It’s a stand-alone adaptation of a story by Joe Hill. And unlike what they usually did to his dad, it’s very faithful to the source material.
Most of the adaptations that are actually faithful to Stephen King books are garbage, though. I mean how many can you say are “really good?”
The Outsider was pretty good. I really enjoyed the book too. My thinking is that King’s books tend to have a lot of detail that’s hard to capture in made for tv or straight to video format. Like The Stand for instance. I have yet to see an adaptation that captures absolutely everything.
Stand by Me/The Body was done very well. It’s still King’s personal favourite film. Most of them just aren’t faithful. “The Lawnmower Man” hilariously just steals the title and instead presents a god-awful early CGI movie.
(Silently weeps at "Dark Tower") Misery, Cujo and Carrie I think were faithful. "It" fucking nailed it. King's stuff doesn't do well on a tv format, but even those three movies seem to have a small scale. Which is why the stuff that King did that would be awesome on a huge elaborate scale (the Stand, Dark Tower) is so frustrating.
Blade Runner did that too. I actually read the original book “The Blade Runner,” and it’s…interesting, after the last few years.
Probably my least favorite theater experience. I did appreciate the retard being an alien and saving the day, though.
He used mentally retarded alien magic— Boston Style— to save the world from shit monsters. And Morgan Freeman. That movie…. Holy fucking shit. Did anybody…. The crew, the characters, the audience…. Know what the fuck this shitshow was supposed to be? Alien-ghosts and psychics and military nutcases and libraries from an alternate dimension…. All crashing in a giant heap. Zero stars is a generous rating.
Great to see Damian Lewis speaking in his natural voice for once, Queen forbid he forgets he's still a Brit stealing our jerbs. Also great to see that even actors of Lewis' stature can put out absolute shit product on occasion.
He's just... everywhere. Like Rock, you're already the highest paid actor, you got millions and millions in the bank, you don't have to work a day of your life ever again. But nah, let's launch a clothing line, a tequila brand, a vanity project sitcom (which is actually great if you're an old wrestling fan) and let's hype every project like it's the last thing we'll ever do in this life. He really must have grown up dirt poor in Hawaii, to get such a "never stop hustling" complex.
Why be subtle? He's got the cash to buy up all kinds of prime Hawaiian real estate and redistribute it.
His dad was Rocky Johnson, a premiere wrestler. He went to Miami U. He was not poor. He grew up in Cali and North Carolina, so he’s barely “Hawaiian” at all. His mother is Samoan, his dad Canadian. I look at Johnson as a polite and likeable narcissist who thinks everything and CC anything l can be branded. It’s like if Gene Simmons wasn’t a giant asshole.