Which was better?

[Rmhill10]

Do you think the movie was better or the story?

[Mr. Palmer]

Definitely the short.

To be honest, I'm not a fan of the film.

[bopropadop]

Do you think the movie was better or the story?

The written story for me. I almost always prefer the book. The Mist and The Shining (TV version) are about the best adaptations that I've seen. I still enjoyed 1408 (the movie) but I'd rather read it or listen to Sai King reading it on the audio version.

[jacobtlong]

I like the film. If only because it scared my father so bad that he spilled popcorn all over himself when he jumped.

But Sai King is untouchable when it comes to the written word. I'll take his books over the movies any day...even though I like some of the movies a lot.

[Jake Featherston]

The story was excellent, but I thought the movie was garbage.

[Sitarhero]

Hmmm not to be rude or anything but I am wondering if the majority of people here vote written story out of pure loyalty to our S.King. To be honest, even though it wasn't the greatist adaption (saying that it didn't follow the story) I do think the additions and changes they made were much better then the oringinal tale... Hmmmm

[michal]

The book was better by a mile in my view. The film was... Well, boring to be frank and while I understand how hard it is to pull off an interesting movie when you basically have only one character (and an evil presence ), Hitchcock managed similar tricks with what I felt was a better success.
The story was great through, and I like the written hero much more than I did the Hollywood-designed one.

[Jake Featherston]

Hmmm not to be rude or anything but I am wondering if the majority of people here vote written story out of pure loyalty to our S.King.

I don't have any misplaced loyalty to some man I've never met; my "loyalty," as it were, only extends to the quality of his writing. 1408 just happens to be an extremely good story, and the movie is one of the worst things I have ever seen. My wife felt the same way (about the story and the movie; 1408 was the very first thing she'd ever read by Stephen King, by the way). The movie is simply atrocious, which was hardly surprising; the only way a movie adaptation of 1408 could have been any good is if it were a short (5-20 minute) film - the idea of making a 90+ minute cinematic version of this story was always a fool's errand.

[jamconsulting]

Do you think the movie was better or the story?

I think the book version is better than the movie 90% of the time. If the book is written after the movie the movie wins. In the case of Harry Potter I liked the books best. A Dark Tower movie would be really scary; but you would need to read the books to understand what was going on. What say you?

[Srbo]

I absolutely hate the movie, and I admit that I didn`t even read the story yet.
The movie is so bad, IMO, that I avoid the story exactly because of the movie.