A few years ago someone posted ( I think on this thread ) who were the biggest Scottish artists? ( Steelsy I think ) and The Average White Band was mentioned. I was quite wrongly flabbergasted as I always had perceived (wrongly) that the AWB were a group of black men from somewhere like Detroit. A few days ago I had a similar revelation, I saw a group of kids from San Francisco cover a Supertramp song. For all of my life I had assumed that Supertramp were an American group from somewhere like the Midwest. I looked them up and they're English and formed in London!
You fool, Ninesy I used to be a big fan of Supertramp and saw them several times in the 70s. Crime of the Century is an excellent album.
Just finished watching Dept q I enjoyed it Wife hated it She stopped watching after three episodes Which one of us is right
Here’s Johnny! Like most of Kubrick’s film shot mostly in Elstree, except for some of the exterior scenes. He lived in the UK and was terrified of flying. Got away with it for the Shining but some of the scenes for Full Metal Jacket were shot in the Isle of Dogs rather than Vietnam or somewhere tropical and it shows.
King is such a master writer. I don't think any of the films made from his books come close to the written word. Maybe Shawshank or Green Mile, but they're not really in the horror genre
I'm trying now to think of a film that has done one of King's books justice. He famously didn't like Kubrick's portrayal of The Shining. I wouldn't really count Shawshank because it was based on a short story. Having said that, though, Stand By Me was a brilliant film based on another King short story. I think both of these expanded on a narrow narrative. It's just the horror stuff that has never worked.
I’ve never read any Stephen King stories, but apparently an astonishing 83 of them have been made into films.The Rotten Tomatoes website seems to judge most of them (the films) poorly, though Carrie (original version) comes out near the top of the list and I remember it being rather good when I saw it, probably at the pictures when it was released.
There's some real stinkers, and the remakes even worse! Shawshank Redemption comes high on loads of best film lists, as does Green Mile. I do enjoy reading his books, he gives the charachters great depth. They're normally a slow burner for the first 100-200 pages as he builds them up then they go full thtottle
Watching Manhunter on TV, the first of the Hannibal Lecter films. Bryan Cox is excellent as Lecter, but William Petersen is spectacularly bad as Will Graham. Good film though. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
