50 years after he's dead?

[Connavar]

Hehe my bad for geussing that.


But why do you think that movie specially will be remembered?

You think his other books and movies are bad?

[Sathai]

I thought it was one his more famous movies, because of Kubrick and Nicholson. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Connavar]

Ah then i understand what you mean.


Myself i thought the movie was nothing special not even Jack N could make it very good.

The only movie of his i really liked was IT. As a kid it scared the hell outta of me. I couldnt watch it without having pillows ready to cover my face

[Sathai]

Oh yeah, Tim Curry was great as Pennywise.

[Rawled Demha]

and yet when i got the dvd recently, i realised i shud've left it as a childhood memory, cos watchin it again embarassed me. the book was still scary as hell tho. maybe they made the film for the kids (nobody cares about the age ratings these days) and the book for us grownups...

[dustinzgirl]

50 years after King is dead, someone will make a 'brilliant' movie titled The Dark Tower or The Gunslinger (I think there is already a classic western with that title)...the generation that didn't read the book will go "WOW that is the most BRILLIANT movie of this century" But since we will all be in our 70-80's, we will say "Pfft....that was nothing like the original book. Why in our day, we actually READ the books and then went to the movies. We didn't download them into our brainfeeds. Where's my teeth at? Damn yunguns always stealing our teeth" But we will be right, because it will be a terribly crappy movie. And it will be a trilogy. A very, very long trilogy.

PS: Why is Tim Curry so great at being evil? I mean, he looks like a super nice guy. Did you know he is also the evil professor in Jimmy Neutron (shush, I love that cartoon). Dr. Frenkenfurter, Lord Of Darkness, he's done the voice of Capt. Hook in a Peter Pan cartoon (I Imbd'ed it, lol), pennywise, he was even the evil Hexxus in FernGully, I loved him as Cardinal Richelieu in the three musketeers....I think Curry is an evil genious disguising himself as an actor so he can take over the world!

[Allegra]

50 years after King's dead, he'll be quite on the top of classic horror writers list. His huge popularity and success is phenomenal. As for which books will be mostly read, it's hard to say. Perhaps most likely the DT series, The Stand, It and the sort, less likely of those more realistic ones like The Green Mile, Misery, Rose Madder.

[suupaabaka]

Originally Posted by dustinzgirl

PS: Why is Tim Curry so great at being evil? I mean, he looks like a super nice guy. Did you know he is also the evil professor in Jimmy Neutron (shush, I love that cartoon). Dr. Frenkenfurter, Lord Of Darkness, he's done the voice of Capt. Hook in a Peter Pan cartoon (I Imbd'ed it, lol), pennywise, he was even the evil Hexxus in FernGully, I loved him as Cardinal Richelieu in the three musketeers....I think Curry is an evil genious disguising himself as an actor so he can take over the world!

I think when he was younger, with the black hair and trimmed goatee, he looked like the classic representation of Satan. Or maybe he just enjoys playing villains? Regardless, I love seeing him in evil roles.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by Allegra

50 years after King's dead, he'll be quite on the top of classic horror writers list. His huge popularity and success is phenomenal. As for which books will be mostly read, it's hard to say. Perhaps most likely the DT series, The Stand, It and the sort, less likely of those more realistic ones like The Green Mile, Misery, Rose Madder.

No way DT will be most read. He will always be known best for his horror/supernatural stories.

Hehe even this forum people like most The Stand,IT,Shining,Carrie,Salem's Lot etc Also people i know outside internet who tell me they like SK they go crazy over books like The Shining,IT,Salem's Lot,Carrie.

As his editor told him when he told Second Coming could (before it was changed to Salem's Lot) but that he would be known as horror writer.

I read in the foreword for Salem's Lot.

Even before you read him, you dont think he wrote other than horror cause he has written so many famous of those that they overshadow the others. Even more for the mainstream that dont read much books cause of the movies.

[IrishWriter]

Ok I just have this as a side thought but I really need some confirmation that I'm not the only one.But am I the ONLY person who didn't like Carrie?

[HoopyFrood]

No, no, I didn't like it all that much. And I'm not a huge fan of 'Salem's Lot either or the ones which are seen as King's best or most well-known, popular novels. I actually prefer ones like Rose Madder, Misery, Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia etc. OK, I admit that I bloody love The Shining but that's because the Hedge Animals and just the entire creepy atmosphere created throughout the book (even a fire hose is made to seem terrifying!) are awesome!

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by IrishWriter

Ok I just have this as a side thought but I really need some confirmation that I'm not the only one.But am I the ONLY person who didn't like Carrie?

Just gotta say i have officially joined your club. After Salem's Lot im a fan of his. Now i have to choose my second book. He is very good/great storyteller if his other books are as good story or better than the Lot.


About Carrie i wasnt impressed by the story when i saw the movie. The hole thing sounded stupid to me.

Not gonna rush to read the book.

[j. d. worthington]

On Carrie: The book, while by no means among his best, does develop the idea much better than the film did; for one thing, it ties in the biological factor of the onset of menarche with the boosting of such a latent power. It also uses the entire thing as metaphor to explore aspects not only of being a teenager, but of societal preconceptions and the often savage pecking-order which we all take for granted. While gravely flawed, I'll admit to a certain fondness for the novel... and the fact it's a quick read helps to keep it on track, I think....

[Connavar]

gravely flawed? ooooh.

Wasnt his first published book? Could explain why its not so great.

[dustinzgirl]

Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante

gravely flawed? ooooh.

Wasnt his first published book? Could explain why its not so great.

Yes his first. I remember reading somewhere that he threw it away, his wife picked it up and read it, told him he was an idiot for throwing it away and he should try to get it published...and the rest was history.