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10-06-2003, 04:35 PM
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The Shining screwed with my head when I was a kid, and it still continues to do so. And I'm talking about the real Jack Nicholson version, not Stephen Weber!
Rose Red is also a favorite. It kinda hits close to home because I actually have a place here in Honolulu that I can't step foot in.
The worst Stephen King movie probably has to be "The Langoliers"...it starred Patricia Wettig from thirtysomething and Bronson Pinchot (Balkie Bartakamous from Perfect Strangers) and it was shown on ABC. It's often shown on USA and Sci Fi now.
That IMDB site told me a lot of stuff I didn't know...like how he wrote one of my most favorite movies of all time -- Stand By Me!
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10-06-2003, 04:42 PM
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How many of those movies did Stephen King actually direct?
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I don't think he ever directed any movies. Though he does make a lot of cameo appeareances. He did have leading role in Creep Show 1, the farmer dude. Also, in a majority of his movies, he dies.
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10-06-2003, 04:45 PM
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Best: The SHINING!!! That movie scares the bejeezus out of me every time!
Honorable mention: Carrie, The Stand (which objectively sucks, but I appreciate it for Molly Ringwald and pure kitsch value)
Worst: Thinner is an awful, awful movie
Rasberries go to:
- The Stephen King version of The Shining. Not only was Steven Weber just not believable, the kid in that movie was NOWHERE near as talented as that original kid.
- Sleepwalkers? I think that was the name of the movie- with Alice Krige and Brian Krause? And they're like some form of werecat? And Brian Krause is trying to bang and kill Madchen Amick? That movie is awful
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10-06-2003, 05:38 PM
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I forgot all about The Shining and FireStarter. The Shining scared the crap out of me everytime.
I absolutely love FireStarter (Drew Barrymore played the little girl - no?). I would yell out "Burn them bastids!!!".  
Creepshow was a doozy, especially the story with the big bugs. 
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10-06-2003, 05:55 PM
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The Best: Misery and The Shawshank Redemption
The Worst: Pet Semetary (sp?)
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10-06-2003, 05:57 PM
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Carrie was my favorite....."They're all gonna laugh at you!"
The Stand was my second favorite....not GREAT, but it was the first miniseries event of my youth. Roots came out before I was born, and V came out when i was too young to appreciate it.
Least favorite..... Cat's Eye. (Wasn't that him?)
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10-06-2003, 06:19 PM
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Carrie was my favorite....."They're all gonna laugh at you!"
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LOL!
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10-06-2003, 06:43 PM
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I didn't realize that Salem's Lot was a Stephen King movie. That movie scared the crap out of me. I think that I had to sleep with the light on.
My sisters and I always say, "They're all gonna laugh at you!" just like the mother in the Sissy Spacek movie. Whenever that movie is on, people tell me I look like Carrie. Weird because I don't see it.
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10-06-2003, 07:58 PM
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LOL Thinner, how could i foget that piece of garbage...? As bad as it is i think Langoliers takes the cake, King shouldn't have bothered with the cameo, knowing that he saw the script for that piece of garbage doesn't help.
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10-06-2003, 08:35 PM
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I didn't realize that Salem's Lot was a Stephen King movie. That movie scared the crap out of me. I think that I had to sleep with the light on.
My sisters and I always say, "They're all gonna laugh at you!" just like the mother in the Sissy Spacek movie. Whenever that movie is on, people tell me I look like Carrie. Weird because I don't see it.
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I don't see it either. Carrie?
Weird.
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10-06-2003, 08:50 PM
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I don't see it either. Carrie?
Weird.
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I know. Pasty white girls all look alike apparently, lol!
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10-06-2003, 09:03 PM
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I can't believe I forgot Salem's Lot! That was my first Stephen King movie...I was spending the night at a friends house, we weren't allowed to watch it (it was on cable-and cable was new, if that tells anyone how long ago this was). We snuck into the room & watched it from behind my friend's Dad's chair....scared me so bad, I couldn't sleep for days.
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10-06-2003, 09:06 PM
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I know. Pasty white girls all look alike apparently, lol!
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LOL!
I thought that was my line! 
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10-06-2003, 09:33 PM
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Carrie is awesome, as was The Shining (the original w/ Jack Nicholson--the Steven Weber from Wings version is ok and stays true to the book, but I couldn't get over the fact that it's Steven Weber from Wings ). The Green Mile was also very good, and I love The Shawshank Redemption even though I haven't read the short story.
Needful Things was probably the most horrendous SK movie ever.
ETA: Out of curiosity, I IMDB'd Stephen King. Here's the page with all of his stuff: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/
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OMG!!! I loved the book Needful Things. That book was off the chain. I do agree that the movie SUCKED! I was so mad when I saw it
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10-07-2003, 12:53 AM
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I still can't watch Salem's Lot. When it first came out, I was with a group of friends playing cards. Someone decided we should watch it while we played. It scared me so much I had to sit with my back to the tv as we kept on playing cards.
To this very day, when Salem's Lot comes on tv some wiseass calls me up and says "Want to play cards tonight???"
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