Stephen King Movie Adaptations
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Stephen King Movie Adaptations
I loved The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Pet Semetary, The Shining, Carrie, Delores Claiborne, Secret Window and 1408.
I hated The Graveyard Shift, Storm of the Century, The Mist, Thinner, Rose Red, and Misery.
What do you guys think of his movies?
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at this point, i am hoping that they dont try to make any more of his books into movies unless he writes the screen play. i dont think i could handle any more failure on that front...(though if he did lisey's story, that would be amazing!)
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On the other hand, every author is entitled to a few terrible books and in the case of Stephen King, i HATED The Tommyknockers, both the book and movie. Sluggish pace, confusing storyline and very labored in places, it was definitely his worst book in my opinion and the movie added insult to injury with some woeful acting. The Shining movie left me cold as Kubrick cut at least 50% of the story away and tacked on a very weak ending. Books like Bag of Bones, Pet Cemetery and Christine are also very poor and the films of Pet Cemetery and Christine were lacking.
I was most surprised by how good the tv adaptation of The Stand was. Obviously a 3 hour movie could never do justice to King's 1000+ page tour de force, so the story was split for a mini-series which totalled over 9 hours in length. Some parts of the book had to be trimmed away but by and large, the sense of terror and isolation captured by the book translates perfectly.
Many more stories could still be adapted into movies as King has a huge back collection of literature that would make great movies.
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I'm also a fan of the movie versions of: Carrie, The Green Mile, Misery, 1408, and Stand by Me.
The movie version of Christine is okay. Pet Cemetery used to frighten me as a child, but now I find it slightly on the dull side.
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It may interest you to know that King authorized a remake of The Shining in 1997 starring Rebecca de Mornay, in a version that much more closely matched the famous book, including the giant hedge animals coming to life and the 'boiler room' ending. King even made a cameo appearance as an orchestra conductor in one of the films fantasy scenes!Woodland Nymph wrote:I know Stephen King doesn't like it, but I'm obsessed with the movie version of The Shining with Jack Nicholson. I think it's fantastic. I've also loved the movie version of It ever since I was young, although it's quite different from the book.
It is quite a decent movie, too.
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I still want to see a film version of "The Long Walk" and "The Eyes Of The Dragon"
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