(September 3, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:Yeah. As a rule of thumb Stephen King adaptations pretty much suck.(September 3, 2015 at 11:31 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Well, not a movie but a mini-series. Stephen King's "It." I'm not sure it could have been made worse had they tried to make a mockery of the book. Or, maybe they did try.
Pretty much every SK film adaptation has fallen short, particularly the made for TV ones. Of those, "It" is one of the better ones.
I will say that Syfy Channel's 2009 version of Children of the Corn and ABC's 1997 version of The Shining (mini-series) are the best King adaptations I've seen.... very close to the original stories.
Dolores Claiborne was okay, and I feel that The Mist was pretty good, but I haven't actually read those two.
