Stephen Kings 'Cell' the most disappointing of al his works?

Stephen Kings 'Cell' the most disappointing of al his works? Sept 14, 2018 7:21:29 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 7:21:29 GMT

Sept 13, 2018 1:03:46 GMT hardball said:

Sept 12, 2018 7:16:41 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

I agree. Did you know Ace Merill was in the movie 'Stand By Me' and was played by Kiefer Sutherland? 'Stand By Me' was based on the story, 'The Body' which was one of the four stories in 'Different Seasons' and two other stories from that novel were turned into movies and one of them was 'The Shawshank Redemption' which has become one of Stephen King's most well known stories and they are finally adapting the fourth story ('The Breathing Method') into a movie now and it is set to come out in 2020. As for worst Stephen King adaptions that is an interesting question 'cause I think a lot of his worst adaptions have been sequels to his novels that Stephen didn't write himself like 'Firestarter 2' (which we have talked about before), 'Children of the Corn 7 and 8', 'Creepshow 3', 'A Return to Salem's Lot' and 'Lawnmower Man 2' but worst based on something Stephen King wrote himself is probably 'Trucks.' Here is an article I found about Stephen King today you might like.

www.theringer.com/2018/9/4/17815798/stephen-king-interconnected-shared-universe-ranking-the-dark-tower

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.

Yes. That was Kiefer Sutherland in his early years long before he worked at CTU as Jack Bauer and Kiefer appeared in a number of movies when he was younger and he was in 'The Lost Boys' and 'Freeway' with Reese Witherspoon which is one of my favourite movies of all time and you should probably check out 'Stand By Me' again one day. The movie takes place in the town of Castle Rock which is the name of the new TV show and I don't know if there are any references to it in the show but I am looking forward to seeing that and I am hoping we don't have to wait much longer to get it in Australia. We have been watching 'Mr Mercedes' and that has been okay so far but judging from all the reviews I have seen 'Castle Rock' is supposed to be even better. I wasn't really into 'The Shawshank Redemption' either and prefer his Horror stuff more but it is one of those stories that is among Stephen King's most praised works and a lot of people liked it and I think it is a fairly good movie. I prefer some of his other adaptions to it though and 'Trucks' is the from 'Night Shift' and I have seen both 'Maximum Overdrive' and 'Trucks.' I didn't see 'Trucks' until a few years ago though and we got in on Amazon and thought it might be good but we were disappointed and weren't big fans of the movie. Here is the link for it here.

www.amazon.com/Trucks-Timothy-Busfield/dp/6305120021/ref=sr_1_2_twi_dvd_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1536908992&sr=1-2&keywords=trucks+1997

'Maximum Overdrive' is widely regarded as being one of the worst Stephen King movies but I enjoyed that more than 'Trucks' and it is not hard to see why it is lesser known than the former. No. 'The Lawnmower Man' didn't have anything to do with the Stephen King story apart from one scene and Stephen King took the creators to court and got his name removed from it but a lot of sites still count it as a Stephen King adaption along with the sequel which is why I mentioned it and I didn't mind the first movie but the sequel was really, really awful like one of the worst movies I have ever seen (and I have seen some really bad ones over the years) and I am not surprised Pierce Bronson refused to come back for it. I am not sure why 'Eyes of the Dragon' hasn't been adapted to screen yet but there have been numerous attempts as a movie, animated and a TV show and WAMC Entertainment had plans to adapt it as an animated movie back in 2001 but it didn't go through and the rights lapsed and then the Syfy Channel said in 2012 they were going to make it into a movie or a TV series but it didn't go through either. There are still a few Stephen King stories that need to be adapted as we have discussed before and I am hoping we get to see them one day.