What are his worst movies. Hardmode: no non horror
Maximum OverdriveThe Dark Halfany Children of the Corn except the original
>>200761445The Dark Half was ok. Carrie (2013), Shining tv miniseries and especially The Dark Tower were worse adaptations.
>>200761445Maximum Overdrive is definetly the worstbecause its just fucking boring and it sucks because it was his first time as a director
>>200761445Maximum Overdrive/Trucks basically Disney's Cars in a horror movie
whichever one where the kids die
Lawnmower man was pretty fucking bad. Not only in the "nothing like the short story" way, but in itself.
>>200763303Lawnmower Man is definitely up there, yeah. It's bad enough that people are always surprised when they find out it was Stephen King at all.
>>200763349it wasn't, really. the studio had some techno thriller written by some guy but also had the rights to a 20 page king story and frankensteined them together. the story has nothing to do with anything that's in the movie and he sued and won to get his name taken off. BUT the studio decided to just eat the daily fine to keep his name on the posters instead of changing them because it was more profitable to.
>>200761372Holy unibrow, Batman.
Cell
>>200761372King trying to be le spooky warped man irl was so cringe.
>>200764676That is hilarious, but in that case I'm not sure if it really counts for the thread question then. I honestly haven't seen enough of his stuff to have a solid answer, but I can say The Mist is at least my favorite.
Sleepwalkers
>>200764813was Cell a Stephen King joint?
Unironically I hate It. And I think Misery is just King sniffing his own farts. https://youtu.be/Uv7LwFPp3SY?si=mXHZRzH9txOIlBi8
>>200765240nobody got it?
>>200765982no. should show you how lame Misery actually is. You can literally say "cockadoodie car" and no one won't.
>>200761372This is equal to $20,000 in current year
>>200761372Dude looks like a Gameboy camera error screen
>>200766254You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.
>>200768503Please apologize
I think Stephen King SUCKS
>>200768943i think the 80's suck
>>200761372That's easy mode. His best movies were non-horror.
Under the Dome is okay
>>200764813>back of the book points out that King doesn't own a cell phone>only a few years later he writes a short story shilling an iphone
>>200766254Can't remember if it was him or some other pulp writer (Koontz, Crichton) who repeatedly had a character say "Fuck a duck" in some book. Literally no one has ever said that irl
What are his good movies? That's a better question with a much shorter answer>The Stand miniseries (1994)>Thinner (1996)>The Shining (1980)That would be it
>>200769663>Stand miniseriesActual shit and poorly cast.>ThinnerNobody remembers>ShiningSo departed from the source material that it ended up being a backhanded biopic surrounding King's abusive tendencies. That was Kubrick, not King.
>>200769775>Actual shitJust like your taste in film!>Nobody remembersPepperidge Farms remembers>departed from the source materialThat's why it's good
>>200769663Misery, Carrie, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Christine
>>200769837>Just like your taste in film!Stand miniseries was TV, not film. Make an effort for Chrissakes.
>>200761372Silver Bullet>who is the werewolf>is it the priest who has an eyepatch on right after we hit the werewolf in the eye with a rocket?>…………………..yesAlso nobody in this thread said The Langoliers so I’m guessing this is a zoomer majority thread
>>200769874Made for television movie shot on 16mm film. Consider walking in front of a van like your boy
Tommyknockers. His best movies weren't horror, Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile.
>>200769839I'm lukewarm about Shawshank and Misery but I really liked Christine. It deserves to be on the list too ngl
>>200769970The Langoliers is in the so bad it circles around and becomes good again category.
>>200770051>Made for television movieWrong again, it was a miniseries.
>>200770155Same shit.
>>200769579Which ones?
>>200769598So weird how much this got parodied during the time for such a flash in the pan thing. The Simpsons movie, and Regular Show had a full season parody of it for some fucking reason.
>>200770155I already said that but we'll say you have shit taste in miniseries as well as film and call it a day
>>200770212Shawshank Redemption was based on a King story.
>>200769970>Fuck a duckSilver Bullet is Busey and Haim kino, you filtered faggot.
>>200770212Apt PupilStand By Me
>>200764813Cell is definitely top 3 worst. 1. Secret Window 2. Cell The Night Flyer is top 3 best btw.
>>200770324It’s a good low budget horror movie and Busey is his normal self
>>200769645That was dreamcatcher and I think it was”fuck a dee, fuck a doo” which is equally stupid.
>>200770755>Busey is his normal self
>>2007696631. The Night Flyer 2. The Raft (Creepshow 2, short story) 3. Stand By Me (The Body short story) 4. Pet Semetery (captures the fugue state dread of the book, and the King "look") 5. The Shining (points reduced for deviation; miniseries is shitty though) 6. Misery (same director as Stand By Me, Rob Reiner, equally detestable politically) Stormy of the Century miniseries has quite a little following now. Thinner is underrated. The Langoliers and The Lawnmower Man have their 90s CGI charm, even if LM is simply in name only. Carrie is great aesthetically but is tonally distant, whereas Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness would be a top 5 King work had it been King.
>>200770432>>200770885The Night Flyer is so fucking underrated.It's one of the cases in which the movie is better than the tale.
>>200769970>>200770132The Langoliers is like a hotel I plan to die in. So comfy. So much endless sprawl.
>>200769663creepshow, the shining, the deadzone.
>>200770800The Dreamcatcher is horrible.I remember going to watch it with my then GF (I was a wee lad) and we weren't even bored or disappointed we were MAD.
nobody mentioning the deadzone as one of the best is criminal.
The myst is good.If you disagree, remember King said that he preferred the movie ending to his book's.Count as >>200770916>It's one of the cases in which the movie is better than the tale.I presume.
>>200771006>The Night FlyerWhat the fuck is 'no bounce, no play' even supposed to mean? Stephen King puts retarded boomer shit like that in his movies far too often. In what fucking world does he think that a world-ending disease would be called "captain tripps" because a single reporter was a Greatful Dead fan?
>>200770916It really is. One of the few adaptations where King gave input. They even nailed the settings. The director is still gunning to make another King movie. He directed a slasher with a moto-themed killer a few years ago that is pretty cool, great third act. The Night Flyer is on YT for any anons who have neglected it, link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VbzDBIchy9c&pp
>>200771013>>200770974What makes Deadzone so good?
>>200761372I dare you to watch this all in one sitting.
The first episode of Nightmares & Dreamscapes miniseries, based on the story Battleground is really good and underrated. Stars William Hurt and the entire episode is done without any dialog. Watch it for free on Youtube: https://youtu.be/MHzA2s46fUs
that's kind of a loaded question. You got the "so bad it's good movies" on one side, then you got the movies mst3k would call "deep hurting". Deep hurting movies were not only bad but there was nothing going on to make fun of. So it was the equivalent of watching paint dry. But now a days you got a lot of redditors making self aware "bad" movies, crowding out the poor end film makers trying to take their art seriously.
>>200770857Excellent advertisement for Shake Shack
>>200771250Martin Sheen and Walken are really good in it
>>200761372Guys we have to vote for WW3 to save democracy!
>>200771706kill yourself
>>200771706This but unironically. Democracy doesn't work with too many people or too many different "interest groups."
>>200770755>Busey is his normal selfSo pure, unadulterated kino.
>>200761372This guy is such a boring normie fucking idiot is a degen in drugs n just being a lazy jackass but that's it. beyond that he is so fucking boring and nothing then gets on social media after such a career of being the top dog in horror and one of the best in writing period and says the shit he does. Can write so much then shows such a genuine desperation for others to like him and agree with himGoddamn what a weak son of a bitch. Fucking loser from beginning to end Don't do drugs. don't drink. drink water, eat tasty shit that's good for you. Run and lift weights at least once a week or so, assuming you don't life when you work. be a real caring intelligent person who matters. Guys like Stephen King aren't that
>>200765140Yes, the one with Cusack.
>>200771989Democracy has always been a failed system. Its crazy how it suddenly became le most important government in the history of forever in Western societies since the 1700s. Heck Western societies aren't even truly Democratic seeing as how each country basically has a militant aparatus that maintains the status quo so no real change is possible This will all end with one side on the throne once and for all
>>200772142>Democracy has always been a failed system.NTA but I don't care about your turd worlder opinions. We are talking about movies inspired by Stephen King's books.Now shut the fuck up retard.
>>200772142Yeah, I'm starting to think some kind of monarchism is the best form of government. The only problem is that it needs some sort of failsafe for when someone truly fucking insane gets the throne. Though I'm not sure how often that kind of thing actually happened through history in the long term.
>>200761372He only directed one, and it was bad
>>200771441so anon you RECOMMEND this one, right?
>>200770857Busey is kino distilled down into its purest form
>>200761372The Quicksilver Highway is honestly one of the worst things i've ever seen in my 44 years of existence.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119975/
>>200772286Most monarchs actually had a pretty boring reign but people seem to think it's some sort of a coin flip between a tyrant and a hero because the exceptional ones stand out. Like for instance, people know who Louis XIV was, but I don't think I've ever met anyone who could tell me a single thing about the 15 other Louises who ruled France.
>>200770857Busey was sort of an aspirational figure to me as a kid, being incredibly ugly. Seeing him being successful kept me through the worst of it, gave me a broader view of life. Seeing him so old scares me in a way I can't articulate right.
>>200771250https://youtu.be/MYnGAZl3pjs?si=8Uzokgj-aHo4OJCT
>>200769663>any king miniseries>goodThe movies are pretty hit or miss but the shows are almost uniformly garbage
>>200775092Salem's Lot and It were good.
what was the one with the Cat aliens who tried to be humans?
>>200772135Ohhh I thought it was the Vince Vaugn/JLaw one
Aside from the coke how does he churn out so much shit that he has to make several pseudonyms just to get his shit published? I've been to Maine. Things aren't nearly as lit there as he wants you to think.
>>200770240There was a book series I read back in high schoolvthat took Under the Dome to a completely better level by making all the Dome inhabitants kids and turning half of them into mutants. It was written by the same lady who wrote the Animorphs books and her husband if i recall. And it had some violent shit for a young adult book series.
>>200776267Sleepwalkers.
>>200771250CronenbergAlready mentioned but next to The Dead Zone, Christine is great (because Carpenter), maybe Shawshank as well.
>>200777681yeah that movie shouldn't have been done from the cat alien's perspective. I don't think you should show the villain if you can help it.
>>200761372movies made by females who has no clue what they're doing and no idea/story/concept they followAint into misogyny, just speaking from experience,
>>200764843Sleepwalkers is like some AI shit. it's hard to believe humans made it.
>>200763303>>200763349it gave us this thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYkgWJzJ6fE
