Whistler said:

Langoliers
suffered
from
terrible
directing

JC said:

The same director Tom Holland directed Stephan Kings "Thinner" (or i would call it "The Weight Loss Plan That Does Not Know When to Stop") a year later...

The Shining was the best imo, Jack Nicholson was awesome!!!

Pet Semetary was shit.

PusherMan said:

Actually, "Kingdom Hospital" is based on the Danish mini TV series "Riget" from 1994, which was written by Tomas Gíslason and Niels Vørsel and directed by Lars Von Trier. King had nothing to do with the writing or making of it. He´s merely doing an unnecessary "remake".

minneapolisgenius said:

I saw it last week. It was awful. A ridiculous twist ending and millions of plot holes. Avoid it at all cost.

My favourite Stephen King Adaptations are The Shining, Misery and Stand By Me. Almost all of the others were terrible. I´ve never understood what it is about Shawshank Redemption that people like so much. To me, it´s just an average prison drama.

my favorites, as far as adaptations are concerned, are 'cujo' and 'carrie'...my favorite books were misery , pet semetary and it.



my least favorite adaptation (i cannot STAND this movie) is 'dreamcatcher'. and the least favorite book is insomnia

Vibrator said:

Really? Damn. But you seem to be pickier with movies than I am.

Plus..... Johnny I don't know if I can avoid it for long.

And I loved "Shawshank Redemption" but of course (and this applies to all of the movies based on SK) the story/book was much better. I liked the movie because it's actually quite boring and slow moving, but if you've already read it first and know how it's going to turn out, then you just want to see how it will translate onto film. And I like Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as well.
[This message was edited Sun Mar 14 4:24:37 2004 by minneapolisgenius]

minneapolisgenius said:

Well, if Johnny is the reason that you´re going to see it, then I guess you´ll be satisfied. He is in basically every single frame and often in close-up. Since he is such a prettyboy I know a lot of people thought it was unbelievable that his wife would have left him for Timothy Hutton (as she has in the movie). I´m not sure if that says more about the silliness of the film or about people´s obsession with physical beauty though.

Vibrator said:

OOOOOHHHHH....Thats frightening.....

Vibrator said:

Well it sounds like the film is striking back at people's obsession with beauty by having the wife leave such a good looking man for an average one. See? Anything can happen!

Best

Shawshank Redemption
Stand by me
Carrie

( I really Liked DreamCatcher also but I don't know if it belongs on the best list)

Worst

Needful Things
The Other Half


I saw Secret Window the weekend.... It was

Sweeny79 said:

"Stand by Me" was great based on the novella "The Body" was Rob Reiners first movie debut after Spinal Tap featured the remarkable River Phoenix...Initially it is a shock to realise that Stand by me is a King story...but as you go through it.. you realise just how diverse a writer he is. Ok so there is horror (the leeches) but it only takes up a small percentage of what is very much a sweet natured comming of age story. The only bad area for me was that Keifer Sutherland seemed to be repeating his bad boy act from "The lost boys" (also look out for an affecting cameo from John Cusack). All in all this is a great film handled with a light directorial touch...that will strike a cord.....

"Dreamcatcher" I enjoyed reading as a novel. You either loved it or you hated it.
I could relate to the old friendship of the four, and their ability to remain friends through all of adult life's changes and the passing of time was meaningful to me, as I have failed to do so with my friends. The threat may have been a little campy, but parts were still suspenseful and mysterious. Several interesting sub-plots also took place, including some cerebral stuff with the alien-possessed Jonesy character, and we are even caused to suspect he may not even be possessed in the first place...

...I had hopes for the film for the hour.

However it was slaughtered, no, torn asunder by a pointless and ASININE ending whipped up, no doubt, at the last minute thanks to the menacingly retarded innovative skills of whoever wrote the screenplay...

...note to whoever decides to adapt the next King novel-

don't take an already campy buddy story and make it into a movie that's embarrassing for everyone that's exposed to it.

Oh, and you get to see teen heart-throb Morgan Freeman's counterpart from a parrallel dimension where his career is over, wear fake bushy white eyebrows.

EcstaticFanatic said:

Yep this was awful....The dialogue was pathetic, the plot absolutely terrible and the ending unbelievably awful. Stephen King must have suffered brain damage after his accident and the producers must be round the twist as well to actually go ahead with this film. ...I agree with you EF...about the note to whoever decides to adapt the next King novel-


And i dont understand how Morgan Freeman joined this....%$^%#..
[This message was edited Sat Mar 20 23:29:36 2004 by PusherMan]

EcstaticFanatic said:

As I was reading this book, I was thinking to myself, "I wonder if they'll try and make a movie out of this". I couldn't see how it could be done well at all. I never saw the movie, but I never wanted to either because I couldn't see it happening.

minneapolisgenius said:

'Stephen King' sold the movie rights for US$1.

PusherMan said:

The character of Colonel Kurtz in the novel was changed to Colonel Curtis for the movie so the audience won't so hung up on the name being a reference to the Apocalypse Now (1979) character.

PusherMan said:

minneapolisgenius said:

One good quote from the film : "Jesus-Christ-bananas, some fuckarow this is turning into..."

PusherMan said:

He always uses that word "fuckarow". That and "Jesus Christ jumped up in a side-car driven chariot!"

best:
the shining - Kubrick version
Carrie - Depalma version
The DEad Zone - Cronenberg
Creepshow - King and Romero

Nobody's brought up "Thinner", yet, I don't believe.

I dug both the novel and the film, of course, leaning more towards the atmosphere and insight-into-the-protagonist's-mind thing you get with reading a book, though.

OH, and I can't believe I forgot about this, but

"BAG OF BONES"

***** WARNING- Review contains MY OWN SUFFOCATINGLY MUSHY personal sentiment and BORING, MELODRAMATIC EX-GIRLFRIEND STORY ***** You've been warned.

I absolutely loved this heartfelt story. At the time I read it, I was going through dealing with the uh, "loss" of my then-girlfriend.
Long, strange story. She was a 'bad girl' I was trying to take under my wing and turn around, and we fell in love for like, a year. Her mother was threatening to send her to a boot camp if she didn't stop partying. I came back from a week-long trip to find her gone. Number blocked, doors locked, her mom wouldn't speak to me. Soon I learned she went partying again while I was gone, and was raped. Her wayward, emotionally distant mother blamed her for her partying habit, and me for some reason, and sent her to some reform school/ boot camp called Desisto where they use physical restraint and don't allow outside contact.

I fell into a depressed funk and couldn't grasp what she must've been through. During my period of emotional break-down, I picked up "Bag of Bones". I could really relate to the protagonist and his loss of his lover. Though mine wasn't dead, she was beyond contact, and had suffered rape, something equal to death. During a time when I was living in depraved mourning, every word in this book was therapeutic to me. Reading about the protagonist and how he dealt with the loss, and what he thought and felt, and all the "what-if's" really caused this story to strike an emotional chord with me.

I know, I know, but you have to excuse the fatalistic melodrama, I was 16 at the time, I thought my whole life had ended.

Plus the story is very interesting and compelling- you have a personal drama, a ghost story that reaches back into the dark past, and the newfound love of a single mother and her child that must be protected from an eccentric cretin. It's like four stories in one !

Last I heard, a couple years ago, Bruce Willis was interested in producing a movie adaption.

No thoughts on this, because we all know how movie adaptions go, but still, if enough passion and grasp for the story was put into it, it would make a very solid "romantic ghost story" film.

Any other Bag of Bones fans here ?

EcstaticFanatic said:

Thinner is an interesting adpation movie from Stephen King,its got all the strange twists and turns,its just so different than any other horror movie.This movie lacked in many ways,the movie didnt have enough detail into the storyline,it was very blank. The good things were the actual twists,i liked the strange characters,the makeup was awfully done to make the main character fat,you can see the mask around him,thats why this movie also slumped.The gypsy story itself was a little confusing,yet it had its moments,the thing that i really enjoyed about this film were the revenge scenes,they were intense and well done.The other characters espcially that of his wife and daughter was very well done,the film was scary in its own way,it didnt have any "SHOCKS" or loud noises,it was just there,but this movie didnt do enough to make it anywhere near a masterpiece.

EcstaticFanatic said:

minneapolisgenius said:

loved Bag of Bones. It's Stephen King for the new millennium, with all the heart and wit showing through the suspense. This is King's most romantic book.....

MY ALLTIME "I CAN RECITE THIS MOVIE FORWARDS BACKWARDS SIDEWAYS and IN BETWEEN" MOVIE is MISERY and one that follows closely is IT

CherrieMoonKisses said:

.....Oh forgive me Paul for prattling away and making everything all oogy.

PusherMan said:

He didn't get out of the COCKADOODIE CAR!!