Anybody see IT? It kinda sucks. (spoilers)

Some random King trivia:

Kubrick tried to bring the topiary to life for film version of The Shining, but was unhappy with the results. So he created the maze instead.

Re Pet Sematary: In retrospect, King was displeased with his book because he felt it spiraled down into darkness.

For insight into King, read his (nonfiction) book Bare Bones.

Yep, my bad. Got my Wings guys mixed up  they kinda look alike  

ridski said:

Hahaha said:

I tried to enjoy it but I kept comparing it to Nicholson's iconic performance. Tim Daly (the Wings guy - and Tyne Daly's brother, who knew!?) just didn't seem menacing enough for me. 

conandrob240 said:

I didn't like the Jack Nicholson version of the Shining either. It wasn't true enough to the book.

I liked the critically poorly reviewed TV movie with the guy from Wings better.

Steven Weber, not Tim Daly.

seriously this.

Maybe not faithful to the book, but jeezo what a movie.

bub said:

You can dislike a movie for differing from the source novel, or for any reason, but I don't think any of the King movies, even the well regarded ones, have achieve the critical reputation that The Shining has.  It's high on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best thrillers and Scorsese said it was one of the 11 scariest movies ever made.    In addition to being just immensely creepy, it's stylish and atmospheric to a degree that none of the other King treatments reach.   Maybe not reading the book (I didn't) helps. 

well, of course it is. That's why I'm admittedly so weird for liking the tv version better. I will say I had originally seen it immediately after reading the book but liked it better years later on a re-watch (as a movie not as an interpretation of the book)

For me, Salem's Lot is one of the scariest made for tv movies ever made.  

Just watched the trailer for 1922 on Netflix. I didn’t read the novella, but the movie looks very good. Creepy. Perfect timing for Halloween.