Cell by Stephen King

I read Cell-twice. I love EOTW/SHTF books. I agree with the other poster that it felt kind of empty because there was not much in the way of explaining the plot. However, I have heard that this book was just an intro to a series that will deal with life after "the pulse".

I thought the book was entertaining, and I will probably like it alot more if there are future books that go into more detail about the pulse. I am also curious as to how the main characters kid turned out.
 
I hope they don't botch "I am Legend". It has been tried a couple time so far, and still no one got it right. Lovecraft stuff pops up everywhere, so influential as to be come almost universal. No one has done a straight one of his stories yet though. I don't know why, but I'm sort of glad. I hate Hollywood and it's insistance on changing some things, often for no reason.
 
I agree with you on the Lovecraft stuff, bobwhite. No one seems to want to take it head on. i think this is a good thing. While I like the Stuart Gordon/Brian Yuzna grosser-than-gross H.P Lovecraft stuff like The Reanimator, they are way, way, way off the actual stories. However, Bride of the Reanimator did go into Lovecraft's original location a little more faithfully, even if the story was out there.

From Beyond wasn't a bad movie from what I remember. Another gross-out, plus these guys tend to put an erotic sexual spin Lovecraft for some reason. Not a BAD thing, but when you are touching the fringes of madness, i very much doubt that carnal pleasures are on what's left of your melty little mind.
Castle Freak (or something like that) was another way out there "envisioning".

That said, Del Toro is planning on doing a version of At the Mountains of Madness. I'm pretty sure he wants to do it straight up. Of all the directors that I think would butcher Lovecraft the least, it is Del Toro. The Gordon films are gory fun, but anything that really gets deep into hardcore Lovecraft should be left alone by him.

Jake
 
The main problem with turning Lovecraft's stuff into a workable screenplay is the length of most of his work: he wrote a lot of short stories but not much else. None of them are even close to long enough to make a movie. Thus, we're left with an interesting problem -- do we add in some filler to stretch it out, or do we film several stories and put them together into one movie?

Some of his best stories would be terrible on film..."The Music of Erich Zann," or "The Picture in the House," for example. (I found the latter to be particularly horrifying.) The stories are just too short for screenplays and the element of fear comes from what's left unsaid, rather than what could be shown on a movie screen.

Oh, well.
 
Bobwhite said:
I hope they don't botch "I am Legend". It has been tried a couple time so far, and still no one got it right. Lovecraft stuff pops up everywhere, so influential as to be come almost universal. No one has done a straight one of his stories yet though. I don't know why, but I'm sort of glad. I hate Hollywood and it's insistance on changing some things, often for no reason.
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I thought Omega Man kicked all kinds of ass.
 
Omega Man kicked ass, but was not true to the story. The theme was kind of lost. The protagonist is not some kind of ass kicking machine. He is a regular guy driven to border line madness and alchoholism by his loneliness and suffering. He is more tortured soul than bad ass. That makes it all the more poignant when he discovers that HE is now the Monster.
 
He was the monster the whole time. He just didn't realize it at first. Omega Man wasn't all that true to the story, but I'm willing to overlook it for Chuck Heston.
 
It is that moment of self realization and revelation that has never been captured. I doubt they will do it this time either.
 
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