Best Stephen King story done as a film?

[chester grape]

Sure, Green Mile and Misery were great, but it has to be The Shining, surely.

[diogenes]

That's all Jack Nicholson though. Think of who else could have played that role and actually done it well. If anyone else, that movie blows and no one ever watches it. Jack Nicholson will have a place in the new religion.

[chester grape]

Bull sheee-it. Nicholson is great, no question, but the direction is fantastic, and the kid talent is awesome. And that's what makes it.

An actor is only as good as the direction (and their casting). Sit through Nicholson in Something'sGotta Give if you don't believe me.

[TheGrimJesus]

Silver Bullet

[diogenes]

That's true, and "About Schmidt" was a script he probably should have passed on.

[Ferine]

Bull sheee-it. Nicholson is great, no question, but the direction is fantastic, and the kid talent is awesome. And that's what makes it.

An actor is only as good as the direction (and their casting). Sit through Nicholson in Something'sGotta Give if you don't believe me.
That's only because he's getting senile and he's not banging that anorexic chick Lara anymore.

I'm going to agree - The Shining was the best. Green Mile a close second.

[Schmed]

Shining is the best hands down. Along with the excellent acting on many of the actors parts, Kubrick is god, that movie would of been not half as good with out him behind the wheel.

[DrBungle]

When compared with the story of the book I think the movie leaves too much out about the hotel and what and why it is.

And they left out the hedges. Come on!

[Dwaine Scum]

The Stand

[DangerousDan]

The Stand

I also liked the Stand movie. Part of the reason it was so good is because it isn't that far from the truth. One of these days something is going to sweep the nation and take at least 10% of the population out. The Flu of 1918 killed 40 million people or two in every hundred but I am thinking with all the retroviruses and the bird flu and genetic engineering of animals and the cows getting anitbiotics in their feed that the worst is yet to come. Alot of the anitbiotics used now are becoming obsolete with the mutating bacteria and the drug companies haven't been keeping up with trying to get new ones because the moneys not really there.

[chester grape]

The Stand

I also liked the Stand movie. Part of the reason it was so good is because it isn't that far from the truth. One of these days something is going to sweep the nation and take at least 10% of the population out. The Flu of 1918 killed 40 million people or two in every hundred but I am thinking with all the retroviruses and the bird flu and genetic engineering of animals and the cows getting anitbiotics in their feed that the worst is yet to come. Alot of the anitbiotics used now are becoming obsolete with the mutating bacteria and the drug companies haven't been keeping up with trying to get new ones because the moneys not really there.

... and, ever so slowly, smurf and Dan became the same person.

[diogenes]

I see Dan in more of a "Falling Down" scenario. He's got nothing left to lose, so he's going to take as many people out as he can on his way out.

[smiles]

in all seriousness you two can't possibly think that there will be no new epidemics...... ever?

[chester grape]

I don't think, by having a dig at Dan (common fugly practice) I've somehow taken a position that "there will be no new epidemics...... ever".

I fully expect that there will be. We'd be crazy to think we've somehow tamed the bacterial and viral worlds.

It's just the certainty, the conviction, that the end of the world as we know it is right around the corner there that I thought smurf and Dan had in common.

[Ferine]

People always bring up the flu of 1918 when discussing the possibility of current day epidemics. I'd like to think that we have alot more resources available now than we had almost a century ago, not to mention the fact we don't eat our food off of/with lead based materials....

And to say that the drug companies don't have money to develop/research is just fucking absurd. They just chose to allocate the money elsewhere, like the pockets of our elected officals and members of the FAA.

[Ferine]

FDA*
I'm tired.

[DangerousDan]

People always bring up the flu of 1918 when discussing the possibility of current day epidemics. I'd like to think that we have alot more resources available now than we had almost a century ago, not to mention the fact we don't eat our food off of/with lead based materials....

And to say that the drug companies don't have money to develop/research is just fucking absurd. They just chose to allocate the money elsewhere, like the pockets of our elected officals and members of the FAA.

"I'd like to think" are the key words in your post. When I said the money is not there I meant it wasn't profitable. These are private corporations of course they choose to try to make money.

[chester grape]

I'm willing to be proved wrong on this, but I was under the impression (read it somewhere?) that drug companies are falling over themselves to create a bird flu vaccine.

I imagine the profits, if bird flu were to jump the gap and become transmissible from human to human, would be astronomical.

[phatboy]

I think that the evolution of the different types of virus may cause the next epidemic. Someone somewhere is going to screw up. Its human nature.

[phatboy]

Oh, and 'The Shining' was the best I can think of. Of course Olive Oil made the movie. Well besides Jack and the kid. It was pretty good, not too terribly far off the book. There is only so much you can squeeze into a movie.

I wish they would have done a 'creep show' type movie with his short stories. Like in 'monkey shines'.

[Ferine]

I'm willing to be proved wrong on this, but I was under the impression (read it somewhere?) that drug companies are falling over themselves to create a bird flu vaccine.

I imagine the profits, if bird flu were to jump the gap and become transmissible from human to human, would be astronomical.
Yeah, and once they've created it i'm sure it will be just as helpful as Tamiflu (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tamiflu+deaths).

[Schmed]

Oh, and 'The Shining' was the best I can think of. Of course Olive Oil made the movie. Well besides Jack and the kid. It was pretty good, not too terribly far off the book. There is only so much you can squeeze into a movie.

I wish they would have done a 'creep show' type movie with his short stories. Like in 'monkey shines'.

Oh that funky Monkey freaked me out when I was a kid (fro the actual short story MonkeyShines) but the worst was from Nightshift, the story "Boogeyman" that creeped the fuck out of me. The little kid saying "krawwss daddy it had krawwwsss".

[phatboy]

Its been years since I read any of his books, so I went out to his website to look it over and see what movies I may have forgotten. Holy crap. Once you start going through the list it is amazing how many movies he has made. Of course I noticed that 'bag of bones' and 'the mist' were on the TBD list.

The mist would be sweet, especially if its done big budget, and not 'made for tv' like a lot his movies are.

I read 'It' when I was 12, that is the only book I had to put down cause it scared the shit out of me. Of course I was 12.

[Schmed]

I still have "The Mist" audio cassete in 3D sound (meant to be listen to on headphones). It was all acted out with sound effects, like the old BBC storys (Hitchhikers, LOTR, Star Wars etc).

[phatboy]

Was 'the mist' in skeleton crew? I have all those boxed up somewhere. I saw he had a new book, the cell, I think, I read the jacket on it, but I didnt get it. I dont have enough time to read it now, so I will have to wait till I am done with school, again.

Have you read any of the 'dark towers' series? I read up through the third one, some of his none traditional books are really good too, eyes of the dragon was pretty cool. Different from his usual, 'someones addicted to pills/stutter/alcoholic horror stories'

[diogenes]

Dark Tower is probably his best work. I read the synopsis on the cell and it's stupid. If you're a rabid King fan you might dig it, but for anyone else it would be lame.

[phatboy]

did you read all of the dark tower series?

I should probably read them all again, but I didnt read the ones after 3, that was pre kids,wife, work thing.

I am about 8 classes away from being done with school, again, so once all that BS is done I will get back to reading something other than porn.

[GAS]

Well viruses and bacterias are evoloving so I think it's only a matter of time until something comes along and kicks our asses again.

AIDs is doing a fairly good job at the moment though, there won't be anyone left in South Africa in 20 years..

[GAS]

Crap, shoulda used a quote from the first page, I blame the booze.


The Dark Tower series was excellent, but I think the boogeyman from the graveyard shift probably scared me more than any other story.

[MissMurder]

Was 'the mist' in skeleton crew? I have all those boxed up somewhere. I saw he had a new book, the cell, I think, I read the jacket on it, but I didnt get it. I dont have enough time to read it now, so I will have to wait till I am done with school, again.

Have you read any of the 'dark towers' series? I read up through the third one, some of his none traditional books are really good too, eyes of the dragon was pretty cool. Different from his usual, 'someones addicted to pills/stutter/alcoholic horror stories'

Yes, I read "CELL" by Stephen King, along with the enitre Dark Tower series.

The CELL was interesting, typical SK. So help them if they decide to destroy another piece of decent work with another 2 hour made-for-TV movie like they did recently with DESPERATION. The book was interesting and gave many more details, but the movie was a joke.

As for the best SK movie, that's a toss up between The Shining, Stand By Me and IT.

[MAJ Havoc]

RE: Dark Tower. I have read up to 1/2way through book #6 and I have 7 on the shelf waiting. Love the series but it would take several epic sequels to make them into a movie.

Hile, Gunslinger and say thankya.

[Totalrecall1982]

As i've been saying, Dark Tower is his best work, and I think there should be a movie done.

[diogenes]

Shawshank Redemption was written by Stephen King.

[Ferine]

Shawshank Redemption was written by Stephen King.
I've seen it a hundred times, and could watch it a hundred more.

[diogenes]

Easily his best adaptation. Much of his work doesn't translate well. The stuff he wrote while he was drugged out was pretty much shit anyhow.

[DrBungle]

I tried that argument with Hemmingway's stuff (the drunk bastard.)