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re: Let's talk Stephen King's The Stand
Posted on 4/4/20 at 1:48 pm to AggieHank86
Posted on 4/4/20 at 1:48 pm to AggieHank86
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One thing I remember clearly about the mini-series was that NONE of the roles were cast with an actor that I would have picked for that role. All did a decent job and some did an excellent job, but with every scene I kept thinking “this is not the right actor for this role.”
For some reason, when I read the book I pictured Tony Danza in the Larry role. They guy they got was probably a better choice.
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Posted on 4/4/20 at 2:18 pm to Methuselah
And I could have see Rob Lowe as Larry, but they cast him as Nick.
Posted on 4/10/20 at 5:31 pm to Allthatfades
I read the "updated" or "extended" version (whichever one it was) and had to stop and pick it up again a year later to finally bite down and finish it.
It was definitely a very long book and at times I almost lost interest but im glad I stuck with it. The religious/God themes that take over near the end are very intriguing to me and well done without being too preachy.
It was definitely a very long book and at times I almost lost interest but im glad I stuck with it. The religious/God themes that take over near the end are very intriguing to me and well done without being too preachy.
Posted on 4/10/20 at 6:25 pm to SundayFunday
I would love to see an HBO mini-series adaptation. For a long time, I thought this was Stephen King's magnum opus, and may still think that but it has been 30+ years since I read it, and however many since the TV mini-series, which I remember I did enjoy. I have thought of reading it again, but honestly have too many things I want to get to ahead of undertaking a 1000+ page re-read.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 11:26 am to BigPapiDoesItAgain
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I would love to see an HBO mini-series adaptation. For a long time, I thought this was Stephen King's magnum opus, and may still think that but it has been 30+ years since I read it, and however many since the TV mini-series,
You know, I would love to see that too but only if I was assured a few things:
1) It was done by a top-tier company (ie. HBO, Netflix, etc)
2) It was done in short-series form (maybe 2-3 seasons MAX of 10 hour-long episodes each.
3) It was given a proper huge budget
and most of all..
4) SJWs and bullshite Hollywood "lets change every good-guy/gal lead character to a minority(regardless of storyline) and ensure as many people are gay/trans as possible" - types of people are kept 100 miles away from it.
Otherwise, id rather just use my imagination and read the book again.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 1:51 pm to SundayFunday
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SJWs and bull shite Hollywood "lets change every good-guy/gal lead character to a minority(regardless of storyline) and ensure as many people are gay/trans as possible" - types of people are kept 100 miles away from it.
I'm what part of The Stand is it important that all the characters be white? I'm sorry the race of character you cared about has been changed, like, maybe 3 times in your life.
Also, the back half of that book features a group of hateful antagonists against a group of oppressivly loving and good protagonists. You'd be calling the good guys straight SJWs if that book came out today. And you'd be fine with a quality miniseries that featured a bunch of SJW characters if that miniseries had existed in your teens or 20s, when your nostalgia and quality calibrations were set.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 2:18 pm to Methuselah
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Is this thing streaming anywhere? Amazon doesn't seem to have it, and I haven't personally checked Netflix but I've read it's not on there either. I'm gonna have to check and see if I got the box DVD set back in the day.
Decent quality on Youtube.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 3:02 pm to The Sockster
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Decent quality on Youtube.
Thanks !
Posted on 4/14/20 at 5:34 pm to Jay Are
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>Also, the back half of that book features a group of hateful antagonists against a group of oppressivly loving and good protagonists. You'd be calling the good guys straight SJWs if that book came out today. And you'd be fine with a quality miniseries that featured a bunch of SJW characters if that miniseries had existed in your teens or 20s, when your nostalgia and quality calibrations were set.
You just made up your own imaginary hypothetical to make yourself feel better after finding yourself upset for reasons I bet you couldn't even explain.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 10:39 pm to Methuselah
Would love to see it done again
It was a made for tv thing like IT right? Would like to see a remake like they did with IT
Can only do so much back then with made for tv
So many King stories should be remade after IT and The outsider success
People have not even come close to doing his work justice on the screen yet
It was a made for tv thing like IT right? Would like to see a remake like they did with IT
Can only do so much back then with made for tv
So many King stories should be remade after IT and The outsider success
People have not even come close to doing his work justice on the screen yet
This post was edited on 4/14/20 at 10:41 pm
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