> I just can't get a grasp on why it becomes avant garde to bash popular anything. It seems like if a lot of people like something, there must be a contingent who disparages and disdains it, usually simply for the idea that if it is well liked by so many, it must be too mundane for the educated, the mature, the somehow superior.

You know that pair of old guys that are in all the Muppet movies, making snide jokes whenever they appear that have nothing to do with the actual plot? I think it's their mindset that makes some of us mock popular culture.

> I love Stephen King.
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> So a lot of his works have been made into movies which didn't convey the same anything as the books.

*WARNING: The following comment is from someone whose exposure to Stephen King rests entirely on his screenplays and adaptations of books as movies for TV or screen*

King appears to have a well-developed talent for crafting stories. I've really enjoyed every one of his works i've been exposed to. But the endings i've seen all turn out anti-climactic at best. He seems a wonderful writer, if the last chapters were just left off and the stories all ended open-ended.

That would at least make the TV movies better for me.

Penny "But no, i haven't seen Rose Red" stamp