|
Post by WullieFort on Apr 25, 2020 9:10:10 GMT
Over 100 of Stephen Kings novels have been turned into movies/TV series.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to list your personal favourite top 10 of the great man's work. Oddly, in my case, I can't read any of his books. His writing style turns me off, yet I love all his movies
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2020 11:53:21 GMT
You love all his movies? Most of the ones I’ve seen have been pish.
The Shining is the only one I thought was very good.
Oh, and Misery too.
Dolores Claiborne was pretty decent.
Oops, The Shawshank Redemption ... love that movie!
Stand by Me ... good film.
So maybe I was a bit unfair in the first paragraph!
Couldn’t make it through The Green Mile.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2020 11:55:46 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2020 12:02:29 GMT
Here goes
1. The Shawshank Redemption 2. The Shining 3. Misery 4. Stand by Me 5. Dolores Claiborne 6. Carrie (first one) 7. Salem’s Lot (TV mini series) 8. The Dead Zone 9. Apt Pupil 10. The Mist
|
|
|
Post by Zos on Apr 25, 2020 12:09:01 GMT
Stand by me.
Everything else, including The Shining, is shit, although the recent sequel film Doctor Sleep could have been excellent if they'd stuck to the book rather than change the final act to make it more of a Shining sequel than King wanted.
|
|
|
Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 25, 2020 12:18:33 GMT
The definitive order of Best Stephen King Movies/Adaptions is as follows - 1. The Shining 2. Misery 3. The Mist 4. Creepshow 5. Secret Window 6. Creepshow II 7. Christine 8. Children of the Corn 9. Pet Sematary (Remake) 10. Thinner
|
|
|
Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 25, 2020 12:29:23 GMT
Stand By Me Shawshank Christine Misery Carrie (original)
On its own The Shining is a decent movie but Kubrick changed so much from the book that it’s barely an adaptation.
I always wished they re-did Firestarter, made it less cheesy and darker.
|
|
|
Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2020 14:50:12 GMT
The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is free to stream for Amazon prime subscribers. (in the UK at least.)
Quite a decent flick.
|
|
|
Post by wolf359 on Apr 25, 2020 15:14:19 GMT
Silver Bullet
The Shining
Salem's Lot (Original TV Mini-Series)
Christine
It - Chapter One
It - Chapter Two
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
Sleepwalkers
|
|
|
Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 25, 2020 15:17:16 GMT
Silver Bullet
The Shining
Salem's Lot (Original TV Mini-Series)
Christine
It - Chapter One
It - Chapter Two
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
Sleepwalkers
Technically, Sleepwalkers wasn’t an adaptation, King wrote the screenplay without it being based on a book. Not a bad flick though and I liked a young Madchen Amick in it.
|
|
|
Post by wolf359 on Apr 25, 2020 15:23:37 GMT
Silver Bullet
The Shining
Salem's Lot (Original TV Mini-Series)
Christine
It - Chapter One
It - Chapter Two
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand by Me
The Dead Zone
Sleepwalkers
Technically, Sleepwalkers wasn’t an adaptation, King wrote the screenplay without it being based on a book. Not a bad flick though and I liked a young Madchen Amick in it.
Oh, well......Number 11 for me would have been "Cujo".
|
|
|
Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 25, 2020 15:51:38 GMT
He hasn't written 100 novels, so that number is probably including remakes, sequels, and adaptations of short stories, and maybe some of those shitty sequles or that just use his name.
There are a lot of good ones, and a lot of bad ones, and a lot of stuff that's enjoyably bad. There's a great range variety of tone. It's seems so strange that The Shawshank Redemption and Maximum Overdrive come from the same source.
Everyone's top few are gonna be The Shining, Stand by Me, Shawshank, Misery maybe Carrie, maybe the Green Mile, maybe The Mist for some.
I'll just point out a few that I think are maybe a little underappreciated, like the semi recent direct-to-netflix movies 1922, which is a very slow burn, but an interesting character study of sorts with an evocative setting and good performance by Thomas Jane in his return to a Stephen King story, and Gerald's Game which is Mike Flanagan's film version of King's supposedly most unfilmable book. There's some awkwardness there, but I think it mostly works really well. It's a really intense setup and the cast is quite good all around but this is the Carla Gugino show, and she's excellent. Flanagan had to make some changes to make this make sense, and they almost all make a lot of sense, but the ending bothers some people. I like it, and I think it reinforces the themes that preceded it. It's a good piece of work.
Also, Flanagan's Doctor Sleep is stronger than it could be. The book is definitely not one of King's best, but Flanagan elevates it, and I think the ending that takes place inside of Kubrick's movie is earned and mostly is well handled. It may go a step too far here or there, but I think it bridges what I thought might have been an unbrdigeable gap between King and Kubrick, while also being a Mike Flanagan movie all the while.
1408 is good and effective. Not special, but solid.
There's one that I'd never heard of, which is a clearly small and cheaply made and not much loved adaptation, but that I enjoyed for the sorta nasty piece of work that it was called Night Flier. It's not great, but it got some nice atmosphere and a cool setting. It must have been a financial failure because the director didn't make another movie for a long time.
Also a miniseries I never heard of before this winter called Storm of the Century. It was an original script, not based on a book, and it has that made for TV cheesiness about it, but it's a fairly compelling story.
Also, Thinner is somehow well liked, but that movie fucking sucks. A cursed pie? Fucking stupid.
|
|
|
Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 25, 2020 16:06:52 GMT
I’m not a huge fan of The Green Mile. On its own it’s ok with some good acting performances, but it so tries to recapture the magic of Shawshank that it borders on parody. To me it was as if ET era Spielberg was trying to remake To Kill a Mockingbird. It reeked of an effort that just came naturally to Shawshank.
|
|
|
Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 25, 2020 16:14:38 GMT
Stand by me. Everything else, including The Shining, is shit, although the recent sequel film Doctor Sleep could have been excellent if they'd stuck to the book rather than change the final act to make it more of a Shining sequel than King wanted. You said it better than I. I would include The Shawshank Redemption and the Green Mile
Oddly, all are non-horror.
|
|
|
Post by millar70 on Apr 25, 2020 16:26:51 GMT
I'm hoping that someone tries a film version of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon someday. If done right, it would be pretty cool.
And maybe someday, Hollywood will finally get Pet Sematary right, though many have tried and failed.
|
|
|
Post by NJtoTX on Apr 25, 2020 17:13:38 GMT
Liked Shawshank, The Shining, The Green Mile, Carrie, Stand By Me. Haven't seen anything else. All 8/10, maybe 8.5 for Shawshank and 7.5 for Stand By Me.
|
|
|
Post by HumanFundRecipient on Apr 25, 2020 17:18:49 GMT
Stand by Me Shawshank Redemption The Shining Carrie (original) Misery It (Chapter 1) The Dead Zone Dolores Claiborne The Stand (miniseries) Silver Bullet
|
|
|
Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 25, 2020 17:23:01 GMT
I like the Shining movie as kind of a stand alone piece. Seen the movie before I read the book. Loved the movie more but now I love the book more. Much of the books more scary parts, the fire hose, the topiary animals, were unfilmable (Kubrick would never use FX), so he had to add the Grady Girls. They still creep me out. But the fall of Jack into madness really was poorly done. Doctor Sleep was disappointing. The book was surprisingly good but fitting it into the movie and not the book sucked.
I tried to make it through It: Chapter 2. I didn't. Garbage.
I loved the Outsider and HATED the miniseries. Started so good, until Holly Gibney showed up. One of my favorite King characters. Turned her for a loveable neurotic genius into a smart mouthed alcoholic. The did the same thing with Mr. Mercedes. Bill Hodges was a cool character. In the miniseries, I was rooting for Brady Hartsfield to kill the miserable prick. And I won't even go into the utter sacrilege of the Dark Tower. A big fuck you to all involved.
|
|
|
Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 25, 2020 19:08:09 GMT
1. Shawshank 2. The Shining 3. Misery 4. 1408 5. Green Mile 6. Gerald's Game 7. It Chapter One 8. The first 75% of the Stand 9. The Mist 10. Dolores Claibourne
Funnily enough The Shining is a much diminished film if you've read the book first and vice versa.
|
|
|
Post by bluerisk on Apr 25, 2020 19:19:34 GMT
Over 100 of Stephen Kings novels have been turned into movies/TV series. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to list your personal favourite top 10 of the great man's work. Oddly, in my case, I can't read any of his books. His writing style turns me off, yet I love all his movies Once, I was a huge fan of King, but by now I lost track and interest Furthermore the old stuff was before the internet and thus I know only the German titles: Manchmal kommen Sie wieder (Sometimes they come back). Rather low rated, but I like it. Got two sequels iirc; at least I have a box with three movies. It Misery Nightshift (based on a short story) => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Shift_(short_story_collection) It's a book with a collection of short stories (a lot of very good short stories), and the name of the short story I meant is Graveyard Shift, not Night Shift. A very good read imho. Stand by Me Running Man (Arnie at his best, with his German dubbing voice he becomes a solid actor) Pet Sematary - 1989 (One of the books I've actually read) The Shawshank Redemption The Mist (the movie has one of the best ending ever imho) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Carrie, The Shinning and Children of Corn are the ones which are highly praised, but which never impressed me. Langoliers was so bad, that it tarnish King's reputation in my eyes to this very day. Back in the day he was very creative, but now he is more a mass producer of generic stuff.
|
|