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....I agree with #'s 1, 3 & 4-would add Stand By Me.....1. Shawshank Redemption
2. 1408
3. Green Mile
4. Misery
5. Maximum Overdrive (Trucks)
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. 1408
3. Green Mile
4. Misery
5. Maximum Overdrive (Trucks)
That would definitely make my top 10 but just outside the top 5 range...along with Christine and Needful Things.......I agree with #'s 1, 3 & 4-would add Stand By Me.....
Saw it when I was a kid, just loved the AC/DC soundtrack and thought the plot was cool. I'd already read Night Shift, which is where I read "Trucks" and saw that the movie was based on the story. At that time in my life, anything that remotely had to do with Stephen King got my immediate and full attention. I was also a fan of Emilio Estevez so all in all, I very much liked the movie when I first saw it and still do.I like Maximum Overdrive and Trucks too. I have no idea why, I just like them. Do you know why you like them?
...hell, the SK cameo was worth the price of admission!.....Saw it when I was a kid, just loved the AC/DC soundtrack and thought the plot was cool. I'd already read Night Shift, which is where I read "Trucks" and saw that the movie was based on the story. At that time in my life, anything that remotely had to do with Stephen King got my immediate and full attention. I was also a fan of Emilio Estevez so all in all, I very much liked the movie when I first saw it and still do.
One of the weirdest things for me is how the best King movies either diverge greatly from his vision (The Shining) or are not actually horror-based (Stand By Me, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption).
. I was reading a reply I very much agreed with and realised it was my own..
At least you didn't disagree.
All 3 Carrie adaptations are good, I think. Different, but good.Actually, if I had to pick just one, it would be Carrie. That's about as perfect as a novel-to-film adaptation can get. Along with Scarface or Dressed to Kill, it's really De Palma at his best. The cast, cinematography, editing, music - everything is great about it. Also, since it's a short novel (by King's standards), that meant not a lot from it was lost. I would have liked to see the scene where Carrie goes into a church after she leaves the dance and makes everything inside move and fly around. But I think that might have been too expensive on the budget they had and perhaps it may have given the movie too many climaxes: Carrie wreaking havoc at the dance is a climax, confronting Billy and Chris in their car is one, the scene with her mother when she comes home, the dreamsequence at the end. It seems to have more climaxes than most films already.
It's too bad De Palma never did another King adaptation, although the subject of supernatural powers still interested him enough to make The Fury next, which isn't quite as good as Carrie, but still an interesting film, imo.