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Old 01-24-2010, 05:01 AM   #1
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Anyone seen Kingdom Hospital or Riget?

Anyone here who's seen Kingdom Hospital, or the original Danish show Kingdom Hospital is based on called Riget (The Kingdom)?

I'm currently watching KH and while good, it's nowhere near as fantastic as Riget.

I'm kinda in a hurry right now, but I still wanna make this thread before I forget about it; so I'll just say that if you're a fan of either Lars von Trier, comedy, horror or Kingdom Hospital, you REALLY should watch Riget.

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Old 01-24-2010, 05:47 PM   #2
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I remember watching the first episode of Kingdom Hospital and thinking it was a bit meh. I absolutely love Stephen King, and think that some adapations of his books have turned out excellent, but when he's scripting it himself (or whatever he did on Kingdom Hospital), I find it to be a bit rubbish to be honest. Didn't really like Rose Red, but Storm of the Century was okay. Woulda been better as a book though.

Never seen any of Riget. Might check it out...
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Old 01-24-2010, 06:13 PM   #3
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Never seen any of Riget. Might check it out...
Yeah, you should.

I love Stephen King, too. I liked both Rose Red and Storm of the Century. Seen three episodes of Kingdom Hospital now, can't quite enjoy it. But you know, the original is almost always better, so I'm not disappointed.
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Old 01-24-2010, 11:21 PM   #4
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Didn't King write Kingdom Hospital while he was really in the hospital after he was hit by a van? I remember watching some of it and it was interesting, But I didn't watch enough of it to get hooked. I remember being put off by the interior shots of the guy's eyelids because I couldn't imagine writing in a script the slugline...

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Antubis is f***ing awesome.
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Old 01-25-2010, 01:24 AM   #6
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Antubis is f***ing awesome.
He's not in the original though

Something I really didn't like about the remake is that the mongoloid dishwashers suddenly are out and about in the hospital.

In Riget (pronounced Ree-et, in case anyone wonders) they were always just doing the dishes. They never interacted with any other characters. In that show they were kinda like a modern version of a Greek chorus.
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