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That's something I always wondered about, too. I never heard anyone else mention that missing dialog. I can only guess that since these Italian films were shot as silent movies that maybe Carlo De Mejo did some ad lib and when it came time to record the dialog in the studio that part wasn't in the script.
No, he didn't turn it down. He wasn't available because of "Jaws 2." It's like how Tom Selleck couldn't do "Indiana Jones" because he was under contractual obligation to film "Magnum PI."
It's a shame he backpedaled so fast. He's got more than enough money and he's old, so why does he care if the internet mob cancels him. I think his kids must influence him. I know his one kid Joe is uber-woke. Back in the day Stephen King never seemed like this.
My favorites in order are:
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
Ulysses (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Fury (1978)
The Chosen (1977) - aka: Holocaust 2000 - An Italian "Omen" knockoff.
The Vikings (1958)
The second episode, in my opinion, is even more boring and talkative than the first was. The third one releases any day now, but from the previews they're still stuck on Earth for the duration of that one, too. It's one very slow burn of a show.
Yes, but those were her own words that she's a good Catholic with no hate in her heart for anyone.
I guess all that talk good Catholic Nancy said about not having hate in heart for anyone and being prayerful for the president were lies.
I'm no Depp fan, but he didn't throw anything at anyone. It looked like he just beat the hell out of his glass door cupboards.
The idea that Nazis were all about blonde hair and blue eyes is a cartoon caricature myth about them. Only a small percentage of Germans are even that. There was no plan to breed everyone to have those attributes.
Having these people shout obscenities in Star Trek is simply lazy and cheap writing because they're not capable of writing dialog well enough. It's already been established in "Voyage Home" that using that vernacular went out of style long ago.
These small American towns are strange when it comes to couples. The pickings are small and a lot of times you see a good looking woman with a rather ugly dude and visa-versa. I've seen it first hand myself, so it's not that far fetched that two handsome guys are vying for a plain looking girl in a small Pennsylvania town circa 1960s.
Funny about her getting praise for allowing emergency vehicles access to her private road. I'm pretty sure she didn't really have a choice. I know police can't be denied access to private property for emergencies, so I'm thinking fire departments are the same.
But King does have a lot of creative control over his film adaptations. I know he has the final say on all the actors in his movies and can choose them or fire them at his leisure, so he probably has some control over the scripts as well.
I'd chalk it it up to if Patricia Arquette found Oliver Stone attractive she'd call it innocent flirtation, but because she didn't find him attractive it's sexual harassment. He wanted to court her and she rebuffed him, and she's pretending she was sexually assaulted.
I was just thinking how the creative control team, like Patrick Stewart for one, were undermining their own self-proclaimed woke narrative by showcasing women in positions of power, but then making that power corrupt and rotten. They have a woman admiral who is probably the highest ranking military leader in Starfleet and she's totally out of control with shouting F-bombs at old man Picard about his hubris. He did save the Earth many times. Or the Vulcan woman who is probably the head of intelligence at Starfleet talking about killing Picard and others.
[quote]If he were a filmmaker, King would be somewhere between James Cameron and Michael Bay, whereas if he were a writer, Kubric would be up there with James Joyce, Dostoyevsky, or Nabokov.[/quote]
You're giving King too much credit. Not even Cameron or Bay would direct something as bad as "Maximum Overdrive." Don't forget he also thought Mick Garris was doing a stellar job of adapting his stories into movies.