Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Frank Darabont is the only guy who can make a great movie out of a Stephen King book. He should be consider one of the best directors from his time.

I don't know. The Shining is pretty great. Misery is pretty great. Stand By Me is pretty great. Carrie is pretty great.

Jack was a joke as the lead.

booo.

red calzolaio wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Frank Darabont is the only guy who can make a great movie out of a Stephen King book. He should be consider one of the best directors from his time.

I don't know. The Shining is pretty great. Misery is pretty great. Stand By Me is pretty great. Carrie is pretty great.

Jack was a joke as the lead.

booo.

If only Paul Newman had been available.

durdencommatyler wrote:

red calzolaio wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Frank Darabont is the only guy who can make a great movie out of a Stephen King book. He should be consider one of the best directors from his time.

I don't know. The Shining is pretty great. Misery is pretty great. Stand By Me is pretty great. Carrie is pretty great.

Jack was a joke as the lead.

booo.

If only Paul Newman had been available.

SK wanted who??

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

red calzolaio wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Frank Darabont is the only guy who can make a great movie out of a Stephen King book. He should be consider one of the best directors from his time.

I don't know. The Shining is pretty great. Misery is pretty great. Stand By Me is pretty great. Carrie is pretty great.

Jack was a joke as the lead.

booo.

If only Paul Newman had been available.

SK wanted who??

I told him I would have done it. He just didn't like the idea of a one month old in the part. His loss.

But, no, seriously, King suggested either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight.

durdencommatyler wrote:But, no, seriously, King suggested either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight.

Yeah Moriarty..that was a cool idea.

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:But, no, seriously, King suggested either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight.

Yeah Moriarty..that was a cool idea.

Would have been a very different animal. But, yeah, I would have loved to see that.

durdencommatyler wrote:But, no, seriously, King suggested either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight.

no shit? it's fun to think about what could have been. i mean, we already saw Jack's crazy side before The Shining.

Isn't this the movie where there was murder by spoon?

red calzolaio wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:But, no, seriously, King suggested either Michael Moriarty or Jon Voight.

no shit? it's fun to think about what could have been. i mean, we already saw Jack's crazy side before The Shining.

King felt that seeing someone more average looking (like Moriarty) slip into insanity would have been much more compelling. He's probably right. But I still thought Nicholson was great.

I personally think Nicholson is unfuckwithable in pretty much every movie he's in, but that's just me.

Orpheus wrote:I personally think Nicholson is unfuckwithable in pretty much every movie he's in, but that's just me.

I'm basically with you.

But it would have been interesting to see King's vision, as well. Very different and not necessarily better, but interesting.

Is this thread still about Quiz Show?

King's vision turned out to be the guy from Wings.

bart wrote:King's vision turned out to be the guy from Wings.

Mick Garris is no Stanley Kubrick.

I wonder if Jorge ever watched Quiz Show