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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.0&return_msg=43064.2"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.1">1–9</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=43064.2">Mr. Mercedes (2019 S3) TWR</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="43064_2_9_10"> <a name="a43064_2"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_2"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time"> 1 Oct 10:17</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">2 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2">43064.2</a></div> <div class="message_body"> ... the first half was strangely uneven, carried solely by Gleeson's scenes interspersed with some flat material, or too much. And this is in the third season (supposedly the best). There's some whacko King stuff in this, but the characters are well-drawn and, eventually, performed.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 1 Oct 10:19 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.2&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.2"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_3"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_3"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time"> 1 Oct 14:14</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Oct 16:43"></span></span> <span class="message_count">3 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.3">43064.3</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.1">43064.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Yeah, I've never been a huge fan of Stephen King's writing. I always felt a bit sorry about that because by all accounts he's an all-round kind and decent person. I hadn't heard of this novel, or the TV series, until you posted. I think I'd watch a documentary on the comparative drying speeds of paint if it had Brendan Gleeson in it. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.3&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time"> 1 Oct 16:53</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Oct 17:54"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.4">43064.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2#a43064_3" target="_self">43064.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> He's written some decently entertaining material in his day, but hasn't been right in the head since he got run over (which this was written well after). He kind of co-invented the populist-horror genre, along with such luminaries as Peter Straub, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz. Many movie productions have been terrible, a few not so much (The Shining). The Mercedes book was a terrible slog. I picked this up because I was curious to see how it would translate as a screenplay. Pretty well it turns out, with the right team, produced by David Kelley. It owes something to the Twin Peaks Lynch-Frost formula IMO.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 1 Oct 16:54 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.4&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time"> 1 Oct 18:09</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Oct 20:06"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.5">43064.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2#a43064_4" target="_self">43064.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Well that sounds promising and I might give it a go.<br /> <br /> I wouldn't deny his influence on the world of writing, and I have tried. But... <br /> <br /> The Shining is a wonderful film. I never felt it was viscerally scary. It's not an Alien or Suspiria or whatever, but it's frightening in a way that stays with you. And it looks wonderful.<br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.5&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time"> 1 Oct 20:07</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 1 Oct 20:24"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.6">43064.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2#a43064_5" target="_self">43064.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> As I said, the first half. You might find it even tougher with Gleeson being the mainstay.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.6&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 2 Oct 03:21</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 2 Oct 06:34"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.7">43064.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2#a43064_3" target="_self">43064.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I think he's a very good writer of prose. He can describe a scene and it just *flows* beautifully. And he's good with imagery. But he absolutely cannot do endings. His stories just kinda deflate at the end (which tends to carry through in the films). His short stories tend to be better cos they just focus on one idea and see it through.<br /> <br /> I went through a phase of reading a lot of his stuff as a young teenager, which I think is a good age to read it. It's well-crafted middlebow stuff to help you step up to something more satisfying.<br /> <br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.7&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 2 Oct 03:28</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 2 Oct 06:34"></span></span> <span class="message_count">8 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.8">43064.8</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.2#a43064_5" target="_self">43064.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I agree about the Shining film. Beautiful to look at in that Kubrick way and disturbing imagery.<br /> <br /> The novel though... I had a big problem with it in that a story about a young family going to take care of a big remote empty hotel and dealing with the isolation and problems that crop up was *wayyy* more interesting to me than the horror stuff. I wanted it to be that.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.8&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43064_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_43064_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time"> 3 Oct 22:43</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">9 of 9</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43064.9">43064.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Forgot to mention Mr. Mercedes has Star Trek Voyager's Kate Mulgrew (Cpt. Janeway) playing the most vicious, cold-blooded serial killer this side of Animal Kingdom's Jacki Weaver.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43064.9&return_msg=43064.2" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43064.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>