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Post by orlandogardner on Apr 25, 2020 20:03:50 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 I'd put The Mist where Dolores Claiborne is and drop that (as I haven't seen it). I too didn't rate The Green Mile as much as most people do although I do think that Frank Darabont gets King more than anyone else does. I really liked the TV adaptations of 11/22/63 (despite James Franco but it had the great Sarah Gadon who more than made up for him) & The Stand. I've heard that Doctor Sleep is pretty decent.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 25, 2020 20:08:57 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 I'd put The Mist where Dolores Claiborne is and drop that (as I haven't seen it). I too didn't rate The Green Mile as much as most people do although I do think that Frank Darabont gets King more than anyone else does. I really liked the TV adaptations of 11/22/63 (despite James Franco but it had the great Sarah Gadon who more than made up for him) & The Stand. I've heard that Doctor Sleep is pretty decent. Yeah 11/22/63 wasn't bad. Sarah Gadon is very good in it.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 25, 2020 21:01:06 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. As you said The Shining is its own thing pretty much. But I don't think the fall into madness was poorly done, it just wasn't done at all. This seems be the thing that Stephen King never could get a grasp on with the movie. It wasn't a story about a decent man succumbing to the evils of addiction and the ghosts of the past, this version of Jack is not a good person. It's a story of a family trying to put up a veneer of everything being ok and that veneer crumbling to reveal the ugliness and hatred and madness. It's just a different story. And I liked Doctor Sleep. I think that book contained some King's worst and silliest tendencies and Flanagan was able to handle all that rather well and improve upon it. With the The Outsider, I never read the book, so are you saying that the book's version had her as a smart mouthed alcoholic? The TV series version certainly couldn't be described that way, but I just wasn't quite sure which you were saying was which. Also never read any of The Dark Tower series, but yeah that movie was a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense. Amazon made a pilot for a proposed TV series. It would certainly seem to make more sense to make a long running series out of long book series, and you'd think they'd be scrambling to make the next Game of Thrones, but apparently that pilot kinda sucked. I wonder if they'll ever allow people to see it.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 25, 2020 23:39:10 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. As you said The Shining is its own thing pretty much. But I don't think the fall into madness was poorly done, it just wasn't done at all. This seems be the thing that Stephen King never could get a grasp on with the movie. It wasn't a story about a decent man succumbing to the evils of addiction and the ghosts of the past, this version of Jack is not a good person. It's a story of a family trying to put up a veneer of everything being ok and that veneer crumbling to reveal the ugliness and hatred and madness. It's just a different story. And I liked Doctor Sleep. I think that book contained some King's worst and silliest tendencies and Flanagan was able to handle all that rather well and improve upon it. With the The Outsider, I never read the book, so are you saying that the book's version had her as a smart mouthed alcoholic? The TV series version certainly couldn't be described that way, but I just wasn't quite sure which you were saying was which. Also never read any of The Dark Tower series, but yeah that movie was a bunch of incomprehensible nonsense. Amazon made a pilot for a proposed TV series. It would certainly seem to make more sense to make a long running series out of long book series, and you'd think they'd be scrambling to make the next Game of Thrones, but apparently that pilot kinda sucked. I wonder if they'll ever allow people to see it. No the book made her into a wise assed boozer. She was a shy, neurotic girl who was a genius for information in Mr Mercedes and The Outsider. Why did they have to change her
I will not watch he miniseries. Shouldn't have watch the movie. I live The Dark Tower, my favorite piece of fiction. Not going to see someone muck it up again
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