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bigdaddy2003

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Jun 9, 2011 3:13 AM
What is your favorite Stephen King book turned into a movie?
Jun 8, 2011 11:13pm
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Jun 9, 2011 3:14 AM
Shawshank.....and there is nothing else close

Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.
Jun 8, 2011 11:14pm
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Jun 9, 2011 3:18 AM
wes_mantooth;795513 wrote:Shawshank.....and there is nothing else close

Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.

Those are my favorite two, but I would also add "The Shining" to the list. That movie makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up on end.
Jun 8, 2011 11:18pm
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Jun 9, 2011 3:26 AM
As far as best movie....The Shining - but King reportedly hated it.

After that probably the aforementioned Shawshank and Stand by Me, both great films. Misery is probably the best adapted from his modern "horror" books. There were a lot of crap films based off his books (Pet Sematary, Needful Things, Maximum Overdrive, Christine, Cujo.....ugggh).
Jun 8, 2011 11:26pm
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Jun 9, 2011 3:48 AM
Shawshank far and away is number 1. I think it was just a TV miniseries but I remember It creeping me out. Pennywise the Clown...
Jun 8, 2011 11:48pm
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Jun 9, 2011 4:00 AM
Never read his books, and Thinner is the only movie I have seen.
Jun 9, 2011 12:00am
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bigdaddy2003

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Jun 9, 2011 4:00 AM
Yeah, IT may have not been the "best" movie but it has always been my favorite. I am generally entertained by all of them.
Jun 9, 2011 12:00am
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Jun 9, 2011 4:49 AM
coyotes22;795570 wrote:Never read his books, and Thinner is the only movie I have seen.

How in the actual fuck have you not seen Shawshank?
Jun 9, 2011 12:49am
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Jun 9, 2011 4:54 AM
wes_mantooth;795513 wrote:Shawshank.....and there is nothing else close

Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.

+1,000,000
Jun 9, 2011 12:54am
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Jun 9, 2011 4:59 AM
I Wear Pants;795607 wrote:How in the actual fuck have you not seen Shawshank?

IDK, I just have not seen it. Sheeeesh, sorry. :D
Jun 9, 2011 12:59am
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Jun 9, 2011 5:08 AM
+1 for Shawshank, far abd away King's best. Also, One of the greatest of all time, easily in the top five.

Red: [narrating] I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

If that's not genius, I don't know what is.
Jun 9, 2011 1:08am
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Jun 9, 2011 5:23 AM
1. Shawshank




2. Shinning

I really liked Tommy Knockers, It, Misery..
Jun 9, 2011 1:23am
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Jun 9, 2011 6:36 AM
Shawshank

It's also his best book.
Jun 9, 2011 2:36am
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Jun 9, 2011 7:07 AM
IT.
Jun 9, 2011 3:07am
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Jun 9, 2011 7:27 AM
coyotes22;795617 wrote:IDK, I just have not seen it. Sheeeesh, sorry. :D

Not trying to make you feel bad. But see that fucking movie immediately. If you don't I'm pretty sure God doesn't let you in heaven.
Jun 9, 2011 3:27am
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Jun 9, 2011 7:33 AM
I Wear Pants;795684 wrote:Not trying to make you feel bad. But see that fucking movie immediately. If you don't I'm pretty sure God doesn't let you in heaven.

I will rent it this weekend!!!!! I will even post a report on this here thread, to prove I watched it. ;)
Jun 9, 2011 3:33am
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Jun 9, 2011 9:30 AM
I Wear Pants;795684 wrote:If you don't I'm pretty sure God doesn't let you in heaven.

+1.

It's the best movie ever made, it's almost like they should stop making them. They won't ever top Shawshank.

I literally quote it every day. "You're moving like molasses!" "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'," "it's a horseapple," "the man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks," etc etc etc...and my personal favorite: "Easy peasy japanesey."
Jun 9, 2011 5:30am
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Jun 9, 2011 10:04 AM
No one has mentioned The Green Mile.
Jun 9, 2011 6:04am
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Jun 9, 2011 10:10 AM
brutus161;795706 wrote:No one has mentioned The Green Mile.

I don't have anything against it, but to me it was sugary crap - just like Forrest Gump (quite possibly the worst aging Academy award winner in our lifetime)...too manipulative, too forced, etc. It isn't bad, but not particularly good.
Jun 9, 2011 6:10am
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Jun 9, 2011 10:31 AM
Manhattan Buckeye;795707 wrote:I don't have anything against it, but to me it was sugary crap - just like Forrest Gump (quite possibly the worst aging Academy award winner in our lifetime)...too manipulative, too forced, etc. It isn't bad, but not particularly good.

Then what about The Running Man? You have something against that?
Jun 9, 2011 6:31am
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Jun 9, 2011 10:43 AM
running man was good for what it was, a summertime Ah-nold film. Forrest Gump was crap, the technology doesn't hold up (the flashbacks are terrible), the story is bad and inconsistent, and hugely overrated. For fuck's sake a guy was an all-American football player, war hero and Olympic champion, yet NO ONE knows who he is? Really? Awful writing.
Jun 9, 2011 6:43am
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Jun 9, 2011 10:55 AM
Right but Winston Groom wrote Forrest Gump...
Jun 9, 2011 6:55am
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Jun 9, 2011 11:02 AM
Haha....running man, loved that movie as a kid. One movie that I loved, but rewatched many years later and it was awful.....silver bullet!
Jun 9, 2011 7:02am
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Jun 9, 2011 11:37 AM
I'm holding out for the Gunslinger series to be put on the screen....
Jun 9, 2011 7:37am
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Jun 9, 2011 12:37 PM
The Dream Catcher......

nah just kidding. Shawshank for sure.
Jun 9, 2011 8:37am