Hollywood, errrrrrrrrrrr, Stephen King is out of ideas

I'll add that it's not a horrible idea, but compared to the Kubrick original, who can do it justice?

 

The Kubrick original was nowhere near as good as the book.

 

I loved the book and really liked the movie. Redrum still haunts me. I think King's complaint about the movie, and it's a valid one, is that people thought of Nicholson as being crazy at the start of the movie, because of Cuckoo's Nest. The story's supposed to be about this guy who gradually goes insane, and perhaps with an actor who wasn't so identified with being a nut, that would have been easier to accept in the movie. Still, who else could have delivered, "Heeeeere's Johnny."

 

I think my biggest carp with the movie was all that time getting Scatman Carothers to the hotel in a snowstorm, only to kill him as soon as he walks in. That pissed me off.

 

Did anybody see "Seed of Chucky"?? There's a great bit toward the end of the movie where Chucky is using an axe to smash his way into where his bride and their child are hiding. Chucky sticks his face up to the hole he's just chopped in the door, maniacal look on his face, and you figure he's gonna come out with "Heeeeeere's Chucky" or some other lame variation of The Line.

Instead, he pauses and gets a thoughtful look on his face. "I can't think of a thing to say," he says. "Fuck it!!!"

 

I think I realized this when I saw the ad for his last book, which was apparently loosely based on The Simpsons movie.

 

Although King said he actually started this latest one in 1975.

 

And it's very good, BTW.

 

Stephen King has been out of ideas for 20 years. Or, since he got sober.

He is now Meyer, just without the self-loathing Mormonism.

 

Riiiight.

 

Then go ahead and name the last good book he's written.

 

I apologize... Nightmares and Dreamscapes IS 16 years old.