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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Oct 29, 2017 13:36:24 GMT -5
There are plenty of good ones out there. * Pet Semetary * Carrie (the original, not the remakes) * Christine * Shawshank Redemption * Children of the Corn * Night Flier * Graveyard Shift * Misery * Stand By Me * The Running Man (Stephen King is Richard Bachman who wrote the Running Man) * Silver Bullet * The Green Mile * Cat's Eye * It (both the original miniseries and the 2017 film that only covers half the book) * The Dead Zone And heck, there is two that came out this year on Netflix in * Gerald's Game * 1922 The Running Man movie and novel have almost nothing in common. No, they have some stuff in common. There is a game show and you are hunted. Also, its a rather unfair game show. I am more a fan of the film than I am the book. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 29, 2017 13:42:04 GMT -5
The Running Man movie and novel have almost nothing in common. No, they have some stuff in common. There is a game show and you are hunted. Also, its a rather unfair game show. I am more a fan of the film than I am the book. I like the film but love the book. For me Bachmann only wrote one bad book which is Blaze. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on Oct 29, 2017 15:30:48 GMT -5
The only good Stephen King adaptation I've ever seen was Secret Window, and that's because the ending changes from the original story if I recall correctly. Which actually makes it better. There are plenty of good ones out there. * Pet Semetary * Carrie (the original, not the remakes) * Christine * Shawshank Redemption * Children of the Corn * Night Flier * Graveyard Shift * Misery * Stand By Me * The Running Man (Stephen King is Richard Bachman who wrote the Running Man) * Silver Bullet * The Green Mile * Cat's Eye * It (both the original miniseries and the 2017 film that only covers half the book) * The Dead Zone And heck, there is two that came out this year on Netflix in * Gerald's Game * 1922 King is definitely one of those different strokes types as far as his film adaptations go. Generally, ones like Children of the Corn, Graveyard Shift and Silver Bullet are considered some of the worst of them, but they're also ones I quite enjoy. On the other hand, as I said in another post here, I could go without seeing Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery or Stand By Me ever again. They were good films, but definite one-timers for me. There have literally been almost exactly 100 films and TV shows based on his work now, so the quality gamut is all over the place. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 29, 2017 15:40:51 GMT -5
This is one of those I enjoy for the sheer hamminess. You can tell that for the most part the cast were under no I,kusions of what kind of a shlockfest they were in, so they all chewed the scenery at every opportunity. The especially amusing part is how the story it’s based off was basically King bitching at The memory of his years as a school teacher, during which he worked in an industrial laundry factory for the summer vacations.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Oct 29, 2017 17:12:30 GMT -5
There are plenty of good ones out there. * Pet Semetary * Carrie (the original, not the remakes) * Christine * Shawshank Redemption * Children of the Corn * Night Flier * Graveyard Shift * Misery * Stand By Me * The Running Man (Stephen King is Richard Bachman who wrote the Running Man) * Silver Bullet * The Green Mile * Cat's Eye * It (both the original miniseries and the 2017 film that only covers half the book) * The Dead Zone And heck, there is two that came out this year on Netflix in * Gerald's Game * 1922 King is definitely one of those different strokes types as far as his film adaptations go. Generally, ones like Children of the Corn, Graveyard Shift and Silver Bullet are considered some of the worst of them, but they're also ones I quite enjoy. On the other hand, as I said in another post here, I could go without seeing Shawshank, Green Mile, Misery or Stand By Me ever again. They were good films, but definite one-timers for me. There have literally been almost exactly 100 films and TV shows based on his work now, so the quality gamut is all over the place. When you have that many, they're not all going to be great. Heck, you'll be lucky to have 40% be good. |
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