>The Captain Trips virus is so deadly everyone at the research facility drops dead almost on the spot except one guy who manages to escape and dies later for no discernible reason other than he's needed to spread the disease.
>everyone at the research facility drops dead almost on the spot
the first thing we see is a pile of bodies crowded around the exit, followed by panning deeper into the labs showing people who died at their desks. clearly exposure plays a part in how immediately deadly it is, and the guy who escaped wasn't even inside the facility, he was a gate guard who saw it going down on his monitor.
That’s what viruses do, viruses with a high lethality and short incubation time are less successful at spreading than viruses with a lower lethality and longer incubation time.
>The US government forced news services to print and broadcast the official line, which was that there was nothing wrong going on, it was just the normal flu, and the situation was being under control.
>As the superflu spread US military operations were soon directed toward news networks that broadcast the truth, many of them being shut down by violent means
>Rebellious journalists, news staff, and talk radio broadcasters began to print and broadcast the truth, alerting the public to the lethal pandemic and the government coverup. To suppress the news, soldiers massacred protesting college students, executed news employees, and blew up the buildings of news broadcasters.
Stephen King sure botched that storyline! In real life Colbert and his ilk would die on air live before ever admitting something was wrong.
>the man whose dream, now that society is in shambles and everyone is dead, is to run around the bases at the yankee stadium, and lay down to jerk off naked on home plate >the black dudes that deserted military and literally put on tribal loinclothes to went full baboon while shooting whities on TV for lulz
Say what you want about his writing, but there's never been much wrong with King's imagination.
Still hope the wanker got to live that dream. We never found out.
I met Mick Garris once at a John Carpenter double feature at the American Cinematheque Egyptian. He was the moderator/host of an interview/ Q&A with Carpenter. I managed to meet him afterwards and thanked him for everything he's done for the horror community. Seemed genuinely appreciative of the sentiment.
No.
For example, they made Larry black. They also changed his backstory to be that he plagiarized Baby Can You Dig You Man from a friend.
So just apply that same logic to every character.
>The Captain Trips virus is so deadly everyone at the research facility drops dead almost on the spot except one guy who manages to escape and dies later for no discernible reason other than he's needed to spread the disease.
Boy i hope someone got fired for that blunder!
Heh sounds like Covid
In the book he saw the lockdown in progress but a contractor had cheaped out on one gate causing a delay so he bounced.
it affects people at different rates depending on proximity of exposure and natural immunty. next you'll say it doesn't make sense that stu didn't die
>everyone at the research facility drops dead almost on the spot
the first thing we see is a pile of bodies crowded around the exit, followed by panning deeper into the labs showing people who died at their desks. clearly exposure plays a part in how immediately deadly it is, and the guy who escaped wasn't even inside the facility, he was a gate guard who saw it going down on his monitor.
"Yoots"?
they outright state that the virus will quickly mutate into something less immediately fatal. Maybe an asspull but at least there was a reason given.
That’s what viruses do, viruses with a high lethality and short incubation time are less successful at spreading than viruses with a lower lethality and longer incubation time.
>The US government forced news services to print and broadcast the official line, which was that there was nothing wrong going on, it was just the normal flu, and the situation was being under control.
>As the superflu spread US military operations were soon directed toward news networks that broadcast the truth, many of them being shut down by violent means
>Rebellious journalists, news staff, and talk radio broadcasters began to print and broadcast the truth, alerting the public to the lethal pandemic and the government coverup. To suppress the news, soldiers massacred protesting college students, executed news employees, and blew up the buildings of news broadcasters.
Stephen King sure botched that storyline! In real life Colbert and his ilk would die on air live before ever admitting something was wrong.
The book was originally written in the late 70s. It was a very very very different time.
Book is so good. Larry Underwood is me.
mayhaps is mayhaps not
>I'm a man with a plan. What I mean to do is kill the thirty people who making a settlement over there. So all I need is several nuclear bombs
Akshually it's 26 now
This would've been the worst thing King has ever written that someone put to film if there wasn't the aptly named Desperation.
What is named Desperation? wtf does this mean?
Stephen's inability to write anything that's both semi-coherent and half decent and not a short story ?
is the adaption of Desperation bad? just looked up cast Ron Perlman is in it
It's two hours of your life buddy ,watch at your own regret and find out for yourself
this seems personal to you
Well i did watch it so..
Are u trying to convince me to watch it or not? Why are you posting about it?
If somebody made an allusion that you should stop breathing for the next ten minutes ,i wonder, would you consider it?
is it good or not you fuckin pseud homosexual?
Not him, but just find out for yourself. Some of the best films i've come across were from random blind watches.
TAK
TAKA WAN
TAKAH LAH
Please do not speak in the language of the dead.
Kings best adaptation is 11.22.63 starring James Franco and Sarah Gadon
Hey hey!
this is how i learned that the main bitch from Just Shoot Me was secretly a titty monster
Kazhar milkers.
Shes Italian
lol ok bro
~~*Southern Italian*~~
>secretly
i never noticed as a lad somehow until The Stand in later life viewing
Honestly I was just obsessed with Nina and never really noticed her.
Laura San Giacoomo
I tried to read the book but it was just inane cocaine ramblings so I turned it off
shocks me every time how ugly he was. now he just looks like a withered lesbian but back then he was truly hideous
Yea his monobrow was extreme. The 70s were a better time for ugly people
He was a Sussquatch.
Kek. Pic related is the original poster they made.
Like 00s/early 10s hipsters. They were being "ironically" ugly, bro!
Try again retard. King seems to have opened portals in his mind to view the future through his drug use. Dude is obsessed with the number 19
the first 1/3 or so dealing with the collapse of society is great, after that it becomes a slog.
>the man whose dream, now that society is in shambles and everyone is dead, is to run around the bases at the yankee stadium, and lay down to jerk off naked on home plate
>the black dudes that deserted military and literally put on tribal loinclothes to went full baboon while shooting whities on TV for lulz
Say what you want about his writing, but there's never been much wrong with King's imagination.
Still hope the wanker got to live that dream. We never found out.
I met Mick Garris once at a John Carpenter double feature at the American Cinematheque Egyptian. He was the moderator/host of an interview/ Q&A with Carpenter. I managed to meet him afterwards and thanked him for everything he's done for the horror community. Seemed genuinely appreciative of the sentiment.
is that a JoJo reference??
Was the recent miniseries at least moderately okay?
I enjoyed it. Amber turd was hot af in it
It's mostly OK but laughably bad in parts. It does have lots of hot women in it. The 1994 version is better though.
No.
For example, they made Larry black. They also changed his backstory to be that he plagiarized Baby Can You Dig You Man from a friend.
So just apply that same logic to every character.
First half of the book where it's America [& the world] swiftly falling and the aftermath is kino.
So many dead bodies
>Don't Fear The Reaper starts playing
>instant kino scene
Prey did this too.
dont forget the brief cameo by Karem Abdul Jabar
for me it was the rattlesnake guitar sting that hit whenever a lloyd or trashcan man scene starts