Yeah your totally right on Greenknight333. Thanks for that info.

Closure….ahhh.

I think he hit one of the alternate reality threads that King said all emanated from the Dark Tower..Kind of like the DC Crisis on Infinite Earths..I Thought for sure he was going to turn up in the Dark Tower Series as a helper to Flagg but like I said I haven’t read the final book…

On Tripps I meant where did you think landed at the end of The Stand.
Since he’s a fallen Angel he knows no afterlife so he was just dumped on that beach at the end.
I remember when I was younger I thought that was a lame ending for his charcter.
I didn’t realise King had his own version of the Avengers going….

(Extra stuff).
I did hear that the guy that hit King died about 2 years after the accident and I think King even went to his funeral.
The guy was very depressed that he hit Stephen King and they said that he slid into a depression and died of a disease.
King meanwhile, seems like he’s lost the spark?
if I had his ear I would tell him to write some sci-fi stories.

When I first started reading King’s the Dark Tower series I was very excited at the prospects of what the future books were going to bring to the King universe. I read; before the Internet became the medium for discussions like we have here at Screen Rant; that King himslef had stated that he was going to tie together a lot of loose ends from his books and we would see the reappearence of a lot of his characters in the Dark Tower series..CHaracters that had been killed or sacrificed themselves or had played a huge role in his books…A few of the characters he mentioned were NIck from the Stand, the Priest from Salem’s Lot, Ralph from Insomnia, Stan from IT and countless others who fans of his universe would recognize immediately…There was going to be the ultimate showdown of good vs evil and the Dark Tower Book 7 was going to be were it all culminated…Now after King has his accident I wasn’t getting the picture that this was all going where he had initially said it would so like I said before I stopped reading the books and have never read THe Dark Tower…I thought that Captain Tripps would have made an appearance in the Dark Tower somehwere to play a pivotal role but like I said I never finished. Randal Flagg is there as he was in the STand so maybe if I ever finish it I will find out. Have you read it? If so how did you think it ended without spoilers please…

Have you read Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon? Sheesh that’s just as good some people think its better than the Stand. Instead of a pandemic its a nuclear war aftermath story that will blow your mind.
That’s too bad about King, I did hear about him but I havnt read much lately. The last book I read was The Taking, by Koontz.
I wonder what King went thru, did he see a light or something change him in the hospital ?

Event Horizon, had one of the most chilling scenes I’ve seen in a long time. The scene where they playback the ships logs. Man that was some intense stuff. So intense that I don’t need to see that again. =-O

I have read all of King’s books at least twice and some I read every other year like the Stand and IT( One exception noted below)..I really like the Dark Tower Series up to and including Wizards and Glass…Just after that book King had that horrible accident where he was nearly killed by the minivan(I think)..after that I got a lot of bitter from his writing and things just weren’t the same .. His writing style really changed and that nostalgia from books like Stand and It was lost to me..I was really disappointed by the last three books in the Dark Tower series and in fact to modify what I said above I still haven’t read the DARK TOWER(book 7) because of my utter and complete disappoinment with books 5 & 6. I have read the expanded version of the Stand and actually found it an improvement over the original 1970’s release.

Cheers

In regards to Event Horizon, I never got the movie until I did a little background reading on what it actually is because in the movie you get the dumbed-down Hollywood version, some experts beleive that th energy field at an Event Horizon is so great that your thoughts can become reality…SO I guess the movie is really about how our thoughts control us and why that is a bad thing…A lot of the crew in the movie have bad experiences on that ship because a lot of them have latent guilt over what happened to the first crew and it manifests itself in the form of evil incarnations of their thoughts. I think it was brilliantly done but I would love to see a version with Homer Simpson letting his thoughts control the universe…Instead of worm hole we would get a…donut hole of course….

Cheers

Wow that was stupid of me. ;-(

Kurt Russell is back as Snake Plisken….!

Blamed for the breakdown of the world-wide power grid, Snake must escape from the US Forces that pursue him all the way down to Mexico.
Once Snake makes his way into Mexico he meets up with “past” associates, only this time they have insidious plans to invade the crippled US and destroy San Diego’s navel bases.
Snake was helped by some “friends” in San Diego escape…

Who’s side will Snake choose?

Directed by the master John Carpenter.

Rated R!

I would rather see that idea than a remake of a masterpiece.

Brolin, take off, you Hoser!

Vic

Good call on Metropolis. They did an anime version of that which was really good.
Speaking of which Akira and Ghost in the Shell would be up there too for me, but depends on whether you like anime or not.

Event Horizon trivia:
If you pay attention when they fist board the EH, look up to the top of the floating debris (in the hallway) and you will ether see a VHS tape or a DVD depending on what format your using.

Also Event Horizon was really good. I found it very disturbing. The cast was great and it had a freaky twisyt “kaotic space” is no place I wanna go. I sure felt bad for Fishburne’s character at the end.

Aliens, goes without saying as one of the best sci-fi films. Vic have you see the Special Edition? They added about 30min to the cut and made it better.

Vic

Also, if I was going to pick a Spielberg movie to go into that top ten (apart from Close Encounters) it would be ET, not Jurassic Park.

Alien would probably get in my top 5, let alone a top 10.