Steven King Movie Adaption

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bobrpggamer

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I was wondering what your favorite Steven King movie adaption is. I am watching "Pet Cemetery" right now and its OK so far. I just think that so many of his movies seem like "made for TV movies" (not in a bad way of course).

My favorite Steven King movie adaption, is the one he dislike the most, "The Shining". Now am I the only one who believes that The Shining is one of the best horror movies ever made? He should be proud that his novel has had a movie adaption that is so iconic and unforgettable, but I guess he still hates it anyway. He has even been quoted saying "The Shining is like a Lamborghini without an engine" Strange, really.
 
I'll be honest, I can't get through a single modern Stephen King adaptation without feeling like I'm being force fed soilent green. Growing up I tried reading a few of his books and while some were good enough to not feel like I tossed money out the window to buy them, most were unremarkable. About the only things I liked where The Shining, Shawshank and Carrie. To me, everything else was no different than anything else being written or adapted at the time.
 
bobrpggamer said:
I was wondering what your favorite Steven King movie adaption is. I am watching "Pet Cemetery" right now and its OK so far. I just think that so many of his movies seem like "made for TV movies" (not in a bad way of course).

My favorite Steven King movie adaption, is the one he dislike the most, "The Shining". Now am I the only one who believes that The Shining is one of the best horror movies ever made? He should be proud that his novel has had a movie adaption that is so iconic and unforgettable, but I guess he still hates it anyway. He has even been quoted saying "The Shining is like a Lamborghini without an engine" Strange, really.
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I think the Shining is the best "scary" movie ever made and while I hadn't heard his quote before, I get it. Looks good on the outside but there's nothing of substance on the inside? Makes sense since the acting in the Movie is what made it perfectly suspenseful, the story was just a haunt and before the acting it came down to casting. That movie was the pinnacle example of the greatest casting performance ever. Every actor fit every role perfectly and played their roles perfectly and while I do not ordinarily praise Kubrick, in fact I usually go out of my way to bad mouth him, what he did in the shining was brilliant. So, as for King's part, he wrote a snoozer that was raised to iconic status by the individual parts.
 
Lax said:
I'm more of a John Carpenter kinda guy.
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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.
JustBrowsing said:
Growing up I tried reading a few of his books
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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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