Name the Top 5 Best and Top 5 Worst Stephen King adaptations.
Film adaptations, but also feel free to throw any mini series in there too.
Giver. |
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Best:
The Shining Carrie Dead Zone Stand By Me Green Mile Worst: Maximum Overdrive Mangler Graveyard Shift Langoliers The Stand |
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BEST:
Shining Shawshank Redemption The Mist Stand By Me Apt Pupil WORST: Maximum Overdrive Langoliers Thinner Firestarter: Rekindled Rage: Carrie 2 |
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The best for me:
The Shining Shawshank Redemption The Mist Stand By Me Creepshow/Cats Eye The Dead Zone Honorable mention to Needful Things, and i hated Dreamcatcher tbe first time i saw it, but gotten to really appreciate it more over the years. And the new It is one of the best movies of Kings work, but not top 5 (or 6 in my case) Worst Maximum Overdrive (i place this highest simply because King appeared in the trailer saying how other movie adaptations of his work had failed and it was not going to be done right as he was directing. Clear case of dont give up your day job. Such a shit movie). The Dark Half (great concept, but totally fails as a movie) Sleepwalkers (soooooooooooo bad. Terrible story to begin with.) Firestarter Graveyard Shift Oh, and i am not counting all the sequels to movies of Kings work. Then you could simply add on all the Children of the Corn sequels. |
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Best:
The Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Stand By Me The Mist Misery Worst: The Shining The Lawnmower Man Under the Dome |
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The ones I find superior:
Carrie(1976) Salem's Lot(1979) The Shining(1980) Dead Zone Christine The Mist Creepshow Storm of The Century Pet Semetary The ones I think suck: Under the Dome Maximum Overdrive Langoliers Needful Things Graveyard Shift Thinner Dark Half Sleepwalkers Lawnmower Man |
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Best:
Misery Carrie (1976) The Mist Pet Sematary It (2017) I consider the first half of the 1990 "It" miniseries as good as any King adaption, but the second half knocks it out of a spot in my top 5. I appreciate Kubrick's "The Shining" more every time I watch it, but it's never really been a personal favorite. Still haven't seen "Shawshank". Worst: The Lawnmower Man Bag of Bones Dreamcatcher The Tommyknockers Apt Pupil I'm sure there are crappier King adaptions than some of these, but there are still a bunch I haven't seen. |
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Of the ones I've seen
Best: Dolores Claiborne The Shining Carrie Dead Zone Misery Honorable mention : The Mist & Salem's Lot Worst: Maximum Overdrive The Lawnmower Man Thinner Needful Things Apt Pupil |
Re: Name the Top 5 Best and Top 5 Worst Stephen King adaptations.
The best:
Shawshank Redemption Stand by Me Dolores Claiborne Misery The Green Mile The worst: The Shining Maximum Overdrive The Lawnmower Man Under the Dome The Stand IT mini-series - honorable mention |
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Well, I'm sure to piss off a few, but here we go:
Best: Shining, The Misery Secret Window (I know Shining and Misery were greater film achievement wise, but damn it I loved this freaking movie and Johnny Depp was amazing) Dead Zone Running Man, The Worst Mist, The (F'ing hate this movie and especially the ending) Children of the Corn (Children, corn fields, eye rolling commence) Pet Sematary (My parents took me to this movie as a child, I was 14, they hated me.) Under the Dome Sleepwalkers |
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Oh man, The Mist ending is 'effin brilliant, and far superior to King's own.
Also kinda hard to Slam Children of the Corn. The original story wasn't too hot to begin with. How it spawned so many sequels though? That is a fucking head scratcher. Pet Sematary was a damn good adaptation. So with that, are people rating the adaptation or just the movies in general? Hard to think so many that read the Shining think the movie is a "good" adaptation. It may be a great horror flick, but as far as translations go, it's a hot mess. |
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
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So with that, are people rating the adaptation or just the movies in general? Hard to think so many that read the Shining think the movie is a "good" adaptation. It may be a great horror flick, but as far as translations go, it's a hot mess.
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Langoliers isn't that bad of an adaptation. Are the people slamming some of these adaptations familiar with the original novel or writing?
I can't believe people are missing the worst adaptation of them all - The Tommyknockers. Pet Sematary and The Green Mile are far and away the best adaptations that stick to the source material. |
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Pet Semetary
The Shining Stand By Me Misery Carrie |
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I think Dead Zone is one of the more under appreciated movies ever. I think it is a terrific movie.
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
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I think Dead Zone is one of the more under appreciated movies ever. I think it is a terrific movie.
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I always thought Silver Bullet was a bit underrated--fun 80's cast and solid werewolf movie, IMO.
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
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I think Dead Zone is one of the more under appreciated movies ever. I think it is a terrific movie.
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
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Langoliers isn't that bad of an adaptation. Are the people slamming some of these adaptations familiar with the original novel or writing?
I can't believe people are missing the worst adaptation of them all - The Tommyknockers. Pet Sematary and The Green Mile are far and away the best adaptations that stick to the source material. |
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Because of this thread, I learned about the Stephen King dollar deal. Anyone can buy the movie rights to one of his short stories for $1. The conditions are that you can't show the movie commercially without permission, and you have to send Stephen King a copy of the finished movie.
IMDB lists many Stephen King movie shorts that were made for a few thousand dollars. I think that's a cool way to encourage the arts. |
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Originally Posted by EddieMoney
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
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I grant you the special effects on a television budget weren't great.
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Originally Posted by EddieMoney
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Oh, I didn't even notice the effects! I was just blown away by Bronson Pinchot's performance!
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Originally Posted by Nick Danger
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Because of this thread, I learned about the Stephen King dollar deal. Anyone can buy the movie rights to one of his short stories for $1. The conditions are that you can't show the movie commercially without permission, and you have to send Stephen King a copy of the finished movie.
IMDB lists many Stephen King movie shorts that were made for a few thousand dollars. I think that's a cool way to encourage the arts. It's a few years old, but if you're bored Rolling Stone has a killer interview with the man himself. |
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
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Langoliers isn't that bad of an adaptation. Are the people slamming some of these adaptations familiar with the original novel or writing?
I can't believe people are missing the worst adaptation of them all - The Tommyknockers. Pet Sematary and The Green Mile are far and away the best adaptations that stick to the source material. The Tommyknockers wasn't one of my worst adaptions because I didn't think the novel was that great. Both the book and the miniseries were kind of D+'s IMO. |
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