To make sure you remember that the main character who in the framing narrative is a successful writer family man with a shiny new computer, perfect house and perfect life is Stephen King, IE he grew up in small town wherever in the fifties and made shitty little stories >That bit when the dweeby kid mans up and pulls a gun on the bullies and tells them to get fricked? Yeah I would totally have done that
Lard Ass joins a pie eating contest, where the entire town just ridicules and insults him the entire time. Little did everyone know, Lard Ass planned to puke after the contest, which started a chain reaction of the entire town puking. It was his revenge. Afterwards he goes home, shoots his dad, and joins the Texas Rangers. He didn't have to pay to get into the contest either!
Well, sure it’s crass but it’s a little kid’s story. I actually love that it’s just a nice little revenge tale but then it shows a lot of personality from each friend and what they take from it.
the movie is about growing up and losing your innocence?
because the kids still are engrossed and excited about the revenge public puking story shows they still have some child like innocence
Gordie feels like an outcast in town and at times feels powerless but he plans to show them all and make it out and be successful
Lardass is the town outcast and is powerless - but he uses his strengths to get revenge on everyone (from a kids story pov)
I think one of the big points is Corey Feldman's response at the end of the story. He doesn't really grasp the idea of coherent storytelling, so it places an intellectual barrier between the characters. It's like how River Phoenix later says something about the main character being smarter than then. Demonstrates how they can enjoy their companionship now, but when adulthood comes there will be a lot of distance between them.
Also Corey Feldman's character originally appeared in Carrie (the book, not in any of the movie versions) as an adult and iirc he's a simple gas station worker who never went anywhere in life.
If you look at the movie objectively, it's really just a grab at trying to be relatable to preteens and preteens. That story is still an urban legend going around, I heard a youtuber try to tell a version of it like it was his own a couple weeks ago and no one called it out. it was billy on drunken peasants
don't drink canola oil
It was ipecac you fricking moron.
>BOOM BABA BOOM BABA
>HEY CHOWDOWN LARDASS
>WIDELOAD
To make sure you remember that the main character who in the framing narrative is a successful writer family man with a shiny new computer, perfect house and perfect life is Stephen King, IE he grew up in small town wherever in the fifties and made shitty little stories
>That bit when the dweeby kid mans up and pulls a gun on the bullies and tells them to get fricked? Yeah I would totally have done that
I don't think you've addressed the actual topic.
shut up wesley
i always skip this scene in that movie. how would you describe me?
Lard Ass joins a pie eating contest, where the entire town just ridicules and insults him the entire time. Little did everyone know, Lard Ass planned to puke after the contest, which started a chain reaction of the entire town puking. It was his revenge. Afterwards he goes home, shoots his dad, and joins the Texas Rangers. He didn't have to pay to get into the contest either!
he didn't ask for a plot outline
Yeah, I misread him. I’d say he just doesn’t like to see people puking, I guess?
lol i guess. i like that movie a lot but that scene just seems crass to me. maybe i suck and am boring
Well, sure it’s crass but it’s a little kid’s story. I actually love that it’s just a nice little revenge tale but then it shows a lot of personality from each friend and what they take from it.
>Afterwards he goes home, shoots his dad, and joins the Texas Rangers.
That was Teddy's suggestion because Gordy's ending was anticlimactic.
to show gordie can entertain his 12yo friends with a story
the movie is about growing up and losing your innocence?
because the kids still are engrossed and excited about the revenge public puking story shows they still have some child like innocence
to give you someone to relate with, lardass
it's a story-within-a-story to justify the fact that we are being told Gordie's story by himself as an adult.
Gordie feels like an outcast in town and at times feels powerless but he plans to show them all and make it out and be successful
Lardass is the town outcast and is powerless - but he uses his strengths to get revenge on everyone (from a kids story pov)
To win the pie eating contest.
I was also watching this on cable earlier, a fellow man of taste
It was a cautionary tale to young viewers. Warning them not to become fat. Didn't work too well.
funny gross out gag for the fellas
Because Stephen King literally can not help himself but to put a self insert in every story, who is blatantly a writer.
There's no writer in the Dark Tower series.
I presume you are joking. He was literally a character in the book, Stephen King, who wrote stories and had magic powers.
Are suggesting Stephen King is in fact NOT a writer? I would gladly subscribe to your newsletter.
worst scene in the film, I always skip it.
So is this a pro gun film? The movies' climax is literally solved by gun self defense
if not for the gun the kid would have died the way he did in his adulthood
Imagine your mind being this poisoned by politics.
I think one of the big points is Corey Feldman's response at the end of the story. He doesn't really grasp the idea of coherent storytelling, so it places an intellectual barrier between the characters. It's like how River Phoenix later says something about the main character being smarter than then. Demonstrates how they can enjoy their companionship now, but when adulthood comes there will be a lot of distance between them.
Also Corey Feldman's character originally appeared in Carrie (the book, not in any of the movie versions) as an adult and iirc he's a simple gas station worker who never went anywhere in life.
whats wrong? Hit a little too close to home?
Fat frick
Even as a kid I thought they did a shitty job with the puking effects. You could tell the tube spraying the puke wasn’t lined up with their mouths
Art doesn't need a reason, it is self expression. If you don't like it, frick off
it was an homage to
If you look at the movie objectively, it's really just a grab at trying to be relatable to preteens and preteens. That story is still an urban legend going around, I heard a youtuber try to tell a version of it like it was his own a couple weeks ago and no one called it out.
it was billy on drunken peasants