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" Against all odds, Gerald’s Game is coming to screens later this year from Hush collaborators Mike Flanagan and Netflix, and King himself has labeled an early cut as “horrifying.” So with that in mind, Shock Till You Drop has assembled five other potentially “unadaptable” Stephen King stories that may never join the ranks of King’s frightful filmography…"
Holy crap, Gerald's Game? I love that book. I'm surprised they're making a film of it. The direction will need to be excellent to keep the audience engaged.
I enjoyed it. I also really love Rose Madder.
Not a big fan of Cujo.
Lol, I'm about to read Catcher in the Rye. I'm not American so have never had to read these American Classics in class which may be why I can enjoy them more. I read The Grapes of Wrath and really appreciated it, whereas a lot of Americans hate it and mention being forced to labour through it through school.
I read 1984 as a teen. I liked the beginning, became horribly bored partway through but persevered, and then was sucker punched by the ending. 1984 changed me. So I wouldn't ever want to battle through reading it again, but I do really appreciate it.
I used to like the Vampire Chronicles (i.e. Interview with a Vampire etc) as a teen, but I tried reading one as an adult and it was awful. All this purple prose :/ So I think Anne Rice is over-rated.
I swear the term 'SJW' means less and less as time goes on.
They laugh at Trump because it's funny. He gives them a lot of material. They're just doing what they do.
There were things I liked in this version, but I prefer the old one.
I like the changes of weather between the Castle and the Village; the explanation of why no one in the village remembered the Prince; and the age of the Prince when he was turned.
I liked the bit with the objects turning inanimate. Their story is pretty sad, I thought so in the animation as well as this. It made the whole thing more powerful because it wasn't just Beast who was doomed, but all of them.
The relationship was rushed, but so was the one in the animation. Both of them sort of come out of nowhere.
I didn't mind the magic book because in some of the different fairytale re-tellings of Beauty and the Beast magical objects seem to just exist in the castle. This one was used to add a bit of backstory, so I was happy with it.
I agree Watson was pretty bad and, like yourself, I initially was glad she took on the role. I thought she'd be perfect. She looked the part but the acting was pretty plain.
I think the film was badly directed. It seemed a bit messy and a bit rushed and I don' think the actors were given much help in their roles.
1) Diverse films do better world wide. So it makes more money.
2) It means they can have more variety over what actors they have.
3) It's a fairytale with magical fairies wandering around and a giant Bull-Man living in a castle; it doesn't have to be realistic. If this was War and Peace or a documentary of Napolean, I'd understand the complaint. But in a fairytale it's pretty stupid.
If we're being realistic, then no one would have accepted all that magic and likely several characters would have been burned alive for witchcraft; Belle wouldn't have been tolerated and neither would have LaFou if his being attracted to men was obvious to all.
I think for the same reasons she found him disgusting in the animated version. He says in the film that 'he's changed' and she seemed cynical, so my guess is that he was a jerk and a bully all along. However the film didn't show it as much as the cartoon, I'm guessing because they wanted to make him turning on Maurice a shock.
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