Happy Birthday Stephen King

[Lovely Linda]

.......Kind of early but just wanted to let y'all know that in honor of Stephen King's birthday September 21st 1947 Encore is showing a series of Stephen King movies in Sept mile: I'll be watching!! Love Stephen King!! mile:

[Music Head]

I like a lot of his early work
best being The Stand
also Salem's Lot, The Shining, Misery, a few others

[CRAZY-HORSE]

i like most of his works prior to "insomnia" and only some of it after that.

best novels for me....
The Stand,Thinner,Misery,Green Mile,It,Four Past Midnight(a collection of four short stories),Rose Madder,Geralds Game,Bag Of Bones

best movies for me....
Shawshank Redemption(in my top5 movies of all time!)
Misery
Delores Clairborne
Green Mile
Stand By Me
It
Thinner

now,Delores Clairborne was one of those movies that seemed to slip under the radar,but it stars Kathy Bates, was made shortly after her other one Misery...
Delores is about an abused wife who killed her husband for sexually abusing their daughter, she is also accused of murdering the rich woman she cared/worked for...
as usual Bates puts in a top notch performance in a top notch movie...
seek out this movie at all costs...it is brilliant IMO!

i prefer the 1980s King novels as they get more psychological(like Misery), theres less of the stupid endings that some others that came after them had...

his movie adaptions are either brilliant or downright stupid IMO, or at least, have stupid endings that dont seem to go with the story...

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I like a lot of his early work
best being The Stand
also Salem's Lot, The Shining, Misery, a few others

if you ever see Thinner,Delores Clairborne,Gerlads Game,Bag Of Bones,Green Mile at those secondhand book sales MH...get them without questioning it,just get them!

[Lovely Linda]

Here is a list of works by Stephen King. I have a Pet Cemetary in my back yard. My cats and my hubby's Dad's dogs. Firestarter was filmed just down the road from me. They had to do alot of work on the film site because of damage done to the tourist area from the fires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ada...ephen_King

[Lovely Linda]

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[CRAZY-HORSE]

Here is a list of works by Stephen King. I have a Pet Cemetary in my back yard. My cats and my hubby's Dad's dogs. Firestarter was filmed just down the road from me. They had to do alot of work on the film site because of damage done to the tourist area from the fires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ada...ephen_King

thanks for reminding me about Pet Semetary...
i loved that book...
movie was good also...the Hollywood 'cash in' second movie was crap though.

the main problem i have with Stephen King stories is the fact they build up and up and i expect some great ending but it feels like a lot of them have rushed endings that havent been thought out properly...
i get the feeling its like he thinks....
"ok, im getting paid to write 30.000 words,im up to 29.500,okay ive got to finish this story now, how shall i finish it in the remaining words, oh yeh, i'll turn the evil dude into a spider or something and leave it like that!"....

its like he doesnt give a crap sometimes, then he writes something as brilliant as Misery,Delores Clairborne,Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption,Thinner etc...

The Langoliers was a great book, then they made that stupid movie with those stupid Langoliers at the end which spoilt the whole thing...second rate, "b-grade" hollywood stuff!

[Lovely Linda]

thanks for reminding me about Pet Semetary...
i loved that book...
movie was good also...the Hollywood 'cash in' second movie was crap though.

the main problem i have with Stephen King stories is the fact they build up and up and i expect some great ending but it feels like a lot of them have rushed endings that havent been thought out properly...
i get the feeling its like he thinks....
"ok, im getting paid to write 30.000 words,im up to 29.500,okay ive got to finish this story now, how shall i finish it in the remaining words, oh yeh, i'll turn the evil dude into a spider or something and leave it like that!"....

its like he doesnt give a crap sometimes, then he writes something as brilliant as Misery,Delores Clairborne,Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption,Thinner etc...

The Langoliers was a great book, then they made that stupid movie with those stupid Langoliers at the end which spoilt the whole thing...second rate, "b-grade" hollywood stuff!

You are welcome Crazy-Horse! I loved Pet Semetary but I can't remember the second one. I'm sure I saw the film but probably only once because it was not good enough for me to spend my time going through it again. I liked Sleepwalkers and of course most of the films you listed. I liked Cujo and Carrie. Didn't care much for the second Carrie. Sissy did a much better job than the girl in the second Carrie.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

sleepwalkers was ok...Dreamcatcher also(morgan freeman was in that one towards the end)...

i never saw the second Carrie(remake)...
Sissy was brilliant in the original...

i still havent seen the tv series "under the dome"...nor have i read the book,i went off his books prior to that one.
apparently the series is ggod if you havent read the book, but thats pretty well across the board with any movie...

if youre interested Rebel....
a good movie is "boy in the striped pajamas"...its based from the point of view of the son of a Nazi Concentration Camp commander and the friendship he strikes up with a Jewish boy in the camp of the same age...
you will need the box of tissues though!, but well worth it IMO!

[Lovely Linda]

sleepwalkers was ok...Dreamcatcher also(morgan freeman was in that one towards the end)...

i never saw the second Carrie(remake)...
Sissy was brilliant in the original...

i still havent seen the tv series "under the dome"...nor have i read the book,i went off his books prior to that one.
apparently the series is ggod if you havent read the book, but thats pretty well across the board with any movie...

if youre interested Rebel....
a good movie is "boy in the striped pajamas"...its based from the point of view of the son of a Nazi Concentration Camp commander and the friendship he strikes up with a Jewish boy in the camp of the same age...
you will need the box of tissues though!, but well worth it IMO!

You did not miss anything by not seeing the remake of Carrie Crazy-Horse! It was a crummy movie!! I agree Sissy was great in Carrie!! I didn't see "under the dome" either. I'll keep a eye out for "boy in the striped pajamas". Sounds interesting!! Thanks!!