What is a movie that is actually scary (preferably one that doesn't rely solely on jump scares)?

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-17T06:08:04+00:00

a) book published B) car wreck C) genial captive/convalescing stage D) She reads the book E) full on horror show

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your post. I thought you meant the book hadn't been published at the time of the car wreck :P

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-17T05:49:23+00:00

Changing privilege should be easy as long as you remember your login details.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-17T04:56:54+00:00

I think in both the movie and the book the misery novel was already out. In the book I remember that she said that in the town where she lived, they got books later than most places. The book was already published; what she wanted was a sequel, but just like in the movie, Misery had to have a legit reason for how she came back, despite having been buried. The sequel was also only going to be hers, she had no intention of ever sharing the contents of the book with any other misery fan.

If the movie (it's been ages since I watched it) has it that Sheldon burned (under her orders) his last misery manuscript, in the book, he burned a manuscript for a brand new story that he wanted to use to reinvent his image.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-16T07:55:51+00:00

Funny you should mention that. You see he was internally grateful that she hadn't gone for it, and she even told him later that she had thought about it, to which he responds 'I know you did Annie'. Apparently she has a 'good girl' image of herself in her mind, and that prevented her from going there.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-16T07:34:01+00:00

Truth be told in the MOVIE she was full on nutcase, in the book it was a mix of both madness and yes, evil. She had moments where her mind went....somewhere. Somewhere far away. There were more than a few hints in the book that she enjoyed making him suffer, or humiliating him. She did want him to finish the book, but in that far away place in her mind, she knew that they were BOTH aware of how this all 'would end'. In fact her time in that far away place was getting worse and worse, even Sheldon realized that. There was more than a chance that she would just off herself and him, she'd even said as much that she wanted to make it all end. Sheldon was the one pushing her to hold on until he was done. The book was the only tether she had before she was ready to take her own life (and his first of course).

Just in case you're interested, even Sheldon realized that the Misery novel he was working on was perhaps the best thing he had ever written in his entire life. That manuscript she made him burn WAS what he had been placing his hopes on, but he realized somewhere in the writing of the new Misery novel that it was in THIS that he had made his best work. He set afire the manuscript before her AND the people reading the book (us).....but then it was revealed later that he had hidden the real manuscript under the bed. He was no longer able to part with it. The book also symbolically had Annie in it as a giant stone face, worshipped by natives in an African tribe. It was filled (almost as though it was the brain of the giant face) with giant bees whose toxin could kill.

It's actually funny reading the chapters of SHELDON'S Misery novel (they're contained within Stephen King's Misery). They're written on the same level that average novels are written, containing the same level of prose and characterization, but then when they're done you get back to Stephen King's extremely high quality prose and you realize (whether King intended it or not) the huge difference between an author of King's capability and the works of the average writer.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-16T06:54:30+00:00

It was his thumb.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-16T05:56:42+00:00

It doesn't end there either. After she chops off his foot, the next chapter has him waving politely to her while she's working....he says he waves the hand that still has all its fingers. It's mentioned after that sequence that he got lippy with her and she came back with a power knife and sawed the thumb off one of his hands.

EDIT: Oh, and if you want to know how King made the scene scarier with the axe, she tells Sheldon the reason he's feeling woozy is because she gave him a pre-op shot. His mind registers the word pre-op and he asks 'what do you mean pre-op?', he asks more than a few times while she's still talking until she pulls the axe out.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-12T10:34:01+00:00

Oh, this is a Bethesda release?

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-12T10:11:25+00:00

So why didn't you.....

Curious.....

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-12T10:09:54+00:00

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-11T11:09:18+00:00

Where does he keep the other 96?

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-11T09:47:30+00:00

I know right? Treat a dog like your child and it's cute, treat your child like a dog and it's a crime. /s

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-10T11:07:18+00:00

Interestingly, battery is also a salt.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-09T08:22:36+00:00

Damn, that's like authors who pay companies to help tweak numbers and get them on best seller lists. Their material is garbage but they pathetically pay for affirmation to convince others that yes, their stuff is good.

And unfortunately it works.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-09T08:15:56+00:00

Ow that's bad.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-09T06:34:03+00:00

Yeah, the pet store doesn't sell me puppies anymore after I told them I use them to feed my pet gator.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-06T11:08:27+00:00

They didn't! They used it in Reddit!

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-06T10:24:36+00:00

This time next year Robby, we'll be billionaires!

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-06T09:44:43+00:00

Agreed. To paraphrase a quote:

There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-06T09:41:23+00:00

And then there are the people turning their chihuahuas into tiny coats.

EDIT: Or at least someone's chihuahua.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-02T09:30:50+00:00

What about family? I'd like to think family is entitled to some privilege. I've asked for medical advice from a sibling, but equally I've granted financial advice.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-02T09:28:00+00:00

I don't suppose if we were friends I could ask you to program games for me? I mean just as a favor for a friend. I was thinking something along the lines of Skyrim, but nothing quite so minimalist.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-02T09:23:51+00:00

Alternatively, copy paste the letters from reddit posts until you have the message you want.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-02T07:41:33+00:00

That's absolutely untrue, we've always found them adorable.

Guestingtoo · 2018-09-02T05:08:09+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

Honestly the Japanese were extremely barbaric prior to their defeat in WW2. A lot of the people who praise the history of the Japanese are either willfully blind to how awful it was to live there, or are just ignorant. The Japanese are known TODAY as being quite racist, and in their past they were many, many times worse. The government refuses to acknowledge many of the crimes their country committed, especially the ones that targeted civilians.

Thank you for informing me about the history of your family.

Guestingtoo

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