mel

laladypoet

well, clint eastwood would be the best roland. if he was ten years younger, maybe. or this guy:


he's the asshat from Urban Cowboy, but he's been in other stuff too. he's a good actor.

for Susannah, I've said Angela Basset, but she's getting up there too. so maybe taraji p. henson



eddie has ALWAYS eluded me. me and jose have gone round and round on that one.

Nebb

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[QUOTE]well, clint eastwood would be the best roland. if he was ten years younger, maybe. or this guy: he's the asshat from Urban Cowboy, but he's been in other stuff too. he's a good actor. for Susannah, I've said Angela Basset, but she's getting up there too. so maybe taraji p. henson <strong>eddie has ALWAYS eluded me.</strong> me and jose have gone round and round on that one.
Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

SEE my sig.

louisvillebride21

See, I don't want Clint. Its too....let me reprise every other western I've ever done.

That girl is really pretty though.

laladypoet

maybe ryan reynolds would make a good eddie. or james franco.

I could also see viggo mortenson as a younger roland.

laladypoet

I'm just gonna say I hate hate HATE Hailey Joel with the passion of a thousand firey hells. I was rooting on the ghosts to kill him in Sixth Sense.

I don't think Hugh Laurie is old enough or haggard looking enough.

Nebb

I think too many "big names" (james franco, for example), woudl kind of ruin the vibe, in some way. It would just be too commercial.

louisvillebride21

That's House, right? I can't see him as anything other than an extreme smartass.

If he wasn't sooooo goofy, I'd like the guy who played Chandler on Friends to do Eddie. But he's not hard enough. And I despise Johnny Depp, so that would totally ruin it for me.

What about Leo?

BAMF= badassmotherfucker.

laladypoet

and for some reason, the voice of blane the mono should be the guy who does this character:

laladypoet

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[QUOTE]I think too many "big names" (james franco, for example), woudl kind of ruin the vibe, in some way. It would just be too commercial.
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]
but at the same time, I think the SK movies with the bigger names were the best, because the bigger names demand a good script. look at Carrie, sissy spacek was a huge deal when it was made. or Misery.

then look at Firestarter.

louisvillebride21

Oh I want Blaine to be somethign/one really DARK. Or the movie announcer guy. It could go either wya.

laladypoet

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[QUOTE]Oh I want Blaine to be somethign/one really DARK. Or the movie announcer guy. It could go either wya.
Posted by louisvillebride21[/QUOTE]
he just seemed so...neurotic to me. "oooh, eddie, your riddles are giving me gas!"

The Mel and Todd Show

This casting issue is one of the reasons I don't want it to happen. I really like the way everyone looks in my head.  This, to me, is going to be just like Harry Potter...I'll get terribly excited for the movies, and then leave terribly disappointed. 

Although...they're going miniseries with this, right?  That makes me somewhat more hopeful for the content, but it also makes it less likely that they'll get any "known" actors for the roles.  A mini series to cover 7 books is going to run for awhile.

Are you all fans of the graphic novels, as well?  I almost wish they would do this as an animated series, not unlike the graphic novels...they could do a lot more with it if they weren't restrained by the budget of live action.

Nebb

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : <strong>;___________;
</strong>Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

What does this mean haha

laladypoet

tears. it means tears.

crfische

There will be no tearing. I'll bring the lube.

Stephen King.

laladypoet

doesn't it look like a face to you? with tears coming down? I SHOULDN"T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MY ART TO YOU!

laladypoet

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[QUOTE]There will be no tearing. I'll bring the lube. Stephen King.
Posted by crfische[/QUOTE]


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louisvillebride21

Ohhh I LOVE him as Blaine! Or Laurence Fishburne!

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : that's so different from what I had in mind, but I like it.
Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

It's absolutely nothing like what I had in mind, either.  It feels right, though, doesn't it?

I have a hard time putting real people to fictional characters.  Anyone who is not precisely how I imagined them won't feel right to me, and I'll hate it.  I fully accept that this is an unreasonable way to behave.  I think Harry Potter, I'm okay with the casting, because I saw the first two movies before I read the books.  So, I like the first two movies, and none of the others (well...I liked 7.  They started to see things MY way in 7, you see).  But with DT, I don't know...I just fear that they'll eff it up, and then in the future when I'm like "OMG, you like scifi/fantasy?  You should read DT, best thing EVAR!" people will be like "Dude, wasn't that the series on sci fi with Stephen Baldwin that was cancelled after the first season when he got raped by some ghost thing?" and then I will CRY becuase people will have developed incorrect opinions about the best thing ever based upon a series that, for some reason, they wouldn't just let me make myself, at home, with lots of 5 hour energy and Microsoft Paint.  I could DO IT if they'd let me. 

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : BUT that was also oldie times. I thought the mist was quite excellent (hated the ending) and none of them were all that HUGE.
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]

That's not how the story ended.  They changed it for the movie.  He actually ended that story "choose your own adventure" style, as well.  I didn't hate it.  I did hate the ending in the movie, though. 

ETA- I agree, the movie was well done.  I find that the books turned movies are better when it's a short story they've started with.  Shawshank, Stand by Me, The Mist, hell...even Secret Window.  Then you compare them to the longer novels turned movie...IT, The Stand...not good. 

laladypoet

same thing happened to me, sort of. they wouldn't let me in the olympics, even though I did a one-handed cartwheel followed by a back walk-over in seventh grade, DESPITE hitting puberty that year. that's when people like me and you gotta forge ahead, mel.

laladypoet

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : That's not how the story ended.  They changed it for the movie.  He actually ended that story "choose your own adventure" style, as well.  I didn't hate it.  I did hate the ending in the movie, though. 
Posted by The Mel and Todd Show[/QUOTE]
wait, how did the movie end? I read the story.

louisvillebride21

HA! He's in the card with his kids and the 2 old people and he blows all their brains out. He runs out of bullets for himself and walks out into the mist to get dead. But it's really the Army coming to save everyone.

laladypoet

you have GOT to be kidding me!

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : wait, how did the movie end? I read the story.
Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

Worst.  Shiit.  Ever.



Spoilers, for anyone interested int he movie...




So, you remember in the story how it ends with them driving, but they've picked up a radio signal, so they're driving with HOPE, dammit?  In the movie, he has a gun with two bullets in it.  He's pulled over on the side of the road, and hears what sounds like MONSTERS coming.  So he shoots his kid and the other person in the car (don't remember who it was supposed to be).  Then he gets out of the car, expecting to get eaten by a giant monster thing, and the noise turns out to be the military saving the damn day.  The movie ends with him wailing over the fact that he just shot his kid in the head. 

Worst.  Shiit.  Ever. 

ETA- :LVB had it right, it was the two old folks in the back, so there must have been three bullets. 

Nebb

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : That's not how the story ended.  They changed it for the movie.  He actually ended that story "choose your own adventure" style, as well.  I didn't hate it.  I did hate the ending in the movie, though.  ETA- I agree, the movie was well done.  I find that the books turned movies are better when it's a short story they've started with.  Shawshank, Stand by Me, The Mist, hell...even Secret Window.  Then you compare them to the longer novels turned movie...IT, The Stand...not good. 
Posted by The Mel and Todd Show[/QUOTE]

Oh I know. I hated it when I saw it but then I hated it more after I read it. I just didnt like how it ended in the movie AT ALL.

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: mel : Oh I know. I hated it when I saw it but then I hated it more after I read it. I just didnt like how it ended in the movie AT ALL.
Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]

This movie started an argument when I was pregnant.  We had a bunch of movies we hadn't watched.  Todd wanted to watch this, and I wanted to watch something else.  We decided to watch this, which I was okay with because I was tired and figured, if I was going to fall asleep, at least I knew how it ended so I wouldn't be missing anything.  Todd ended up falling asleep, and I saw the ending, and woke him up yelling "WHY DID YOU MAKE ME WATCH THAT?  THAT WAS AWFUL!  I AM VERY PREGNANT AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE WATCHED THAT AND I AM UPSET NOW!"  He didn't know about the ending, so he was pretty confused. 

laladypoet

The Stand movie got the song Dig Yo Man in my head for days, and therefor, it is awesome.

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]The Stand movie got the song Dig Yo Man in my head for days, and therefor, it is awesome.
Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

Ha, sort of like "You All Everybody"?

Nebb

I watched like 20 minutes of the stand and turned it off Im so ashamed.