I think it may be. What do you think?
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kilayl — 14 years ago(October 29, 2011 06:24 AM)
I too, have a soft spot for The Stand. It suffered from the same problem as IT. Great storytelling, great cast playing great characters and the bottom fell out at the climax. When I talk about The Stand to people, I tell them that it's a movie that's so enjoyable to me on the whole that I can almost forgive the unforgivably bad ending.
To the subject at hand though. To me, DC is high in the running best Stephen King film adaptation. Others would be The Green Mile, Shawshank, Carrie, Misery, The Dead Zone (a personal favorite) and Stand By Me.
I must add that I did enjoy his remake of The Shining. Yes, I know - how can you compare Jack Nicolson to "That guy from Wings"? Well I think he did a spectacular job and I thought it was very well done overall. It was also much truer to the book. Steven Weber really sold me that he was a loving father tortured by drink. In the 1980 version, despite how good it was, Nicolson's Jack Torrance always seems angry from the word go - he always seemed hostile to his family from the very beginning, even before reaching the Overlook. Perhaps that was the way he wanted to play it - already half over the edge. I don't know. But I liked that Steven Weber's Jack Torrance started out clearly loving his family and clearly remorseful about his alcoholism. But I will admit that the child actor in the 1980 version was better - I didn't much care for the kid in the newer one.
The worst? Tough to call, as Stephen King films tend to go to extremes - either really very enjoyable or unrelentingly terrible. One film that was touted as "adapted from a Stephen King film" that was so unbelievably bad I don't even count it amongst his films. New Line purchased the rights to his short story of the same title then wrote a screenplay that had nothing to do with the story and released it under the auspices of being a Stephen King adaptation. One can only presume that New Line did this to attract viewers. Stephen King was so angry he sued the company to remove his name from the credits (he was credited as a writer). The film? The Lawnmower Man (1992), and I think that has to be the worst. I still wonder what else I might've done with those two lost hours.
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DrChinstrap — 15 years ago(January 19, 2011 12:23 PM)
I honestly don't understand how anyone could think this was a better adaption than Shawshank.
It was a great movie but Shawshank > all
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Talory — 14 years ago(August 01, 2011 05:18 PM)
I think that this was a great adaptation. As always, when a book/short story is made into a movie and so many people have read that book, we're all going to find shortcomings or (hopefully) we may perhaps be pleasantly surprised by that adaptation. Books are black and white: we're all allowed to envision and create our own mental picture of what we're "seeing" by what the author is telling us. Even when a character in a movie quotes lines from the book verbatim it isn't always delivered in the same tone that our mind had us read it. We may have subconciously pictured different mannerisms that the actor isn't reading into the part. I find it better to always view an adaptation with an open mind. If I want the original, I'll go back and read the book again.
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TheSolarSailor — 14 years ago(August 04, 2011 10:06 PM)
I think this film is right up there with the best of the movies based on Stephen King's work. I won't debate what is the best adaptation and so forth, as that is something that is in the eye of the beholder. But I do think this is up there with the best of the best as far as King goes, and I even rank it pretty highly among other films out there as well.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
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elsapc — 14 years ago(December 09, 2011 06:51 PM)
No I don't think so. Good film but not by a long shot.
Although Steven King would probably be very annoyed to hear it because he's got some gripe with the Shining, I think that's probably the best adaptation.
After The Shining, I'd list them in this order:
Carrie
The Dead Zone
It
Creepshow
The Mist
Stand by Me
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MissMargoChanning — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 04:40 PM)
The worst adaptation in my opinion is The Green Mile. That didn't seem to have any Steven King qualities from the book and I didn't care for it much
Any of King's qualities? Granted, it isn't horror but the adaptation was as close to the written story as you can get.
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marc201072 — 12 years ago(February 16, 2014 11:22 PM)
Not even close. Kathy Bates is brilliant in it, but other then that I thought it was kinda meh. Shawshank is still one of the best movies ever made, King adaption or not.
Also,
Stand by Me
Green Mile
The Shining
and two very underrated ones
Apt Pupil
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MissMargoChanning — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 04:27 PM)
There are some stinkers out there but there are many great adaptations. You and others may not agree with me but that's ok.
Dolores Claiborne is one of the best in my opinion. Here is my list of other works of King that have also been successfully done well when adapted to the screen
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me (The Body)
Misery
Hearts In Atlantis
Apt Pupil
Secret Window
The Dead Zone
Carrie. the first one
I enjoy The Stand.. one of my favorite King books. The adaptation was fairly good. I could have done without Molly as Fran. That was a deal breaker!
As I said Just my opinion. I do not expect everyone to agree.
As for the others. I have the BOOKS!
I am still waiting for The Long Walk..
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