMT
Should I?
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Post by James on Mar 30, 2019 18:46:42 GMT
III
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Post by poutinep on Mar 30, 2019 19:05:05 GMT
Are you going to decide based on this poll or is this just a cry for attention
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 19:14:03 GMT
Nah. Go see SHAZAM!⚡️ instead.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 30, 2019 19:57:42 GMT
Are you going to decide based on this poll or is this just a cry for attention Why does it have to be one or the other?  |
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 30, 2019 20:14:44 GMT
Sure
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Post by merh on Mar 30, 2019 23:15:16 GMT
Nah. Go see SHAZAM!⚡️ instead. I'm seeing Dumbo this week. Shazam next. It's not a zero-sum issue. You can see both
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Post by merh on Mar 31, 2019 16:24:34 GMT
I'm seeing Dumbo this week. Shazam next. It's not a zero-sum issue. You can see both Going to the cinema isn't a zero sum game. A trade is taking place. I am getting teeth pulled Saturday. My kid wants to see Shazam & Pet Semetary so we will see one that weekend, Hellboy the next, then the other film we don't see the weekend of the 5th. I am STILL planning on seeing a movie the day after I get teeth pulled. I just might switch to Pet Semetary if I am on too much pain medication
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Post by merh on Mar 31, 2019 16:30:13 GMT
21 hours. Overwhelming votes you should see it. You didn't go, did you? It is just a cry for attention, right?
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Post by poutinep on Mar 31, 2019 16:31:41 GMT
So did you see it? 'Sure, dude' was leading the poll yesterday when I first saw this thread and it's still leading
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Post by merh on Apr 1, 2019 1:54:58 GMT
I am getting teeth pulled Saturday. My kid wants to see Shazam & Pet Semetary so we will see one that weekend, Hellboy the next, then the other film we don't see the weekend of the 5th. I am STILL planning on seeing a movie the day after I get teeth pulled. I just might switch to Pet Semetary if I am on too much pain medication Good choice, I feel. Pet Sematary is likely to be the worst of those movies IMO. My sister was telling me we only got Pet Semetary because King wanted out of his Doubleday contract & owed them a book, otherwise it would have stayed in the drawer
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 2:25:57 GMT
Buy the gerbil today and take it to see Captain Marvel next week.
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Post by merh on Apr 1, 2019 2:52:52 GMT
Buy the gerbil today and take it to see Captain Marvel next week. Put the fear of God into that rodent. Or fear of Flerkens
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 19:49:37 GMT
Buy the gerbil today and take it to see Captain Marvel next week. Put the fear of God into that rodent. Or fear of Flerkens The gerbil can sit in the cup holder. It'll be so cute.
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Post by Vassaggo on Apr 2, 2019 20:18:26 GMT
Good choice, I feel. Pet Sematary is likely to be the worst of those movies IMO. My sister was telling me we only got Pet Semetary because King wanted out of his Doubleday contract & owed them a book, otherwise it would have stayed in the drawer I can't remember what Forward it was in. Might've been Pet Sematary itself, but I want to say it might've been in On Writing. The story is a little deeper than that. Tabitha King has given us 2 Stephen King Books. First it was Carrie. He had most of it written but scrapped it because he didn't feel he could write the angst of a teenage girl right. She fished it out of the bin and read it and told him to finish it. She offered some changes. Like suggesting schools wouldn't have coin operated tampon/pad machines in the bathroom in a public school. She commended him on the way the girls reacted to Carrie bettering herself. (He based that off a girl he knew in school who literally was dirt poor and wore the same outfit to school every day. Always clean but the same thing. She got picked on, but the first day of school after christmas she had a new outfit and the girls picked on her harder for wearing something new) The second book she pushed for publication was Pet Sematary. It's partially auto-biographical. In the sense that one of their first houses did have a street where trucks blew past and there was no shoulders to the road. And there was a field across where him and his kids were flying a kite (or might've been a balloon it's been a while) and his toddler kid chased it. At the last second Stephen saw his kid was running into the road and ahe was able to grab the back of his jumper and pulled him to safety. It scared King so much that he wrote PS as a way to work through the fear. He felt like people wouldn't like it and condemn him for for the concept. And it wouldn't be well received. His wife read the drawered manuscript and told him that he should publish it. His job was to scare people and what is more scary than losing a kid? I also think this drawered book would finish his contract
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Post by merh on Apr 2, 2019 20:23:22 GMT
My sister was telling me we only got Pet Semetary because King wanted out of his Doubleday contract & owed them a book, otherwise it would have stayed in the drawer I can't remember what Forward it was in. Might've been Pet Sematary itself, but I want to say it might've been in On Writing. The story is a little deeper than that. Tabitha King has given us 2 Stephen King Books. First it was Carrie. He had most of it written but scrapped it because he didn't feel he could write the angst of a teenage girl right. She fished it out of the bin and read it and told him to finish it. She offered some changes. Like suggesting schools wouldn't have coin operated tampon/pad machines in the bathroom in a public school. She commended him on the way the girls reacted to Carrie bettering herself. (He based that off a girl he knew in school who literally was dirt poor and wore the same outfit to school every day. Always clean but the same thing. She got picked on, but the first day of school after christmas she had a new outfit and the girls picked on her harder for wearing something new) The second book she pushed for publication was Pet Sematary. It's partially auto-biographical. In the sense that one of their first houses did have a street where trucks blew past and there was no shoulders to the road. And there was a field across where him and his kids were flying a kite (or might've been a balloon it's been a while) and his toddler kid chased it. At the last second Stephen saw his kid was running into the road and ahe was able to grab the back of his jumper and pulled him to safety. It scared King so much that he wrote PS as a way to work through the fear. He felt like people wouldn't like it and condemn him for for the concept. And it wouldn't be well received. His wife read the drawered manuscript and told him that he should publish it. His job was to scare people and what is more scary than losing a kid? I also think this drawered book would finish his contract It was some tax thing where Doubleday paid the writers so much-like $55,000 so the writers had to pay tax? (Private co tractors?) My eyes glaze over at tax talk, but it was apparently so bad, they scrapped the entire contract type a couple yrs later. I believe it was mentioned in an essay book.
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Post by Vassaggo on Apr 2, 2019 20:34:17 GMT
I can't remember what Forward it was in. Might've been Pet Sematary itself, but I want to say it might've been in On Writing. The story is a little deeper than that. Tabitha King has given us 2 Stephen King Books. First it was Carrie. He had most of it written but scrapped it because he didn't feel he could write the angst of a teenage girl right. She fished it out of the bin and read it and told him to finish it. She offered some changes. Like suggesting schools wouldn't have coin operated tampon/pad machines in the bathroom in a public school. She commended him on the way the girls reacted to Carrie bettering herself. (He based that off a girl he knew in school who literally was dirt poor and wore the same outfit to school every day. Always clean but the same thing. She got picked on, but the first day of school after christmas she had a new outfit and the girls picked on her harder for wearing something new) The second book she pushed for publication was Pet Sematary. It's partially auto-biographical. In the sense that one of their first houses did have a street where trucks blew past and there was no shoulders to the road. And there was a field across where him and his kids were flying a kite (or might've been a balloon it's been a while) and his toddler kid chased it. At the last second Stephen saw his kid was running into the road and ahe was able to grab the back of his jumper and pulled him to safety. It scared King so much that he wrote PS as a way to work through the fear. He felt like people wouldn't like it and condemn him for for the concept. And it wouldn't be well received. His wife read the drawered manuscript and told him that he should publish it. His job was to scare people and what is more scary than losing a kid? I also think this drawered book would finish his contract It was some tax thing where Doubleday paid the writers so much-like $55,000 so the writers had to pay tax? (Private co tractors?) My eyes glaze over at tax talk, but it was apparently so bad, they scrapped the entire contract type a couple yrs later. I believe it was mentioned in an essay book. The Essay Book would have to be On Writing. It's part memoir/basic how to write. I wanted to say there was a part on Pet Sematary in there, but it's been about a decade since I read it.
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Post by scabab on Apr 4, 2019 11:59:49 GMT
So did you see it in the end?
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Apr 6, 2019 3:23:17 GMT
So did you see it in the end? Yes! I just had a crazy week and didn't get a chance to get back to you guys. I enjoyed it. I think I'm predisposed to liking the "space opera" ones (Guardians 1/2, this) a bit more than the more "street level" origin story entries, with the exception of Iron Mang. I was expecting them to really overplay the gender and/or the 90s aspects, but both were pretty tasteful and used in decent moderation. There were moments here and there where stuff felt just a tad drawn out, but there wasn't any one specific scene or stretch of time that especially stood out in hindsight. I just left with the overall impression they could've shaved maybe... five/ten minutes off it, but I wasn't ever bored, per se. I thought the inhibitor chip was a good literal and plot device; to Skaathar's point in another thread a few weeks back, this is how you take a character who is, on paper, a Mary Sue character with basically Superman's powers, and wrap a character arc around that. It's the exact opposite of what the ST did with Rey, where they just made her inexplicably powerful inexplicably quickly. But this dichotomy is symptomatic of the larger differences between the two franchises right now: one is the obvious result of a decade of careful planning, and the other is... what you get when you green-light a sequel to Return of the Jedi without so much as an outline scrawled on a cocktail napkin. ETA: thanks for voting, dudes. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 6, 2019 3:32:05 GMT
So, basically, gerbils?
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