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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 Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 8:14:39 GMT
Christine was a great book. Was a bad movie though. Don't know why people like it. 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. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 8:32:59 GMT
I think Christine is one of his worst, too. Christine is one of my favorite books. The movie is good too. I have read Christine twice and I found it to be an excellent read. I did read it several years after the film.
I feel the film made some compact changes, which didn't hurt it much at all, although I would have liked to have seen more of the LeBay character. One of the things that does annoy me with Christine the film—and Carpenter even pointed this out in his dvd commentary—was the early 80's look of fashions, when the film was set in the late 70's. I found this happened with a few films from the early\mid 80's, that were depicting the 70's era. I feel they perhaps felt it wasn't much different, so no-one would notice much difference. Hindsight tells a different tale.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 8:36:01 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 will have to check out Bag Of Bones and Duma Key. Hearts In Atlantis also.
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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 Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 8:44:34 GMT
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. 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. |
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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 Toasted Cheese on Aug 23, 2018 9:51:44 GMT
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. That would make sense about the sheriff, but I think Donna had a feeling about it 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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