Yeah, the weirdest thing for me revisiting King's books as an adult is when I realize I'm now older than some characters. (Being older than Stu Redman really messed my head up.) But of all King's characters, I feel like Louis Creed is the one I could least handle realizing I'm now older than. I read Pet Sematary at a…

My copy of Pet Sematary just had a cat on it - not even an especially scary-looking cat - and I *still* kept it cover down, because everyone knows that if you keep the cover down, the monsters from inside the book can't escape. (Right now, I'm reading the new Donald Trump bio and keeping it cover down for exactly the…

Perky D! I was just thinking, "This is the best AVClub article I've read in a long time that was not by good old Perky D." And then, lo, you appeared. (Nineteen hours ago.)

Hey, it wasn't a great sequel to "The Shining", but I liked "Doctor Sleep" on its own merits.

I kind of hope you wrote a term paper for your Pop Literature class comparing the part in "The Stand" where Frannie gets sick from drinking too much Coke to the part in "The Mist" where the guy only has Pepsi.

"Do teenage boys ever think…"

I was thinking that this couldn't possibly be right, so I went and tried to skim through "It" to find the earlier references I imagined must be there. And the "It"-gets-Georgie scene, "It"-gets-the-guy-in-1985 scene, and "six people prepare to go back to Derry" sequence take up…135 pages. So I'm sure you're right…

I can't really think of a better word, but it cracks me up to think of either a ten-year-old boy or a thirty-seven-year-old small-town librarian having "detractors".

It's pretty heavily referenced throughout, but in a half-assed way, so I agree it could have been a last-minute change that he went back and did half-assedly (kind of like when the male protagonist of The Tommyknockers, Bobby Anderson, became the female protagonist of The Tommyknockers, Bobbi Anderson, just before…

I'm a "fan" of Alan Resnick, in that he terrifies me so much that I will hate you to my grave for reminding me that he exists, but I admire his talent as much as that of any filmmaker working today. That said, his niche is surrealism; I don't know if he'd be able to do straightforward horror. Donna is terrifying…

On balance, I don't care for "It" (if you take out the tedious chase-through-the-sewer sequences and stop trying to render Bill's speech onomatopoetically, you're left with a solid 80-page novella), and yet I agree with every word of Zack's analysis. The evocation of childhood loserdom is note-perfect. Those children…

I've made that argument about the ending before. People always tell me the point was that Flagg's people were scattered around the greater Las Vegas area, and that the purpose of Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph going to Vegas was that their execution would bring all of Flagg's people together in one location so that when…

So basically, you're going to do what you do every day, except add screaming "I've got cancer!"?

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Yeah, back in Austin Powers times, I never thought the name "Jay Roach" would become synonymous with almost unbearably bland paint-by-numbers political biopics.

DennisPerkins5? What happened to Dennis Perkinses 1 through 4?

"So we're agreed? The Toto biopic will be called 'All the Way'?"
"Yeah, I guess so. Mike Love was supposed to drop by and make an argument for it to be called 'Hold the Line', but he never showed up."
"Yeah. Love isn't always on time. Oh, oh, oh."

I had an angry comment all drafted in my head about how "Madam Secretary" cannot possibly be more popular than "The Good Wife", because it's determinedly mediocre and I am the only person I know who watches it.

Boy, do I feel like a lummox.

I feel like Evil Lincoln's critique was just based on him liking Angel a lot. TGW isn't perfect, but it's definitely worth watching.