Name the Top 5 Best and Top 5 Worst Stephen King adaptations.
09-16-17, 11:31 PM
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I mildly enjoyed Needful Things as a movie but it's a pale imitation of the far superior book. That book just wasn't built for a theatrical feature. The dense story and town of characters would have worked better as a mini-series or season. Max von Sydow was very good in it, however.
I think that and The Regulators were the last SK books that I loved. I am still holding out for a psychedelic f**ked up film version of The Regulators.
09-16-17, 11:34 PM
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I have to admit that it seems I have either seen the movie or read the book, but not both for many of King's adapted works. Based on that I'm not going to cast my full ballot. Instead I am going to throw all five of my "worst adaptation" votes to just one movie ...
How the f@&k has nobody mentioned The Dark Tower for worst adaptation!?
How the f@&k has nobody mentioned The Dark Tower for worst adaptation!?
09-17-17, 12:15 AM
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Probably because almost nobody saw The Dark Tower! 😏
I really enjoyed IT, way more than the hugely overrated Tv version. It might just make my King top five but need to see it again... the vast majority of King adaptations are terrible, imho. I still count seeing Stephen King's Sleepwalkers in the theatre as one of the worst movie experiences of my life - pppphew!
I really enjoyed IT, way more than the hugely overrated Tv version. It might just make my King top five but need to see it again... the vast majority of King adaptations are terrible, imho. I still count seeing Stephen King's Sleepwalkers in the theatre as one of the worst movie experiences of my life - pppphew!
09-18-17, 02:26 PM
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I think there is a longer cut, though I am not sure how much better it is than the regular theatrical cut.
09-18-17, 06:10 PM
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It may have been the men's magazine version I read. I remember reading Monkey Shines and The Raft in a men's magazine. They were smaller inserts in the middle of the magazine with their own cover that could be removed and kept. Can't remember if The Mist was removable insert. I think it was around 1989-90 when I read it.
Wasn't the original Green Mile sold as paper back installments? Part one, part two and so on?
09-18-17, 09:10 PM
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Looks like there is a 25th anniversary release of Dark Forces, which is where The Mist was originally published. Wiki says the version in Skeleton Crew is edited, so it might be worth checking out. $5 for the Nook or Kindle versions.
Not only was it published in a serial format(monthly), King wrote it as it was being released. So he was theoretically writing the second part as the first part was being released and had no idea where the story would take him each month.
Not only was it published in a serial format(monthly), King wrote it as it was being released. So he was theoretically writing the second part as the first part was being released and had no idea where the story would take him each month.
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09-18-17, 09:57 PM
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That's pretty cool. I didn't really know about him till about the early 90s, but it must have been something to follow him as a writer since the beginning. He had the whole Richard Bachman alias, The Green Mile as a serial format, and he did the e-book/story thing really early on.
09-19-17, 07:26 AM
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For me, the Best Stephen King adaption was The recently released "IT Movie".
Source: whereyouwatch[dot]com/movies/it/
Source: whereyouwatch[dot]com/movies/it/
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Well played. 
