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1. Cindy Scroggins on July 20th, 2011 at 1:32 pm

   balls, honk, twitter

   Okay, now I can’t stop laughing.

2. Joel Bernstein on July 20th, 2011 at 4:37 pm

   This tastes funny.

3. Rick Neece on July 20th, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   I want to say something funny coupling Stephen King’s IT with Wil Wheaton. I know Wil wasn’t in “IT,” but it resonates. (Don’t ask me how I stitch things together.)

   Wasn’t Wil in the movie version of Stand by Me?

4. Amanda Mae on July 20th, 2011 at 6:51 pm

   He was. Pauline Kael wrote a nice long write up about what a piece of shit movie it was. I just read it the other day in Hooked. She says something to the effect that any movie that tries to have a moral is nonsense. Only she said it right.

5. Amanda Mae on July 20th, 2011 at 6:51 pm

   Also, Joel, that was really good.

6. Joel Bernstein on July 20th, 2011 at 6:53 pm

   Why thank you Amanda.

7. Rick Neece on July 20th, 2011 at 8:21 pm

   All (nearly all? “The Shining” notwithstanding, and maybe even that) movies based on a Stephen King novel or story are not good. IMHO. I read a lot of Stephen King, years ago. I don’t read him much anymore, but he does put out a “page-turner,” if you can stand his machinations.) I remember Lish saying something like, “It’s better to be Stephen King, than to read Stephen King.”

8. Cindy Scroggins on July 20th, 2011 at 8:37 pm

   I think The Shawshank Redemption is a good movie. I’ve never read King, though. Not my cup of tea.

9. Joel Bernstein on July 20th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

   My wife made us watch the Made-For-TV movie adaptation of The Langoliers because it was on Netflix and she’d watched it as a kid.

   It was pretty terrible.

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