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putnam6 · 10-26-2025, 11:23 PM

King adaptations can be hit or miss, especially lately, but

Welcome to Derry... in episode one, atleast hit all the right notes...

Brings the vibes of Derry and the Loser's Club.... 10 years previous? In episode one...

Superbly done, very damn intense and more than a bit demented, just like the book was... plenty of call backs to the book as well ...

Quote: Welcome to Derry 2025 It will follow the events in 1962 , the time leading up to the events of the first film based in 1989 of the Stephen King It series

David64 · 10-27-2025, 04:21 AM

Movies and TV have screwed up every Stephen King book they got their hands on except 2 : It and The Green Mile.

Salem's Lot { 1979 } wasn't bad for it's time, I'll give them a bit of credit with that. I hear there's a new one but I haven't seen it yet. It seems like they don't want to spend money on special effects and big name actors, then try to cram too much into one scene and miss the nuance of WHY it's creepy.

What they did to The Dark Tower should be a felony.

**andy06shake** · 10-27-2025, 06:41 AM

(10-27-2025, 04:21 AM)David64 Wrote: Movies and TV have screwed up every Stephen King book they got their hands on except 2 : It and The Green Mile.

Salem's Lot { 1979 } wasn't bad for it's time, I'll give them a bit of credit with that. I hear there's a new one but I haven't seen it yet. It seems like they don't want to spend money on special effects and big name actors, then try to cram too much into one scene and miss the nuance of WHY it's creepy.

What they did to The Dark Tower should be a felony.

I thought "The Stand" mini-series was kind of ok.

covent · 10-27-2025, 07:06 AM

(10-27-2025, 04:21 AM)David64 Wrote: Movies and TV have screwed up every Stephen King book they got their hands on except 2 : It and The Green Mile.

Salem's Lot { 1979 } wasn't bad for it's time,

The Shining (Nicholson & Duvall) not now recognised as an absolute classic then? (Kubrick)

How about Carrie? (De Palma)

Both were "based upon" rather than adaptations. King criticised Kubrick's work and praised De Palma.

David64 · 10-27-2025, 07:16 AM

Damn. I forgot all about The Shining.

Yeah, they did pretty good on that one. Carrie was ok, Christine wasn't bad, it just wasn't very good and IMO it was the lead actor who made it meh.

putnam6 · This post was last modified: 10-27-2025, 07:51 AM by putnam6.

The Shawshank Redemption

Stand by Me

Misery

The Green Mile

They are all excellent adaptations

I enjoyed the Stand original mini-series, but the recent CBS new version was so shitty, I stopped looking forward to the adaptations

IT Part 1 was pretty damn good, but Part 2, I was disappointed.

The timeline here seems to be 5 years after the Losers Club, as The Music Man premiered in 62

HBO MAX has 3 seasons planned each season is a different era of Derry history

David64 · 10-27-2025, 08:03 AM

If they took the time, money, actors and a good director, I like to see them make The Tommyknockers into a movie.

Insomnia would be another good one if done right.

putnam6 · 10-27-2025, 08:11 AM

(10-27-2025, 08:03 AM)David64 Wrote: If they took the time, money, actors and a good director, I like to see them make The Tommyknockers into a movie.

Insomnia would be another good one if done right

Tommyknockers sometimes gets lost with all his other books, but it's a damn good story.

Hell, I enjoyed Secret Garden, Secret Window adaptations

David64 · 10-27-2025, 08:19 AM

A little campy, but pretty good.

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putnam6 · 10-27-2025, 09:05 AM

(10-27-2025, 08:19 AM)David64 Wrote: A little campy, but pretty good.

Mentioned it in another thread, I watched Creepshow again, not too long ago .".. Stephen King's "meteor shit" Leslie Nelson's maniacal laughter as he says " I can hold my breath a long time"

Campy, yes, but shows like Black Mirror were spawned from the Twilight Zone, the Outer Limits, and Creepshow

certainly still more watchable than 80% of the offerings today