"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I should have some time this coming weekend. I should step back and say that I enjoyed every minute of the film. I didn't sit there with my arms crossed going "Hmph! Fuck you, Abrams!" It was a fun little ditty of a flick. But there were still a lot of flaws that irritated me on the back end (Booth, behave!) that I think really remove this film from being jerked-off the way everyone is doing. Either we're SUPER starved for entertainment right now or we've really lost our perspective as to what makes a great film.

As an aside...I won't even count this new Trek film into my ranking of the previous ten Trek films. I don't think it's fair, much in the same way that I don't count Halloween III when I'm ranking the Halloween series films. I think the new film operates so far outside of the realm of the other ten films that it would do a disservice to both the new film and the old ones.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

 lost sucks

 dark tower sucks

those two deserve each other

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Just kidding, but I am a MASSIVE Dark Tower fanatic.

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

Don't get me started on the end of Dark Tower. I loved every page of that series, except the last one. Damn. He should've left that off entirely and made the previous "this is almost the end" scene the REAL ending.

Did you ever read King's afterword to the last volume? He KNOWS the end sucks! UGH! Now I'm all grumpy...

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

King's ego couldn't fit inside the state of Texas.  Inserting himself as a character in the story and his overall pompous attitude about how important and meaningful his lifelong epic was rubbed me the wrong way.

PS - I'm a Constant Reader , tee hee hee

Ka is a wheel!

EDIT - borrowed from liljaslibrary

As “Star Trek” makes its case for the new J.J. Abrams age of the franchise this weekend, he and fellow “Lost” creator Damon Lindelof continue to have early discussions about Stephen King’s cult series of books “The Dark Tower.” Lindelof confirmed Abrams’ assertion that “Lost” is priority number one at the moments, but said the project would require at least as much care as Zack Snyder’s adaptation of “Watchmen.”

“Having seen Zack go through what he went through on ‘Watchmen’ in terms of saying of where can I digress from the material I just get headaches thinking about changing anything,” Lindelof told MTV News. “It was the defining literary tale of my young adulthood into adulthood.”

Lindelof is keenly aware of how that level of attachment can affect his approach to the project. “My reverence for Stephen King is now getting in the way of what any good writer would do first when they’re adapting a book, which is take creative license in changing stuff,” he explained.

If the Hollywood power duo indeed moves on to King’s fantasy/Western tale when they finish with “Lost” it may be an extended commitment in addition to being a demanding one, given the scope of the seven-book series.

“Paramount is certainly looking at it as a franchise movie and thinking about sequels but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves,” Lindelof said. “Ideas have been thrown around that are very informal at this point.”

And more formal conversations very well may not be in the cards until the fates of Oceanic Flight 815’s passengers are firmly on the ground for the the “Lost” finale.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

king suffered brain damage, his books started suffering after the accident. you can literally tell the chapter in wolves of the calla he was writing when it happened, because it goes from a well-thought-out retelling of seven samurai to DOCTOR DOOM WIELDING A LIGHTSABER!!!!

remember when he got rid of the black orb in the 9/11 attacks? classsssy.

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."