>realize like half of "top 10 best movies" are just Stephen King adaptationsHow the fuck does he keep doing it
>>198595976and the other half are mobster biographies
Coke binge in the 70s.Mass market paperbacks, increased jet travel means more people reading easy books on vacation.Rise of home video releases.
People love to shit on him but he’s a kino factory and American treasure. FACT.
Most movies based on Stephen King books are garbage though
Can I be honest with you guys. I feel like I can be honest with you. The only Stanley Kubrick movie I like is The Shinning. I think he's severely overated otherwise. And yeah, King is a creative genius.
>>198595976Stephen King hates all the film adaptions of his stories because they ALWAYS make them better, which is usually the opposite of good books. They literally reveal him for the hack he is.
Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated fucking movie of all-time. It's like a fucking Lifetime movie; I don't get what the fuck people see in it.
>>198596202Boomers eat that shit up. Look at Forrest Gump it is just some saccharine nostalgia tour with commercial gloss and no soul but they loved it.
>>198596150King isn’t a plot-oriented author and his success means his editors don’t want to kill the golden goose. The result is bloated meandering books. I personally like this style because I’m a fast reader and don’t like minimalism all the time. But if you’re trying to make a movie out of his book you’ll cut out a lot of the superfluous bits and have a more streamlined plot-driven piece that will be more accessible and enjoyable to the average viewer.
>>198596150King is great at coming up with concepts that become good movies.
>>198596243Forrest Gump is a million times better than shawshank
>>198595976Welp, he is not in my top 10, so why care about this Neanderthal
>>198596306also you cut pedophile and kiddy porn stuff which is in 90% of his books
>>198596202>>198596243retarded opinions.it's a great movie with tons of soul and a universal message about the endurance of the human soul.
>>198596345Which is worrying, considering how many of his stories are "what if a writer was in a place and something spooky happened" revealing a lot of his stories are based on experiences... they do say "write what you know", after all.
>>198596379I’ve simply seen it too much so I just see it as an over produced, over polished, sappy Hallmark movie.
>>198596330>Forrest Gump is a million times better than shawshank
>>198596345Other than a sex scene between teens in It what are examples of pedo shit in his books?
>>198596523Imagine having a qt3.14 to cuddle with to watch Hallmark movies with.
>>198596202>Shawshank Redemption is the most overrated fucking movie of all-time. It's like a fucking Lifetime movie; I don't get what the fuck people see in it.
>>198596150only book of his i read is carrie and i don't think the movie was better spacek is a qt though
>>198596150Not even remotely true. Matter of fact he tends to love the goofier adaptations from the likes of Romero and Garris just as much as the critically acclaimed shit, and the majority of the critically acclaimed ones tend to stick closest to the books.
>>198596527Off the top of my head there is a rape scene in The Library Policeman. I never thought the It scene was strange because it was some macroverse ritual thing that connected them all until adulthood to destroy evil. That’s how I read it not as sex among adolescents. The descriptions of kids being mutilated and killed especially the kid killed by his dad with a hammer were much more disturbing to me but I guess that is fine for most people.
You will now watch Romerokino.
>>198596150he’s way more open than most authors about film adaptations, it’s just Kubrick’s Shining he didn’t like
>>198596741Kubriks shining was filmed so much better even if the story wasn't as good. There's a scene in kings version where you can very clearly see the camera reflected in the front door of the Stanley and it's baffling to me that no one caught that in time to refilm.
>>198596527Carrie, Firestarter, Children of the corn, The Stand, Library Policeman. And there are a lot of fucked up sex parts in plenty oh his other works
>>198597058>CarrieNot sure about the others but wasn't that a blowjob scene where they were like 16. Hardly pedo.
>>198596024Lol, even that STD ridden jew wouldn't fuck her.
>>198597058What happened in The Stand?
>>198596150>They literally reveal him for the hack he is.Why does he get so many adaptations then?
>>198596150he hates the super successful ones, because they usually stray away from his books. Mid box office successes he likes like Stand By Me or The Dead Zone
>>198595976Kind was one of the ugliest men in the world when he was young, but as an old man he is kind of good looking. Is this normal?
Why did he think filming his own version of The Shining was a good idea, it makes the lawnmower man look like it was filmed by DaVinci
>>198597721Because his name is on them. He pumps out so many books a year that he dominated early "horror" stories, which meant he benefitted from heavy marketing. It's why now he puts out books and his name will take up half the front cover, being even larger than the title. It's also why his son's shit books got published, with the same reason they put KING as the largest text on the front cover.
>>198595976>top 10 kinos>all wrote by KingKing wrote the Klansman???? Based!
I honestly don't know why people like the Dark Tower series. Sure, the books are pretty decent but after he introduces himself as a character in his books they just nosedive in quality. They just become some sort of weird masturbation tool for King.
>>198596024>>198596561I love Sarah Gadon
For me? It's Dreamcatcher
>>198597840His son inherited his ugliness.
>>198597840>Is this normal?Yes, old age makes you uglier so if you were already ugly you just become "normal", while young beautiful people can only get worse. The wall is basically a layer of wrinkles that covers your former face
>>198596202The dialogue pisses me off so much. So fuckign schmaltzy
>>198595976And the best tv show is 11.22.63 starring James Franco and Sarah Gadon.
i just love silver bullet so much
>>198595976Hm I did a count of the 10 actually best movies and while there are book adaptations in there none of them are written by King
>>198595976He writes slop for novels, but the basic prompts are great outlines for movie scripts. It's up to the directors to make good pulp.
>>198600127Wait ok the Shining is a King adaptation? Ok he got one then. Not 50%
>>198595976Schlock makes for better movies than literature. See JAWS.
>>198596150Has Michael Fassbender ever been in a Stephen King adaptation like Sarah Gadon has?
