Not the biggest fan of this movie

[ChickenStu]

I don't think it's awful by any means, but I think it has problems. For a start, in the book all the best lines are said by Brutus, but in the movie they are all given to Paul Edgecomb. Don't really understand why that is.

Also, the scene where Coffey heals that guy's wife.. it has nowhere near the profound power it's supposed to have, cause the previous scene with the mouse was so egged up.
Just feels very anti-climactic and kind of lurches to the end.

Thoughts?

[GLewman]

I thought it was outstanding...Tom Hanks? eh ...always thought he was a little over rated and not really right for the part...the old guy who played Paul in the home was excellent and the ending lived up to the book IMO

[GNTLGNT]

I felt it was one of the better adaptations done to this point...and the artistic liberties didn't perturb me that much...

[JellybeanJay]

I would have to agree with you on most of your comments. I didn't have the same emotional attachment to the movie as I did to the book. There are parts of the book that had me in tears but didn't evoke the same emotion on screen.

I do have to say that I thought the casting was awesome! Casting Sam Rockwell as Wild Bill and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey was sheer genius!

[MyLife4YouSK]

Totally disagree. Well, except maybe the giving the best lines to Paul in the movie. Tom's the star after all, of course he'd get the best lines.
I thought this movie was the 2nd best movie adaption., Shawshank would get my #1 vote. Everyone I talk to that say they don't read SK because he writes that 'scary crap', I tell them he wrote The Green Mile and Shawshank and they're blown away. Makes them think, hey maybe he doesn't only write horror? I thought it was perfectly cast and played out. I don't think there was a single thing I disliked about this movie., AND Man, didn't you just love to hate Percy Wetmore? I'd like to slap that actor if i ever saw him in real life. LOL Frank Darabont Rules!

[blunthead]

Totally disagree...Everyone I talk to that say they don't read SK because he writes that 'scary crap', I tell them he wrote The Green Mile and Shawshank and they're blown away. Makes them think, hey maybe he doesn't only write horror?...

I appreciate mylife4usk's commitment to spreading the gospel, as it were; to shed light, to share truth. I was biased at one time. I appreciate being set straight.

Since this thread isn't specifically a movie-vs-book one, I can comment (I haven't read The Green Mile, yet). I think the movie stands on its own exceptionally well; a movie quality I always feel reflects well on sK. Darabont does good work, and I'm glad he's helping share the truth.

[Teddy Duchamp]

Totally disagree. Well, except maybe the giving the best lines to Paul in the movie. Tom's the star after all, of course he'd get the best lines.
I thought this movie was the 2nd best movie adaption., Shawshank would get my #1 vote. Everyone I talk to that say they don't read SK because he writes that 'scary crap', I tell them he wrote The Green Mile and Shawshank and they're blown away. Makes them think, hey maybe he doesn't only write horror? I thought it was perfectly cast and played out. I don't think there was a single thing I disliked about this movie., AND Man, didn't you just love to hate Percy Wetmore? I'd like to slap that actor if i ever saw him in real life. LOL Frank Darabont Rules!

I totally agree with you. I read the book while on holiday and my husband wondered what on earth was wrong when he heard the loud sobs coming from the bathroom in the middle of the night! Saw the film a couple of years later and I felt it very true to the book, and was just as "moved" by the story as I was by reading the book. And that is something because very rarely does a film translate everything so well. Two others of SK I loved were "the Stand" (TV series) and "the Shawshank Redemption", which is one of my all time ever favourite films - the scene at the end never fails to make my heart lift - where at the end of the Green Mile I am blowing my nose and sobbing.

[Fester Addams]

I watched the movie again a couple of days ago and I think I can watch it another 1000 times. There' re only few good Stephen King adaptations but this one is brilliant. Only Shawshank Redemption is better.

[Sigmund]

The Green Mile is one of my all time favorites.
I cried when John cured the warden's wife. The way the woman "recognized" him in the dark, the way she "understood" that he was a part of her life, her being lost (dying) and wandering in the "dark" (between life and death" and her bestowing her medallion of St. Cristopher (Patron Saint of travelers) showed , to me at least, that John was a traveler in the dark (dark, confused, the-betwwen life and death, people may find themselves) was extremely poignant.

[clownshooter]

I can't add anything so I am just going to nod my head and say "Tell it like it is!"