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Episode 100 - Review of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

March 22, 2023 by Justin Brady in Book Reviews, Podcasts, Stephen King

The Credible Nerds continue the Stephen King’s book review series with ‘Salem’s Lot, which is King’s second novel. This time the book is a vampire horror story.

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March 22, 2023 /Justin Brady
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Episode 84 - Review of Stephen King's Carrie

November 07, 2022 by Justin Brady in Movies, Podcasts, Book Reviews, Stephen King

The Credible Nerds review Stephen King's first novel, Carrie. We discuss the story and the events that lead up to Carrie murdering her high school peers.

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November 07, 2022 /Justin Brady
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Episode 72: Review of Cujo - The Tragedy of Cujo

July 15, 2022 by Justin Brady in Book Reviews, Movies, Podcasts, Stephen King

Cujo just wanted to be a good dog.

We review the Stephen King novel, Cujo, and talk about how tragedy strikes Castle Rock once again. This time in the form of a killer St. Bernard.

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July 15, 2022 /Justin Brady
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Episode 69 - We Review the Novel Firestarter by Stephen King

May 17, 2022 by Justin Brady in Book Reviews, Movies, Podcasts, Stephen King

The Credible Nerds, Jordan and Justin, review the Stephen King novel, Firestarter. This review is the first in our Stephen King review series.

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May 17, 2022 /Justin Brady
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A Wheel of Time TV Series by Amazon Studios

February 21, 2018 by blu3 in Middle Earth, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Wheel Of Time

Finally some recent news about a Wheel of Time TV series! Buried in an article talking about another series of books (Culture by Ian Banks) that are in development for a TV show, Deadline.com reports that Amazon Studios is developing other TV series' and one of them is the Wheel of Time TV series.

As part of the effort, Amazon made a mega deal for a Lord Of the Rings TV series and is developing a slew of high-profile titles, including The Dark Tower, Wheel of Time, Ringworld, Lazarus and Snow Crash.

I'd heard about the Lord of the Rings TV series that Amazon had paid a lot of money for, but this is the first announcement about a Wheel of Time TV series in a while. Plus they are looking at a TV series for The Dark Tower! How amazing would this be! The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, and The Dark Tower all on TV on a regular basis! That's some DEFINITELY must see TV!

Hopefully these plans come to fruition and we get more announcements in the near future.

February 21, 2018 /blu3
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The Dark Tower (2017)

August 08, 2017 by blu3 in Movies, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Uncategorized

  "The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed."

One of the most iconic sentences written by Stephen King, and there are plenty, is included in the cinematic release of The Dark Tower. The movie has plenty of great visuals that tie into the written saga of the The Dark Tower and are exciting to see represented on film. There are a lot of story elements taken from the novels and comic books, characters, places, titles, and locations; but this is a different story than we have seen, or read, before.

This is what I would attribute the negative reactions towards the film to. The film tries to play the middle ground, put enough in the story for fans to recognize but also cater to the mainstream audience and play it safe with the story. This is a dangerous idea that rarely pays off. If you are going to commit to a movie as intricate and beloved as The Dark Tower, you'd better commit to appeasing the hard core fans. If you don't have them in your, you have nothing. Imagine if while creating the Game of Thrones HBO series, the producers hadn't followed the source material and had tried to play it safe, thinking the audience wouldn't want to see dragons and sorcery? That series would have died quickly, it is seeing the source material on screen that people fell in love with. The Dark Tower should have followed suit.

I enjoyed The Dark Tower movie and I think that it has potential to open up a whole new universe of stories that people have been enjoying for decades now. I hope that the idea of having TV shows and sequel movies to continue this story is able to come to fruition as time goes on.  But, I did feel short changed as I left the theater, knowing that the source material is so rich and has so much to draw on.  However, I am willing to see where this goes and give The Dark Tower another chance.

I would give this movie a B as I enjoyed the visuals and the opportunity to see these characters on screen for the first time.

August 08, 2017 /blu3
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Stephen King

November 15, 2010 by blu3 in Stephen King

RandomAngst.com will be reviewing any new Stephen King novels and will also be reviewing our favorite past King novels over time.

November 15, 2010 /blu3
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