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nine9

06-25-2004, 09:05 PM

I really don't know what to think about this movie. Johnny Depp was excellent as usual, definitely Stephen King Style all the way, but a little too much like the Dark Half only not as good!

I was kind of disappointed here!

The Dark Half explained a lot more about the characters in the movie. Anyone read this? Was originally The Secret Garden.

Stingy Jack

06-26-2004, 05:32 PM

Actually, the original story was a novella titled "Secret Window, Secret Garden" in Four Past Midnight. I read it a long time ago, and nearly forgot about it. When I saw the preview to Secret Window, John Turturro's character saying "You stole my story" pricked something in the back of my mind. I turned to my wife and said: "I read that story somewhere. That's a story." So, I can't say how the movie compared. I really don't remember that much of the story. As far as the movie went, I was disappointed myself. I enjoyed Depp's performance, but I found it too predictable. There were no shocks, no thrills. Apart from Depp, I found the film to be quite the bore.

Rein In Blood

06-26-2004, 05:53 PM

I haven't seen this movie yet, but I want to soon.

alixzander

06-26-2004, 07:55 PM

i was also a bit dissapoitned with the film, altho you gotta admit the ending scene where he took a bite out of the corn was great!

nine9

06-27-2004, 10:15 AM

I read that book a long time ago! No wonder I kept getting deja vu through the whole thing! I really can't recall it though, and this is one of the few I don't own.

And it was boring, my husband was asleep after the first half hour!

KRUGERKID13

06-27-2004, 02:59 PM

would have liked it more if it came out 5 years ago but since it didnt it wasnt very original of a movie

nine9

06-27-2004, 03:08 PM

Originally posted by KRUGERKID13
would have liked it more if it came out 5 years ago but since it didnt it wasnt very original of a movie

True....good point.

carnage

06-27-2004, 04:32 PM

this one reigned in as an "OK" in my book...but only an ok.....Depp did well in the role he was given, and the actor playing "shooter" was great..

the story, however, was not all that great....like nine9's hubby, I was close to sleep for most of this one....

movieman64

06-27-2004, 04:36 PM

I did fall asleep...you knew the Attorney was going to die as soon as he agreed to go out to the cabin.

RavenOfDarkness

06-27-2004, 10:44 PM

RAH RAH RAH!

lol that was the funniest part of the movie, when hes all goin crazy

Johnny Depp was hella fine in that, don't argue with me, you know he is

that movie was very good, i just don't understand why someone would cheat on HIM though, i think she musta been on drugs

KRUGERKID13

06-27-2004, 10:46 PM

dude you say hella jesus christ we got us a newb boys

RavenOfDarkness

06-27-2004, 10:51 PM

no shit Sherlock, seriously you jst noticed this?

and i say hella cause i'm californian bitch

KRUGERKID13

06-27-2004, 10:55 PM

thats profiling and profiling wrong

oh wait your from california know it makes sense

well then i apoligise just cause your gov. cant speak english doesnt mean you cant

RavenOfDarkness

06-27-2004, 11:06 PM

lol u saw The Blue Collar Comedy Tour? thats hella funny

what the hell dude? he has to speak english to be gov., he just has a crappy accent

dude ur retarded, hella is a word in ENGLISH, if you can spell it then its a word and its not in another laguage.

you are just sad

KRUGERKID13

06-28-2004, 12:30 AM

fuck off newb

Vampenguin

07-02-2004, 05:34 AM

Originally posted by KRUGERKID13
fuck off newb

very Very Very VERY Good Idea.

orangestar

07-02-2004, 06:41 AM

If the only adverb in your vocabulary is 'hella' then STFU n00b. It's not in the dictionary.

I rented Secret Window last night, but I fell asleep right after Tuturo said "you stole my story". Not because it was boring, it was 2:30 am. I read some reviews that say Depp is the only good thing, and so far Im diggin the accent. Hopefully it doesnt get boring...

:cool:

Egekrusher

07-02-2004, 07:25 AM

Hey, let's leave the newb alone. She has every right to talk like that, even if we don't like it. It's called Free Speech, aka The First Amendment.

meetthecreeper

07-17-2004, 06:35 AM

I rented this yesterday, was going to buy it last week, glad I didnt because I was sorely disappointed. 2 many parallels to The Dark Half (which is a movie and book that I love). I mean George Stark and John Shooter are both from Mississippi. I think that King is running out of ideas for stories and starting to rehash is old stuff with minor changes with the hopes that the unsuspecting viewer wont catch the similarities.

Why the Hell dont they make a film about The Long Walk, now that would be a good flick.

thecritic

07-17-2004, 07:28 PM

Johnny Depp was amazing and perfect for the role, and the movie was very good. However, and I am sure many of you can agree with me, once you have read or seen movies by Stephen King, you come to expect the "big twist" endings. Stephen King is one of the best authors ever, but you know that the twist is coming. So right from the beginning I was doubting what was really happening in the movie. The one thing I thought that they could have done is *SPOILER!!!* Johnny Depp should have had the voice of Shooter. Other than that I liked it completely...which I think is sort of obvious.
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evil_blonde

11-14-2004, 10:25 PM

I just watched this the other night and I thought it was pretty cool.
I loved the way it was all kinda in his head, although I don't know if Johnny Depp suits being a murderous son of a bitch. Oh well the cheating couple deserved what they got. I loved it when he got smacked in the face with a shovel lol.
It was good for a new movie, most new movies now days are stupid...

tachii

11-15-2004, 06:23 AM

i like how it kind of incorporated the misery/dark half story lines which stephen king has already explored. kinda makes it fun all over again

Vodstok

11-15-2004, 06:24 AM

This movie had one of the most satisfying endings ever. i loved it :D

Granted, the whole tyler durden thing has been doen to death, but i loved it anyway :D

urgeok

11-22-2004, 09:39 AM

What a stupid movie.
What a stupid stupid movie.

How stupid and new do they think movie fans are ?

I'm frustrated .. I'm pissed and I dont know who to blame.
I dont think this was well received .. I never even knew it was released in the theatre .. was it ?

I think I'd like to blame my old friend Stephen King for writing yet another one of his little biographies. Looky Looky .. another tortured writer. Oh hey, a suprise .. a made up character ! holy smokes I didnt see that one coming !
It's the Dark Half part 2 !

Goddammit I'm so mad I cant even formulate an eloquent review ..
I'm pissed I bought the DVD used for $9.00. I'm pissed i took the time to watch it.
I HATE Stephen King .. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the fuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

newb

11-22-2004, 09:42 AM

LOVE ME URGEOK

http://imgs.idnes.cz/zahranicni/A031119_KOT_KING_V.JPG

urgeok

11-22-2004, 10:29 AM

no i wont , you fucking Truck-bait !

ShankS

11-22-2004, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by urgeok
What a stupid movie.
What a stupid stupid movie.

How stupid and new do they think movie fans are ?

I'm frustrated .. I'm pissed and I dont know who to blame.
I dont think this was well received .. I never even knew it was released in the theatre .. was it ?

I think I'd like to blame my old friend Stephen King for writing yet another one of his little biographies. Looky Looky .. another tortured writer. Oh hey, a suprise .. a made up character ! holy smokes I didnt see that one coming !
It's the Dark Half part 2 !

Goddammit I'm so mad I cant even formulate an eloquent review ..
I'm pissed I bought the DVD used for $9.00. I'm pissed i took the time to watch it.
I HATE Stephen King .. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate the fuck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so was the film any good?

urgeok

11-22-2004, 11:25 AM

depp doesnt need to do a shit movie like that .. what on earth was he thinking ? fufill a contractual obligation in the easiest way possible ?

Sedated_replica

11-22-2004, 01:34 PM

Okay, Okay... I didn't think it was sooo bad.. I was really wasted when I watched it. I don't know.. But I do hate Stephen King too

urgeok

11-22-2004, 01:55 PM

note to movie store ... a dime bag of grass with every copy of Secret Window sold.

Sedated_replica

11-22-2004, 06:10 PM

Originally posted by urgeok
note to movie store ... a dime bag of grass with every copy of Secret Window sold.

it makes some movies easier to get through.

meetthecreeper

11-23-2004, 04:23 PM

Originally posted by newb
LOVE ME URGEOK

http://imgs.idnes.cz/zahranicni/A031119_KOT_KING_V.JPG

Now that was funny, it should alsp read " I have ran out of ideas, maybe I should rehash some old ones."

urgeok

11-23-2004, 05:14 PM

no shit ...

he ran out of new ideas after carrie ...

fuck i hate that smug son of a bitch.

The_Return

12-22-2004, 09:28 AM

I enjoyed seeing Depp go totally off the deep end, actaully I throughly enjoyed this movie. Im a King fan tho. I wouldnt say he ran out of Ideas after Carrie, he has a few ideas. Troubled author, kids that are/were troubled, object coming to life. The Shing was different though. Amazing book/movie.

urgeok

12-22-2004, 09:35 AM

every fucking story has to be about some personal character flaw or other that he has. Every fucking story .. an author with a problem.

i'm glad some people find him as interesting as he does himself.

cockknocker that he is.

Vodstok

12-22-2004, 10:14 AM

I enjoyed secret window. it was expected, but i cant fault a guy who's character kills someone by decapitating him with a shovel.

The irony is, it IS the dark half part 2, complete with timothy hutton :D

EXTR3MIST

12-23-2004, 09:45 AM

King wouldn't be King without writing about writers - he can still engross the reader by masterfully (and it seems naturally) tapping into new interesting elements of the psyche with most of his attempts, and if all we had to read was Dean Koontz's daft rats, Clive Barker's pretentious nightbreeds or Anne Rice's snotty vampires then I'd give up on horror fiction altogether.

furballothrills

12-24-2004, 07:59 PM

I love that movie lol.. can't help it::
"I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time, every bit of her will be gone and her death will be a mystery... even to me."
heh heh heh heh
anyone seen the animatics? they're fucking hilarious! a sims depp character who looks like he belongs on the game for n64 goldeneye molests the corn at the end, and the corpses have white bodies. By the way, that's one haught pic of king lol.

TheOmen

12-24-2004, 09:22 PM

TSecret Window was exactly what I expected. So I wasn't disappointed, nor overjoyed. Just another ho-hum daptation of another ho-hum story.

King wouldn't be King without writing about writers - he can still engross the reader by masterfully (and it seems naturally) tapping into new interesting elements of the psyche with most of his attempts, and if all we had to read was Dean Koontz's daft rats, Clive Barker's pretentious nightbreeds or Anne Rice's snotty vampires then I'd give up on horror fiction altogether.

Ann Rice's snotty vamps are better ( until/including Memnoch) than anything King has in his arsenal. Especially in the last 15 years. And any King movie adaptation best have a very capable director and screenwriter or it will be shit. If King is involved in one aspect of production, the movie just plain sucks...

EXTR3MIST

12-25-2004, 05:54 AM

His recent short story collection Everything's Eventual is a good one - rather than rely on solid mythical creatures (like Rice and her vampires) or whacky surrealism and monsters (like Barker) King's stories can still take the reader into unpredictable territory without resorting to "clever" techniques (witness the new added control on the vehicle in The Tommyknockers: "Left, Right and... up?".

From Everything's Eventual, read The Death Room - simple, daring, and immensely satisfying.

urgeok

12-25-2004, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by EXTR3MIST
His recent short story collection Everything's Eventual is a good one - rather than rely on solid mythical creatures (like Rice and her vampires) or whacky surrealism and monsters (like Barker) King's stories can still take the reader into unpredictable territory without resorting to "clever" techniques (witness the new added control on the vehicle in The Tommyknockers: "Left, Right and... up?".

From Everything's Eventual, read The Death Room - simple, daring, and immensely satisfying.

i havent read Rice but I used to read Barker ... he was once ok but he never knew how to end a story. He became very King-ish in his style too.

I think the problem might be in the genre itself .. its hard to develop new ideas - everything has been done over and over again .. sometimes with slight variations .. or sometimes its a direct rehashing (Stephen King).
I stopped reading horror years ago .. i couldnt stand it any more. The only writers who broke the mold usually did so by churning out some incomprehensible personal nightmare that was impossible to relate to. Or they combine trace elements of horror with the other genres which is at least a little more origional and entertaining.

I've read Herbert, MCCammeron (sp. ?) Strawb, and a couple dozen other authors and i keep seeing the same old crap over and over again.

But Stephen King ... i'll never read another word from that guys keyboard again.
I couldnt get more than 20 pages into that smug piece of shit he wrote with strawb last (bleak house, or dark house or something like that)

Never again ...

Angelakillsluts

12-25-2004, 09:20 PM

Originally posted by urgeok
no shit ...

he ran out of new ideas after carrie ...

fuck i hate that smug son of a bitch.

lol

I love Stephen King

p.s that picture was the perfect thing to egg urge on, newb. :D

Hate_Breeder

12-25-2004, 10:53 PM

I like Stephens books.....well some. And it sucks to hear that Secret Window blew a fat one because i love John Turturro(sp?).
He was great in O Brother Where Art Thou, Anger Management, and all the other movies hes been in..

TheOmen

12-25-2004, 11:59 PM

urgeok

12-26-2004, 03:25 AM

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
I like Stephens books.....well some. And it sucks to hear that Secret Window blew a fat one because i love John Turturro(sp?).
He was great in O Brother Where Art Thou, Anger Management, and all the other movies hes been in..

dont get me wrong, the actors all do fine jobs -
but the big twist was obvious from the first knock on the door.

maybe it's different if you are a younger person ...but when you hit my age and you've had an active interest in all things horror ...
you end up seeing the same shit over and over again and you get sick of it.

thats why i am so fond of the books/movies/music that turns the genre on its ear .. gives us a suprise for a change.

you can see King coming a mile away every time.

Elvis_Christ

12-26-2004, 06:46 PM

Stephen King has some great books. I'm reading Desperation at the moment it's pretty good so far. I haven't really read anything of his since the Dark Half. I usually try to avoid all the movie adaptions of his work, they just seem to look like a load of shit latley.

furballothrills

12-26-2004, 07:32 PM

lmao, you guys just turned the topic of Secret Window into any old Stephen King novel, and Stephen King in general. He's an ugly man, whereas Johnny Depp..kidding.
I like Stephen's books
are we on a first name basis now?

The_Return

12-26-2004, 07:38 PM

Originally posted by furballothrills
lmao, you guys just turned the topic of Secret Window into any old Stephen King novel, and Stephen King in general. He's an ugly man, whereas Johnny Depp..kidding.

are we on a first name basis now?

You think thats funny? You should see how far off topic some things here stray.... Specially if Vod, Urge, and Fairy are around....no thread is safe!

allmykids

12-26-2004, 08:23 PM

WELL I really like it. Mabey because of Johnny Dep!!

nine9

12-28-2004, 06:52 AM

Originally posted by Vodstok
I enjoyed secret window. it was expected, but i cant fault a guy who's character kills someone by decapitating him with a shovel.

The irony is, it IS the dark half part 2, complete with timothy hutton :D

I thought it seemed alot like The Dark Half......but lately SK has been repeating his themes it seems. Borrowing bits from other books he wrote. He seems to be losing his touch......

Yes this movie was incredibly stupid, and was tv movie material at best. I am glad I didn't see it at the theatre. Would have been pissed off....

massacre man

12-28-2004, 07:39 AM

massacre man

12-28-2004, 07:41 AM

Originally posted by nine9
I thought it seemed alot like The Dark Half......but lately SK has been repeating his themes it seems. Borrowing bits from other books he wrote. He seems to be losing his touch......

Yes this movie was incredibly stupid, and was tv movie material at best. I am glad I didn't see it at the theatre. Would have been pissed off.... JOhn Carpenter and Stephen King should team up and make IT vs THing this will be the best fight between 2 Adams Family characters ever

WantNightmares?

12-28-2004, 08:51 PM

I have to disagree...
I'm not into any of King's stuff really, yea carrie was pretty cool but not too good.
I think with this movie, for soeone who is not used to kings writings or movies, the movie keeps you guessing, whch a lot of good movies do. It leaves incredible twists that throw off what ever ur guess was for the movie. I don't care who you are, that was a good movie and it was not a role you really expected Depp to play because of prior films, but he was great and I commend his role.

KRUGERKID13

12-28-2004, 09:09 PM

Your saying its better then carrie

leave now leave right now

WantNightmares?

12-29-2004, 07:06 AM

nO TURD....never said it was better than carrie. Maybe u should read it again. But now that u mention it... yea i guess it is....carrie, to me was not to good. I'm not into it. So there ya go..... It Sucked.... hahaha....Sorry to tell u the truth...

but u'll get over it.

massacre man

12-29-2004, 07:12 AM

Originally posted by WantNightmares?
nO TURD....never said it was better than carrie. Maybe u should read it again. But now that u mention it... yea i guess it is....carrie, to me was not to good. I'm not into it. So there ya go..... It Sucked.... hahaha....Sorry to tell u the truth...

but u'll get over it. shut up

orangestar

12-29-2004, 08:22 AM

IT- saw the movie before reading the book, hated both

Carrie - Saw the movie before reading the book, hated both

The Shining- Saw the movie(s) before reading the book. Hated the book. The Jack movie was good because it was Kubrik.

Secret Window- Started the movie and started the book on the same day. Both are boring.

The Langoliers- Read the book before seeing the movie. I LOVED both of them.

Pet Sematary- Read the book before seeing the movie. I LOVED them both and I cant seem to get sick of them

I see a trend....

but I dont think Mr. King is losing his touch.

EXTR3MIST

01-01-2005, 11:10 AM

The Langoliers - fucking awesome story, can't remember the film.

knife_fight

01-06-2005, 06:01 PM

I thought Secret Window was ok, at best. the twist was definitely predictable, but I liked that he got away with it.

I like John Turturro a lot. and if you like him in O Brother, you will like him in this... because it's the same character, only baaad. he's like Bizarro-Pete or something in this.

oh, and people from the South don't talk like that. most actually open their mouths. (most)

Kitty

01-07-2005, 03:30 PM

sK movies-all of them are fucked up?
(sK-steven King)
sK books-those suck 2
gothica-suspenceful but boring other than that
TCM- slept through the remake- could never sit through the hole movie-and thats origonal:)

I,ZOMBIE

01-07-2005, 10:06 PM

Originally posted by Kitty
sK movies-all of them are fucked up?
(sK-steven King)
sK books-those suck 2

oh my goth, i hate stephen king, he's over rated there are so many more better writers that don't throw darts at sticky-notes to get ideas for their books. the shining was his only good movie and they left out some good stuff. stanely cubrick did an alright job

alkytrio666

01-08-2005, 07:35 AM

Hey, Stephen King is fucking brilliant. Why don't you write something better, smartass? Oh wait, I forgot, he's making millions, you're sitting in your basement posting replys to your own threads. Eat shit and die, fucker...

massacre man

01-08-2005, 07:41 AM

Originally posted by I,ZOMBIE
oh my goth, i hate stephen king, he's over rated there are so many more better writers that don't throw darts at sticky-notes to get ideas for their books. the shining was his only good movie and they left out some good stuff. stanely cubrick did an alright job didn't he do full metal jacket too? (cubric)