As nominated by our membership in the nomination round, please vote now for the film you feel should win the award for Worst King on the Screen.
The Tommyknockers
Maximum Overdrive
Dreamcatcher
The Shining (1997)
It
Kingdom Hospital
Christine
Desperation
As nominated by our membership in the nomination round, please vote now for the film you feel should win the award for Worst King on the Screen.
Maximum Overdrive has to win. It is widely renowned for being the worst King movie, not to mention, in a (self admitted) cocaine induced haze King himself directed the movie.
It's so bad it is actually good-in a campy way.
Desperation got my vote, ABC Butchered it!
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
Having not seen Maximum Overdrive, I can't vote on it. I DID sit through the debacle that was The Tommyknockers though. That shame gets my vote.
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Maximum Overdrive.
Done and done.
Elodin: "Tombs is for feckless twits who can't chew their own food. My boy's a Re'lar! He has the feck of twenty men!"
Kvothe: “Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
Simmon: ”It’s just ointment in case you get burned...but if you mix it with piss, it turns into candy.” Sim’s expression was deadpan. “Delicious candy.”
Maximum Overide was my favorite King movie. Little cheesy, but then so is the subject matter. I think this was Kings only attempt at directing also.
Sloth Love Chunk
btw Kingdom Hospital got my vote
Sloth Love Chunk
i loved kingdom hospital - i have it on a box set i am that sad
tommy knockers got my vote, loved the book - sat with open mouth in shock at how bad the screen play was though
I voted for the 97 Shining. I know it's more faithful to the book, but it seemed pointless to me. I liked Kubrick's version just fine. He made it his own thing. That worked for me better than the more recent one.
I have always thought that Christine was the worst Stephen King movie of all time! What really upset me about this movie was that it was set in Pittsburgh in the book, but in the movie it was in California! The movie strayed so far from the book it left out half of the plot! In the movie they cared to much about the special effects and did not focus on the what the characters were actually going through. The movie was way off on what was happening with Arnie. The movie did not have a clue about Rolie Lebay (Christine's former owner)
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i don't care what anybody says, the worst was ind still is the 1980 version of The Shining.
i doubt it. yeah the continuity pissed me off, but i think the whole film just sucked.
For me, It was really badly made. The movie was not scary at all!!
:hugs Mia/Susannah:
thanks razz!!! My husband is scared of clowns and this movie did not even scare him. I found the movie really stupid. Sorry if that offends anyone!!
I missed the nominations portion somehow, so I am curious about Kingdom Hospital being included since it was, essentially, just a remake of the Danish miniseries Riget - albeit an adaptation with quite a few changes. The original miniseries, penned by Tómas Gislason, Lars von Trier, and Niels Vørsel, is supposed to be quite good and well worth watching.
Should this even be here? Is there enough original material by King? I wouldn't even have considered it since it is not a King novel made into film/TV miniseries; instead, it is King's interpretation of another's author's miniseries, including adaptations designed to make it appeal to an English-speaking (and more specifically to an American English-speaking) audience.
Sorry if this was already discussed.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
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I really enjoyed Kubrick's version of the Shining. I didnt care that it didnt follow the book. I think Jack was a perfect cast and I cannot reread the Shining with out having Jack as my visual.
Sloth Love Chunk
I voted The Shining, I just thought it was terrible, start to finish.
I considered Tommyknockers, and IT because I thought both films
could have been so much better given the material, but I too was
fine with Kubrick's film, so the "remake" was not only unnecessary
in my view but so badly made.
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