Movies you'd like to see remade

[Ravenshire]

I'd also like to see more original screenplays and fewer (much, much fewer) book adaptations. Books are, in general, a bad source for screenplays, and the longer the book, the worse the adaptation. Scripts typically run 50 pages to an hour of film. Stuffing a 350 page novel into a 130 minute production typically results in a travesty.

The adaptation of Stephen King's Misery is probably the best one, imo.

Meh.

"The Shawshank Redemption," "Stand by Me," and "The Green Mile" were all better Stephen King adaptations than Misery. But, that's me. Of course, the first two were adaptations of short stories and the last was long enough to do the short, serialized novel justice. It helped that the casting of Green Mile was freakin' brilliant, pretty much from top to bottom, but especially Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey and Sam Rockwell as 'Wild Bill' Wharton.