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Favorite Stephen King Movie?

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  1. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    I love how his stories translate to the screen. So many to choose from:

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    </td> <td class="worklist_date">May 11th, 1984</td></tr><tr class="alternate_light"> <td class="worklist_title">Graveyard Shift
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    </td> <td class="worklist_date">March 3rd, 1995</td></tr><tr class="alternate_light"> <td class="worklist_title">Maximum Overdrive
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    </td> <td class="worklist_date">July 25th, 1986</td></tr><tr class="alternate_dark"> <td class="worklist_title">Misery
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    Pet Cemetery and Green Mile
     
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  3. ROXTXIA

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    The Shawshank Redemption.

    Nothing else comes close, because his regular sort of genre, i.e., horror, well, is seldom translated very well to the big screen. Or rather, some of his books have scared me something good, while their film counterparts....well, not so much. Could have been because I was younger, but "Pet Sematary" should be read with all the doors and windows LOCKED and your last will and testament made out; "Salem's Lot" was good stuff; ditto "The Shining".

    Actually, the movie of The Shining had its moments. The movie for Pet Sematary, I think, proved what you CAN'T show in a movie. When the kid was run over like a squirrel in the road, and then came back from the dead, I wasn't scared, just...sad and a little creeped out.
     
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    Shawshank Redemption, The
     
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    The Running Man.

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  6. Major Malcontent

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    The Shining, Shawshank and Misery......most of the rest of the movies based on his works have been pretty weak.

    I don't think the intensity of the books comes out unless you have top notch actors to facilitate it.
     
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    Recent one I've really enjoyed is The Mist, one of my favorite King stories, translated wonderfully to the screen by Frank Darabont. Darabont has a real talent of capturing King on screen.
     
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    Misery, you dirty bird! :mad:

    I wonder if he's good in Checkers as he is in Chess. :p
     
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    Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies of all time. Nothing else of King's comes even close.
     
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    I'll break the streak.
    The Green Mile
    Fantastic movie.
     
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  11. Qball

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    Obviously Shawshank is the top pick but other than that one...

    The Langoliers, 1995
     
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  12. Manny Ramirez

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    I have often said that The Shawshank Redemption is my all-time favorite movie so it should be the answer to this question. HOWEVER, I don't really think of that movie as a "King" movie. Now, "The Shining", yes, I consider that to be a King movie. So I am basically saying a tie here but leaning probably towards Kubrick's "The Shining".
     
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  13. Chuck 4

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    Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile. Other than those two, I usually can't get past how many changes they make to the source material. Which is another reason I'm kinda glad that Universal may be pulling the plug on The Dark Tower adaptation.
     
    #13 Chuck 4, May 23, 2011
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    No mention of the killer spider clown?
     
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    Stand by me. the shining.
     
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    Shawshank Redemption and The Shining

    The Mist is a very underrated one
     
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    "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption", and "The body" are the two best Stephen king stories adapted to film...........amazing that they came from the same book.
     
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    Agree 100%
     
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    Thinner...
     
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    while not as good of quality a movie as others (shawshank/mile/misery), I always loved Maximum Overdrive.
     
    #20 DonkeyMagic, May 23, 2011
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