Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I don't think anything gets close to the Tim Currie IT from the 80s.
Shining, Shawshank and Misery are good, but IT is the scariest film ever made.
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I don't think anything gets close to the Tim Currie IT from the 80s.
Shining, Shawshank and Misery are good, but IT is the scariest film ever made.
superspurs
Justin Edinburgh
Wrong thread I know... but The Outsider with Ben Mendelsohn was an excellent miniseries on HBO in 2020 based on a King book, well worth a watch.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Always seems his films are made with low budgets
I wouldn't say always. Stand by me? Green mile? It? The Shining? Shawshank Redemption? Running Man?
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
None of them were really big budget tiger than running man… and because it had Arnie
i genuinely don’t know about the shinings budget
They might not have been superhero budgets. But they weren't small. The green mile for instance was released in 1999 on a $60m budget. The matrix came out the same year on a $63m budget.
The shinings budget was $19m. Star wars released a couple of years earlier had a budget of $11m.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
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Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Yeh I get what you mean TBH as I thought the same. There are obvious exceptions but loads of almost straight to TV or Hallmark Channel numbers like The Stand, even IT felt low budget
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
The original IT was low budget
The stand feels it too
They may not be but they have that vibe
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Doesn't he give the rights to his short stories to young indie directors, as a trade off for letting the big studios have his books? And generally the short stories actually make better adaptations. So hence the better films also being lower budget affairs?
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
No idea
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Yeah - I've just looked into it. It's called the Dollar Baby scheme - he make the rights to his short stories available for $1: https://stephenking.com/dollar-baby/
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Good luck with that the actors are still on strike. Seeing as the studios want to be able to use ai generated images of them in perpetuity. Without having to pay for them. I can't see it being ended anytime soon.
Not that i'd watch any of them anyway.
Orignial IT was a two part made for TV miniseries and never released as a movie - for a TV show at the time it was probably well funded.
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markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
The Killer on Netflix was very good
jrh
Niko Kranjcar
I liked the first 20 mins or so, brilliant and tense. Then he fudged up.. The the whole film went off the rails, along with the storyline.
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Ridley Scott saying the French don't even like themselves is top trolling
spurspinter1
Steve Carr
Saw the film today, I'm still not really sure what I think.
I don't know enough about the history to say whether it was accurate but there wasn't much about what made him who he was, not really any emphasis on his background or formative years. Also for a supposed historical war film there was a brickload of sex scenes, enough to make it feel a bit weird seeing the film with my old man!
As they're disappearing off prime (again) I took it upon myself to give the Daniel Craig bond films a proper watch, the first time around there was a long gap and more than ever there was actually a storyline which was important to know from one film to the next.
Casino Royale was brilliant, the poker scenes and Mads Mikhealson just fantastic. Quantum of Solace really suffered from that horrible phase of editing fight scenes with cuts every 1.8 seconds from multiple angles so you have fudge all idea what's going on and it's just nauseating + the villain was just a weaselly forgettable insecure manchild and storyline incomprehensible. Skyfall back to brilliant and having Lea Seydoux for Spectre definitely didn't hurt. Bizarrely no time to die isn't included on prime.
It's hard to know where the bond franchise will go next, it became a bit self aware with Craig as they started mocking the tropes, which is great for a bit but then it has to do something different or revert to type. Having an impactful storyline where real things happen like with M and Bond in the last one seem to have to force things to move in a definite direction - I don't see them sinking to a multiverse level of storytelling where they can just undo key characters dying or having multiple bonds but i've been wrong before.