bigdaddy2003
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Jun 8, 2011 11:13pm
What is your favorite Stephen King book turned into a movie?
wes_mantooth
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Jun 8, 2011 11:14pm
Shawshank.....and there is nothing else close
Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.
Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.
Little Danny
Posts: 4,288
Jun 8, 2011 11:18pm
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.
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Manhattan Buckeye
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Jun 8, 2011 11:26pm
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).
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).
GoPens
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Jun 8, 2011 11:48pm
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...
coyotes22
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Jun 9, 2011 12:00am
Never read his books, and Thinner is the only movie I have seen.
bigdaddy2003
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Jun 9, 2011 12:00am
Yeah, IT may have not been the "best" movie but it has always been my favorite. I am generally entertained by all of them.
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I Wear Pants
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Jun 9, 2011 12:49am
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?
Tiger2003
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Jun 9, 2011 12:54am
wes_mantooth;795513 wrote:Shawshank.....and there is nothing else close
Stand by Me is a distant 2nd.
+1,000,000
coyotes22
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Jun 9, 2011 12:59am
I Wear Pants;795607 wrote:How in the actual fuck have you not seen Shawshank?
IDK, I just have not seen it. Sheeeesh, sorry.
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RedIs4Heart
Posts: 77
Jun 9, 2011 1:08am
+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.
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.
Trueblue23
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Jun 9, 2011 1:23am
1. Shawshank
2. Shinning
I really liked Tommy Knockers, It, Misery..
2. Shinning
I really liked Tommy Knockers, It, Misery..
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Jun 9, 2011 2:36am
Shawshank
It's also his best book.
It's also his best book.
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cbus4life
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Jun 9, 2011 3:07am
IT.
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I Wear Pants
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Jun 9, 2011 3:27am
coyotes22;795617 wrote:IDK, I just have not seen it. Sheeeesh, sorry.
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.
coyotes22
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Jun 9, 2011 3:33am
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.
Tobias Fünke
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Jun 9, 2011 5:30am
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."
brutus161
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Jun 9, 2011 6:04am
No one has mentioned The Green Mile.
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Manhattan Buckeye
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Jun 9, 2011 6:10am
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.
brutus161
Posts: 1,686
Jun 9, 2011 6:31am
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?
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Manhattan Buckeye
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Jun 9, 2011 6:43am
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.
Tobias Fünke
Posts: 2,387
Jun 9, 2011 6:55am
Right but Winston Groom wrote Forrest Gump...
wes_mantooth
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Jun 9, 2011 7:02am
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!
Thread Bomber
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Jun 9, 2011 7:37am
I'm holding out for the Gunslinger series to be put on the screen....
Commander of Awesome
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Jun 9, 2011 8:37am
The Dream Catcher......
nah just kidding. Shawshank for sure.
nah just kidding. Shawshank for sure.