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Post by politicidal on Apr 21, 2018 23:35:18 GMT
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Post by rogerthat on Apr 21, 2018 23:46:38 GMT
I'm not that excited about this as it was one of my least favorite King books. Maybe the film will be an improvement.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 23:52:10 GMT
I liked the book. Wasn't his best work, but it was still entertaining. Mid-table stuff. I don't think I saw the previous adaptation.
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Post by permutojoe on Apr 22, 2018 0:04:23 GMT
There was apparently a mini series in the 90's with Jimmy Smits, Kelly Bundy, and a dog with green eyes. |
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Post by politicidal on Apr 22, 2018 0:12:16 GMT
Was it another one of those stories he wrote while high or something? |
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Post by rogerthat on Apr 22, 2018 0:51:17 GMT
So out of curiosity I just reminded myself of Tommyknockers by reading the plot overview on wikipedia when I noticed the article cites King himself stating the book was awful. Below is the quoute from the Rolling Stone interview (decent interview) and I'll link the interview itself below the quote. Did the quality of your writing start to go down? Yeah, it did. I mean, The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act. And I've thought about it a lot lately and said to myself, "There's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back." The book is about 700 pages long, and I'm thinking, "There's probably a good 350-page novel in there." Rolling Stone interview |
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 22, 2018 8:34:09 GMT
There was apparently a mini series in the 90's with Jimmy Smits, Kelly Bundy, and a dog with green eyes. Yeah, I remember seeing the whole thing last year, as my old VHS version seemed to cut out almost one hour of footage, while my 2004 DVD release had a length of 3 hours. Sadly, that did not help it out much, as it was a very poor and uneven mini series that seemed like it was just thrown in a the last minute to cash in on the Stephen King craze going on at the time, specially when it came to making mini-series based upon his books. Kelly Bundy? I do not remember Christina Applegate but Traci Lords sure was in there, and it had a pretty good cast going featuring John Ashton, Robert Carradine, Joanna Cassidy and Marg Helgenburger among the leading parts, but the story/plot did not help them out in any way. My scandinavian VHS cover had this huge creepy alien on the front and back cover, but having seen Peter Jackson's cult-classic Bad Taste (1987), it was hard to not think of his hilariously gross aliens when re-watching The Tommyknockers and its alien baddies, which I think only appear for a minute or less. |
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Post by permutojoe on Apr 22, 2018 14:51:02 GMT
I must have mistaken her for Applegate.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 22, 2018 15:19:44 GMT
I'm not that excited about this as it was one of my least favorite King books. Maybe the film will be an improvement. The Tommyknockers was the first Stephen King novel I was disappointed in. Didn't really care for the 1993 miniseries either. It just seems so pointless to do another adaptation of that mediocre book. What they ought to do is a miniseries of Needful Things. The book was great (i thought it was the last really good book King wrote), but the 1993 movie was terrible. I mean you just can't make a 2 hour movie out of a novel like Needful Things when there is so much ground to cover. But a miniseries would do it justice and would include all the important details, thus making it a more faithful adaptation. |
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