Favorite and Least Favorite Stephen King adaptions (Some spoilers)

[Nym182]

What is your favorite an least favorite adaptions of a Stephen King book?

I would have to say my favorite is Shawshank Redemption or IT (the mini series) and my least favorite would be the Gunslinger.

I also have a bone to pick with Secret Garden and the Stand. Those are booth movies/series that I loved 90% of but the endings killed me (spoilers ahead)

In The Stand mini series, everything was spot on and pretty much perfect... except the end. I still get so mad with literally "the hand of God" appears and sets off the bombs... the graphics and concept are so cheesy. They could have easily done what King did and just had them explode. Even if they have Mother Abigail say "that was the hand of God" would have been better then the blue hand that came out of no where.

as for Secret Window, I get mad at it just on principle. The whole concept of the story was how important the ending is... and then the movie changed the ending. It made me so mad.

[Javabean321]

Favorite is definitely Shawshank. One of my top 5 favorite movies ever. I also really loved The Green Mile (and thought, as adaptations go, it was pretty spot on for the most part). There are a few I haven't seen, but of the ones I have, my least favorite would have to be the new Pet Sematary. I went to see it with a couple of guy friends and we laughed through most of it. It wasn't scary, and I hated the parts that they changed.

[Nym182]

Both great movies!

I haven’t seen the new one, but the original (also pretty not good) was my first horror move. I loved glen in it...

Did you ever see the newer dark tower movie? It’s pretty bad ha

[NetMassimo]

Choosing my favorite adaptation is tough. I recently rewatched the first Carrie adaptation and found it much better than the subsequent ones. Shining is also great though it's a Kubrick product that diverge from the book to the point that Stephen King dislikes it.

I agree about the least favorite, I mean, packing a whole series of books into 90 minutes was a doomed effort from the beginning.

[Nym182]

Choosing my favorite adaptation is tough. I recently rewatched the first Carrie adaptation and found it much better than the subsequent ones. Shining is also great though it's a Kubrick product that diverge from the book to the point that Stephen King dislikes it.

I agree about the least favorite, I mean, packing a whole series of books into 90 minutes was a doomed effort from the beginning.

The minute I found out Eddie and Susannah weren't going to be in the movie I knew it was doomed... I've hear they are doing an Amazon series on it and hopefully that one will be better (the bar is pretty low ha)

[NetMassimo]

The minute I found out Eddie and Susannah weren't going to be in the movie I knew it was doomed... I've hear they are doing an Amazon series on it and hopefully that one will be better (the bar is pretty low ha)

Well, it would take a real commitment to do worse than the movie!

[Nym182]

The minute I found out Eddie and Susannah weren't going to be in the movie I knew it was doomed... I've hear they are doing an Amazon series on it and hopefully that one will be better (the bar is pretty low ha)

Well, it would take a real commitment to do worse than the movie!

Could be a conspiracy... maybe make the show worse so the movie looks better in comparison

[NetMassimo]

Could be a conspiracy... maybe make the show worse so the movie looks better in comparison

They should pay Amazon an awful lot of money to do that!

[Nym182]

Could be a conspiracy... maybe make the show worse so the movie looks better in comparison

They should pay Amazon an awful lot of money to do that!

because if it's one thing Amazon needs, it's more money

[habsfan212]

A lot of awesome Stephen King movies but I gotta say The mist is something. My family and I are are still talking about that shocking ending.

[ms_vinkel]

I enjoy a lot of Stephen King adaptations but haven't read much of his work. One that confused me a lot was Dreamcatcher. For favorites, I'd have a top three: The Green Mile, Misery, and, Shawshank Redemption.

[20hannahrose-mayer]

Misery was okay. To me, it didn't come close to capturing the suspense of the book. I think the old It TV movie with Stephen Curry was pretty great-- he played a great Pennywise! Albeit a little campy, it's a nice adaptation from the book. But oh boy, don't get me started on Kubrick's The Shining. Cinematically, it's fantastic, sure. But the way he changed key plot points from King's book is low quality! You know what I'm talking about...King's ending is so warm and satisfying, so let's leave it like that, shall we? haha. I'm in agreement with ole Stephen on that one.

[jeweini]

I enjoy a lot of Stephen King adaptations but haven't read much of his work. One that confused me a lot was Dreamcatcher. For favorites, I'd have a top three: The Green Mile, Misery, and, Shawshank Redemption.

I have also enjoyed it a lot.

[PRECIOUSreads]

Both the original and the remake of Carrie were truly remarkable. I do however favor the remake. 10/10

[JaimeAlfonzo]

My favorite adaptation is The Stand, and by far the lessfavorite " the running man", that was abysmal.