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11.22.63 - Hulu Original Mini-Series (2 Viewers)

Rogi

Rogi

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Anyone catch "11.22.63" on Hulu?  Season premiere was good.  Hulu, Netflix and Amazon have really stepped up their games with original programming.

 
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Liked the book (the end got a little wonky).  So far they have done it right.  Thought I'd have a problem with Franco as Jake, but so far so good.

Don't remember past fighting back this much (this early) in the book, but they only have 8 episodes so I assume they know what they are doing.

 
  Looks like they dropped a subplot in the name of time (probably a good idea).   Many other changes from the book but they're working OK so far.  

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
One of them worked great on my laptop but not on my iPad (even with adblock).  I eventually looked around and found another that would play on my iPad...so I could watch from the toilet etc.
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Yeah watching on the iPad does have some difficulties involved, but once it gets past that, it works great.  And I have never had problems with the desktop either.

 
I saw this on the hulu front page. Guess I'll give it a shot. I used to read a lot of King in my youth.

 
I thought this was FBG's. Are people really asking for links to a free stream from an $8/mo service?

If you really don't want to shoot the lock of the wallet, just do the free Hulu trial.

 
pollardsvision said:
I thought this was FBG's. Are people really asking for links to a free stream from an $8/mo service?

If you really don't want to shoot the lock of the wallet, just do the free Hulu trial.
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No need when it can be watched for free.

 
Not having read the novel can't speak about faithfulness to the source material, but as a self-contained mini-series, I enjoyed the first episode and will be watching this, thought Franco was pretty good.  

 
Bob Magaw said:
Not having read the novel can't speak about faithfulness to the source material, but as a self-contained mini-series, I enjoyed the first episode and will be watching this, thought Franco was pretty good.  
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Yeah it's decent "stand alone".

And King's work has never really translated well to tv/film any way (without big changes for the most part).

 
What are some of your favorite adaptations?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Stephen_King

Lists nearly 60 theatrical films as of '14, with one in post and another in pre-production (25 TV movies, including the subject of this thread - favorite being The Stand, which I read). Philip K. **** has nothing on King when it comes to the prolific originator of film adaptations department. Is anybody else even REMOTELY close? Doesn't seem humanly possible. King is 68, so with a combined 85 film/TV projects, doing one a year since he was a foetus still wouldn't get there (of course, a film like Running Man was based on a short story, as was Total Recall by **** - based on We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, as well as Minority Report)   

Among my favorites:

The Shining (point taken on big changes, I may have read a long time ago, but noted in the making of doc of the Kubrick film)

Misery (again, not sure if I read, if so long time ago, so at disadvantage reckoning changes, great movie, though, imo)

The Dead Zone (see above, chilling when he shook Martin Sheen's hands and saw his possible future, awesome conclusion)

Firestarter (did read this, but like 35 years ago, partly/primarily here because this is one of my favorite Tangerine Dream scores, after Friedkin's Sorcerer and Michael Mann's Thief), very young Drew Barrymore, had some plot similarities with Cronenberg's Scanners, which came out three years earlier in '81

* Didn't read, so can't speak to adaptation, but liked the below films to varying degrees:

Running Man (cheesy Schwarzeneggar vehicle, admittedly suffers in comparison with Citizen Kane) 

The Shawshank Redemption (I always forget he wrote this, as it is so different in style from his typical work)

The Green Mile  

 
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"Stand By Me', "Shawshank", and "The Green Mile" are my favorites. "Carrie", "The Shining", and "The Dead Zone" are very good films, though I don't like "The Shining" either as a film or an adaptation (but, then, Kubrick leaves me cold anyway).

I thought "The Stand" miniseries was pretty good with a cool cast. "IT" had an interesting cast, but was a structural mess.

I'd like to see "The Running Man" remade as a real adaptation of the story instead of the Ahnuld cartoon the 80s version was.

As for "11.22.63", I'm not a Hulu subscriber yet and will wait to do so until the entire series is out. Most of the reviews I've read have been positive. I loved the book, though the "time pushes back" statement made 42,000 times throughout got a little old. Time travel stories are always tricky and I tend not to think about the rules too much. If the story's good otherwise, I can get past the non-logic.

 
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It was definitely as if time is a body, and Franco was clearly detected by "it" as a bacterial or viral infection that the host unleashes its anti-body defenses against.

 
I'm about 150 pages into the book.  Was happy to see it being translated to TV (well, Hulu, at least).

 
Just caught the first episode. Pleasantly surprised how good it was and how well it translated the book which is never easy with King. 

I'm in. 

 
Pretty good.  Entertaining.   I feel like there are some inconsistencies in the "rules" and some of his behavior.  But he hasn't gone back yet so maybe I'm just confused.  And he's oddly ill prepared for obvious things like people asking w t f his story is.  He seems to operate as if he's invincible or something.

 
JZilla said:
Pretty good.  Entertaining.   I feel like there are some inconsistencies in the "rules" and some of his behavior.  But he hasn't gone back yet so maybe I'm just confused.  And he's oddly ill prepared for obvious things like people asking w t f his story is.  He seems to operate as if he's invincible or something.
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Yes to all this, it just seems rushed (and maybe because they are cramming this huge book in to just 8 episodes) but Jake seemed much more prepared in the book.  Of course if I remember the book (been a while) didn't he go back through a couple of times and re-set things?  Doesn't look like he'll do that here (but I could be wrong).

 
Did not read the book, and probably won't but I have a couple of questions.

If each time someone enters the portal and "resets" the timeline, does that mean if Jake goes back out and back in, all of the documents that he lost in the fire that Al gave him, would they just re-appear since the past was reset?

Also, say that Jake is back there doing stuff and someone else goes through the portal, what happens?

 
pandora said:
If each time someone enters the portal and "resets" the timeline, does that mean if Jake goes back out and back in, all of the documents that he lost in the fire that Al gave him, would they just re-appear since the past was reset?
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No, only thing that would exist in the present is what you bring back in the condition that it's in when you bring it back.  Also in the present would be whatever you had left in the past, aged 55 years, like the engraved tree.  Everything else in the past is exactly as it is the first time after the reset.


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Also, say that Jake is back there doing stuff and someone else goes through the portal, what happens?
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I wondered this myself but its not addressed in the book.  I would guess one of three things:

1. Portal doesn't open if someone is already in there.

2. You join the person in there at whatever point in time they are at.  (Not sure how it effects the two minute trip though)

3. Time resets and the person in there is either super confused or blinks out of existence 


For S&G's, one other thought I had on the mechanics of the portal that's not addressed:

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What happens if you stay in the portal for 55 years and catch up to yourself before you went in the portal?  (Two minute trip in the present)







 
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Liked the 3rd episode.   Not thrilled with the "accomplice" Bill, but I sort of understand if they only have 5 episodes left that it will help move the story along.

 
Hov34 said:
Liked the 3rd episode.   Not thrilled with the "accomplice" Bill, but I sort of understand if they only have 5 episodes left that it will help move the story along.
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Figure it was either get him a partner or deal with a ton of James Franco inner-monologueing. Partner works, I guess. 

They made a solid casting move with Sadie, though. The George/Sadie relationship had my attention in the audiobook more than the Oswald sleuthing, IMO.

 
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SaintsInDome2006 said:
What's the cost of the subscription to get this? Is there a subscription?
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Buzzbait said:
I think Hulu is $7.99/month. You could also wait until the entire series is out, sign up for a one month trial and then binge watch.
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SaintsInDome2006 said:
I might do this (ie the 2nd part).
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Uruk-Hai said:
Me, too. I don't really want another subscription service on top of the zillion I already have, but I really liked the book and the show has gotten pretty good reviews.
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Watch it for free here:

http://www.thedaretube.com/tv/112263

And if it says that you have to download something, you don't.  I use the computer and Adblock and it works perfectly.  I watch with Vidbull, Vodlocker or Vidspot.

 
Brady Marino said:
Figure it was either get him a partner or deal with a ton of James Franco inner-monologueing. Partner works, I guess. 

They made a solid casting move with Sadie, though. The George/Sadie relationship had my attention in the audiobook more than the Oswald sleuthing, IMO.
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The part that drove me nuts about the sleuthing is

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it was such a big (and kind of boring) part of the book's second half, but it didn't matter at all. You could skip all of it, and it wouldn't affect the story you are reading one bit. So if they found a way to lessen that in this series (I'll wait until it's all out and binge it), all the better.


 
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King also gave us no real payoff to George/Sadie relationship, either. He kind of went all Shamylan on us at the end.

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