King usually has a hand in the movies that are made from his books in one way or another. I wonder why he backed off this time.
He worked with the director on it. Pick up the DVD, the special edition with the B&W version, there are some great extras about the movie and the director's vision. He also did Shawshank and The Green Mile. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001104/
High School Musical 3. I haven't seen any of the other ones so I can't list them. Stick It, and Fast and the Furious. Both had me laughing they were so bad.
I will listen to you and avoid them, all three. My wife forced me to watch Twilight, I know it's been mentioned already, but the movie was bad. 90210 meets Anne Rice bad. Not that Anne Rice is bad, but her vampires ain't exactly hetero.
when i went to see Blair Witch, half the movie theatre was yelling at me and my 2 friends because we were laughing so hysterically at this movie. the other half were giggling too.
The trifecta of great ideas, with a good cast, that failed miserably: Van Helsing The Brothers Grimm The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The trifecta of the worst sequels: Matrix 2&3 Indy 4 Mummy 3 The worst trilogy: Lord of the Rings (They sucked because the source material, IMO, is stupid. The movies couldn't fix that, but were done as well as possible.) * When the 3rd Transformers comes out it will unseat LOTR. The worst big remake: King Kong (Peter Jackson, has no idea when and how to end a scene.) The worst movie ever: Eyes Wide Shut
I didn't find LoEG to be the epic fail everyone else did. It mildly entertained me. I don't think I'd watch it again, though. And boy, was Connery pissed off the whole movie or what? The Matrix 2 was ok, but the Matrix 3 was just awful. Agreed. The Mummy 3 was offensive for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was trying to go on without the yummy Rachel Weisz. Well, you have the right to have a wrong opinion.
Very literally. lol That crazy religious woman freaked me out. I think I've seen all of King's movies. Not sure though. The only bad one that I can think of off the top of my head was The Mangler.
Maximum Overdrive. Children of the Corn. Pet Sematary. The Stand (TV Miniseries) The Shining (remake TV Miniseries) I grew up reading his works and most movies adapted from his novels/short stories fell short. Looking forward to this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963965/
It should have been great instead it was just on the craptacular side of meh. (And I think SC might have been in pain the whole movie. It was one of his last, and I've heard he's not very healthy.) She is yummy, yet I found her mildly irritating in the first 2. Can't really put my finger on why this one sucked...but sucked it did. There is no redeeming quality to the source material. It is convoluted, overwrought, and borders on the silly. Someone decided it was a classic, so it became one. The difference between LOTR &...say...Krull, for example? Krull didn't have 3 movies and 27 endings.
My favorite King movies are non-horror. The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are two of the best films in any genre IMO.
I threw up my hands and gave up on it during the helpful abominable snowmen scene. Coincidentally, I really liked Krull. Nifty video game, too.
Let's not forget 'Stand by Me' another classic (non-horror) movie, taken from the same collection as Shawshank. 'Apt Pupil', from the same set of novellas doesn't even come close.
Really? I read that book as a ten year kid (first time) and have reread it many times throughout my life. The adaptation was such a disappointment to me, maybe I became too intimately involved with the characters through the years and they became so 'real' on their own that no actor could play their parts. The guy that played Randy Flagg, arguably one of King's most sinister antagonists, was a joke, IMO. I agree about The Mummy 3, what a joke it was. I don't know if it was the story that failed, the setting (mummies are in the desert dammit) the lack of Rachel (although Maria Bello is a hawt MILF) or a combination of it all. I'll catch it again at home one night, but I think my initial disappointment will re-occur.
Well, Randall Flagg is, in all fairness, impossible to get perfect. Did you ever see "Storm of the Century"?
Wow, I didnt know Apt Pupil was King. Loved that movie. One of my favorite stories was 'The Long Walk', but I haven't ever seen it made into a movie... unless I missed it somewhere.
They could have got someone better than that hair band reject. Storm of the Century? I don't think I did. You recommend it?
Not that I know of, but how about 'The Running Man,' another King work butchered for the big screen? It's only been recently that I have starting watching movies based on his stories again, for a while they were turdfests.
Maximum Overdrive is ok. Children of the Corn, I really liked..not all the sequals which blew. I did like The Stand, but I agree it fell short of the book. I didn't see The Shining remake. The original was great though. I also liked Pet Sematary. The Running Man was a poor adaptation, but it was still a cool movie. I do agree that most of the movies aren't as god as the book. But, The Green Mile and Shawshank were amazing movies.
That was just wrong. Whoever came up with the idea to remake The Shining should be sent off riding a horse backwards into the desert like Mel Gibson in Thunderdome. (compared to Road Warrior, that movie kinda sucked, imo)
The original Shining was a lot of fun. It was cool to see Dick Hallorhan again in the pages of It. I recently watched several of his older movies, inc The Dark Half, Pet Sematary, and Children of the Corn. Of the three, The Dark Half was the best of a mediocre lot. I bet COTC would be a great story to re-adapt and put on the big screen again, but yes, please no more horrid sequels.
Storm of the Century was like a loose adaptation of the Roanoke Colony story set in modern times. I really liked Apt Pupil.
I remember one called 'Cat's Eye', that took short stories from the book 'Night Shift'. The stories were so much better, especially 'Quitters Inc' & 'The Ledge'.
Twilight oh god How can I forget about Twilight(Oh cause my sister loves hat **** nvm) I would imagine reading the novel would make you grow a vagina.
