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Oh god wanted.....seriously? Never watched it, never want to EVER. As soon as I saw the part in the preview where they were "whipping the bullet" I think I vomited in my mouth. No, Im all for OTT action and gun battles sure....but there is a friggin limit!


OOOOOHHHHHH mystery science theater 3k. Yea Ive watched some of those shows before. All the letters confused ma brain

I liked 'It' - Tim Curry as Pennywise gave me nightmares when I was a kid. Gets my vote for scariest performance ever.



Ugh. Still freaks me out a bit.

Tim Curry as Pennywise was (IMO) the only good thing about the movie "IT",but I belive that's becuase the book just didn't translate to film very well.
I also recall the first time I saw "IT",I kept expecting Pennywise to appear in fishnets & lacy under things singing "Sweet Transvestite".

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Just movies I hate in No order.
- Indiana Jones 4
- Matrix 2&3
- Mission Impossible 1,2,3
- All Scary Movies
- All American Pie Movies
- The Happening

Why the hate for Mission Impossible? At least the first one was pretty good, I loved that whole scene with Ethan in the vault (Trying to drop down and hack the computer without touching the ground). Plus, the old Nintendo 64 game was awesome. One of the best (and first) spy games released, especially since it actually had sneaking and gadget use to make it interesting.

Although I'll agree with you on just about everything else. Scary/Epic/Date/Superhero movies were all pretty stupid, as were the American Pie films. I still don't see why people hate the newest Indiana Jones movie to such a degree. While the ending was just silly (Aliens, really?) the movie was pretty action-packed, and it had plenty of funny moments.

FITZZ wrote: Tim Curry as Pennywise was (IMO) the only good thing about the movie "IT",but I belive that's becuase the book just didn't translate to film very well.
I also recall the first time I saw "IT",I kept expecting Pennywise to appear in fishnets & lacy under things singing "Sweet Transvestite".

Or the devil!!!!


Personally Stephen Kings movies are few and far between that I like. Usually they are just too weird to cross that gap. I like The Stand and shinning though. Those are easily my 2 faves from him. The rest though........ could make a list of gak-tacular movies

IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.

FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.

When i saw the preview of this message i thought you were listing your top 10 worst... i almost had a stroke

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.

When i saw the preview of this message i thought you were listing your top 10 worst... i almost had a stroke

Sorry about that corpses..

If I were however to list "Stephen King films that are awful" I'd have to say.
The Running Man
IT
The Stand
Tommyknockers
Sleepwalkers
Silver Bullet (adapted from the book Cycle of the Werewolf)
Salems Lot ( I hate both versions of this film,the 1970s version with David Soul & James Mason and the more recent version with Rob Lowe and people I can't remember.)

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FITZZ wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.

When i saw the preview of this message i thought you were listing your top 10 worst... i almost had a stroke

Sorry about that corpses..

If I were however to list "Stephen King films that are awful" I'd have to say.
The Running Man
IT
The Stand
Tommyknockers
Sleepwalkers
Silver Bullet (adapted from the book Cycle of the Werewolf)
Salems Lot ( I hate both versions of this film,the 1970s version with David Soul & James Mason and the more recent version with Rob Lowe and people I can't remember.)

aww.... The Running Man is a great movie! in the same way that Commando and Total Recall are good movies!

"sub zero....now...PLAIN ZERO!!!"

IG_urban wrote:


aww.... The Running Man is a great movie! in the same way that Commando and Total Recall are good movies!

"sub zero....now...PLAIN ZERO!!!"

That was a pretty funny "Arnoldism"

And I agree that The Running Man is a good movie in the same sense that Commando and Total Recall are good movies,in that none of them are very good movies...but can be good for a laugh or two.

My fav line in there was
"OVER HERE CHRISTMAS TREE"
Ive no clue how I would even spell that in Ahnold talk. Also I had no idea that King wrote The green mile and Shawshank redemption. Those movies are really good. Thats surprising

He also wrote the book that Stand By Me is based off of. Its called The Body. Good movie. Leeches in the Whitey Tighty's, scarey stuff...

dietrich wrote:Not to derail this thread too much, but I've always been perplexed why 20th Fox never made a sequel called Colonial Marines. Find a new gribbly monster, a new platoon of stereotypes, and more explosions!

They sorta did, just decided to make the Colonial Marines the bad guys this time:



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For some reason, only Stephen King's non-horror stories make good movies:

Shawshank
Stand By Me
Green Mile

The horro ones (even The Shining & Carrie) are just plain bad.

Ever seen the movie version of Dreamcatcher? I heard it was pretty bad, and nowhere near the novel. (Only ever seen the movie - just as a movie, not too bad, but I heard it was terrible compared to the book form).

Locclo wrote:Ever seen the movie version of Dreamcatcher? I heard it was pretty bad, and nowhere near the novel. (Only ever seen the movie - just as a movie, not too bad, but I heard it was terrible compared to the book form).

Yup its pretty bad, actually its worse than that.


Fritzz: ummmmm silver bullet made your worst list? shame on you, its one of the few werewolf movies where the werewolf actually has a reason for killing rather than just rage. sure its old, and sure it has a few weakpoints but i refute your opinion on this. ( its one of my favorite werewolf movies. hands down much better than half of the fuzzy movies out there.)

@ Hawkins.

I did hesitate for a moment or two prior to adding Silver Bullet to that list as it does have a certian amount of charm.
My primary reason for adding it is that the movie didn't do the book justice.
However,I certainly wouldn't say it's the best werewolf film ever made,(not that you did),IMO American werewolf in London,Dog Soilders,The Howling & The Wolf Man (the original Lon Chaney JR. version) are all vastly superior films.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:
The horro ones (even The Shining & Carrie) are just plain bad.

I have to disagree about the Shining. The Shining is a great film. Carrie, yeah, it was lame.

Khornholio wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:
The horror ones (even The Shining & Carrie) are just plain bad.

I have to disagree about the Shining. The Shining is a great film. Carrie, yeah, it was lame.

Being a HUGE Stephen King fan and a HUGE kubrick fan..The Shining is a paradox. It is loosely based on the book...but as far as film, cinematography, subltey, direction, writing, and storytelling goes.....The Shining is hands down one of the greatest suspense/horror/movies in general...ever.

I have got to add "Where the wild things are." to this list.
Not so much due to the fact it was an awful film,wich I found it meh,I got all the symbolism and social comentary..it was just dull,but more so to "marketing".
This film was marketed as a "childrens film",aimed at a young audience,wild thing toys in happy meals..etc.
Now,anyone who has seen this film and can claim it is a film for children obviously dosn't have children.
I watched it with my son and he seemed quite depressed by the whole film,now,I'm not one of those "wrap your kids in bubble wrap and protect them from the big bad world parents",but FFS this was obviously NOT a film for youngsters and should not have been marketed as such.
Oh well I honestly blame myself...I normaly watch films first and decide if they are appropriate for my kids to watch..I didn't do that with this film..didn't feel like I had to..my mistake.

FITZZ wrote: I have got to add "Where the wild things are." to this list.
Not so much due to the fact it was an awful film,wich I found it meh,I got all the symbolism and social comentary..it was just dull,but more so to "marketing".
This film was marketed as a "childrens film",aimed at a young audience,wild thing toys in happy meals..etc.
Now,anyone who has seen this film and can claim it is a film for children obviously dosn't have children.
I watched it with my son and he seemed quite depressed by the whole film,now,I'm not one of those "wrap your kids in bubble wrap and protect them from the big bad world parents",but FFS this was obviously NOT a film for youngsters and should not have been marketed as such.
Oh well I honestly blame myself...I normaly watch films first and decide if they are appropriate for my kids to watch..I didn't do that with this film..didn't feel like I had to..my mistake.

Thats how Gremlins was and its considered good. But then again Gremlins was so crazy kids probably enjoyed it.

Hawaii- about some god botherer upsetting the natives, and boring the viewer to death, about 3 hours too long.

But even worse, "Song of Norway", a bio-pic about composer Grieg. If you've not seen it, don't ever try. It's less fun than removing your genitals with your own teeth.

Yeah, I watched Where the Wild Things Are with my kids when it was in theaters, and I honestly couldn't tell you if I liked it or not. My 5 year old liked it because it had cool looking monsters but doesn't get why it had sad music and crying monsters.

The 12 year old was bored and thought it was depressing.

Yea my son watched it for about 30 mins and then got horribly bored. So I figured it was a crappy movie as well.

And I also want to add that the shinning is in no way shape or form a bad movie. Cmon its a friggin classic!

Whoever said the mario bros. movie 1st give them a medal. I was 3/4 when i watched that and it was the 1st time my parents heard me swear, that completly changed my perspective of the great games and ruined my early childhood.

top 10?
in no particular order
1. Mario bros.
2.Starship Troopers 3
3.epic movie blah blah blah
4.Any game that got turned into a movie.
5. 2nd matrix
6. Saw/Hostel. Its just gore porn! seriously watch a psychological horror.
7.Black sheep. Just. Not. Funny
8. Madagacar. I wanted to kill myself.
9. Harry Potter films, steadly got worse and further from the books.
10.Twilight. Obvious

VikingScott wrote:Whoever said the mario bros. movie 1st give them a medal. I was 3/4 when i watched that and it was the 1st time my parents heard me swear, that completly changed my perspective of the great games and ruined my early childhood.

top 10?
in no particular order
1. Mario bros.
2. WATER WORLD! FAILED LIKE LAST YEARS FOOTBALL SEASON.
3.epic movie blah blah blah
4.Any game that got turned into a movie.
5. 3rd matrix sucked like sarah palin
6. Saw/Hostel. Its just gore porn! seriously watch a psychological horror.
7.Black sheep. Just. Not. Funny
8. WATER WORLD. I wanted to kill myself.
9. Harry Potter films, steadly got worse and further from the books.
10.Twilight. Obvious is it? The Entire movie i was forced to watch, I was tied down to a chair to see it.

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!
There you go fixed an edited!
Mario Brothers Sucked
the 2nd matrix was awesome
3rd sucked
Saw Agreed
Black sheep?
MAdagacar-thats a kids movie but ok, Replace with water world because after watching that i wanted to destory it -.-
Harry Potter-Sucked completely no exceptions!
Twlight kind obvious? eh?
well thats all the criticism i can boost up for today!

FITZZ wrote: IMO The Green Mile,The Shawshank Redemption, The Shinning,Cujo and Carrie are the only Stephen King books that translated fairly well to movies.
As you stated KC,most of Kings books just don't "cross the gap" very well.

FITZZ wrote:
If I were however to list "Stephen King films that are awful" I'd have to say.
The Running Man
IT
The Stand
Tommyknockers
Sleepwalkers
Silver Bullet (adapted from the book Cycle of the Werewolf)
Salems Lot ( I hate both versions of this film,the 1970s version with David Soul & James Mason and the more recent version with Rob Lowe and people I can't remember.)

Now run a comparison of Steven King books adapted to film that he hand a hand in and Steven King books where he wasn't involved so much.

You'll see a trend here I think... He's best kept well away from his films and, regrettably these days, well away from writing... (I want to beat him about the face with a dead stoat for the Dark Tower series).

Hey don't change quotes!
What I said was my opinion don't go changing it!


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Btw is there was such a thing as a c-movie, black sheep would be it, some new zealand made "horror" film

so far i haven't seen any mention of a few of mine.


Mortal Kombat 2
The love Guru
Thrasher: the movie (horrid Skater movie)
Jack-O ( my wife loves cheesy B-Movies but damn this was B A D)
G-force
Titanic
Dungeons and Dragons... soo much hate for this... I mean a fething beholder acting like a watchdog... MUST KILL DIRECTOR! and the commentary and interview he was like... OMG I LUVZ D&D!
Paranormal Activity really... you had to make Blair Witch again.....
Blair witch 1 and 2

and for something completely different i give you .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY

@ MGS.

Your absolutely correct,it appears the more "hands on" King is with his movie adaptations,the more gak they turn out.
And yes,The Dark Tower series (the ones I read) were putrid.

@ VikingScott.

While Black Sheep was in no way shape or form a "great" film,I found it very amusing.
It put me in mind of the old Troma films,not great movies..but utterly hysterical.