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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 0:55:08 GMT
I don't like the scene at the school, it seems kind of stupid and slows the book down (not that it was going anywhere fast).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 1:18:37 GMT
I'd actually say Colorado Kid was the worst thing I've read by him.
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Post by DarkManX on Aug 23, 2018 2:17:28 GMT
Haven't seen Cell, but then again I haven't heard anything good about it. The book isn't one of his best. The paranoid delusions of an old man who is scared of technology because it didn't exist in the era he grew up in.
I like Christine, but I thought the book was better.
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Post by Marv on Aug 23, 2018 8:39:39 GMT
Keith Gordon played a decent Arnie Cunningham. The FX were not bad. Good music. A couple of decent bad guy characters from the book. A couple of scary moments from Christine and her headlights. If you would say Christine was a haunted car the film didn't really go in to why the car was haunted. The background was sadly missing and Roland LeBay. Same as The Shining and the haunted hotel film adaptation and the background of Jack Torrance. Same with Cujo, in which the supernatural possession element was eliminated for the film, which the book connected with Frank Dodd from The Dead Zone. The Frand Dodd stuff would’ve been hard to get across in film, even if they could’ve had it make sense without explaining the events of Dead Zone...but I did love it in the novel. Really ties the stories together well. |
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Post by Marv on Aug 23, 2018 9:48:22 GMT
The Frand Dodd stuff would’ve been hard to get across in film, even if they could’ve had it make sense without explaining the events of Dead Zone...but I did love it in the novel. Really ties the stories together well. Could they have not made a 5 min prologue in which a monster came to Castle Rock, like the novel opened? It could have then tied in Dodd's death with Cujo's sickness. Didn't Donna Trenton know of Dodd and saw him in Cujo's eyes in the novel? It has been eons since I read. The sheriff saw Dodd in Cujos eyes. Not sure about Donna. It’s been a while for me too. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 6:42:27 GMT
I loved the book and hated the movie. When I first heard 'Cell' was being adapted into a movie it was over a decade ago and I was really looking forward to seeing it but when I finally saw the movie it was very disappointing. The movie was too short and was missing a lot from the book and Alice was bigger part of the book for example. 
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Post by hardball on Aug 25, 2018 9:05:16 GMT
My vote for the worst is Needful Things. The book wasn't that good and the movie was even worse.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Aug 25, 2018 20:10:44 GMT
Maximum Overdrive was crazy trash but I just loved it.
Dreamcatcher was too long, and so were Morgan Freeman's eyebrows. Worse yet, it got boring after a great start.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 25, 2018 20:40:27 GMT
'Under the Dome' WAS/IS his worst EVER on tv. 'Under The Dome' was good for a while. I thought it died a death with the death of Angie McAlister . |
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Post by petrolino on Aug 25, 2018 20:43:40 GMT
Maximum Overdrive was crazy trash but I just loved it. Dreamcatcher was too long, and so were Morgan Freeman's eyebrows. Worse yet, it got boring after a great start. 'Maximum Overdrive' is awesome. Great action, dizzy characters, stomping soundtrack and monster trucks. Green Goblin is formidable.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 1, 2018 3:54:36 GMT
Haven't read Cell, but have been struggling to get into his Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger, despite its relative brevity, was an awful slog.
Also didn't care for Cujo. The novel felt too bloated. Preferred the film.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 1, 2018 4:00:33 GMT
The Dead Zone is great...and helps to build the Castle Rock world. Bag of Bones is also great. I actually thought Duma Key and Bag of Bones captured the same feeling for me. They felt like very similar reads. My favorite novel is Hearts in Atlantis...which is actually like 5 different but interconnected stories. Ive reread it a few times and it's always a joy. I have only read The Dead Zone once in the 80's and it was a superb read. Of what I have read of King, I would rate it as one of his best earlier novels. The film was so so, saved only by Walken and Sheen's presence. Sometimes, King just doesn't adapt too well to the screen. I agree with you as far as the novel is concerned. The Dead Zone is vastly underrated. King's second best 70s novel, I would say. I read it back in 2014 and it was the first SK novel I managed to read in its entirety (having made aborted attempts at some of his other novels on previous occasions). That said, I also enjoyed the Cronenberg film, albeit not as much as the novel. |
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Post by Marv on Sept 1, 2018 10:32:58 GMT
Haven't read Cell, but have been struggling to get into his Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger, despite its relative brevity, was an awful slog. Also didn't care for Cujo. The novel felt too bloated. Preferred the film. The Dark Tower story really picks up with the second book, Drawing of the Three. I make it a rule never to insist someone continue a book series if they have no desire but if even a little of the Gunslinger seems ok to you, check out Drawing of the Three. It’s where Roland picks up what will become basically his family throughout the rest of the series and it includes a foul mouthed heroin junkie who tells bad jokes and a parapalegic racist black woman with multiple personality disorder. It gets quite interesting. |
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Sept 1, 2018 23:05:50 GMT
Haven't read Cell, but have been struggling to get into his Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger, despite its relative brevity, was an awful slog. Also didn't care for Cujo. The novel felt too bloated. Preferred the film. The Dark Tower story really picks up with the second book, Drawing of the Three. I make it a rule never to insist someone continue a book series if they have no desire but if even a little of the Gunslinger seems ok to you, check out Drawing of the Three. It’s where Roland picks up what will become basically his family throughout the rest of the series and it includes a foul mouthed heroin junkie who tells bad jokes and a parapalegic racist black woman with multiple personality disorder. It gets quite interesting. I've actually already read The Drawing of the Three and I do agree that it represents a significant improvement over the first book. Still not sure where this series is headed from a narrative standpoint, but at least the characters were more interesting this time round. The third book looks to be quite the monster though. What are your thoughts on that one? |
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Post by Marv on Sept 1, 2018 23:34:34 GMT
The Dark Tower story really picks up with the second book, Drawing of the Three. I make it a rule never to insist someone continue a book series if they have no desire but if even a little of the Gunslinger seems ok to you, check out Drawing of the Three. It’s where Roland picks up what will become basically his family throughout the rest of the series and it includes a foul mouthed heroin junkie who tells bad jokes and a parapalegic racist black woman with multiple personality disorder. It gets quite interesting. I've actually already read The Drawing of the Three and I do agree that it represents a significant improvement over the first book. Still not sure where this series is headed from a narrative standpoint, but at least the characters were more interesting this time round. The third book looks to be quite the monster though. What are your thoughts on that one? At the time of reading it I thought it was a step down...but in hindsight I have a lot of fond memories of it. I loved the town of Lud and Blaine the Mono, who is an insane artificially intelligent monorail. Book 5, Wolves of the Calla was my favorite of the series. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2018 6:41:21 GMT
My vote for the worst is Needful Things. The book wasn't that good and the movie was even worse.  |
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Post by hardball on Sept 9, 2018 9:26:29 GMT
My vote for the worst is Needful Things. The book wasn't that good and the movie was even worse. The book feels contrived, with the residents all having a beef of some sort, and I was disappointed with final confrontation between Pangborn and Gaunt. It wasn't all bad though as Ace Merill was an interesting character. So what do you think is the worst King adaptation? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 7:16:41 GMT
Yeah. I would love to see that too. Stephen King has talked about how bad he thought that movie was a few times in interviews and said he wants to adapt it himself and with all the adaptions of his works coming out at the moment I think now would be the best time to do it. I actually didn't think the novel was that bad and if done right I feel could be a lot more successful than the previous adaption but I think there are some more of his stories that should be adapted before they remake everything. The book feels contrived, with the residents all having a beef of some sort, and I was disappointed with final confrontation between Pangborn and Gaunt. It wasn't all bad though as Ace Merill was an interesting character. So what do you think is the worst King adaptation?  www.theringer.com/2018/9/4/17815798/stephen-king-interconnected-shared-universe-ranking-the-dark-tower |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 12, 2018 8:16:43 GMT
The prequel, Tin Cans on a String, was pretty disappointing, too.
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Post by hardball on Sept 13, 2018 1:03:46 GMT
The book feels contrived, with the residents all having a beef of some sort, and I was disappointed with final confrontation between Pangborn and Gaunt. It wasn't all bad though as Ace Merill was an interesting character. So what do you think is the worst King adaptation? I knew Ace Merill was in Stand by Me but didn't know it was Kiefer Sutherland. I only saw the movie once a long time ago and really couldn't get into it, probably because I was too young then. Thanks for the update on the Breathing Method, had no idea it was going to be turned into a film. The Shawshank Redemption is considered one of the greatest films of all time and is up there among the better King adaptations. It took me awhile to warm up to the movie and the novella because I more into King's horror stuff than the suspense stories. Regarding Trucks, that's the short story from Night Shift right? There have been two adaptations, Maximum Overdrive (1986 which King directed) and a 1997 TV movie called Trucks. Which have you seen? I am not surprised the sequels aren't any good since they usually have just very loose or no connection to the books. The first Lawnmower Man movie has nothing to do with King's story at all. They just used the title, and the movie wasn't very good. Thanks for sharing the article Deb. I had no idea there were so many references and connections with his works. The nice thing about his universe though is you can enjoy his works without having to read any of the others. That article also made me wonder why Eyes of the Dragon has never been adapted. It is certainly movie material. |
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