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Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, July 05, 2008 - 7:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I loved "The Shining" as a movie. It was wonderful. There were so many clever things about it. The mini series was okay but I don't think it captured the feeling as well. Nicholson was so over the top great in the movie and I felt that Shelley Duvall was excellent in her role as well. The little boy who played Danny was amazing as well as Scatman Crothers. I never felt that the actors in the mini-series fit their roles as well (LOL - they were too pretty looking) and the sets and cinematography just didn't measure up.

All of that said, I've never read a Stephen King novel. What are they like to read? It sounds odd but while I enjoy some horror movies, I don't think I have ever read a horror novel.

I'll have to look into the titles that people have been mentioning (not just horror stories of course but all of them).

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
Jimmer - my two favourite reads of Stephen King's are The Stand and The Shining. I thought the movie of the Shining was very true to the book (never saw the mini series).

Dean Koontz and John Saul (especially their older stuff) are two of my favourite horror authors.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Jim, if Stephen King's movies give ya a good horror movie thrill, you should love his books. Some of them are really frightening (first time I read IT, I couldn't sleep for days, lol, Pennywise terrified me!) Totally cool.

When the mini series for The Shining came out, King did an interview where he said the mini series was closer to his vision of the book than the original Nicholson movie was. I found that pretty interesting since I'd read the book several times, seen the original movie more than a few times and saw the mini series and thought the original movie was much better and spookier.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, I get more scared by SK's books than by the movies. In the books, you "hear" what the monsters are thinking and "feel" the fear and other strong emotions of the victims. He really develops the characters and gives much more detail than can be fit in a movie. Some of the spooky things are really too eerie to be able to depict on film too. They can really only come to life in your worst nightmare. LOL!

War, Pennywise must be the most horrifically scary clown of all time!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, Pet Semetary is a great Stephen King book. Much better than the movie. Misery was good as both a book and movie. Geez, I've read almost every Stephen King book and now I'm drawing a blank to name some. LOL

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I think Pet Semetary is what caused me to stop reading Stephen King books - it was way too scary! Of course, I had a toddler boy at the time, which made it even worse!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
I thought Pet Cematary was the scariest Stephen King book. I liked the movie too, but have a high tolerance for cheesy horror movies!

I haven't read a Stephen King book in like 20 years.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
After all of these great comments I'm curious enough that I'm going to have to try reading one!

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
When I read Pet Semetary, I had a 2-year-old. Little Gage in the book was 2 and something was going to happen to him on March 23, my little one's birthday. For those reasons, it was really hard to read that one, but I zipped right through it. It was wicked scary!

I liked Misery the movie even better than the book. Kathy Bates is such a good actress!

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
Forgot about the Dead Zone. That's a good novel and a good movie. A little more mainstream, i.e. not as much blood/gore or creepy cats buried up der in da cematary. It's unnatural, I tell ya!

I love Dolores Clairborne the movie but have never read the book. I adore that movie and Kathy Bates in it.

Great one liners in Dolores Claiborne!

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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Mak, I agree about Misery being better than the book. When Kathy Bates takes that sledgehammer to James Caan, I just didn't get the heebie jeebies when I read it like when I saw it.

Jodied75
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08-26-2004

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodied75 a private message Print Post    
Nyheat, I LOVED Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. I thought his adaptation was so cool. I loved the movie and it was the only Shakespeare adaptation that I ever bawled through.

I remember at the time I was tutoring high school students who were all prepared to hate Shakespeare and their starter play is always Romeo and Juliet.

I used to show the movie in my home, and then have them compare and note similarities and differences between the play and movie. The kids thought it was great. Even the guys who sneered at Leo loved the movie.

That's where I best remember Lost's Harold Perrineau - from his role as Mercutio. He was just so darned funny as a drag queen, and so, so tragic in his death scene.

It's these kinds of adaptations I love. Anyone know of anymore Shakespeare movies like that - very untraditional, etc.? "O" wasn't too bad.

Another mention - I loved the book and the movie Fight Club.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 8:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh, I love Pet Semetary, one of my favorites. Heh, Mak, between Pennywise and that damn clown doll from Poltergiest I've never been able to look at clowns the same way.

Misery was one of the few movies I thought was way way better than the book and it was all Kathy Bates. She was way scary and wicked spooky.

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
The Princess Bride

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 8:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Anne of Green Gables and one or two of the other books early in the series. Movie(s) could not have been better. Perfect casting, etc., etc.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I was watching it last night, Color. I still cry like a baby at the end when she finds Gil.

Scotchbright
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10-05-2006

Saturday, September 13, 2008 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scotchbright a private message Print Post    
I read through this whole thread thinking that I needed to bring up Pride and Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, and I get to the end and see they're both already mentioned - cool! I see some of my other favorites are already mentioned - and some I hadn't known about. Thanks Jodie for starting this thread, I think I'll start renting a few more movies and going to the used book store first.



PS: I have my very own Pet Cementary story to tell - sometime. It's very creepy, though, and TRUE, so that movie and book are always weird for me to see talked about....

Scotchbright
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10-05-2006

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scotchbright a private message Print Post    
An 'okay' book that turned in a pretty good movie was Bridget Jones' Diary. Not the second one, but the first is entertaining.

The books were only so-so in my opinion.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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84 Charing Cross Road: Excellent book & movie!

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
The Wizard of Oz has been the most famous long lasting movie made from a book! All that from a children's book written in 1900.