I just finished reading "The Green Mile"...first Steven King book I've ever read. Now I"m hooked, I want more! lol But you know how when you read a book, and than watch the movie, you spend most of the movie totally pissed off? Just annoyed with the changes and the way that the characters talk and act, because it's nothing like how it was in the book? Well...aside from the very ending...the movie "The Green Mile" was SO MUCH like the book! I just watched it and I am very satisfired and impressed. Although I did pick up on a couple small changes throughout, it went down pretty much exactly as I pictured it. And oh my god Percy...the asshole...lol the actor who played him was exactly as I pictured him! Anyway thats a GREAT movie! I reccomend reading the book first and than watching the movie though
I've seen it havn't read it though. I don't think I could. It's too damn sad. I really liked the movie but I deffo wont ever see it again.
I loved that film. It's funny, isn't it, how the best films made from Stephen King's work aren't really horror. Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile--all of them had horrific aspects, I guess, but they weren't horror. They were broader than that. If Dickens is considered "Lit'rature," then at least three of those four qualify, maybe all of them. On the other hand, his "pure" horror just doesn't translate to film as well. The Shining was good, but nothing like the book. The film version of Pet Sematary sucked. And most of the rest is just utter crap.
I think that was one of the first movies I had to cry to (either that or leave the room in gaudling embarrassment).
I had no patience with that movie. Stories that possess so little empathy for the reality of the human condition, that it must sex-up the reality of true suffering and missery with titilating super-natural mind-candy, only serves to remind me how our shallow material lives have alienated us from the reality of each other. Super-natural themes are fine, but when they pretend to explore real human interaction, they merely get in the way, and become depressing as they cheapen our honest interactions turning them into a Macplastic virtual-reality.
I believe you, because sarcasm is exactly how we unconsciously express shame we pretend so hard not to have.
Is that what sarcasm is? Gee, and all along, I thought it was just how I responded to a holier-than-thou buzzkill.
I can see where you would get that impression. I often use a provacative tone to provoke comment. Still, your comment, though disliking my tone, hasn't questioned my buzzkill. Is that because you also see the limitations of super-natural plots?
I remember that moview and felt that it evoked quite a number of emotions. It says sad and sorry things about the justice system. Dealt with favoritism, nepotism, bigotry. Had the Jesus story retold. Also retold the mythical story of a human who could live forever... but whose body didn't stay young. At least the mouse got fed every day
The whole entire point of horror fiction is to present situations that are so fucked up beyond belief that they make your problems feel paler in comparison. It's escapism. Most movies, & books suck if you care nothing for the characters, no impact when they go through tribulations. Then there are ones made to hate like Percy that you are hoping will die in a horrible way. Seems it may not be your cup of tea.
I saw that movie six years ago on my "Safe Grad" night (don't know if you guys have that but it's when the school takes the graduating class on a big roadtrip and we do something pretty cool -- well, that's what it usually is. Ours just went to the nearest town to a pool and then to cosmic bowling) and we watched it after no sleep for 24 hrs. straight. I was sick from no sleep and very zoned out and the movie just fucking horrified me. I finished it, but it took me a while to get over it for some reason.
You ever read Danse Macabre, Stephen King's non-fiction treatise on horror? That's pretty much his thesis for the whole book. But the monsters under your beds are going to get you, kiddies. Oh, yes. We call them Death, and they're going to get every... last... one of you.
Yes, I have. The movie Silver Bullet was a classic example of that. Don't know if you caught that flick, but there was a part in the woods w/ a baseball bat that was kinda priceless.
I've seen it. I'm originally from Tulsa: Gary Busey is a homeboy. I'm guessing you mean the only scene in a werewolf movie (that I'm aware of, anyway) where the werewolf attacks with a baseball bat?
