Here's your chance..now with the opening of Dreamcatcher and the unbelievable hype its getting (hopefully its fantastic) what do you think is the best adaptation of a Stephen King book so far..

I'm going with Misery..I have so many favorites but I keep coming back to that one

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His best far and away was the TV adaptation of IT!! Scared the sh!t out of me.

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Yeah I know..I was torn..real torn..hmmm..Kathy Bates in Misery or Tim Curry as the clown in It...real close call..

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my fav is shawshank redemption
great movie

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I'd go for "The Shining"

Closely followed by Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile and Carrie.

I'd love to see a better version of "The Stand" as that book rocked!



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The Shining for me to......

also liked The Green Mile, Christine and ehem....Silver Bullet

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Well, Granted Shawshank... But I'm gonna think that your referring to horror, in which case its a 3 way tie...

-The Shining
-Misery
-The First half of "The Stand"

NOTE: The first half of that mini was absolutely extrodinary... the entire armaggedon in general... it just kind got stupid once all the "good" humans got together in that one town.... Up until then.... with everyone have those weird dreams, with the old black lady being god... Man it was so DAMNED good!

M-O-O-N, That spells Tom Cullen!!

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I guess no ones gonna vote for the Running Man

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if i remember a steven king novel was adaptored into a john carpenter movie one of my favorites !

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i loved Stand By Me

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You guys named all the ones that I really wanted to name, so I'll name an "also ran".

Maximum Overdrive.

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For me, and I've read 99% of his catalog, there are a few titles that stand out.

Shawshank - definitely.
Green Mile - a VERY close second.
I REALLY like Kubrick's version of the Shining (the shinning to all you Simpson fans out there).
However, the TV adaptation, with Rebecca DeMorney (and I can't think of the male lead) was also surprisingly good.

Dead Zone - movie AND TV series was/is great.

The Stand - first 3/4ths. Then, it falls apart at the end..
Much like IT. Beginning and even the middle was great - but that giant spider...

Needful things was fun - ok, not great - but when he's talking about his great-grandson at the end...come on...good stuff!

Golden Years - CBS TV show (I think 3 days - 6 hours) was REALLY good.

Ok...that's more than a few...
I've actually heard very good things about Dreamcatcher so I can't wait for that one as well (I _love_ Morgan Freeman)!!!

Dave.

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I guess no ones gonna vote for the Running Man

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i liked The Langoliers.

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the book was really really good. brilliant short story, i urge anyone who likes kings work to pick it up and give it a try.

as for my favorite? gah no! i dunno.. IT was great except the ending. but theres too many "types" of king films.. you have the low budget trashing, the ultra long miniseries, and the "non horror films that work really well"

so i dunno. but theres a surprising amount of very good films based on his work when you think about it. then you read the books, and they blow you away even further.

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If i remember correctly, the running man was in "The Bachman Books" so it doesn't count


The book version of Running Man was far better than the movie. Just the whole concept of the whole country looking out for you made it great. When you compare the two, you can see that the movie got the most out of the term "loosely based on a Stephen King novella".

But I really wish they'd make a movie out of another of the short stories in "The Bachman Books" called "The Long Walk". It is one of the best King has written in my opinion. It could make a great movie if they did it properly.


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Ooh, Stephen King

#1 - The Shining

#2 - The Running Man (I thought it was hilarious)

#3 - The Green Mile

Yes.... thats it

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Definitely "The Shining." Jack Nicholson is an excellent actor! Perhaps "The Green Mile," Michael Clarke Duncan actually was good in that movie (Daredevil Sucked), and Tom Hanks always is. Didn't like Hearts in Atlantis, but Dreamcatcher rocked!

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His best far and away was the TV adaptation of IT!! Scared the sh!t out of me.

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I liked IT, i think they should make Desperation and The Regulators into movies, i loved those books

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Thinner was pretty cool. Imma go with The Shining because it was an awesome movie and Nicholson 0wnz me just like PlopVCD right Darkslide.

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