I don't know what it was about her, something rang false and sort of TV movie about her acting style. But I agree it's rare for him to not get a great performance out of an actor. Even the non-actors in Bubble did great work.

The girl in The Underneath is the one that really sticks out like a sore thumb to me.

True. Nothing Mick Garris does is remotely cinematic.

It's taken a while for him to get the Freddy Prinze stink off of him to allow Hollywood in general (and not just filmmakers with good taste) to take him seriously, but I think he's close.

He seems to want to be Tony Scott but can't even come close.

I remember a description of Brody's wife's vagina "yawning open."

Zombie has been talking about how he wants to get away from horror for years now (was supposed to do a Broad Street Bullies movie). And yet here he is, back at it, dumber than ever.

This is one of those weird sequels where you'd like it to turn out great, and the people involved make it sound great, but you can't help but feel like this is just one that should have stayed on the shelf.
But as long as they never ever adapt the novel sequel to The Graduate, we should be ok.

I saw the "job interview" commercial so many times in my youth, I could probably recite it from memory. It must have run on MTV, cause that and Nickelodeon were all I watched for most of my childhood.

I've yet to read his novels (I think HORNS is on my shelf), but his short story collection is something else. "Button Boy" — hoo-wee that one is good.

I liked the title story, too. Always thought it would make a cool little indie. But of course lame-ass Ride the Bullet gets the cinematic treatment.

Yeah, I remember around 6th grade reading RL Stine cheerleader series and seeing Stephen King books at the drug store and thinking "let's kick this up a notch" hoping there was more sex and gore, and man, was there ever.
This came on the tails of finding a copy of JAWS on a shelf in the classroom(obviously whoever put…

He still gets cast in a lot of shows, they just don't last very long or they're Franklin & Bash.

I don't think I can do it. I just can't.

Yeah, that's one of the three they're adapting; the title novella (the other two are the novels Smonk and Hell at the Breech). I'm ok if Franco just wants to be exec producer and get some real talent involved, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm kinda bummed cause he just last week announced that he licensed three of my old writing professors' novels (Tom Franklin). I think the report stated he was only attached as producer at this point, but it sucks to know he could totally fuck up what could be great adaptations. Those books actually ARE cinematic, or…

I'd like the Coens or PTA to tackle Travels with Charley, but incorporate the reality of his trip where he was in poor health and ultimately ended up fictionalizing much of his journey.

You'd think that, but I remember before As I Lay Dying he was almost bragging in some interview about how he'd figured out a way to do it. I think he was just talking about how he used A LOT of split screen from the reviews I read.
Let's just be glad he hasn't been able to do Blood Meridian or American Tabloid as he's…

The clips I saw looked like something the Max Fischer players might have done. Cheap and badly miscast. I almost wonder if some of the participants wanted to make sure it didn't get a release. That may have actually been for As I Lay Dying, not S&F, but nonetheless.

I can't tell if it's balls or idiocy. He seems to think he's got it figured out how to adapt Faulkner/McCarthy/Steinbeck novels that are by their nature uncinematic. But he hasn't figured it out! At all!