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Isis2200
Mine are

The Langoliers

The Tommyknockers

Cujo

The Dead Zone


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_Nyx_
Stephen King movies are notoriously bad.. they do the books absolutely no justice whatsoever... having said that, I will concede that The Stand was awesome. yes.gif oh, and The Shining remake was ok, but the original was better. Just can't beat Jack Nicholson thumbsup.gif
nativechick1989
Well .. The Shining (Jack Nicholson version) and IT, are my favs. The Steven Weber version of The Shining more closely resembled the book .. but I lean more to the older version .. Nicholson is very creepy in that movie.
itsnotoutthere
Without a doubt, 'The Shawshank Redemption'
Melly
I like IT, The Shining (the original, please), and The Green Mile.
Bella-Angelique
IT and Silver Bullet.
coldethyl
Shawshank and Green Mile have to be at the top of the list for me. Oh and Carrie.
distortedpandy
Carrie and The Shining (original)
75mcherch
I liked "Storm of the Century" and "The Shining" best. I thought they were pretty good. "Desperation" wasn;t bad either.
Purplos
Love Shawshank - and the Green Mile - original Shining with Jack. I dont think I ever saw the newer one.

But of course... books are immeasurably better.
Astrocreep
Absolutly Storm of The Century, The Shining (Nicholson), The Langoliers, Green Mile, and Shawshank. Dreamcatcher was just plain horrible in my opinion..utterly utterly horrible disgust.gif Glad I read that book first.

What would think if they made a Dark Tower movie?
Purplos
I would LOVE a dark tower series - if they got someone good to do it - and it wasn't low-budget stuff.
Chaya
Woah I'm surprised to see someone mentioned The Langoliers - I was already starting to believe I'm the only person in the world who has seen this movie! It's great. I loved the book and I think it's one of Stephen King's finest writings. The movie captures the atmosphere really well, and the story is scary in a nice original way.

But my all-time favourite must be The Green Mile. It's just so perfect. I loved this book too, and the movie was much better than I ever deared to hope. Great acting, and the whole thing is just so touching. One of the few films that always make me shed a tear or two at the end (and I almost never cry because of movies!).

The Shawshank Redemption is wonderful, and Pennywise the Clown from It used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid. The Shining is a classic, sure, but I read that Stephen King himself doesn't like the movie adaption at all? I kinda like The Secret Window too, but that might be just because of the lead actor. wink2.gif
girty1600
QUOTE(Purplos @ Dec 14 2006, 10:27 PM) [snapback]1462896[/snapback]
I would LOVE a dark tower series - if they got someone good to do it - and it wasn't low-budget stuff.



This is so strange; Falco and I were just talking about our dream cast for DTS last night! w00t.gif I guess you can consider it my favorite Stephen King film that hasn't been made yet.

Other than that I liked Green Mile, Storm, It, The Stand, Rose Red, Shining (new) and Shawshank.

We watched the new 'Salem's Lot last night and it was pretty good. The Nightmares and Dreamscapes was awesome; we bought it the day it came out.
_Nyx_
I don't know why I always forget that The Green Mile and Shawshank are King movies.. they are definitely up there in my all-time favorites... not just King faves... wink2.gif
jesspy
Shawshank was great
Green mile when i saw it the first time i didnt even know it was a king novel until someone told me then i was like "that was a novel by stephen....no way...really no way......really....no serious time now......wow"
Then i saw that rose movie (rose manor) or something and im like see thats how you do a stephen king book movie you do it craply lol
but yeah Green mile above them all
I want them to make a movie of the one with that chick with the abusive husband and the crazyy painting or whatever that she goes into. I cant remmeber the title but i remmeber reading it about three years ago.
Adam_666
QUOTE(_Nyx_ @ Dec 14 2006, 01:18 PM) [snapback]1462318[/snapback]
Stephen King movies are notoriously bad.. they do the books absolutely no justice whatsoever... having said that, I will concede that The Stand was awesome. yes.gif oh, and The Shining remake was ok, but the original was better. Just can't beat Jack Nicholson thumbsup.gif



Yeah the remake of the Shinning was good
ghostboy83
Did anyone catch Stephen King's Desperation? It came out this year.
Purplos
QUOTE(jesspy @ Dec 15 2006, 04:41 AM) [snapback]1463118[/snapback]
Shawshank was great
Green mile when i saw it the first time i didnt even know it was a king novel until someone told me then i was like "that was a novel by stephen....no way...really no way......really....no serious time now......wow"
Then i saw that rose movie (rose manor) or something and im like see thats how you do a stephen king book movie you do it craply lol
but yeah Green mile above them all
I want them to make a movie of the one with that chick with the abusive husband and the crazyy painting or whatever that she goes into. I cant remmeber the title but i remmeber reading it about three years ago.


Rose Madder

Umm... I think Rose Madder is the one in which the abused woman goes into the painting. Rose was her name, and Rose Madder was written on the back of the painting she bought. Wasn't it? Hmm...
Atheist God
IT is by far the best book to movie adaptation of his books I seen that when I was younger and since then I have never looked at clowns the same. Also I thought Thinner was good as well.
coldethyl
QUOTE(ghostboy83 @ Dec 15 2006, 12:42 PM) [snapback]1463513[/snapback]
Did anyone catch Stephen King's Desperation? It came out this year.


I saw it when they showed it on tv. I liked it. Not a favorite, but it was pretty good.
_Nyx_
Rose Red...The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer... that was a great movie!
girty1600
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Rose Madder

Umm... I think Rose Madder is the one in which the abused woman goes into the painting. Rose was her name, and Rose Madder was written on the back of the painting she bought. Wasn't it? Hmm...
Yup! Cynthia from Desperation made her first appearance in that novel. It was ok.
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Did anyone catch Stephen King's Desperation? It came out this year.


I saw it when they showed it on tv. I liked it. Not a favorite, but it was pretty good.


Falco and I rented that one too; I was very well done.

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Rose Red...The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer... that was a great movie!


I really liked Rose Red and Diary did a great job of delving into the story behind it.
jesspy
thanks for that i was confused so whats the name of the one where everyone is at that home with the little girl who has a bad arm
dixiepixie
Doloris Claiborne is fav, It..although I can't watch it (watched once,scared of clowns they almost had to instituionalize me after that one) Children of the Corn.
_Nyx_
Dang, I forgot about that one too... Misery was another one with Kathy (Cathy?) Bates that was really good...
punish3ment
I liked Rose Red recently, I liked that quite abit.
glynne64
Doloris Claiborne

IT...still hate clowns!

Misery...God! Kathy Bates gave me the willies!!!

Storm of the Century

The Stand...just the number of stars it had for it's time.

The Green Mile

The Langoliers...interesting, kinda made me think twice about ever flying again!


I love his books. I have one on my nightstand at all times!
sub_x0ne
Storm of the Century, IT, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning and the Green Mile. The rest were just bad.
Purplos
Misery was good too. Kathy Bates was PERFECT for it.
Adam_666
QUOTE(itsnotoutthere @ Dec 14 2006, 04:18 PM) [snapback]1462502[/snapback]
Without a doubt, 'The Shawshank Redemption'


yeah that was good and
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