Favorite/least favorite Stephen King movie(s) (script, editor, music)
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FAVORITES:
Cujo
Firestarter
Silver Bullet
Pet Sematary
Secret Window
Carrie (original)
The Dead Zone
Riding the Bullet
It (TV miniseries)
Hearts in Atlantis
The Stand (TV miniseries)
Sleepwalkers ~ parts of it
Sometimes They Come Back
The Mist ~ I HATE the ending! I wanted the original!
Salem's Lot (original TV miniseries) ~ The other is interesting.
Christine ~ sort of... They changed too many important things.
The Tommyknockers (TV miniseries) ~ It's better than the novel, and it keeps me interested.
OTHER (from so-so to dislike):
The Dark Half
Dreamcatcher
Needful Things
Rose Red (TV miniseries)
Desperation (TV miniseries)
The Langoliers (TV miniseries)
The Shawshank Redemption ~ I just doesn't appeal to me.
The Green Mile ~ I know many adore it, but it just fails for me.
Thinner ~ It's a weak novel to me, and the movie really isn't stronger.
The Shining ~ I know I'll catch flack for this. However, Jack starts off acting crazy and just escalates; there's no quiet start with the descent into madness. Also, I don't agree with the interpretation of Wendy; I don't think Shelley Duvall, as much as I like her, is right for the role. I also do not agree with having Hallorann travel all the way back only for THAT to happen! I actually prefer the TV miniseries though I'm iffy about the ending.
My dislikes are films that I have watched once or twice, sometimes more, but just do not care for. I know others see a lot in them and even are devoted to some. I wish that I could see what they do. There are a lot more, but that should be enough.
"The Shining" novel is, to me, his masterpiece; but, I don't think Stanley Kubrick served it well.
Worst: The Shining (Kubrick blew it, big time) Shelly Duvall? really?? I was upset Jack Nicholson DIDN'T kill her.
Best: A threeway tie between Shawshank Redemption (a short story by King named Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me (Another short story: The Body) and The Green Mile.
A lot of mine are favorites because I read them at a really young age. I became a fan at 8 years old due to having a neighbor who had a library of SK at her home. She would give me copies.
Books:
The Talisman <-- REALLY want this to be a movie.
Black House
Salem's Lot
Cujo
Misery
The Stand
The Dark Tower series
Thinner
Desperation
The Shining
Riding the Bullet
Movies:
Maximum Overdrive (first SK movie I ever got to watch)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Green Mile
Cujo
Firestarter
Silver Bullet
Pet Sematary
Riding the Bullet
IT
The Stand
Sleepwalkers
Sometimes They Come Back
Salem's Lot
Christine
Carrie
Rose Red
I really wasn't a fan of the Langoliers movie though. It was just too poorly budgeted.
Liked The Shining, The Stand, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me. As a previous poster stated, some of his movies have a "B" movie quality to them so it's difficult watching them.
Would love to see a movie made of Cell, or The Dark Tower.
My favorite films based on Stephen King novels are:
The Shining (the original, not the ridiculous remake) Stand By Me The Shawshank Redemption
Happily, I don't suffer from the silly notion that a film has to replicate the book. Not only does it not have to do so, it should not even try to do so. Take The Shining, for example - I love the book (it's right up there with Salem's Lot as my favorite King novel, and it's easily the best film based on his work. But they're very different in various ways. This is to be expected - the novel and the film are different fictional animals. And a novel is the creation of the writer, just as the film is the creation of its director. We should no more expect Kubrick's The Shining to be King's The Shining, any more than we should expect King's Salem's Lot to be Stoker's Dracula.
Stand by me & Shawhank are my favorites. Unfortunately many of his works have turned out horrible movies. IT had every has been 70's actor they could find, Pet Semetary had Herman Munster in it and The Stand was so sappy it sent me into a diabetic coma. I actually did like Salem's Lot with David Soul not the one with Rob Lowe.
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