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Good list. My favorites are Pet Sematary, The Shinning, Cujo, and The Mist. I'd like to see Dolores Claiborne. I still don't get what was so great about Shawshank Redemption. Children of the Corn also a great one. I would have ranked it higher.
I wouldn't rate THE SHINING that high. It is good but not great. Other than that, I have no real quibbles with the list.
SILVER BULLET isn't praised enough. It is stupid, yes. But it is wonderfully, gloriously, awesomely stupid. A kid with a hot rod wheel chair teams up with Anne of Green Gables and Gary Busey to take down Reverend Werewolf. How can you not fall in love with the premise alone?
Listing the 20 'best' Stephen King films is like listing the 20 'best' AD/DC albums - you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel long before you get anywhere close to the end of the list.
The Shining is a cinematic masterpiece.
After that, there's a handful of very good to good films (Shawshank, Stand By Me, Dead Zone, etc.), a few more watchable ones, and a whole lot that run the gamut from bad to abysmal (actually, a few would be significantly improved if they were merely 'abysmal').
If the 8-episode 11.22.63 is counted as a 'movie' it moves into the top 3.
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I'l say it again - one of the dumbest ways to critique a film is by demanding its fealty to the novel upon which it was based.
SILVER BULLET isn't praised enough. It is stupid, yes. But it is wonderfully, gloriously, awesomely stupid. A kid with a hot rod wheel chair teams up with Anne of Green Gables and Gary Busey to take down Reverend Werewolf. How can you not fall in love with the premise alone?
I like Silver Bullet, too. AND Graveyard Shift with Brad Dourif. Yeah, King revisits rats too often, but that's a cool flick.
'Sides, the werewolf-pastor of Silver Bullet is Clint Eastwood's arch-nemesis from Heartbreak Ridge. How cool is that?
I've never actually seen Graveyard Shift, but Brad Dourif is always great.
Brad Dourif was actually in a movie with Reverend Werewolf: David Lynch's DUNE. I don't think they had any scenes together though. Not a great movie by any stretch, but still one that everyone ought to see at least once.
I've never actually seen Graveyard Shift, but Brad Dourif is always great.
Brad Dourif was actually in a movie with Reverend Werewolf: David Lynch's DUNE. I don't think they had any scenes together though. Not a great movie by any stretch, but still one that everyone ought to see at least once.
Dune an interesting experiment. Not a success; more of a calculated attempt than anything. Showtime's series wasn't any better, though. The guy in the lead role sucked.
Dune an interesting experiment. Not a success; more of a calculated attempt than anything. Showtime's series wasn't any better, though. The guy in the lead role sucked.
Do you mean the SciFi Channel miniseries?
Yeah, it had some good things about it. It was faithful to the books. It was BEAUTIFULLY designed.
But the acting wasn't that great, and I never once believed anyone was on a planet. Every set looked like a set. A gorgeously designed set? Yes. But still a set.
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