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The Long Walk

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  • #2
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,618 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Yeess can't wait.

    Finally they've made it and it looks good.
    No CGI aliens or crazy stunts. Just dudes walking.



  • #3
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,415 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    With some Molly Malone in there. September.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toj3Zxun7aQ

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #4
    expectationlost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,107 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058409144/the-long-walk

    Is this any other then perverse cruelty?



  • #5
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    What's with the Molly Malone song?

    I was looking at a collection of trailers from SDCC and had a little chuckle at "Welcome to Derry". I know, I know there are many Derrys. But was just having a little chuckle. Then this trailer came up and Molly Malone. They gonna re-do Pet Cemetary and have "The Boys Are Back In Town" in the trailer? :) (Maybe "The Pets Are Back In Town")



  • #6
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123680899#Comment_123680899

    It's an incredibly popular Stephen King story. Half the plot of the book was about the interactions between the characters. So imho, there's a cruel aspect about it but the story is great if they're faithful.



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  • #7
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,186 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    New longer NSFW clip:

    https://youtu.be/TSQCWFyoUHc


    I am surprised that it’s taken this long for a film to be made of this story, since it’s one of the four “Bachman Books” alongside The Running Man (which is being adapted again by Edgar Wright). A third story adaptation, of Roadwork, has been in the works for years, while the fourth story, Rage, is about a school shooting and will likely never be adapted.

    Post edited by bnt on

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #8
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123747634#Comment_123747634

    I'm pretty confident they'll never go near Rage. King decided to remove it from publication after Columbine. It's an incredibly unpleasant read.



  • #9
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,139 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1961501993475690577

    🤣🤣



  • #10
    Mr Crispy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,648 ✭✭✭Mr Crispy


    You don't want to see what punters had to do during the Deliverance screening.



  • #11
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    It's getting great reviews, expected it somewhat. The book is considered a classic but also just the right length for a movie conversion basically. Looking forward to it.



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  • #12
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,996 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    "It ain't no fair if you've got a charley horse".

    I'm so happy that I got to read this book 'blind' in the 90s. That first killing was an absolute wtf moment.



  • #13
    Alleykins123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭Alleykins123


    Isn’t all horror in some way perverse and cruel?



  • #14
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,372 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I quite enjoyed it. Never heard of the book so I went in blind.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #15
    Shred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭Shred


    Saw it earlier, it's quite a faithful adaption

    except for the end of course

    and pretty well done overall I thought.



  • #16
    Osmosis Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,199 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Caught this just now as I was near a cinema and had time to kill, hadn't heard anything about it, wasn't aware it was based on a Stephen King book (or any book), just bought a ticket as it was the next movie showing.

    I really liked it, had my heart racing and my eyes welling up. I genuinely knew nothing about it and the first moment someone slowed down and a guard raised their rifle I gasped.

    It's probably not fair to always talk about him like this but every time Cooper Hoffman's character spoke about his dad and all the good he brought him I couldn't help but think of PSH. I'd never heard of David Jonsson (I see now he was in Alien Romulus), he was fantastic here. The movie hinges on their back and forth dynamic and they do such a good job together.

    Judy Greer singing Molly Malone is my cinematic surprise of 2025.

    PS As I got up to leave the theatre I got a charley horse 😆



  • #17
    Homelander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Homelander


    As a huge fan of the book I liked it a lot. It's very stripped back, there's really little more to it then a bunch of guys walking through a barren, depressed landscape against the odds, but the characters and dialogue are what it's all about.

    There's no pomp and ceremony, just pure bleak reality, it's completely left to the imagination as to how it's viewed by or packaged to the nation.

    Surprised it wasn't made into a movie a long time ago when the core concept and execution is so simple. King at his best and it's not even horror, though it is horrifying.



  • #18
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    All the changes they made to the adaptation worked out very well I thought. There's almost too much and too little in the book to make a straight adaptation a success.



  • #19
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,291 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123825694#Comment_123825694

    I saw today and this is all pretty much spot on. It was very good.

    David Jonsson is terrific, he is excellent in Industry and really shines in a terrific romantic comedy called Rye Lane.



  • #20
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Saw this a few days ago and was very disappointed with it: basically it's a long walking chat with an awful ending. 6/10



  • #21
    tamara25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 409 ✭✭tamara25


    was very disappointed too with it, was so looking forward to it. Am halfway through the book, struggling to keep reading it. And I am a big Stephen King Fan



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