Stephen King movies. Top 5

skipsneeky2

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Pet cemetary
IT
Needful things

There is so many other good movies,honestly i can't put 2 more on that list just cause they are so good.
 
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Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are tops for me. Oh and the Shining. Green Mile was pretty good too. Not sure what others I'd elevate to that level.

Of the cheesier ones, Silver Bullet, IT (well until the end), Running Man, Maximum Overdrive, there's a bunch of others but I think those are my favorites.
 

silverpig

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1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Stand By Me
3. The Shining
4. The Green Mile

Don't really have a 5th.

Funny thing is the first two were from the same book. Apt Pupil also came from that same book. There's a 4th story in it as well that hasn't been made into a movie. It wasn't a great story.
 

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Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are tops for me. Oh and the Shining. Green Mile was pretty good too. Not sure what others I'd elevate to that level.

Of the cheesier ones, Silver Bullet, IT (well until the end), Running Man, Maximum Overdrive, there's a bunch of others but I think those are my favorites.
I like most of your picks. But, flicks like Running man, Lawnmower man; short stories written under his pen name, stray so far from the originals that I do not count them.

I did not care for Silver Bullet. Tommy Knockers I liked, but would have benefited from a bigger budget and adult content you get on a pay channel. The same goes for The Stand. I liked Misery too. Kathy Bates was outstanding.
 

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1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Stand By Me
3. The Shining
4. The Green Mile

Don't really have a 5th.

Funny thing is the first two were from the same book. Apt Pupil also came from that same book. There's a 4th story in it as well that hasn't been made into a movie. It wasn't a great story.

My list exactly!
 

TheVrolok

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Shawshank, The Mist, The Shinning, The Green Mile, Stand By Me in no particular order. Pet Cemetery gets a mention. IT would, but the book was so, so, so much better, same goes for The Stand.
 

trmiv

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Hard to do 5, because he has both horror and drama.

Action/Drama
1)Shawshank Redemption
2)Stand By Me
3)Green Mile
4)The Running Man
5)The Stand

Horror
1)The Shining
2)Christine
3)Pet Sematary
4)IT (just for Pennywise)

Haven't seen The Mist yet.
 

Jimzz

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Its funny that King is "known" for horror writing but his best work, IMO, has been outside the standard horror fitting.

My favs are pretty much the same as most Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Stand By Me, etc...
 

BrokenVisage

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1. Shawshank
2. Green Mile
3. Stand By Me
4. Misery
5. Pet Cemetary

Special mention to The Running Man though because it kicks so much ass.
 
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I like most of your picks. But, flicks like Running man, Lawnmower man; short stories written under his pen name, stray so far from the originals that I do not count them.

I did not care for Silver Bullet. Tommy Knockers I liked, but would have benefited from a bigger budget and adult content you get on a pay channel. The same goes for The Stand. I liked Misery too. Kathy Bates was outstanding.

I get what you're saying, but well that's Stephen King for you. Its why I kinda split it. Some of his stuff got translated and in some ways improved upon for the movie, while others didn't. Then again its not like all his stuff, even the good ones are exactly masterpieces.

I really expected to hate Silver Bullet, but its like Maximum Overdrive, its not a good movie but its cheesy fun. Same with a lot of his anthology stuff like Creepshow (I think he had a hand in like all of those back then).

Yeah Misery was pretty good and fits more in with the serious non-supernatural ones. It'd probably be the 5th one.

I didn't especially like The Stand, its watchable and I can see the appeal but I just don't think its all that good. It reminds me a lot of the Walking Dead tv show, only I found it (The Stand) more interesting/unique and without all the crap filler on Walking Dead.

I want to say I liked Tommy Knockers but I can't remember it at all.

A couple of really bad ones of his that I enjoyed:
Graveyard Shift (the one in the mill with the rats)
Cat's Eye (one with the little troll)

Then there's others that I don't dislike or really like. Children of the Corn, Carrie, Lawnmover Man, Needful Things, Pet Cemetary (I'd probably elevate this but I don't remember it all that well). They were decent but didn't quite take the next step for me. Running Man would probably be in here but Ah-nuld, the game show host, and I just think it elevated itself (in the so bad its good manner) enough.

I can't really recall the last one of his that I really liked. I enjoyed The Mist but I don't think it was a good movie.
 
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Which version of the Shining do you guys like?
I only saw the miniseries with Molly Ringwald.

Oh if you haven't watched the Kubrick Shining then you're missing out.

I think you're getting it confused, Molly Ringwald was in The Stand, not the Shining TV series.

I only watched part of the TV one and it just didn't do much for me. I don't think it was terrible but it just can't compare to an R rated Kubrick flick with Jack Nicholson from that era.
 

shortylickens

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Oh, whoops. Sorry, I meant which version of the Stand did you guys like?

And the TV Shining sucked. The old man lived, Steve Weber is way too goofy to take seriously as a psycho, and Rebecca DeMornay had no charm at all.
 
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