• moopet@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.

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      Shawshank? Shining? Mist? Green Mile? Misery? Maybe not everything is a winner, but these are pretty classic movies and some like Pet Sematary, Thinner, Carrie, Dream Catcher and many others are not bad movies. The Running Man wasn’t super well made (old one) but a decent movie for it’s time. I haven’t even seen half of his adapted works and I just rattled off 10 movies that pretty universally are not seen as “pretty bad”: