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1408 looks more and more like it'll scare the poop outta yer' bum!!!

can't wait for this by lucasjackson	May 5th, 2007 02:51:12 AM
this short story creeps me out everytime I read it. I hope that really capture the creepiness.
FIRST! by Darth Fabulous	May 5th, 2007 02:52:52 AM
Shitter's full!
Fingers Xed by Brendon	May 5th, 2007 03:08:00 AM
The script is top-notch... but will the film be? Sounds like it might at least be pretty darn good. Thank heavens.
MUTHAFUCKA by DOGSOUP	May 5th, 2007 03:14:09 AM
Ah Sam The Man,when you die you'll have a bronze statue with that one word engraved forever.
F This...The Golden Age Trailer Is Up On Yahoo by Darth Fabulous	May 5th, 2007 03:22:46 AM
http://tinyurl.com/24tul6
Hey Darth Fabulous by CampKoala	May 5th, 2007 03:45:55 AM
Do you get sound on that trailer? I tried watching it a week or so ago and got nothing
s'ok by CampKoala	May 5th, 2007 03:56:12 AM
found a Quicktime http://tinyurl.com/3be9cb
Anybody smell some nice new green plants growing by Wankersmurf	May 5th, 2007 04:44:06 AM
Both of these are plants. you can smell the horse shit on them. But if that trailer is anything to go by, this film is going to be rad.
Scare the poop out of me? by mrfan	May 5th, 2007 04:52:33 AM
Good because I am one mother fucking constipated fool.
Butt will by Napoleon Park	May 5th, 2007 05:30:48 AM
the feces in my rectum be scared enough to stretch my sphincter open and exit my body through my anus? Also, what's the title of the sequel, "1408.2" or "1409"?
In fact, this is a prequel by CorpseRide	May 5th, 2007 05:50:18 AM
to '1492: Conquest of Paradise'.
sounds interesting by Mr_X	May 5th, 2007 06:29:46 AM
I like cusak, he's underrated, but actually a very good performer, might actually see this, plant or no plant
trailers give everything away by Jugdish	May 5th, 2007 06:35:30 AM
why bother spending the 10 bucks?
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS AMITYVILLE HORROR! by Pennsy	May 5th, 2007 07:12:12 AM
Yay or nay?
I was there for the screening by Bobo_Vision	May 5th, 2007 07:28:29 AM
19th street and Loews. This was my second time seeing the movie, first time was in February and I sent in a review. Loved it the second time too. Interestingly, the ending was different. I was sitting at the back and I overheard the suits talking, and they said they filmed three endings, and the one on Thursday night was their favourite.
A CLEAN COLON IS A HAPPY COLON!!! by TheUglyBaby	May 5th, 2007 07:50:01 AM
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A CLEAN COLON IS A HAPPY COLON!!! by TheUglyBaby	May 5th, 2007 07:51:48 AM
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wankersmurf by darthnoodle	May 5th, 2007 08:00:41 AM
i'm not a plant. arrogant jealous fool that you are thinks that everyone who goes to a screening and goes to a screening is a plant? maybe if you lived in a civilized area then there would be screenings and you could write a review rather than just throw out libelous statements.
That first review is bs by The Funketeer	May 5th, 2007 08:31:58 AM
I am I really expected to believe someone who can't even be bothered to capitalize?
They basically have a blank canvas by I Dunno	May 5th, 2007 08:40:58 AM
The original story is only 20 pages long and most of that is Sam Jackson trying to talk Cusack out of staying in the room. A lot is left to the imagination but there are a few creepy parts.
NINE! THIS IS NINE! by stabbim	May 5th, 2007 08:58:22 AM
We have killed all of your friends!
I think Stephen King was listening to 'Kiss Off' by the by Bobo_Vision	May 5th, 2007 09:55:53 AM
...Violent Femmes when he wrote that.
I'm guessing Plants by Thunderbolt Ross	May 5th, 2007 10:34:43 AM
I was at that screening. It wasn't a very good movie.
The trailer was kick ass by jimmy_009	May 5th, 2007 10:52:59 AM
Definitely looked creepy.
Dolphin Hotel by Hardboiled Wonderland	May 5th, 2007 11:02:11 AM
Either Stephen King ripped off Haruki Murakami's Dolphin Hotel or named it thus because he's a fan of the Japanese writer, or it's just a coincidence. Has King said why he named it the Dolphin Hotel?
Opening a creepy horror movie in JULY by Osmosis Jones	May 5th, 2007 11:04:50 AM
BRILLIANT idea.
So sick of by wanna_bannana	May 5th, 2007 11:17:43 AM
People screaming PLANT! I mean shit comon boys, just because someone digs a flick does not mean they are a plant. Some of you in these TB's are seriously mind blowing in terms of general stupid comments..and dumb catch phrases. I understand being a nerd, but some of you claim to be film nerds...but there is a dif between nerds and people with no lives, who need to bitch about everything and anything.
1+4+0+8+JC = cornflakes by Mike_D	May 5th, 2007 11:23:07 AM
did i do the math right? let me try again.
Studios by Dataset	May 5th, 2007 11:39:11 AM
Marketing interns are brought into a conference room where they screen the movie for them. Each intern then is instructed to write an unprofessional review. They are told to use profanity and misspell words to better give the appearance of an "average" movie viewer. Research groups have a short list of talking points culled from online forums that are used to assist the interns to "fit in" with the desires of the online community. An example might read like this: "Michael Bay's Optimus Prime kicks so much robot ass that the flames don't just look cool, they look entirely justified on his fucking baddass self. The Bay haters will be kneeling and praying to him come July". So these are not studio plants, but a part of the marketing budget and contract that the studio signs with an outside entity. In most cases the studio doesn't even care how their marketing dollars are being spent, as long as they get results. This is a relatively new concept outside of politics that is almost exclusive to the online community. It's a brilliant idea and whomever came up with the use of these CoIntelPro tactics is a marketing genius. It's wrong, but marketing is a very amoral concept and this tactic is seen as a mere cheap tool to counteract bad press and begin an "online buzz" that they hope will deliver results at the box office.
You guys just dont want to believe its a good movie by Lovecraftfan	May 5th, 2007 11:42:41 AM
I dont know if its because of King hate or random cynicism but considering the overwhelming good reviews this looks like it may be quite good. Oh and the short story is great.
emotional fucking? by triplefive	May 5th, 2007 12:05:27 PM
the trailer is tight, except for the end. looks good to me.
it'll scare the poop outta yer' bum!!! by jimmy rabbitte	May 5th, 2007 12:40:00 PM
Cool... so a little oat bran, some extra fruit and a trip to the movies... just don't forget the Depends.
"the visuals were crisp but not showey." by DocPazuzu	May 5th, 2007 12:53:08 PM
Didn't Stephen King actually write a short story once called.... "The Plant"?
dataset and docpazuzu by darthnoodle	May 5th, 2007 01:07:07 PM
i assure you dataset i am not part of a marketing ploy. i'm just a guy who got a phone call asking if i'd like to go to a screening of this movie. i waited in line like every other person there for over an hour (in some cases over 4 hours). after the movie they gave us a card to fill out for us to rate the movie. at the end of the night i came home and wrote my first impressions of the movie. i don't capitalize online b/c i'm a lazy person. what's the point. this isn't exactly formal writing. docpazuzu, sorry you don't like my terminology. i never pretended to be a movie critic or any sort of competent writer. if i was i certainly wouldn't be writing critiques for free. i promise as i write more i will continue to work on my terminology. all i want is to make you happy. now that the bitching is over, relax and enjoy the fucking movie. or don't. i don't give a shit what you see and what you don't. i'm just giving my honest opinion.
Oy! To me! by a rolling stone	May 5th, 2007 01:22:38 PM
If you dug the Dark Tower series, pick up the Peter David comic. Jae Lee and Richard Isanove art--some of it's from the novels, but it adds Roland's untold stories, too. Pretty cool...if you're in to that kind of thing, which I am.
Give the Weinsteins some time!! by godoffireinhell	May 5th, 2007 01:25:20 PM
They're still working their scissors off to ruin this one as well.
darthnoodle by DocPazuzu	May 5th, 2007 01:25:56 PM
"once cusak gets settled into the room, this movie gets going in a very exciting, scary way. i will not give any spoilers, but gentlemen, this is a perfect date movie. there are about 5 good scares that will have your woman jumping into your lap. the audience was completely into this and people laughed and screamed together in unison at all the right places." Let's just look at that paragraph for a moment and see how many plant tells are there, shall we? 1) No spoilers. 2) Attaching real life social activities to the film -- in this case attempting to recruit a broad, cross gender audience by calling it a "perfect date movie". 3) Describing the rest of the audience's reaction to the film as if to say: "most people liked it, so if you don't, you're in the minority." Please forgive me if you feel that three tells weren't enough, but then again I was only working with one paragraph.
MY VAGINA IS GAY by gride9000	May 5th, 2007 01:50:02 PM
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Cusack and Morgan Freeman in The Contract is probably.. by Alonzo Mosely	May 5th, 2007 01:53:07 PM
a scarier experience, in that it is so awful it is scary. I wouldn't be surprised if that is never relased, if it is it will get dumped to dvd and given a marketing budget of $19.74...
Wait til it gets a negative review. Then its a plant by Lovecraftfan	May 5th, 2007 02:19:27 PM
Remember good reviews are plants and bad reviews aren't.
it's not working, gride9000 by I Dunno	May 5th, 2007 03:12:46 PM
Worst. Attempt. At. Catchphrase. Ever.
I like the King, by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	May 5th, 2007 03:40:35 PM
and he is the King, but I always thought this was one of his weaker short stories.
The Previews Compel Me To See It by MarkoOhNo	May 5th, 2007 05:03:40 PM
I can't help it. It looks freaky. I'd say it's roughly based on King's hotel experience in Colorado while writing The Shining.
It has a very intense trailer by SoylentMean	May 5th, 2007 05:40:14 PM
Could it be hoping too much that this and The Mist will deliver, in the same year, two GOOD Stephen King movies? Here's to wishing.
dataset by Dataset	May 5th, 2007 08:26:08 PM
Good points, Doc. I'm no marketing guy, but you really can tell the plants. In my earlier post I was simply conjecturing a possibility. In discussions I've had since then, I think I'm closer to the facts than I thought. An old friend of mine called and remembered a class he took in some pre-law type class on Nazi and Communist propaganda. He said this was a usual thing then. People would actually write sixty or seventy letters to newspaper editors using different typewriters, handwriting, and writing styles. So I guess it's nothing new really.
Yes I'm talking to myself by Dataset	May 5th, 2007 08:26:56 PM
I have no friends...
That's just sad by a rolling stone	May 5th, 2007 11:57:20 PM
That's just sad :(
Just got off the phone with 1408 and it's official... by Christopher3	May 6th, 2007 01:51:16 AM
My friends are dead. I agree that most King works are too internal and overstuffed to make compelling cinema. This story is, however, the opposite - I can't imagine it being of much interest without significant embellishment.
TRUST ME by Thunderbolt Ross	May 6th, 2007 10:17:17 AM
This movie is NOT GOOD. I am very forgiving, usually just go along for the ride. It might be bearable if you go in expecting nothing, but with heightened expectations, you will be disappointed.
Agreed...plant by PorkChopXpress	May 6th, 2007 10:41:57 AM
The first one is a 100% giveaway, with the marketing language and the fact that they've purposely de-caps'd the start of every sentence, to seem more "amateur." I actually know people whose job it is to post on message boards to create marketing buzz, so when these people jump in talkbacks to defend themselves, don't just assume they're legit. It's their job to create a buzz online for movies nobody cares about, and this is one of them. "This is a movie that plays best when it surprises you." NO SHIT. That's like writing, of a comedy, "This is a movie that plays best when it's funny."
i just want to see.. by nolan bautista	May 6th, 2007 10:52:16 AM
..that lurid orange light thats described in the book..thats some kind of creepy shit..this writer fella..King? Stephen King? Is that his name? He's good at story-tellin'..He could make a career out of this if he works hard at it..
i just want to see that .. by nolan bautista	May 6th, 2007 11:02:49 AM
that lurid orange light described in the book..thats some pretty creepy shit right there!!..this fella..King? Stephen King is good at spinnin'yarns..he could make a living doin' this sort of thing if he works hard at it..
i just posted twice on the same topic.. by nolan bautista	May 6th, 2007 11:10:05 AM
..1408 is possesing my key board..its like the Tingler is loose in the computer..Scream!! for all your worth! Scream to repel this creature!!..(This stream of conciousness brought to you by William Castle Productions)
Dataset & PorkChopXpress by DocPazuzu	May 6th, 2007 12:15:49 PM
My favorite bit is when the plants, after having been mutilated in the TBs, show up in later "reviews" attempting to evolve and almost without exception address the things they were called on earlier, only they just. can't. get. it. right. No matter what they do, they are still in thrall to their studio whoremasters and MUST include the things these coke-addled marketing cunts think will "sell", thus making their attempts at geekese even more laughable.
Stephen King your favorite storyteller. by samsquanch	May 6th, 2007 02:54:07 PM
Stopped reading, stopped caring. Jesus.
on plants... by maxwell's hammer	May 6th, 2007 03:17:24 PM
I'm pretty sure the following talkbackers are plants: Doc Pazuzu Dataset PorkChopXPress The question is, who are they planting for? We may never know! Seriously guys, get your heads out of your asses. God forbid somebody might go see a movie and like it enough to endorse it to other movie goers.
maxwell's hammer by DocPazuzu	May 6th, 2007 03:24:33 PM
If the studios were smart, which they aren't, they would just hire a talkbacker as a plant instead of trying to sound like one. There have been plenty of reviews on AICN (most, I'd wager) which have been honest and not caused people to yell PLANT! Your comment points to one of two things: 1) that you're too dumb to see that it's not the positive/negative tilt of the plant reviews which pisses us off, or 2) you're one of them yourself, which your very infrequent postings do nothing to deny.
MAN IN SUITE! MAN IN SUITE! MAN IN SUITE! by Osmosis Jones	May 6th, 2007 04:06:55 PM
MAN IN SUITE! MAN IN SUITE! MAN IN SUITE!
Plants For Sure by TheDohDoh	May 6th, 2007 04:59:05 PM
Nobody writes like these fuckers except Plants. First comes two or three paragraphs filled with "all of our doubts" and then total exclamation about how the film bonks those notions and succeeds. The sentences are so winding and boring and unconfident and un-passionate, it's a dead give-a-way. Anyhow, I think this film looks okay. It reminds me of the first "House" film from the '80s, and I'm always a little skeptical about horror-adventure movies. It won't do particularly well this summer, as people ARE SICK OF SAMUEL JACKSON - dude, seriously take a break, jesus - and there's no big, catchy special effect in the trailers to get people to look at this instead of Transformers. Snow inside a hotel room does not a blockbuster horror-thriller-adventure make.
Went to the screening too... by arisethedemonetrigan	May 6th, 2007 07:04:48 PM
And got to speak afterward with 20 other people. I guess I looked like one to tell what I thought. I thought it was a fun little movie. Nothing spectacular except the fact that you actually like John Cusack's character. Special effects were basically done. But the worst part was the multiple surprise endings that I hate. With the final scare they always like to place. I made sure to point that out in the little discussion afterwards. But hell, if all of King's stories could be like this, I'd be a happy King fan.
I don't watch movies or TV by onusbone	May 6th, 2007 08:59:34 PM
I just come here to read the talkbacks.
Is John Cusack Dying? by atleastwebrits	May 6th, 2007 10:44:36 PM
Working feverishly to leave a financial legacy for his family? Why else would he be making BOMB after BOMB after BOMB, all back-to-back? "Contract" not getting a theatrical release? Let's try an edgy indie comedy like "War, Inc." That didn't work? How about a smarmy 'family' movie like "Martian Child." No? Quick, do a horror picture, "1408," the kids love horror, yes? No? Okay, put him in some Oscar bait, "Grace Is Gone." Harvey will save him! What is going on with Cusack and his management team? I know he's an actor in his forties, but these scattershot choices stink of panic, greed and desperation.
When I see a review written with no caps... by Lezbo Milk	May 7th, 2007 12:13:55 AM
I don't fucking read it. If the writer is so retarded they can't even make an attempt at the basics, then I've got no fucking time to read anything they have to say. If plant actually use this tacktic to look more like a "amature"...what does that say about thier estimation of the intelligence level of the demographic for the movie? They are saying "if you're a dumbshit, you'll love this movie". Assholes.
Samsquanch, you didn't know Stephen King is popular? by Flip63Hole	May 7th, 2007 12:17:57 AM
Uh, well now you do. Perhaps its time to go back to your hole.
"An amateur" by Mister Man	May 7th, 2007 12:35:05 AM
"their"
Plant!!..the big steamy tropical kind!!! by Jugs	May 7th, 2007 04:05:34 AM
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Doc Pazuzu by maxwell's hammer	May 7th, 2007 02:56:11 PM
You're absolutely right...I'm not so cynical that I think every time someone shares their opinion on AICN that it must be a studio plant (BEWARE ALL OPINIONS!!) Also, my infrequent postings are certainly not a result of my having a life and a job and other things to do besides slum it in the talkbacks. Instead, its because I'm a plant, and possibyl a dumb asshole. Your logic is irrefutable.
and also.. by maxwell's hammer	May 7th, 2007 03:08:05 PM
I misspelled 'possibyl' on purpose to make myself look more like an average Joe, just to throw you off!
Jump scares = cheap and lazy by DarthBakpao	May 8th, 2007 03:56:00 AM
i've been long giving up when it came to Hollywood's "horror" movies... they depend too much on "jump scares"
Looks more like a typo... by justcheckin	May 11th, 2007 11:19:28 PM
than a misspelled word. So, maybe you should say that you "misplaced the sequencing of your fingers" instead of misspelling the word. That way, you could look like an average Joe that can't type when someone pushes your angry button.
and also... by justcheckin	May 11th, 2007 11:26:26 PM
gride9000, your vagina would be lesbian, not gay.

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