Agreed. It's the Spike Lee Flags of Our Fathers all over again. I'm usually very quick to point out lack of diversity or whitewashing. And indeed, in a lot of contemporary/futuristic fare it is grating and inexcusable. But there are contexts when it is totally rational or justifiable - I don't get upset about the lack…

The supposed 'double standard' goes both ways. Many of the people who justified casting ScarJo in Ghost in the Shell are complaining about casting Idris Elba in The Dark Tower, and complained about his casting in Thor. Or complained about MJ in Spider-Man Homecoming

There's a decent movie about French Colonial troops called Indigènes

Let's not forget using Rogue One to fill in a completely non-existent 'plot hole' with the Death Star exhaust port in ANH.

This news is a bit like having a full in-universe explanation of why Darth Vader's suit looks slightly different between ESB and ANH. In ANH Darth Vader's suit was basically a janky Halloween costume (you can clearly see fingerprints on it, the mask isn't symmetrical, his eyes can be seen though the clearly red lens),…

Didn't he also clash with Nimoy constantly on set?

I'd say it's less that his work isn't very good (a lot of it is), but that a lot of his stuff relies on the reader's perceptions and fears which doesn't translate well to film. The hedge monsters in The Shining and the Eldrich spider like creature in IT pack a way bigger punch in your own imagination, but in live…

IT is a good place to start with Stephen King, it's one of his best books. The Stand is his other magnum opus but I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point and it has one of King's worst endings (uggghhhh). Before doing The Dark Tower series I'd tackle his other major works that relate to it (at least The Stand,…

Also directors are creative people too. We have a tendency to treat authors and books as an inherently better art form than films, and view deviations from them by directors are for the worse. But really novels are not sacred, they can have flaws or room for other interpretations. I actually think Kubrick's ending for…

To be fair the book is like 1400 pages long. It makes sense for the movie to be this long.

It's worth it, it's probably one of King's best novels and one of my personal favorites. Though as Eazy E warned, while it's far from King's worst, even the book has kind of a shitty ending that's way 'out there' and would be practically unfilmable, and the 1990 miniseries has a REALLY shitty ending that's…

I Know What You Did Last Summer is a guilty pleasure of mine. I know it's not a good movie but it's one of the few post-Scream slasher films that I occasionally go back to.

The scouring would not have worked in a movie, same with Tom Bambodil. Honestly even most book editors today would insist they be cut. The ending of ROTK was already pushing it and adding a comically anti climatic battle would have completly fucked the pacing of the film.

I've said it many times but instead of remaking classics It is exactly thes sort of thing that should be remade - stuff with potential that wasn't as well served the first time. The Tim Curry film imo wasn't bad for a 1990 TV movie but it hasn't aged well and is hardly an untouchable classic.

No, it's important to know that NCFOM is kind of a deconstruction of Westerns. He views himself as the morally righteous traditional Western hero, but viewers are meant to view his actions as impulsive, greedy, reckless and stupid, never thinking of the consequences to those around him.

This needs to happen.

I'd compare it with Chasing Amy, it was a cutting edge look at sexuality for the time but it seems so quaint and dated by today's standards. I'm not saying it never happens, but the way it was portrayed in TD is pretty unbelievable, dated and borderline offensive for 2015. I don't have to explain why the comparison…

It's pretty far up there. That exploration movie about Steve Jobs with Ashton Kutcher might still top it though.

I didn't like the performance or the role. A closeted vet may have been edgy in 1999's American Beauty but in 2015 it's just passé. Plus I've yet to see Kitch in anything where he's particularly impressed me.

I'd describe it more as "DDL meets 15 year old edgelord".