Well, there you have the ultimate question. I watched Misery during the weekend and it was very good. The mood, the performances (especially Kathy Bates was good).
Last good King movie that I saw was The Green Mile. And before that, the older movies like The Shining, Carrie and Shawshank Redemption. But no good movies lately. Why is it that King's books work so well when you read them, but on film they turn out to be crap? (most of them that is)
The Stand was an excellent book and the series that was made out of it was excellent too. The same thing with Langoliers, both book and series were good. The Shining worked as miniseries also.
But the movies... Needful things was so bad as a movie that it was painful to watch, It wasn't that great either and The Lawnmower Man?! Don't get me started on that!
Creepshow was a mediocre film, Children Of The Corn also (the sequels sucked though) and The Running Man was ok.
There aren't many truly superb King movies, there are those that I mentioned earlier and then there are Stand By Me, Apt Pupil and Pet Cemetary.
I want to see King's horror books turned in to good horror films! The non-horror material works well on the big screen but horror...
Well, I still haven't seen The Tommyknockers. I love the book and I've heard that the movie stinks...
This is a subject that I could go on and on. But I will spare you. For now.
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