Favorite Stephen King novel (or short story) Movie adaptations

[TommyGavin 790]

I added short story as my top 2 are short stories. 
 

Tie between Shawshank and Stand By Me. 
 

Bonus - The Stand favorite novel and 11/22/63 close second. 

[shorepatrol 1,870]

The Running Man 

[MDC 7,105]

The Shining

Honorable mention for Misery 

[Cdub100 3,824]

I used to be a Stephen King fan until I noticed he sure does like to write about kids doing it. Really weirded me out.

The Dark Tower series was my favorite, but I've since sold all my books of his.

[OldMaid 2,129]

Shawshank, although I hear they’re working on a version of The Long Walk.

[Mike Honcho 5,072]

The Long Walk always stuck with me.

2 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

I used to be a Stephen King fan until I noticed he sure does like to write about kids doing it. Really weirded me out.

The Dark Tower series was my favorite, but I've since sold all my books of his.

The Dark Tower is awesome.  Years ago for my bday my brother got me a first edition of my favorite "The Drawing of the Three"

Doh...just realized you were looking for the movie adaptation, not story. Shawshank would be my favorite movie.  

[BeenHereBefore 1,447]

9 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

I added short story as my top 2 are short stories. 
 

Tie between Shawshank and Stand By Me. 
 

Bonus - The Stand favorite novel and 11/22/63 close second. 

Them two and The Shinning. To hard to chose between them three.

[Mike Honcho 5,072]

8 minutes ago, OldMaid said:

Shawshank, although I hear they’re working on a version of The Long Walk.

I've always imagined that a good director could make a very movie out of The Long Walk.  A closer to the source material Running Man would be something else I would love to see.

[Cdub100 3,824]

6 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

The Long Walk always stuck with me.

The Dark Tower is awesome.  Years ago for my bday my brother got me a first edition of my favorite "The Drawing of the Three"

Doh...just realized you were looking for the movie adaptation, not story. Shawshank would be my favorite movie.  

I used to have a 1st/1st of each book before selling them. I really like The Wasteland. The futuristic apocalypse/ horror really stuck with me.

[Cdub100 3,824]

As for movie Shawshank Redemption. Helped me get through a low point in my life.

[OldMaid 2,129]

14 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Helped me get through a low point in my life.

You mean you can go lower?

 

Agreed with Honcho, would love to see a better version of The Running Man.

[Cdub100 3,824]

Just now, OldMaid said:

You mean you can go lower?

 

Agreed with Honcho, would love to see a better version of The Running Man.

 

[Cloaca du jour 2,147]

People...people...seriously...

The long walk I will allow...well done

But lets talk about " the jaunt"  " word processor of the gods"  grey matter.  Survivor type...damn there are so many!!

He is brilliant.  His bachman books are some great stuff.

[Cdub100 3,824]

Just now, Cloaca du jour said:

People...people...seriously...

The long walk I will allow...well done

But lets talk about " the jaunt"  " word processor of the gods"  grey matter.  Survivor type...damn there are so many!!

He is brilliant.  His bachman books are some great stuff.

Can't write an ending.

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5 minutes ago, OldMaid said:

You mean you can go lower?

 

Agreed with Honcho, would love to see a better version of The Running Man.

Honcho's an idiot. 

[Cloaca du jour 2,147]

3 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Can't write an ending.

Thats what makes it brilliant.  Make your own ending...no critics.

[jerryskids 6,535]

I would have forgotten about Shawshank and just said The Shining.  Heck, I'll still say The Shining, by an axe blade edge over Shawshank.

Surprised there has been no mention of The Green Mile.   

[TommyGavin 790]

Reason I bring this up I read that Shawshank tanked at the box office ($16 million in theaters on a $25 million budget). 
It went against some big hitters like Forest Gump and Pulp Fiction. 
Then Blockbusters ordered millions of VHS copies and was the best rental of the year afterwards. 

[TommyGavin 790]

8 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Surprised there has been no mention of The Green Mile.   

Was great on both ends. Honorable mention. What made the books great was it was it released in volumes - had to wait until the next one came out. Forgot if it was weekly or monthly but it was not too long. Anticipation was great. 

[OldMaid 2,129]

1 minute ago, TommyGavin said:

Was great on both ends. Honorable mention. What made the books great was it was it released in volumes - had to wait u til the next one came out. Forgot if it was weekly or monthly but it was not too long. Anticipation was great. 

I believe it was monthly. I had a Stephen King book subscription at the time. 

[craftsman 1,045]

I like Dean Koontz better.

[TommyGavin 790]

1 minute ago, craftsman said:

I like Dean Koontz better.

I read all his books back in the day and I have to tell you a few of them blew me away. There was some great books by Dean in the 80’s. He seemed to fall off at a certain point (Not that SK didn’t). 

[OldMaid 2,129]

Just now, TommyGavin said:

I read all his books back in the day and I have to tell you a few of them blew me away. There was some great books by Dean in the 80’s. He seemed to fall off at a certain point (Not that SK didn’t). 

Never really liked Koontz, his writing style is very basic. 

[craftsman 1,045]

1 minute ago, TommyGavin said:

I read all his books back in the day and I have to tell you a few of them blew me away. There was some great books by Dean in the 80’s. He seemed to fall off at a certain point (Not that SK didn’t). 

Steven King wins by a nose with The Stand and Carrie and The Shining, but the Odd Thomas books by Koontz kicked ass and he had a ton of other great books.

[TommyGavin 790]

Just now, OldMaid said:

Never really liked Koontz, his writing style is very basic. 

Just googled it. Lightning and Watchers were fantastic books. Not sure if either of these were the book but there was one with a Golden Retriever prominent in the story that was good too. 

[TommyGavin 790]

I never read the Odd Thomas series. 

[craftsman 1,045]

4 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

I never read the Odd Thomas series. 

Give it a shot. I loved it. It's an easy read. If you don't like it, let it go.

[Horseman 2,350]

Clive Barker before he went ghey. 

[TommyGavin 790]

37 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Clive Barker before he went ghey. 

I don’t know about the ghey part but his books were pretty intense 

[TommyGavin 790]

53 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

Just googled it. Lightning and Watchers were fantastic books. Not sure if either of these were the book but there was one with a Golden Retriever prominent in the story that was good too. 

Damn. I might reread these. I remember really loving these 2 books. I turned alot of people on to DK from these 2 books. 

[OldMaid 2,129]

4 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

Damn. I might reread these. I remember really loving these 2 books. I turned alot of people on to DK from these 2 books. 

I’m pretty sure I read those, too. I don’t remember a thing about them.   It was a long time ago, though.

[jerryskids 6,535]

1 hour ago, TommyGavin said:

I never read the Odd Thomas series. 

Neither have I but...

1 hour ago, craftsman said:

Give it a shot. I loved it. It's an easy read. If you don't like it, let it go.

Interesting that this came up; I really liked Koontz in the 80s but stopped when I realized that all of his books were really similar.  I bought one in an airport once and got about 50 pages in thinking most of the time that I may have read it before.  Finally convinced myself that I did.

Anyway... I'm sitting in a rental house now while our house goes thru a remodel.  They have about 30 books on a shelf and, low and behold, there was Odd Thomas.  My FIL loved Koontz and Odd Thomas were his favorites.  So I thought what the heck, I'll give it a go.

I got about 5 pages in and quit.  I was just not enjoying the writing style.  I know that isn't much of a fair shake, and maybe I'll give it a go again. 

[Big Blue 06 195]

2 hours ago, TommyGavin said:

Just googled it. Lightning and Watchers were fantastic books. Not sure if either of these were the book but there was one with a Golden Retriever prominent in the story that was good too. 

Lightning was the first Koontz book I read and I loved it.  I recently dug it out and gave it a reread.

read a bunch of his after that and never found one that lived up to Lightning.

[TommyGavin 790]

2 hours ago, Big Blue 06 said:

Lightning was the first Koontz book I read and I loved it.  I recently dug it out and gave it a reread.

read a bunch of his after that and never found one that lived up to Lightning.

Awesome- I might have to do the same. Go Giants

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7 hours ago, TommyGavin said:

I never read the Odd Thomas series. 

I liked them. Interesting character/premise and occasionally lol funny. 

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Christine and Carrie. 

[DonS 3,291]

I really liked the movie version of The Mist.

Man I hope whoever makes a movie version of The Long Walk doesn't fock it up.

[OldMaid 2,129]

12 hours ago, jerryskids said:

Neither have I but...

Interesting that this came up; I really liked Koontz in the 80s but stopped when I realized that all of his books were really similar.  I bought one in an airport once and got about 50 pages in thinking most of the time that I may have read it before.  Finally convinced myself that I did.

Anyway... I'm sitting in a rental house now while our house goes thru a remodel.  They have about 30 books on a shelf and, low and behold, there was Odd Thomas.  My FIL loved Koontz and Odd Thomas were his favorites.  So I thought what the heck, I'll give it a go.

I got about 5 pages in and quit.  I was just not enjoying the writing style.  I know that isn't much of a fair shake, and maybe I'll give it a go again. 

They read like a D!ck & Jane book. 

[HTH 92]

Shawshank for sure!

Top five movie of all time.

[TheNewGirl 1,336]

Shawshank 

 

Green Mile