King's things
Horror maestro Stephen King holds a fuzzy place in my heart. I never read books on my own as a child, but I picked up his horror story "It" on a whim one day and came away a devoted reader.
So it's hard to fathom how he could think the latest film based on his work, "The Mist," is anything but a dud. King gave a press conference recently in which he praised writer/director Frank Darabont for his third film based on King's material. The first two were, indeed, home runs -- "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile."
My review offers a succinct smackdown of Darabont's "Mist."
posted by Toto @ 9:17 AM
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Sounds like simple economics to me. If a few more people see it because the author says it's good, well, a few more people see it...
I agree on a commercial level, but King devotees may not trust him the next time he endorses an inferior translation of his work.
King's books make strange transitions ... some work, some don't ... IT the movie (for TV) stunk, 'Salem's Lot, stunk, Stand By Me (the book was called The Body) was a classic ... The Shining, well, it was okay ... The Stand (for TV) was okay ... it's sort of hit or miss.
I met the guy once, man .. he cusses like a sailor.
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