Doug Jones Victory Dog Dance Party! Open Thread for laughing at Roy Moore

Besides – how often do King novels get made into good movies?

Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption were pretty good.

Buttercup Q. Skullpants —

Of course! Shawshank Redemption was incredible! And I can’t recall Stand By Me, (I was too tiny when I saw it) but I do remember that I played the LP of the soundtrack endlessly, heh!

OK – I’m holding my hands up here. I forgot about Shawshank. And the Green Mile. I’ll accept the judgement that Misery was a good movie (never saw it, didn’t like the book all that much). That makes 4.

They still don’t make up for the abomination that was Christine. HOW DO YOU FUCK UP A MOVIE ABOUT A DEMON POSSESSED CAR? IT’S A SOLID FUCKING GOLD PREMISE!

The other thing about King movies is the dreaded “Well, it has the same title. Everything else is completely different,” AKA the Lawnmower Man effect. 😛

Shawshank is just plain excellent. I’m usually not a fan of dramas, much less prison dramas, but Shawshank’s high up on my personal list of the best films ever made. Fucking marvelous.

</somebody mentioned Shawshank, let me gush for a moment>

Dang it! Borked the edit function again! Phooey!

Mish— thanks so much for the potato gifs! I’ll be sure to pass them on to the potato-philosopher-in-training; I’m sure they’ll earn a wise, all-knowing nod & smile…

…So the majority accepted “Good Stephen King Films”, leaving out New It for now because a) recent, b) unfinished, c) not universally accepted, d) devastating to my case, are Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile.

(I know The Green Mile isn’t universally accepted, but see ‘d’ above.)

This, it would appear, makes him the horror author whose works are best adapted to movies… when they are not, in fact, horror.

@Cheerful Warthog

So, according to medieval anti-Semites, Jews have wings and horns and menstruate.

Anti-Semites of all eras talk a lot of shit, but this talk is true: Jews (at least some Jews, and at least when they’re younger than 50 or so) do menstruate.

Re Stephen King – sooo, has anyone else read Sleeping Beauties yet?

All his failings, collected together in one handy location. Its one redeeming feature is that it makes some misogynists very angry too.

Ana Mardoll did a long long live read of it, if Mardoll is to your taste.
http://www.anamardoll.com/2017/10/index-sleeping-beauties.html?m=1

@Manecki

It’s sort of horror, but not really, I think, as it’s no more gruesome/scary than a lot of fairy tales.
Still love it – it’s a tale, told well. 😀

There was a TV show this year based on the Mist – no idea how good it were, except it wasn’t given a second season. The 2007 movie was pretty bad though.
Been thinking – part of the problem with SK is he’s too well known as a horror writer. So you get horror directors picking up his tales for jump scares, when you really need a good director for story.

Edit – Ninja’d by wwth on the TV series 🙂

@Shadowplay
I DID miss “The Shining”! One of the most iconic of them, too! Devastating to my point! My only point could be that King hated the Kubrick movie, but that doesn’t change much. What with Misery also being well received and new It, my point crumbles and blows away in the howling wind.

Last Rung on the Ladder was indeed a carefully considered strike to the gut. A lot of Night Shift had a big old whack of The Real Evil Is People, but Last Rung on the Ladder was failure and negligence, the kind of “Evil” none of us can say we’re free of. I wouldn’t force a person to walk around a tiny ledge for a wager, but would I fail to be there for someone who needs me? Hell, I’ve already DONE that frequently.

@Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile
True. Hell, given their fondness for…

Oh, no, wait, I see where it comes from now. In medieval thought, menstruation was a mark of the sin of Eve (Who Was The Real Bad Guy And Adam Did Nothing Wrong), for going against the will of God. So all Jews, even male Jews, have to menstruate because they’re also marked by the curse for going against the will of God vis a vis Jesus. I was going to say that it might suit their maledictions better to have female Jews not menstruating rather than male Jews also menstruating, to show how they can’t biologically reproduce (The Only Right Way) and instead have to steal and force-convert Christian babies. But that does go against the sin of Eve business.

At this level of inconsistency, I’ll NEVER be a good anti-Semitic propagandist!

…I’m okay with that.

Two amazing things will take place in late 2017/early 2018

#MeToo Creator Tarana Burke Will Be Dropping the Crystal Ball In Times Square

Tarana Burke is the activist who founded the Me Too Movement over a decade ago; the power of the phrase was most recently acknowledged by Time including her for its “Silence Breakers” Person of the Year issue, though Burke was not featured on the cover. A new year is upon us, which means we have an opportunity to kick it off right by putting Burke front and center—she’s dropping the ball for us. In a good way.
AM New York reports that Burke will be in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, pushing the Waterford crystal button that signals the East Coast start of 2018.

https://jezebel.com/metoo-creator-tarana-burke-will-be-dropping-the-crysta-1821428870

Zora Neale Hurston study of last survivor of US slave trade to be published

Due in May, Barracoon is based on the novelist’s 1931 interviews with Cudjo Lewis, who had arrived in the US in 1860

Alison Flood

A previously unpublished work by Zora Neale Hurston, in which the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, is set to be released next year, more than half a century after her death in 1960.

Barracoon is based on the three months Hurston spent in Plateau, Alabama, in 1931, interviewing Cudjo Lewis, who had been carried on the last recorded slave ship to the US. Lewis, who was then 90, spoke to Hurston about how he was captured and held by American slavers in a barracoon, an enclosure used for slaves, and then transported to the US with more than 100 other people on the Clotilde.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/19/zora-neale-hurston-study-of-last-survivor-of-us-slave-trade-to-be-published

@Kat, ambassador of the feminist government in exile

Well, I’m not sure about the second bit – that’s a guess, interpretation. I do know that a lot of people suggested women menstruate because sin of Eve blaaaaargh, but I’m not sure that’s why they apparently suggested that male Jews menstruate. I mean, it’s not a sensible suggestion, so it’s entirely possible that the origin is equally nonsensical. “Look, there’s a male Jew wearing red pants. Jews don’t wear red pants, that’s silly! …UNLESS!”

There’s now a change.org petition about The Last Jedi:

Reshoot “The Last Jedi” To Replace Luke Skywalker With A Dog That Solves Mysteries