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Norwegian TV aired first episode yesterday, and all I can say is WOW! I'm a big fan of Stephen King mini-series like The Stand and The Langoliers, and this was just as good. There's just something extremely original and terrifying about King's works that I can't put my finger on.
I usually don't watch many TV series, but I'll do all I can to see more of Under The Dome in the coming weeks.
Opinions? NO SPOILERS PLEASE!
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Jul 3, 2013 - 2:20 PM
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Cooper
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The Dome is sealing in a King-ian Town's worth of Steve's typical roster of stock characters, situations and the usual comfortably conventional, inorganic execution...but not for freshness. It's boilerplate that fits like your broken in sneaks, and that's why we like it (kinda, sorta).
I found myself thinking of Darabont's "The Mist," which I thought was the best, recent example of how to make something with that unmistakable, faithful to King sound and sensibility work like gangbusters... That's if you're not going to go the Kubrick route and make his work your distinctive own.
Tobe Hooper's "Salem's Lot" is still king in my book for Stephen based mini-series: Viscerally alive like a cold lady vampire slowly waking on a gurney, her dead eyes glinting as she calls for her boy... Different kind of story, sure, but wouldn't it be cool if someone at least tried to do something shuddery-awesome like that again?
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I can't stand SALEM'S LOT and thought it was absolutely ridiculous and dated from the first to the last image. I was flabbergasted when I saw how many on this board found this to be the epitome of King filmatizations. Just flabbergasting. I'd rather take MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, to be honest.
But to each their own. We definitely agree on THE MIST.
Maximum Overdrive, Thor? That movie is schlock-trash.
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FWIW, the miniseries of Under the Dome is deviating quite a bit from the novel...in terms of characters and their development within the story arc.
Anyone who saw the original "Salem's Lot" on TV (the first one starring David Soul) was seeing something very eerie/creepy. We, in the U.S., were not oversaturated at that time with vampire stories and magical effects/makeup.
When we actually saw the vampire, it was scary.
I'm certain it is with that nostalgia that most of us remember it fondly.
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Jul 3, 2013 - 5:26 PM
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Francis
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I think it helps to have been a kid when seeing 'Salem's Lot' for the first time (agree with Ron, the vampire scared the **** out of me). It hasn't dated that well but it's still a solid effort and I do hope Warner will give it a decent blu-ray release. Wasn't a big fan of the Rob Lowe remake, that was all over the place.
As tv adaptations of King go, aside from Salem's Lot, I'd have to go with "The Stand" and "It" as being the best. Other tv efforts like 'Storm of the Century', 'The Shining', 'Rose Red' and even "Langoliers" IMO are drawn out far too much and take forever to get going. "Desperation" only had a strong first half but annoying characters, "Kingdom Hospital" was redundant (just see the original) and if you count the long running series "Dead Zone" I think that did strike a cord and was entertaining though obviously not as mainstream as "The Dome".
Now Under the Dome isn't the most creative story King wrote but it has all the trademark King ingredients you've come to like from him and the tv show seems to do its own thing, which I appreciate. I did like the book as it was a pageturner, but it's obvious it needs readjustment to survive on tv.
It is refreshing to see a good King adaptation after 1408 and The Mist, both from 2007 already! I miss the days when you'd have multiple King movies/tv shows a year.
P.S. another tv effort "Tommyknockers" also had a plot element where the town was sealed off by a barrier though most of them didn't want to leave  .
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Jul 3, 2013 - 11:59 PM
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Cooper
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Anyone who saw the original "Salem's Lot" on TV (the first one starring David Soul) was seeing something very eerie/creepy. We, in the U.S., were not oversaturated at that time with vampire stories and magical effects/makeup.
When we actually saw the vampire, it was scary.
I'm certain it is with that nostalgia that most of us remember it fondly.
Nostalgia could be part of it, Ron; I haven't actually seen it in years. One of these days I hope to see how it holds up.
I don't recall the bulk of the running time, but I remember it being punctuated by some amazing moments. Overall, maybe it was Hooper's take on The Undead that got under my skin: Cold, reptilian. It was like we were seeing some ghoulish, hidden part of nature scratching at the second story window in the dead of night. Creepy, man!
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