Under The Dome
Discussion
Not read the book.
Series has potential but everyone seems to be behaving in a very irrational and strangely calm way. There seems to be no rational thought about their situation.
Would hate to be the Actor playing the Sheriff.
Agent/TV Exec 'We want you to play a Sheriff in a town based on a Stephen king book, long running series we hope, if it gets enough viewers we're hoping for 3 seasons+'
Actor 'That sounds great, where do I sign?'
TV Exec 'Here and here. Oh, BTW you die at the end of Episode 1'
Actor, '...........s
t!'
Series has potential but everyone seems to be behaving in a very irrational and strangely calm way. There seems to be no rational thought about their situation.
Would hate to be the Actor playing the Sheriff.
Agent/TV Exec 'We want you to play a Sheriff in a town based on a Stephen king book, long running series we hope, if it gets enough viewers we're hoping for 3 seasons+'
Actor 'That sounds great, where do I sign?'
TV Exec 'Here and here. Oh, BTW you die at the end of Episode 1'
Actor, '...........s
t!'rednotdead said:
Thinking back it was a bit wet, but then so was the ending of The Stand. One of my all time fav King novellas is The Langoliers but the film was a 'straight to video' piece of ste.
Conversely The Mist has a much better ending on film than in the book. The Long Walk and Mrs Todd's Shortcut would make interesting movies. I haven't really enjoyed any of Kings study-of-weird-things-happening-in-small-town-America. You can recognise characters introduced by King in the early eighties in his present stories.te.goldblum said:
rednotdead said:
Thinking back it was a bit wet, but then so was the ending of The Stand. One of my all time fav King novellas is The Langoliers but the film was a 'straight to video' piece of ste.
Conversely The Mist has a much better ending on film than in the book. The Long Walk and Mrs Todd's Shortcut would make interesting movies. I haven't really enjoyed any of Kings study-of-weird-things-happening-in-small-town-America. You can recognise characters introduced by King in the early eighties in his present stories.te.MissChief said:
Not read the book.
Series has potential but everyone seems to be behaving in a very irrational and strangely calm way. There seems to be no rational thought about their situation.
Would hate to be the Actor playing the Sheriff.
Agent/TV Exec 'We want you to play a Sheriff in a town based on a Stephen king book, long running series we hope, if it gets enough viewers we're hoping for 3 seasons+'
Actor 'That sounds great, where do I sign?'
TV Exec 'Here and here. Oh, BTW you die at the end of Episode 1'
Actor, '...........st!'
Despite that, the first episode looked pretty good. Wonder how close it'll keep to the book, just read the synopsis.Series has potential but everyone seems to be behaving in a very irrational and strangely calm way. There seems to be no rational thought about their situation.
Would hate to be the Actor playing the Sheriff.
Agent/TV Exec 'We want you to play a Sheriff in a town based on a Stephen king book, long running series we hope, if it gets enough viewers we're hoping for 3 seasons+'
Actor 'That sounds great, where do I sign?'
TV Exec 'Here and here. Oh, BTW you die at the end of Episode 1'
Actor, '...........s
t!'I'm currently reading the book at the moment and this turned up in my inbox today:
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter....
It's a short letter from SK going into the reasons for some of the changes so it's obviously causing controversy. He's been involved a lot in the series and it's interesting what he's got to say.
http://www.stephenking.com/promo/utd_on_tv/letter....
It's a short letter from SK going into the reasons for some of the changes so it's obviously causing controversy. He's been involved a lot in the series and it's interesting what he's got to say.
Am a huge King fan and thought the Dome was good - but totally agree that the ending is weak. But then I thought the ending of IT was truly dreadful!
The problem with the Langoliers movie was that it was SO similar to the story - practically shot for, er, paragraph in some cases...somehow this meant it added nowt to the experience
The problem with the Langoliers movie was that it was SO similar to the story - practically shot for, er, paragraph in some cases...somehow this meant it added nowt to the experience
rumple said:
Which books in particular don't you like?
Pretty much all the novels I tried, although two I quite enjoyed that were supposed to mirror each other were 'Desperation' and 'The Regulators'. I found you could pick up almost any book of his released since the 1980s and recognise similar plotlines and story devices..the good sheriff, the fat lady, the kindly old man etc etc... a bit tedious. I've liked all his short stories though and in particular those he wrote as Richard Bachmann.clonmult said:
Despite that, the first episode looked pretty good. Wonder how close it'll keep to the book, just read the synopsis.
Some of the names are the same, if that helps! Take every key part of the plot (aside from The Dome) and remove it, because it might offend middle America and what you have left is the series.
Without spoilers..
The radio station is supposed to be religious, because this is a Bible Belt town.
The newspaper is meant to be The Democrat, run by a 40summat spinster that's lived there all her life
Barbie is a drifter that's been in town for a few month working as a cook in the diner
Oh, and the really big screw up - they can communicate through the Dome, not just hear though it, but still have cable TV, Internet & cell phone coverage
I've had a peruse of the IMDB boards - OMG Americans!!
"The sex scene made him look gay & her a slut cause she was on top"
"The pilot was too gruesome" FFS it's a Stephen King novel!!!
blindswelledrat said:
Exactly the same. I loved the book and it was one of my favourite of his until the ending.
However, for a while I had been wondering how on earth he could have ended it satisfactorily and even afterwards I have not been able to think of any kind of ending which would have been acceptable. Curious as to how they might do it.
However, for a while I had been wondering how on earth he could have ended it satisfactorily and even afterwards I have not been able to think of any kind of ending which would have been acceptable. Curious as to how they might do it.
finished it again today & felt the same level of frustration I felt originally, it's like he had it planned out, but then got bored so speed wrote it 
Even with the major plot deviations already, I'm interested to see how they would finish it so will be watching with my brain turned off, might turnout to be a better plot although
So, I got my Sky nevermiss email earlier this week and this starts on Monday.
Stephen King novels don't generally translate well to the screen, I hated the ending of this and previous comments allude to the fact the plot is missing some key threads, but I'll give it a few episodes regardless.
Stephen King novels don't generally translate well to the screen, I hated the ending of this and previous comments allude to the fact the plot is missing some key threads, but I'll give it a few episodes regardless.
DavesFlaps said:
So, I got my Sky nevermiss email earlier this week and this starts on Monday.
Stephen King novels don't generally translate well to the screen, I hated the ending of this and previous comments allude to the fact the plot is missing some key threads, but I'll give it a few episodes regardless.
His novels don't generally translate well?Stephen King novels don't generally translate well to the screen, I hated the ending of this and previous comments allude to the fact the plot is missing some key threads, but I'll give it a few episodes regardless.
I think some of our best ever films are Stephen King novels personally.
Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand by Me, The Shining, Misery- just to name a few off the top of my head
blindswelledrat said:
His novels don't generally translate well?
I think some of our best ever films are Stephen King novels personally.
Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand by Me, The Shining, Misery- just to name a few off the top of my head
Stand By Me is one of my all time favourite films, the last scene never fails to bring a lump to me throat. Apparently they are attempting to re-make IT (one of my favourite King books which I am currently re-reading), I enjoyed the original version and thought Tim Curry was excellent as Pennywise, hopefully they will throw enough money at the re-make to give us a worthwhile version.I think some of our best ever films are Stephen King novels personally.
Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand by Me, The Shining, Misery- just to name a few off the top of my head
rasto said:
GTIR said:
I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?
It then shattered.
This dome has no holes in it, they are completely cut off from the outside world.Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?
It then shattered.
MartG said:
rasto said:
GTIR said:
I've already seen this years ago.
Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?
It then shattered.
This dome has no holes in it, they are completely cut off from the outside world.Didn't a bloke do a death wall type ride on a motorbike and throw a bomb through a hole at the top of the dome?
It then shattered.
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