Stephen King Movie Adaptations
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I remember once watching this behind the scenes making of the movie ALIENS. They said they only showed portions of the alien because if you see all of it, it looks ridiculous.
IN THE SAME WAY, what King does is guide your mind in a way that you create a lot of the suspense. If you notice, the more supernatural books usually the worse the movie.
The movie Langoliers sucked because in the end, they all looked like turds with teeth.
I would love to see adaptations of the DARK TOWER series, but will a legless woman killing people with plates from a wheel chair look cool on the big screen? Or is that just something that ONLY works in your head.
I don't know, maybe.
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Cujo, I have to say though, was completely awful. I usually find that the directors concentrate more on the blood and gore effect, rather than finding the storyline and the "heart" of the book. Which usually makes the movies look cheesy, and while they work great as horror movies, they usually are mindless drones of the original books they were based off of.
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There is more to it that that though, it depends on the actors and directors involved in these pictures whether they are of good or poor quality, creative differences flare up all the time between an author and his or her vision and the director charged with providing the finished product. King hated the Kubrick version of The Shining so he made his own series in 1997. Yes, he does want the money and hence why so many of his short stories and movies are sold out but he does have some creative vision (seen in his hits Misery and Shawshank etc) but he cant control everything.Mel Carriere wrote:Stephen King is great, but he sells his ideas to the cinema far too cheaply. The Shining, The Green Mile, and The Mist are great movies, but all the rest are pretty much B movie fare. His rotation on the Sci-Fi channel is downright embarrassing. I wish he wouldn't sell his soul so cheaply.
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I didnt know 1408 was a King story. Isnt that the movie with Jim Carey? It was ok, but kind of confusing.Vogin wrote:I wanted to say I saw just The Green Mile, but then it struck me that 1408 was King's work too. I liked both, although obviously The Mile lies on the very top of all book-to-movie adaptations ever made.
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No idea who that guy was but it was definitely not CareyBighuey wrote:I didnt know 1408 was a King story. Isnt that the movie with Jim Carey? It was ok, but kind of confusing.Vogin wrote:I wanted to say I saw just The Green Mile, but then it struck me that 1408 was King's work too. I liked both, although obviously The Mile lies on the very top of all book-to-movie adaptations ever made.

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