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

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.

I love that movie lol.. can't help it::
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.

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


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...

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 ...

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lol

I love Stephen King

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

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..

Barton Fink....:D

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.

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.

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!

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

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....

very very sneaky sir

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

Woooooow
 

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.

Your saying its better then carrie





leave now leave right now

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

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.

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

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)

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:)

the king
 

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

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...

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didn't he do full metal jacket too? (cubric)

i have no clue!!!!:(
he still can rite yea but the problem is his movies they SUCK ASS;)