The Green Mile. The acting and screenplay were both fantastic.
The worst one was The Stand. I've read that whole book about 4 times. You just can't put a story that in-depth and that long into a movie. They shouldn't have even tried.
Rusty Messages: 1205 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
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I read they're taking another whack with The Stand. Another mini series. I too feel that the 1994 attempt wasn't able to remotely convey the drama of the novel. The fastest thousand page turner I'd ever attempted. It's certainly a challenge, but not out of the realm of possibility that it could be made with better quality. Judging from past attempts with King's horror genre adaptations, not worth getting hopeful about.
Rusty Messages: 1205 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (3rd Degree)
I remembered recently another King movie that I've enjoyed. Called,The Dead Zone, with Christopher Walken. Strange powers of premonition plague his mind after a terrible car wreck leaves him comatose for some time. There's kind of a spooky correlation to our current political reality with his premonition of an unhinged politician, (Martin Sheen) becoming a dictatorial president bent on unleashing nukes and Armageddon.
The Shawshank Redemption is a movie that will always stand as a great for me. I read the novella and watch the movie on an annual basis, and they both have excellent staying power for me.
Wait, what? The Green Mile is a Stephen King book? I love that movie. I also loved Christine and Shawshank Redemption. Cujo and Children of the Corn still give me nightmares! Man he wrote a lot of books!
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