Rate The Last Movie you Watched

Mad_Cyril

Only one way to resolve this.

Grant & CJ to get their hamptons out.

HopHead to adjudicate

Along_the_Wire

There’s no fight here, I like the cut of CJ’s jib

Mad_Cyril

HopHead is “Disappointed”

Homegrove

LT42 Watched Pet Sematary last night as I remembered it was unsettling when I was younger.

The Kingcast is a podcast where two hosts and one guest talk about a King story, and usually it’s adaptation too for an hour. I’ve really enjoyed it. This week just happened to be about Pet Sematary and it’s 1989 adaptation. That is one book I read a few times as a teenager, but as an adult it works in a completely different way. I tried it a few years ago, but it was too oppressive to enjoy it when you know where it’s going, and even as a childless person, when it’s about the death of your child.

LT42

Homegrove I’ll check that out, nice one, H.

The return of the kid was very Chuckyesque. I’m sure the book is very good, never read it but it’s been recommended many times before.

Along_the_Wire

LT42 The book was one of my favourites along with Stand and Thinner.

Homegrove

Along_the_Wire I should probably give Thinner another chance. Read it as a teenager and didn’t like it. It’s one of the three books by King I don’t own, all because I didn’t feel the need to ever read them again. The other two are Misery and Gerald’s Game.

C_J

Along_the_Wire sorry, yeah that’s fine too mate.

303abuser

Homegrove i really liked misery, although i was probably 15 when i read it. haven’t read thinner myself, but my wife said it was good.

Homegrove

Misery the movie is amazing.

303abuser

Homegrove it was one of the very few good adaptations from his books, but the book is still better by a long shot.

Jules72

jonattonyeah personally found this unremittingly grim… and in a similar way to Joker last year, not for me. I do like a little bit of happiness, thrill or pleasure in a film I’ll admit - films as relentlessly depressing as this provide me with no viewing pleasure

No Country for Old Men, which came out around the same time, on the other hand was superb imo…

jonattonyeah

Jules72

Totally understandable. TWBB is like a horror movie in many ways; just the antagonist being the struggles of family within unrelenting capitalism.

And yeah, funny story, they had to stop filming NCFOM for a few days as TWBB was shooting the oil fire scene right down the road and the smoke was too much for the cinematographer to shoot. Interesting those two films will always be bound to each other (NCFOM winning best picture, with TWBB nominated; DDL winning best actor; Bardem winning best supporting) while filmed in the same place, at the same time.

C_J

jonattonyeah that’s interesting, I didn’t know that.

Personally thought NCFOM was pretty overrated but may be willing to give it a second look to make sure.

Along_the_Wire

C_J It’s definitely one of those that’s worth a second look

Along_the_Wire

303abuser Forgot Misery. Think that is a good film and book combo

Millsy

Both films are superb imo. The ‘I drink your milkshake’ scene in TWBB is incredible.

C_J

Millsy ….unless you happen to be vegan of course.

jonattonyeah

How would you all rank King adaptations?

I’d go:

Stand By Me
The Shining (even if he hated it)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Dead Zone
I dunno…Misery maybe; I always got a kick out of Cujo even if it’s not great; liked both of the recent It’s but that might be a nostalgia thing

Homegrove

Shawshank Redemption
The Shining (best taken as “inspired by” the book, rather than a straight adaptation)
Stand By Me
The Mist
The Green Mile

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