Steven King Movie Adaption

Now that I think of the book The Shining, the one thing that always happens when I watch the movie. I always remember for some reason that in the book, when Jack was in the interview, he thought the interviewer was an "Officious PR**K". For some reason I member than line in the book better than any other. Probably because I did see the movie first and of course you can not really put Jacks thoughts in the movie.
 
RyanX said:
Any movie adaptation is 99% going to be subpar compared to any book. I never understood why people think their favorite story/book/comic needs to be a movie as if by becoming a movie it's somehow better.

That being said, Stephen King cannot for the life of him end a story. I've read all of his old stuff, until I read a Clive Barker book (Imajica) and realized Stephen King was just a schoolboy compared to his imagination. I remember enjoying 2 of King's books, "Insomnia" and "The Regulators". Weird and interesting stuff. Too weird to probably make into movies anyway.



I agree with this one. Although we have the typical Stephen King ending yet again.
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Why are there so many (generally awful) video game adaptations these days? It wouldn't be a near utter lack of imagination in commercial Arts & Entertainment specifically, would it?

King himself has used the word 'elephantine' to describe his books, at least the earlier, most well remembered books. "It's big; it's heavy; just don't drop it on your foot." They're long; they're meandering; they're involved; but they're never really finished, especially in a satisfactory way at times. It might even color some people's perceptions of his writing, which obviously had its finger on the pulse of a nation for a while. It's almost like the best all started out with the same idea: What if this extraordinary thing happened to ordinary people in ordinary circumstances? Well, that's different. It's usually extraordinary things happening to supposedly extraordinary people.
 
bobrpggamer said:
I love John Carpenter. I have 4 of his movies on my drive. Prince of Darkness, They Live, The Fog and The Thing. I think he is more of a director for his movies though, where as Steven King wrote the screenplay on (I guess) most of his film adaptions.

I read the Shining while in a bad place, but could not get into it very much. I have read much more Clive Barker than Steven King. Barker was far more into body horror and gore and Steven King, King was more into ghost movies and supernatural. Although I really do not like slasher gore movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween or A Nightmare on Elm Street. I just think Clive Barker may have mixed the supernatural and the occult with the gore in his work.
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as a kid barker's work scared me and made me feel anxious in ways i couldnt express, king was just uncomfortable and a fair bit confusing. as an adult i must confess i dont read much horror(or really any fiction at all to be fair)
 
Vaeliorin said:
Well, yeah. cocaine was really popular in the 80s, and most of his writing is cocaine-fueled drivel/perversion, so...
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He was in trouble there for a while, but there is a redemption arc to his life story. What I meant by having its finger on the pulse of a nation is that he's often actually tapped into real life, perhaps subconscious fears, especially in his earlier books. I think maybe that's why they were so phenomenonally successful. They were cathartic in that sense.
 
InfiniteWarrior said:
It's almost like the best all started out with the same idea: What if this extraordinary thing happened to ordinary people in ordinary circumstances?
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It is kind of funny how horror authors can come up with so many Terrible, Horrible thing that happen to normal people. How could so many horrible things happen to people in almost every story he comes up with (probably 95%). I mean who thinks it would be normal to come up with a story in which your dead 4 year old son has been turned into the undead and kills his mother. It must be a strange mind to be thinking about these things all the time.
murky water said:
must confess i dont read much horror(or really any fiction at all to be fair)
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Who needs to read these days, we all have YouTube now! Stories like: "The President has been having secret talks with aliens", Cat Wins The Daytona 500" and other great stories to tell, and then you get spammed with YouTube ads that may have been made by teenagers or mental handicapped people. You would have to be mentally handicapped to believe they are real products or services.
 
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