Favourite Stephen King Adaptation
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Misery is probably my favorite, with The Running Man right behind it. Next would probably be The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me. I guess that I prefer the stories that are somewhat plausible rather than supernatural.
BTW, I just learned that Needful Things was directed by Charlton Heston's son.
BTW, I just learned that Needful Things was directed by Charlton Heston's son.
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NyQuil
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Shawshank for sure
The Green Mile
Misery
Carrie the original
Stand by Me
Worst, I think by far, was Lawnmower Man.
The Green Mile
Misery
Carrie the original
Stand by Me
Worst, I think by far, was Lawnmower Man.
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The Shining is the best film based on one of his novels but probably not the best adaptation of his work. I actually like the two Mike Flanagan has done, in particular I thought Doctor Sleep was great.
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The Shining might be one of the best horror films ever.
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I think I could watch The Running Man every day, I love to drop Dawson's "Only in a rerun" line when someone says they'll be back, which leads to an inevitable blank stare
Maximum Overdrive, while a guilty pleasure, has to be in the running for the worst
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Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
It: Chapter One (didn't like Chapter Two nearly as much)
Stand By Me
It: Chapter One (didn't like Chapter Two nearly as much)
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The Shawshank Redemption might be one of the best films ever made
It's actually the highest rated film on IMDB...
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Aside from the big ones (Shawshank, The Shining, IT, etc.) I always had a soft-spot for Dreamcatcher. It's definitely not the best movie, but it's just so quirky and weird and I really loved it.
The ending cracked me up so hard when I was younger. Granted I never read the book, so I don't know how closely adapted the film was to the book.
The ending cracked me up so hard when I was younger. Granted I never read the book, so I don't know how closely adapted the film was to the book.
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The Shining and IT (the original miniseries) are far and away my favorite ones.
But probably the most fun you can have watching a movie and IMO the best B movie ever made is Maximum Overdrive. Autonomous trucks running into shit while AC/DC blasts in the background...just amazing
But probably the most fun you can have watching a movie and IMO the best B movie ever made is Maximum Overdrive. Autonomous trucks running into shit while AC/DC blasts in the background...just amazing
interesting you say Running Man. The book is about 1000x better than the movie and a lot different. Would've been a much better movie if they stuck with the book IMO.
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I've seen very few of his works adaptations. The Shining, Shawshank, Green Mile, Stand By Me and the most recent It chapter one and two.
I'm hoping for someone to eventually make a Dark Tower tv series, and do it right. Make each book into a 6-10 episode season. I have zero intention of watching the movie after knowing how much they tried to cram into one film and hearing how bad i was.
I'm hoping for someone to eventually make a Dark Tower tv series, and do it right. Make each book into a 6-10 episode season. I have zero intention of watching the movie after knowing how much they tried to cram into one film and hearing how bad i was.
I can only hope. Dark Tower is one of my all time favorite series and it would be hard to make but it could be I think.
Depends how you want to define adaptation. When people are fans of someone's work, it seems they tend to want as faithful a transcription from page to screen as possible. I want a good movie. Kubrick preserved many of the key elements from King's book, so I don't think it's dishonest to call it an adaptation.
I know King disagrees with this to a certain extent, but considering how many of his more purely horror works have been adapted into some pretty mediocre to down right awful movies I think it might be a smart move to be a little liberal with it.
I like Flanagan's work in general, too.
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To me...
The Shinning
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Carrie
The Dead Zone
Stand By Me
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It (Chapter1/2), not the TV show which have aged very badly
Quite a few others that I like. Silver Bullet would be my guilty pleasure one. Pretty bad film, but kind of fun. I'd have to rewatch a few to name the worst one, but Lawnmower Man, Maximum Overdrive and The Night Shift are all very bad. Still a few I haven't seen, but not much.
The Shinning
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Carrie
The Dead Zone
Stand By Me
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Christine
It (Chapter1/2), not the TV show which have aged very badly
Quite a few others that I like. Silver Bullet would be my guilty pleasure one. Pretty bad film, but kind of fun. I'd have to rewatch a few to name the worst one, but Lawnmower Man, Maximum Overdrive and The Night Shift are all very bad. Still a few I haven't seen, but not much.
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Is it cheating to call out the Creepshows as guilty pleasure favorites? Some of them original scripts by King, some adaptations.
There was also a pretty good rendition of "The Ledge" I watched many years ago. That's one of the best King short stories and he was only about 25 when he wrote it
Edit - it's also baffling that people could call Maximum Overdrive a bad movie. Yes, it's mindless fun and deserves to be pilloried by critics. But that movie did every single thing it set out to do. That's flawless execution right there, and it's not like the source material was trying to be Hamlet
There was also a pretty good rendition of "The Ledge" I watched many years ago. That's one of the best King short stories and he was only about 25 when he wrote it
Edit - it's also baffling that people could call Maximum Overdrive a bad movie. Yes, it's mindless fun and deserves to be pilloried by critics. But that movie did every single thing it set out to do. That's flawless execution right there, and it's not like the source material was trying to be Hamlet
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