Did Stephen King like it?
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preppy-3 — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 08:54 AM)
A lot of people disagree with me but seriouslythe movie never scared me. Not once. Most people seem to love it just because Kubrick did it. Kubrick was a great filmmaker but every filmmaker has their bad movies. IMO this was Kubrick's. Never saw the mini series but heard it was terrible.
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fun-niji — 11 years ago(October 23, 2014 10:14 PM)
I've never seen The Shinning yet. And it's not because of some "high" principal of sorts but just something personal - and nothing towards the film, director, writer, writer(s), etc.
Anyways, my best friend then saw The Shinning with other friends from school - this was some years ago. And she told me that it did not scare her one bit but made her cry incessantly. She told me she felt total sadness for the character played by Jack. So, it just goes to show, not everyone will have the same reaction as the expected majority would. -
mpeachhead — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 12:00 PM)
By that rationale, you can't ever say that any film is better than the source material, but in this case, it's clearly true, as it is with The Godfather and a handful of other films.
The film hits artistic heights that the book never strives for. They are considerably different works of art. -
wallacesawyer — 13 years ago(March 30, 2013 08:02 PM)
I'm not sure of his exact opinion. I don't think he liked many of the films based on his work anyway. But producer Donald P. Borchers, who also directed the TV remake, mentioned that King politely said "these film-makers would go on to do good work" or something like that, which Donald took as a negative opinion about the film. In retrospect even Donald appears to dislike this original film. On the remake's DVD he talks about doing the story justice and regretting the happy Hollywood ending, despite the fact it was his idea in the first place.
I've seen the remake. I bought it years ago but had never gotten around to it. It's pretty good. I honestly think I like the first film better, but it's better than some of the sequels. I haven't seen them all, and the ones I have I haven't seen in years.
I read King's short story ages ago, but I never really cared that it wasn't adapted faithfully in the original film. Including Malachai's girlfriend this time was a interesting idea, but she didn't really have a whole lot to do, it's almost as if she was in it simply to have the exact same ending from the short story.
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strider0075 — 12 years ago(July 25, 2013 03:20 AM)
But i think that's just it as far as King is concerned. It's the fact that really none of his books that were adapted during that time were close to his original writings. I think the only film adaptation that was close was Pet Semetary. I just looked up the plot for the written version of COTC and it's night and day difference with essentially the children (and the demon) winning.
But COTC got chopped up quite a bit, the couple was essentially supposed to be doomed out the gate as they are in a marriage on the rocks. There's the plot point about Malachai's girlfriend (taken out for obvious reasons due to the idea of an underage pregnancy). Then there's the whole part at the end where the demon demands that the age be lowered to 18 so all 19 year olds (including Malachai) had to commit ritual suicide. -
Cinema_Love — 12 years ago(October 10, 2013 11:41 AM)
He was very involved in Pet Sematary and he directed Maximum Overdrive is it just me or except the lame sequels of his films like Pet Sematary 2 or Children of the Corn 2,3,4,5, 666, etc, etc that he did not like and approove and did not hate the movies of his books ? I remember him hating a lot Lawnmower Man but except theses, they are not that bad !!!
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wallacesawyer — 12 years ago(October 29, 2013 06:41 PM)
I remember him hating a lot Lawnmower Man
The thing about THE LAWNMOWER MAN is the movie was originally nothing like his short story, and it still isn't really. It was altered a tiny bit so the film-makers or the studio or somebody could use Stephen King's name as a marketing ploy. The film was originally supposed to be called BEYOND CYBERSPACE or something like that.
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bayardhiler — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 01:05 AM)
You're absolutely right about "The Lawnmower Man". I saw the movie years ago, so I only remember bits and pieces and then I recently read the actual story and all I can say is WTF! It's one of the few King tales that I haven't been able to make heads or tails out of.
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jmarkoff2 — 12 years ago(January 08, 2014 11:55 AM)
From what I've heard, The Lawnmower Man took a Stephen King title and applied it to someone else's story, so SK had his name removed from the film because he wanted to tell the truth that he didn't write the freaking thing.
I had read COTC as a story years ago and it was a great atmospheric piece with neat psychology about fanaticism in children and a clever supernatural macguffin. I agree with someone earlier that the basic premise seems to be lifted from two episodes of the first Star Trek, a TV series to which SK's work makes frequent direct or indirect references, but it seems more like a Joseph Campbell archetype than a lazy plagiarism.
When I started to watch COTC as a movie last night, I expected it to suck, but it was a decent horrifying B-movie in its own right even if it wasn't like the book. I don't mind Hollywood happy endings either. I see the book and movie as two separate entities in their own right.
Some authors just don't write filmable movies. Alan Moore realised this after two films and put a blanket ban on any future adaptations. (Since he had already sold the rights, 2 or 3 movies went ahead after the ban as they were out of his hands.) Harry Turtledove writes great adventure epics but his books are so precise and metronomic that any adaptation would have to change it so much as to no longer be the same storyTurtledove is so unfilmable he doesn't even have an IMDB name entry. Lemony Snicket's "Unfortunate Events" series is a weak story buoyed up by brilliant prose narration which is impossible to translate to film, so the LS movie, while boasting great actors and designs, was doomed to a sucky script.
Some authors like JD Salinger, Ken Kesey, or the aforementioned Alan Moore, can't abide one jot or tittle of their work being changed in a film adaptation, so they decide "no more movies." Others, like Michael Crichton, Dan Brown and JK Rowling, just let it ride and don't mind that many elements have to be changed or cut when their work is put on film. -
Cinema_Love — 11 years ago(July 22, 2014 07:17 AM)
The Lawnmower Man was not too bad for 1992. I remember it was hot in video stores, it was sold out for weeks when it comes out. So it probably make tons of cash on video, and not bad in theaters. Plus, Jeff Fahey is solid.. Austin O'Brien was a good kid and Pierce Brosnan broke up in the US finally ! So all in all, not the best, but far from the worse !
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