[ SECRET POST #3868 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3868 ⌋

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Really?

[(Anonymous)]

Shawshank Redemption
Carrie
Stand by Me
Misery
It
The Green Mile
The Stand
The Dead Zone (both movie and TV series)
Cujo
Silver Bullet (one of my favorites, anyway)
Children of the Corn
Pet Sematary
The first season of Under the Dome
I very much dislike it, but a lot of people really like The Shining.
Those are the ones I would count as good and there are another handful that are okay.

Re: Really?

[tabaqui]

To each their own. I had a couple i did like, but...eh. Most I didn't.

Re: Really?

[(Anonymous)]

But just because you didn't like them doesn't mean they were bad. And you implied that all Stephen King adaptations were wincingly bad.

Re: Really?

[tabaqui]

Yup, in my view, they were, and at least one other person agreed with me.
So?

Re: Really?

[(Anonymous)]

All? Every single one? Even the ones you like are wincingly bad? There are things I dislike because I think they are bad, but there's plenty of things I dislike just because I dislike them.

You asked 'When has a Stephan King adaptation every been anything other than wincingly bad?' and I answered.

Re: Really?

[tabaqui]

And so did I. Jayzus. Totally over this 'conversation' now. I hope you're bristling up and being this pissy with the person (people) that agreed with me.

Re: Really?

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Under the Dome was a bad adaptation. It wasn't that the first season was bad, on its own merits, but that having read the book, there were so many things that were unnecessarily different in a way that struck me as 'this will be sexier for TV' rather than 'this is what we need to change in order to go from page to TV'.


Similarly, while The Shining might be a good film, I would never call it a good adaptation of a King book. It's just one of those cases where it's like... a thing CAN be brilliant or even just enjoyable on its own merits, but not be good as an adaptation. No adaptation needs to be perfectly faithful to work, but some things just go too far off the mark for me that I can't.

Re: Really?

[greenvelvetcake]

As much as I hated the last 5 minutes of the movie, The Mist was also a good adaptation.

I'd like to see The Stand get a remake, which is weird, because I didn't really like the book. I enjoyed the first third about the spread of Captain Tripps, but it all went downhill from there.