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Stephen King

Ouroboros said:
Shawshank seems to be the only work adapted to film that (nearly) everyone seems to like.

I mean, I'm sure someone somewhere must dislike it, but I haven't seen same.
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It is just a great movie, but I also have that with the Shining. Great performance by Nicholson.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Hes definately good. You can kinda sense when hes taking stuff from the entertainment around hiim and turning into his own but at least he has admitted as such so I guess it doesnt offend me.

Mr. Mercedes was pretty good even though it was evil as ****.


The shining 2 (i forgot the real name, about the murder at the carnival and the young kid from Shining all grown up) was ok. (actually i think im mixing 2 books up)

Doctor Sleep was ok and kinda seemed like a SciFi MKUltra government thriller.

Dark Tower was amazing attempt at an Epic book and pretty darn good.

All his short stories are pretty decent.

His movies were always 3 ways better than mediocre but you blamed your own imagination because the books were so good.
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As I recall DOCTOR SLEEP is the SHINING sequel, so you may be thinking of something else re: MKUltra. FIRESTARTER maybe? (That one at least made an OK movie.)
 
noonereal said:
"meh"

a polite word for awful

How Hollywood kept making his books into idiot movies I'll never understand.
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I disagree; to me "meh" just means "no strong feelings either way."

Hollywood has a long tradition of making idiot movies of authors who don't adapt well. Try to think of a really good flick adapted from Hemingway.
 
Read many of SK's books while underway. I was never a sci-fi or fantasy fan, but SK has a way to keep you hooked.

Good writer.

My sister back in Maine has a few pics of her posing with him.
 
Peter King said:
Well that is not the fault of King, his books were good to great before the movie studios butchered the books into terrible movies.
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He is responsible for the general crappiness of SLEEPWALKERS, since that was an original movie script by King.

It does have a nice perf by Alice Krige though.
 
Ouroboros said:
As I recall DOCTOR SLEEP is the SHINING sequel, so you may be thinking of something else re: MKUltra. FIRESTARTER maybe? (That one at least made an OK movie.)
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Im thinking of the one with the chick who doesnt know her whole life was implanted. And she keeps having dream about some guy with a metal claw torturing her. And shes been programmed to get sick if she tries to leave or go somewhere new.
 
My favs:
The Stand
The Shining (Prefer the movie with Nicholson)
It (again: prefer the movie (1st version))
Salem's Lot
Needful Things
Cell
Dark Half
The Langoliers (The movie was okay. Could've been better though. Definitely has remake potential.)

I also like many of his short stories, including The Running Man and The Long Walk which he did as Bachman.
 
Fletch said:
I loved It, The Stand and the Shining but I am not sure I liked the ending of any of them. They were great reads and great stories whose endings were... meh
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The ending to The Stand was fine. Really couldn't do it any other way.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Pretty damn boring. King has become a parody caricature of himself. The pulp fiction genius has aged and run out of fresh ideas long ago. He really wants to buy more luxury condo apartments in Manhattan for his collection. Selling the same books with variations on the same stories with variations of the same characters, hack writing at the best, supplies the cash for his condo habit. At least it isn't cocaine, but reading him makes me think I've taken a valium, and I take a nap. Meh, I take naps often anyway.
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If youve written as long as he has you'll eventually run out of ideas. :)
 
OldFatGuy said:
Pretty damn boring. King has become a parody caricature of himself. The pulp fiction genius has aged and run out of fresh ideas long ago. He really wants to buy more luxury condo apartments in Manhattan for his collection. Selling the same books with variations on the same stories with variations of the same characters, hack writing at the best, supplies the cash for his condo habit. At least it isn't cocaine, but reading him makes me think I've taken a valium, and I take a nap. Meh, I take naps often anyway.
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I 100% agree. Let me guess...he has a mysterious character and a recurring phrase that is either said repeatedly or written somewhere throughout the story but then King forgets all about it when he kills off a few of his main characters right before hastily ending the story. It's been years since I read it...but...basically thousand pages of character build....we all float down her ad nauseum...a few hundred pages about a flying turtle..and in oops wait...forget that...the clown is a spider thingy hiding behind a door and the turtle thingy...even king has no clue what he was going for there. He appears to get face planting drunk while writing.
 
PoS said:
If youve written as long as he has you'll eventually run out of ideas. :)
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Hack formula writing happens to the best. Dickens and his contemporaries had an excuse, they were paid by the word, and if the audience didn't like the ending of a serialized novel, they'd add a new one. :)
 
AlphaOmega said:
I 100% agree. Let me guess...he has a mysterious character and a recurring phrase that is either said repeatedly or written somewhere throughout the story but then King forgets all about it when he kills off a few of his main characters right before hastily ending the story. It's been years since I read it...but...basically thousand pages of character build....we all float down her ad nauseum...a few hundred pages about a flying turtle..and in oops wait...forget that...the clown is a spider thingy hiding behind a door and the turtle thingy...even king has no clue what he was going for there. He appears to get face planting drunk while writing.
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That's why today, I only occasionally read one his short stories. They manage to appear getting closer to the point.
 
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