Best Stephen King Adapted Movie

I would have to say as a person who has read a good majority of his books I think Misery is the best adaption without changing too much from the story.

The Shining was good but the book and the movie weren't a lot alike at all. The book was far more psycological where as the movie just devolved into a sort of semi slasher flick with an axe.

It is just a terrible adaption. Simply awful. It's very little like the book (though the book is incredibly long and has some sicks parts in it regarding the children and if you've read it you know what I am referring to.....). It's funny because I found the movie scary and then I read the book and saw the movie again and it looked like straight up clownery to me (pun intended).

Carrie is a pretty good adaptation as well even though it has a similar problem like the shining where it just became a horror movie instead of examining some of the ideas King did in the book.

Stand By Me was a good adaptation as well IMO. I think that is actually King's favorite of the lot of his own books to movies.

Originally posted by SelinaAndBruce
I would have to say as a person who has read a good majority of his books I think Misery is the best adaption without changing too much from the story.

The Shining was good but the book and the movie weren't a lot alike at all. The book was far more psycological where as the movie just devolved into a sort of semi slasher flick with an axe.

It is just a terrible adaption. Simply awful. It's very little like the book (though the book is incredibly long and has some sicks parts in it regarding the children and if you've read it you know what I am referring to.....). It's funny because I found the movie scary and then I read the book and saw the movie again and it looked like straight up clownery to me (pun intended).

Carrie is a pretty good adaptation as well even though it has a similar problem like the shining where it just became a horror movie instead of examining some of the ideas King did in the book.

Stand By Me was a good adaptation as well IMO. I think that is actually King's favorite of the lot of his own books to movies.

i agree with everything other than your description of The shining movie. THe shining, in no way, resembled a slasher movie. The movie was highly psychological.

I agree that the shining is one of his more faithful adaptations

On the 'shining' topic theres been 2 movies done the second one (1997 mini) i hear is more faithful to the book but overall its just a crap film but the kubrik one is the better one.

The Shining may not be close to the book, but it is a wonderful piece of film making and definitely not 'semi slasher' and was definitely highly psychological like Rage mentioned. Same for Carrie, fabulous.

"The Langoliers". Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Just kidding! 😛

Mine would be:

The Shining
The Shawshank Redeption
Stand By Me
The Green Mile
Carrie
Misery
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Although I don't think it's one of the best, I will admit that The Running Man is a guilty pleasure of mine. 😄

I wish Dolan's Cadillac wouldn't have fell through. That could have been good.

Total agreement, selina! Misery, I would argue, is even better than the book, which hardly ever happens.

Originally posted by SelinaAndBruce
It is just a terrible adaption. Simply awful. It's very little like the book (though the book is incredibly long and has some sicks parts in it regarding the children and if you've read it you know what I am referring to.....). It's funny because I found the movie scary and then I read the book and saw the movie again and it looked like straight up clownery to me (pun intended).

The book was phenomenal and the mini-series was such a let down. I did like Tim Curry as Pennywise though, he kicked ass. Hopefully the new remake will do the book justice, because so much was left out of the first adaptation.

The shining remake ?

first i've heard about roland.

What was the original ending of Dreamcatcher? Seriously, I searched on the interwebz and I could not find what the original ending was supposed to be...what were you guys referring to?

Anyway, I haven't read very many of his books...but I did like Hearts in Atlantis (the book and the movie.) I really liked Dreamcatcher and I am glad it followed (for the most part) very closely to the book.