I’m excited about this one!
Whenever I see the phrase rave reviews, this is what I think.
I liked the trailor for this and enjoyed the book many years ago (from the big Bachman collection book), hope it lives up to the hype.
Yep the trailer looks great
Nice! I was hoping the R rating would let them do it justice, looking forward to this one
I remember reading that. Was in the same book as The Running Man iirc.
Wasn’t that getting a “book remake” as well?
Yep, Edgar Wright directing. I think it comes out in November.
I’m not sure how they’d make this movie visually interesting. It’s just a bunch of kids walking. It’s been a while since I’ve read the book but IIRC it relied heavily on its protagonist’s internal monologue. Not the kind of thing that translates easily to the screen.
The trailer looks decent. They focus heavily on the people so hopefully it’ll work
The trailer spoils one of the major reveals. In the book, it took quite a while before you found out that any of the kids who’d stop walking would be shot. You knew that the kids were afraid of slowing down because it’d mean that they’d “get their ticket” but you didn’t know what that meant. A big part of the early story was just trying to figure out what was going on based on the minimal clues you were given.
Ah that’s an interesting change.
Yeah, this movie looks like it’s getting the plot details right but missing the greater point. Another problem is how everything is depicted as brown and dreary right from the start. One of the big themes of the book was how easily a brutal dictatorship could co-exist with “wholesome” Americana, and making the world feel weird and alien goes completely against that.
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I’ve read almost every word King has written, most novels three or more times, numbah wun faaaan… The Long Walk put me off so hard I didn’t try to reread it for over two decades, didn’t finish it on the second try. I’m not sure I can watch this.
