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It funny you say that Mensch, cause I was just coming back to say that I realize it sounds like I really hate Molly Ringworld and I don't. She is probably a really nice person. In fact she may be such a wonderful actress that my negative feelings towards her is actually a transposition of my dislike for the characters that she portrays.
These teenaged, self absorbed, whiney princess types that are so annoying in real life. All of them go through their day acting and putting on a show for everyone around them. Perhaps Molly is just such a good actress that she has captured that artificality so well. Maybe she isn't a bad actress, she just plays one in movies?
How's that for introspection? 
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Does that mean Stephen King is really a master who can immitate a worthless pulp-fiction hack?
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Hmmm...perhaps you have hit on it, Geo. Poor Molly has been type-casted as an actor. The 80's somehow had a fascination with stuck-up, whiney rich girls. It portrayed them as full of themselves and narrow, but the 80's heros always had a soft spot for them.
Now we want them every bit as either stupid or industrious as the hero.
Perhaps this is a win for feminism, but it could possibly have been the death knell of the Last fragments of character development existing in hollywood. And it was certainly bad for Molly.
Can you judge someone's talents who hasn't been invited to the proving grounds?
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Ouch. 
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How about..."master pulp fiction hack"?
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The Shining (w/Jack Nicholson) was pretty damn good. Can't think of any other "good" King movies though (Shawshank Redemption was good, but was a short story only).
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LOL...
Stephen King himself hated the Version with Jack Nicholson. He was much happier with another adaptation done a couple years ago.
Edit: You know, there was one good Stephen King movie. It was not a 'horror' story at all, though. Stand By Me -- with Wil Wheaton, btw. Weeeeasly Crusher at 12. 
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