Hell the only reference to Ozzie and Harriet I can think of is Otho making fun of Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis’s wardrobes in Beetlejuice.

oh great! If only I was still 11 years old!

Heh, I gave up on the Walking Dead before I even watched it. Before I could check it out I read that Frank Darabont was getting canned and said, “Well nevermind about that then.”

See, this is why I wait until shows are all wrapped up before watching them these days. The first time in 8 years I check out a tv show as it airs and I love it... it gets the boot. Don’t like that, will stick to movies and Netflix-ing old shows from here on out, thanks.

I’ve been playing this game all day since I came up with it. Season 5! Ash goes to Scotland and battles deadite werewolves of the Scottish Moors, wearing a kilt the whole time! Deadite impales bagpipe player with his bagpipes!

Or a full season set in the dead(pun intended) of winter, with deadites coming out of fishing…

Just not an open ended one like The Walking Dead. Jack will be 30 and his mom will be dead 10 years before he gets his hands on that Talisman.

One looks like Hillbilly David Bowie, the other looks like he’s about to send his soup back at the deli.

Unfortunately it’d have to be REALLY young Spielberg, like after Jaws, and the novel wasn’t out until 86. Late 80's Spielberg? Always, Color Purple Spielberg? Would have RUINED it.

Especially since at that point we already had a perfectly good story reason for everyone to blow up (The Trashcan Man is setup as a Chekov’s gun for over 1000 pages.)

Ironically, the Philip K Dick Story turned into an action vehicle for Schwarzenegger actually had more on its mind than the original short story, if you consider the theories that the entire movie is just Quaid’s Recall Fantasy playing out exactly as advertised...

I saw it in the theater when I was 15, and around the time that Tom Cruise was resigned to killing the man that he temporarily thinks is responsible for his son’s disappearance, my brother and I were convinced that we were witnessing one of the all time great sci-fi films. After that? Eh, even though it was 2002 it…

Straub is frustrating. You enjoy the book in the early goings, then it gets to the end and you realize you just read a 500 page novel that spent 470 pages pretending to be a gothic novel when it’s really just a better than average soap opera with a couple Halloween trappings to keep up the illusion that Straub is a…

try re-reading the book. The movie isn’t the only thing disappointing.

one thing I’ve noticed is that Straub translates to the Audiobook Format TERRIBLY... the narrative disappears up its own ass so often it’s hard to pay attention, and this is from someone who enjoyed tons of Steinbeck on Audiobook for years...

According to King they traded off but tried to actively imitate each other’s style, which is how we ended up with Peter Straub’s Ghost Story and Stephen King’s IT.

I bet Straub acted mostly as an editor, trying to keep out as many “The Oldsmobile farted exhaust” out of the prose as possible.

especially now that Netflix or HBO could get away with the male full frontal and the gopher being chewed up by the lawnmower. I want those Green Pubes on the screen, dammit!

I don’t understand how a one paragraph backstory could be so offensive to you. That rules out a lot of fiction there, man.

You got it wrong, he remembers the Tommyknockers. It’s the only novel that ever made him burst into tears when he finished it. From what I gather it was akin to Tom Hanks’s flip out at the end of Captain Phillips. Cujo is the novel he says he doesn’t remember writing in “On Writing”

not every book, and a lot of times the overwriting is what makes the mediocre books entertaining, like The Tommyknockers. Other times it kills what could have been a great novel (Needful Things, Insomnia). I particularly like how King incorporated a few unrelated short stories into The Tommyknockers just... because...