you can probably mention half of the Stephen King library...or, as zizou and I have pointed out...Michael Crichton's...maybe 1/3 instead of half. something like that.

"Simon Birch"
"Congo"
"Thinner"
"Girl, Interrupted"
"From Hell"
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

to get things started. and don't start on me with the HP inclusion. some of the adaptations were decent and the books were fun to read. but GOF was a travesty of an adaptation. completely missed some of the most important aspects of the novel.

Ive only read like 5 books before they were movies

Thank You for Smoking while not a terrible movie, didnt come close to the book

that's how i felt about "the world according to garp". but doesn't belong on a worst list.

The Jackal

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Come on, dude! The fat suit in that one makes it one of the best adaptations ever.

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I never read any of the Harry Potter Books but I thought that the Goblet of Fire was one of the more entertaining Harry Potter movies. And Robert Pattison is dreamy

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Congo was fucking horrible...it even wasted a Bruce Campbell appearance. Bad, Bad, Bad.

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Passion of the Christ

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Anything Dr. Suess.

Where is the self-immolation emoticon?

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Simon Birch was awful. I can't remember how the line appeared at the beginning of the movie but IIRC John Irving wanted no part of the movie.

Sphere was an excellent book but the movie was terrible.

"The Stand" miniseries.

Good lord. I don't care how many famous faces you throw into a production; bad screenplays are bad screenplays.

I hope they remake this at some point.

The assistant coach from Minnesota State was great in that! Laws, yes.

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It was University of Minnesota and the Coach's name was Dauber

1000X yes. King's 2 best novels It and The Stand have 2 of the worst of his movies. And that is saying something.

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It was Minnesota State Screaming Eagles.

Dauber, yes...but it was Minnesota State:

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Didnt he leave to coach an NFL team in Orlando?

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The Stephen King movie that was the best was the one that he disowned for being too unlike his original book. I have tried to read like 3 different Stephen King books and never am able to finish one.

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Yeah, The Shining was a better movie than book IMO.

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Yup. The Orlando Breakers.

Shawshank was without a doubt the best film ever made from one of King's books. The Green Mile was a close second.

Wrong thread.

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My bad.

I thought Vanilla Sky was also pretty bad.

They did have the forsight to include boobs, though.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

8 Million Ways to Die was an absolute suckfest compared to the book. Changed the location, changed the villian, changed the plot.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

what, "the lawnmower man"?!?

i do not agree at all that "the green mile" is better than "stand by me", "the dead zone", or "carrie".

so now i'm going to start a rank-the-stephen-king-adaptation-thread. muwahahaha!

The Running Man


Don't get me wrong, its a good movie. But, I consider it the worst movie adaptation because its downright criminal that they didn't follow the story of the book and instead chose to go the route they did. The book is a billion times better than the movie and the plot is so much cooler. They really fucked that up, moreso than any other book to movie adaptation.

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