Unpopular opinion: Stephen King movies are overrated?
I've never read a book from Stephen King. However, I've seen bits and pieces of the films that are based on his books, and the premises are not remotely interesting or scary. Also, the inappropriate and borderline pornographic content of his stories goes way too far sometimes.
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No..."POP,POP,POP...Clown down the drain ..upsetting & actually horrifying!
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His books are/were good. Movies? Sometimes. Stand By Me, Shining, Pet Sematary, Green Mile, Christine. All those were good. Creepshow, Sleepwalkers, Running Man.....horrible. Too bad, Running Man was a good story.
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not sure since i dont go to movies much
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Films are rarely as good as the books. Mainly as the authors have little input into them.
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mushroom Something about King in particular, makes it a 50/50 proposition on film. -
Linda Joy I agree
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The stand was all right ,needful things had a few characters deleted for the movie the book was lots better. Is Stephen King a peadophile is the question? Most movies based on his books are b grade movies. I've watched most of them some many times. The Langoliers, Sometimes they come back .
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Stephen King is a masterful storyteller. His books are translated into 50 languages around the world. Which is why his movies deserve the vast recognition.
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Some of his movies were a lot better than others. His books were all very good though, IMHO. 7/20/24
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Agreed, the films are generally crap. The only ones that I found partly enjoyable are Misery and The Running Man. I disliked Shawshank and The Green Mile, and the rest that I've seen: well, I'll never consider watching them again. * Because the King films are almost universally bad, I've never read any of his novels.
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That's true except for the Shining and Misery
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I agree that movies in general are not as good as the books. My ex liked Steven King. I read The Bachman Books trying to like them so we could share that, but I'm just not much into horror.
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