I'm not even sure I finished Wizard and Glass.

Also I think if you weighed each book, in hardcover, and added them up, that would make it count as Stephen King's heaviest book.
Except for Under the Dome.

— you would think demons would have a way of shutting all that down.

LOTR movies= mostly walking.
LOTR books= walking, eating, singing. But mostly walking.

—That's what my Friday (day off) was like. Spider-man Homecoming (really good, by the way) "started" at 1215. After 15-20 minutes of commercials and trailers and then the movie, I think it was after 3:00 when I got out of there.

Third base!

I'm almost sure that in the first book, in the gun battle to get out of town, Roland is described as reaching into his satchel or pocket or whatever, coming out with six bullets in such a way that they're perfectly positioned to just slam into the cylinder when he empties the gun.
Ideally you should have more than five…

—every time that scene from IT comes along, I like to point out that it's really weird, kinda pervy, not really that logical, and it's the reason I don't like the book. Even though up until that bit I was loving it just fine.

Well okay. I met a woman with a tattoo of the picture from .. one of the books' covers. There's a rose and a tower.

I know an adaptation has been discussed for decades, but when I found out it would be a movie I was shocked. You'd think HBO or ANY of the cable channels would jump at the chance to put out a long-running "prestige" adaptation with a built-in audience.

Just pointing out that the first book is pretty slim really. A bit over 200 pages. Also it was originally 5 short stories in the Magazine of Fantasy and SF, and each story sort of filled in on what had gone before. So I think it might be okay as a movie under 2 hours.
The casting looks great.
But the effects look….…

Okay, so this is much like that whole wood-grain paper that microwave ovens had for a while.
Invoking the old rustic days when portable ovens were made of wood, I guess.

Oh god! I'd forgotten about Martin! That's a brilliant movie. Scary, funny, suspenseful, and poignant. And the poignancy comes pretty much RIGHT after a shockingly goring scene at the end.

This morning I heard a clip of an interview from a couple years ago. Romero notes that his movies aren't ABOUT zombies, that the zombies are taking the place of any kind of disaster that could befall civilization.
So for Romero the movies could deal with all kinds of societal issues, without being straight up scare…

"Romero admitted that the story was basically a ripoff of Richard Matheson’s vampire book I Am Legend"

… something about a bunk….

I wouldn't characterize IM2 as a cynical cash grab. I think they tried to more deeply delve into Stark tech politics and even brought Whiplash in from the Iron Man comics…. Tried to continue the humor-sensibility from the first movie and succeeded to a degree.
But Iron Man villains in the comics haven't been that…

Ronan WAS one-dimensional but… I think he's pretty much the same way in the comics.

And - I just rewatched Iron Man (I think it's on netflix). Hadn't seen it in awhile. It REALLY holds up, and in retrospect I can see it was clearly the movie, and hero, with which to start the MCU.
(As a longtime Marvelite, I would, if I'd been in charge, started with an FF movie. But we know how well those have…

I'm pretty sure they'll be saying "Ni!"