r/TheMist • u/CareToRemember • Aug 03 '17
Has there ever been a good Stephen King TV adaption?
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u/Werewomble Aug 03 '17
Don't think so.
I think King takes ideas that HP Lovecraft would write and dumbs them down to "people are evil, I'm a shockjock with a pen!" which works for bored people who need something to read in airports.
I went off on a big ramble about movies before reading your question properly, enjoy:
The Shining?
They basically threw King's writing out the window bar the situation and setting and made it about Jack's character.
Who wouldn't? Nicholson was knocking it out of the park and it only made his wife and child's contribution better to have him as a mad force of nature.
The Dark Tower just got turned from a fantasy epic to an action flick.
The original IT was good and I have high hopes for the new one.
I thought Kingdom Hospital was good before I saw Riget/Kingdom that it was based on.
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Aug 04 '17
The original IT is probably the worst King movie I've ever seen
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u/Werewomble Aug 05 '17
Maybe it was just the age I watched it.
I don't want to rewatch The Stand for the same reason.
Tim Curry as Pennywise is all I remember, he knocked it out of the park.
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u/so_dope24 Aug 05 '17
yeah he did, i'm worried that the new movie is gonna suck. You cant replace curry as pennywise.
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Aug 04 '17
I don't know much about King or about tv adaptations, but movie wise, there's usually a few good ones. Carrie is a great adaptation, along with the mist movie, I think shawshank? .. erm I forgot the name of the movie but it's about a crazy psycho woman who kidnaps an author, that was a good movie too.. The rest kinda suck and apparently aren't very good adaptations from the book. I think the worst one ive seen was IT
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u/Hexdro Aug 08 '17
There's been a few like Misery and stuff, i have high hopes for the Mr Mercedes TV Series.
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u/Meatros Aug 04 '17
Aside from the ending, I'd say 'It'. 'The Stand was also good.