Tag: Stephen King

A Week of Tweets on 2010-11-07

Stuff on the Net
  • Saw in my pants. #moviesinmypants #
  • Halloween in my pants. #moviesinmypants #
  • Tremors in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • Stephen King edition: Carrie in my pants, Christine in my pants, It in my pants, The Stand in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • Stephen King edition cont: The Mist in my pants, Shawshank Redemption in my pants, Maximum Overdrive in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • More Stephen King: The Shining in my pants, The Dead Zone in my pants, Desperation in my pants, Firestarter in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • Nonstop Stephen King: Misery in my pants, Stand By Me in my pants, Creepshow in my pants, The Dark Half in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • The Last Stephen King: Needful Things in my pants, Apt Pupil in my pants, Everything's Eventual in my pants #moviesinmypants #
  • … and with that, I have nothing left in my pants… #
  • I'm at Ippolito's (429 Ernest W. Barrett Pkwy, Kennesaw). http://4sq.com/c3w4oC #
  • @Muerte_tsd Absolutely. But getting a late start as I'm busy all day… Hope to get an hour in before bed tonight. in reply to Muerte_tsd #
  • @Muerte_tsd do it anyway. It doesn't have to be good or even make sense, fix that later. It just need to be 50k words. in reply to Muerte_tsd #
  • Let me get this straight: the procedure costs me $1500 if I use my insurance, but $500 if I don't use it. Why have insurance? #
  • If you think not voting sends a message, you are wrong. Go vote. #
  • Did you vote in Georgia? Did you vote Yes on Amendment 1? Do you even understand what you just voted for? #
  • Monkeys, typewriters & Shakespeare. #
  • 2,255 words. I'm behind after two days of goose eggs, but the story is progressing. #nanowrimo #
  • Don't throw any of that out. You'll want it later. Trust me. #tweetyour16yearoldself #
  • Another good day. 4,436 words down… a whole lot left to go. #nanowrimo #
  • Watching "Cherry 2000" on a chilly Friday morning. All I need is a mug of hot chocolate and I'm set… #
  • @Critus If Johnny does for vampires what he did for pirates, future Dragon*Cons may have to have a special Vampire Party… in reply to Critus #
  • Even though I'm behind, I took a night off from #nanowrimo because I didn't feel like writing… #
  • Never been paintballing before… today, that changes. #
  • I have now paintballed… Meh. #
  • @etcet I got shot twice… Once on the forehead, and once in the back by an idiot on my own team. in reply to etcet #
  • 5420. #nanowrimo #
  • And now I get to stay up until 2am and make sure all the servers change time correctly! Yay! (not) #
  • Once again I make my plea… do away with DST. It's annoying, especially since not everyone does it. #

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The Mist

Reviews

One day, long ago, I picked a random book off my older brother’s shelf and started to read. The book happened to be Skeleton Crew, a collection of short stories and novellas by Stephen King. There were a number of cool stories in it, but the one that stuck the most was The Mist.

Later, when the family would go and purchase our first PC, a Leading Edge 8088 with 512K RAM and a 20MB hard drive (yeah, Megabyte, not Gigabyte), we would also pick up a handful of games. The Black Cauldron was one, and Stephen King’s The Mist was another. The game differed from the book a little, but that was okay, it needed to because as good as the book was, it wouldn’t make for much of a game. It was a text adventure, and that means I spent hours and hours trying to figure out the right combination of going North, East, South, West, every direction in between, picking things up and using them, in order to not get killed.

But I always wanted them to do a movie… and now they have. Frank Darabont, the man who did The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, took a crack at it, and I have to say, I’m very satisfied with the result.

This movie perfectly captures the mood of the book of people trapped in a country grocery store surrounded by a think mist. There are monsters in the mist, and inside the store isn’t going to be safe forever. The tense building of the religious cult as people take sides on what just might be the end of humanity is well portrayed.

Like the old text adventure, the movie strayed from the book, which in this case it didn’t have to do, but where it did it worked. Especially the end… the end of the book haunted me, and part of me hoped to see the same ending because I felt it was so good, but the movie has a new ending, but its haunting just the same.

Overall, two thumbs up from me. Worth the money to see in the theater.

1408

Reviews

Last night I went and saw a screening of the new Stephen King movie 1408.

It stars John Cusack as a writer who does books on haunted places, mostly going to them and talking about the history and story, but debunking the actual haunting. He gets a postcard telling him not to check in to room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel in New York. So, of course, he goes. The rest of the movie deals with him getting the room and what happens inside.

All in all, it was a very well done movie. I don’t jump alot at horror movies, but this one got me about four times. John and Samuel L. Jackson are very believable in their roles. As with many horror movies, there comes a point where the scares stop and the resolution of the film begins, and as with many horror movies this is 1408’s weakest point. The ending doesn’t suck, but it is definitely lower key that the rest of the film.

Still, a good movie, and worth it if you like movies about hauntings.

The Colorado Kid

Reviews

This one is kind of a puzzler… not the book itself, but how do I review it… The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

It was a good read. The characters and the story were interesting and I enjoyed turning the pages. If this is representative of the kind of work I’ll find in the other Hard Case Crime books by other authors, then I’ve found another series of books to read.

And really, I can’t say more than that without spoiling the book, so read on only if you want to…
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Browsing and Wasting Time.

Random Thoughts

I remember computer games. One of the first I ever loaded on to a computer was the first of the Zork games. We also had a few of those ASCII text games, and there were things like the Door Games on the BBSs I used to frequent, like Global War, Baron Realms Elite, Trade Wars 2002, and all the other football leagues, war games, and trivia. I didn’t see real computer graphics until The Black Cauldron (you can download it here). I got hooked on Sierra games. King’s Quest, Space Quest, Thexder, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and other. And of course as a brainy kid who knew too much triva, I also too to the Carmen Sandiego games. And don’t forget the hours and hours I spent playing The Bard’s Tale (sometimes at night, when its quiet, I still hear the music).

So I’m surfing around the net today, looking for things to keep me busy until my new video card (Thanks Kevin!) shows up so I can try playing Dark Age of Camelot again, and I found this.

Sweeeet.

Taking me back to my days of playing text games like Zork, Stephen King’s The Mist, and this one, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I am sad to see they removed the first step of the game though. I know it personally took me about 4 hours to figure out the proper command to end the repeating of “It is dark.” was “open eyes”. Seems they removed that and jumped right into turning on the light.

It probably better this way, the world needs less insane people.