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Title: John Dies at the End Post by: Johny Cee on September 27, 2011, 08:31:04 PM Trailer
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my9Pr-W92SM) Paul Giamatti and the director give me hope.... the two leads seem a bit meh. Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Wasted on September 27, 2011, 10:55:42 PM This was a book you could you read for free online I remember reading a few years ago, it wasn't bad. If they can keep the quirky surreal feel of the novel it should be an interesting watch.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: ezrast on September 28, 2011, 01:21:57 AM I hope they can, but the trailer didn't give that vibe at all. Made it seem way more actiony-thrillery than the book. Way more guns than I remember.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 28, 2011, 06:43:43 AM Comedy?
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Fargull on September 28, 2011, 08:50:50 AM The book feels like Sam Rami does Cthulhu. It was okay, but not stunning. I hope the movie works out, but honestly would have prefered James Gunn over Coscarelli. Mostly because I like the feel Gunn brings to a film. If you have not seen Super, I think the movie is brilliant. Easily better than Kick Ass in all ways.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: murdoc on September 28, 2011, 09:08:29 AM ... but honestly would have prefered James Gunn over Coscarelli. I agree completely with this. Book was all over the place. I loved it for the most part, it's like the craziest person you know telling you the craziest story you've ever heard. The narrative was all over the place, but it was laugh out loud funny in a LOT of places. Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Megrim on September 29, 2011, 07:07:41 AM Oh wow, they're actually making a movie out of this?! PWOT has come a looooong way.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Mazakiel on December 21, 2012, 12:53:54 PM http://youtu.be/F9TLghMsxfc
Redband trailer for the movie, which is out soon. NSFW Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Shannow on December 21, 2012, 01:47:02 PM wtf did i just watch? :ye_gods: :grin: :ye_gods:
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Evildrider on December 21, 2012, 02:00:32 PM That looks awesome. :awesome_for_real:
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Rendakor on December 30, 2012, 11:14:45 PM So this is out now on Amazon's movie streaming service (and iTunes as well, I believe); just watched it with some friends. As a fan of the book, I thought it was pretty good; the two leads did very well as Dave and John, and the film captured the crazy humor. I'm not sure how well it'd go over with someone who hadn't read the book (all 3 of us had), since the story moves pretty quickly and doesn't exactly make a lot of sense. It was pretty weird to see Mayor Royce playing a detective, too.
Major cuts/changes from the book: Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: schild on January 07, 2013, 07:07:20 PM Downloading this right now. Color me excited as hell. I hope every movie is released on Amazon before its in theaters.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: JWIV on January 08, 2013, 06:36:31 PM Told the wife to stop dicking around and read this so we can watch it together one night. It's a crazy book, so I'm definitely ready to watch this.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: JWIV on January 28, 2013, 07:25:20 AM Finally watched this last night and it basically was terrible. The acting was fine, but the plot was so heavily abridged that the movie failed to have any type of cohesion and made even less sense than the book. Stick with the book, ignore the film.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: schild on February 14, 2013, 11:01:15 AM Its true. Book is worth reading. Movie not so much.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: Margalis on May 09, 2013, 05:07:52 PM Bump!!!!
This is on Netflix now, watched it, have no read the book. I heard it was a bit like Cronenberg stuff in some ways, sounded cool. (To be fair that is true in some ways but not the ways that matter) Got bored about halfway through. The characters weren't awful but they weren't likable either and there was no coherent plot of any kind. Stuff just happens then the movie ends. In terms of tone this sort of "irreverent" humor is so commonplace that it didn't do much for me. There were elements of an interesting plot and I kept waiting for it to develop into something but it never did - instead the movie just ended. Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: schild on May 09, 2013, 05:13:53 PM Read the book, as I said.
Title: Re: John Dies at the End Post by: shiznitz on May 10, 2013, 07:03:30 AM I read the book as a result of this thread. Loved it. I will probably see the movie at some point, but the book would be very difficult to movie-ize,
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