Spoken like a bigot thinks the Central Park Five deserved life in prison,whines about “progressive politics”, bitches when anyone is critical of Christianity, will stan for convicted rapists who evade their prison sentences by fleeing to Europe because you like his filmography (https://news.avclub.com/1837995504), and…

somebody corrected me in a different comment section, but i now realize he was likely pulling my leg. yanking my chain, if you will. throwing sand in my eyes. smoke-and-mirroring me. i’d never actually heard of the iron eagle movie before, so i just assumed he’d had his character name revealed already

My thoughts exactly. It might be over-identifying as a writer, but I always see people talking about unintentional comedy on TV when I’m 95% certain it was quite intentional and it’s become quite the pet peeve.

The Werthem references may go much deeper.

From Wikipedia: “Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic when mental health services for blacks were uncommon due to racialist psychiatry. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain,…

Major Snyder vibes with the American Hero Story (slow mo and ultra violence). Not sure if it's shade or homage. 

He literally said “I assume it made financial sense at the time when you looked at their careers in that moment.”

Man, you really need a hobby

It’s almost like not all of the reviews conform to your very narrow stereotype of what the reviews on this website are.

Why would critics be representative of audiences?

I grew up in Bangor. When the book came out I was slightly older than the Losers in their youthful incarnation. I spent a LOT of my younger years playing in the area that roughly corresponds to the Barrens (down by the Kendsukeag stream, which was about a 2 min walk from my house of many years). The guys who killed…

Hey all. Just wanted to drop in here and give a very sincere thank you to everyone who’s read the piece and everyone who’s commented below. I had to kind of talk myself into writing this, for a number of reasons, but I’m glad I did, and I’m deeply moved by the responses here—by those of you sharing your own…

That’s what makes the suicide so effective — everyone is immediately fucked up by Mike’s call but Stan quietly and without hesitation offs himself, it says so much about the terror that’s come back. And then King twists the knife by showing the very sweet kid who felt he had to make that choice years later, despite…

Such an excellent piece, thanks for writing it.

The closing forgetfulness of the book really fucked me up as someone, like you, who was reading this at the same age of the 1958 Losers Club. It was saying, point blank, “You will not remember what you are now, it will be gone.” That erasure is essentially death and that was even heavier than all of the monsters. But…

You should check out On Writing, it’s a short nonfiction book about, well, see title, but it also goes into King’s substance abuse issues and in particular what he went through after getting hit by that van. He owns his past.

This is damn good writing, A.A. It resonated with me in many ways. Like you, it seems, I grew up in a household that could be kindly described as volatile, under the thumb of a cruel and violent stepfather and a mother who encouraged and occasionally participated in what he did. And also like you, I first read IT at…

And Chewbacca is just Sundance after he really let the mustache go.

That would be kind of an interesting theme to explore — future cultures’ projection of what’s important to them back onto the past.

Well excuse me if I don’t want to be a puppet of Big Feelings!

Honestly, that’s one of the more important parts of the movie that’s overlooked: We’re all dicks in some way. We’ve all had that “romantic vs. reality” moment in the film, whether it be about a job, a lover, a friend, a situation... they should show that scene to all high school freshman on their first day of school…