jimjack on 26/5/2007 at 00:09
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I bought
Cell on a whim--and almost immediately regretted it. It's just so damn frustrating his stuff. Compelling characters, casual and intuitive dialogue, spooky environment...mixed with shit storytelling, implausible jumps in reason, and a very tired need to pile on over-the-top dread when the understated creepy would do. The [SPOILER]father's love for his son [/SPOILER]was well done and kept me reading, and[SPOILER] the end scene was tender[/SPOILER], but FUCK the rest was just so goddamn uneven.
Too many holes, unexplained plot elements, gratuitious imagery...
Save your money and skip this book. If you want zombie stories, get any of the compilations that come out in the last decade. You'll be much better off.
I wasn't half as impressed as I was when I read say, The Stand. Cell reminded me of it but lacked the effort. Seems King's later books are rushed and just an excuse to keep the books coming like the Regulator series.. I've just finished reading Lisey's Story..barely. Dissapointing.
His best stories: It, Shining, Carrie, Geralds Game, Dead Zone and that one about the writer kept hostage by some crazy broad.
belfong on 4/6/2007 at 07:33
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that one about the writer kept hostage by some crazy broad.
I think you meant Misery. I like the movie. Creepy!
Dussander on 7/6/2007 at 12:08
I picked up the book on a whim, as on the same day someone at work was telling me how great it was. At the time I was reading The Stand (I watched the miniseries first). Cell hooked me right from the start, I didn't want to put it down but I needed time between reading sessions.
I think King's best scene is the Lincoln Tunnel one in The Stand.
bassmanret on 7/6/2007 at 18:55
I've read most S. King books too. I read The Cell upon release, and initially couldn't put it down through the first half, but it lost steam for me with the whole [SPOILER]zombie-collective-mind thing[/SPOILER] of the second half.
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The Stand (I watched the miniseries first)
Shame on you. :) The Stand was and is one of my all-time favorite books, so the miniseries had no chance of living up to my expectations. I remember sitting alone in a dark room as a teenager reading the part where the plague was spreading, from person to person, family to family, complete stranger to complete stranger, when suddenly I coughed and immediately bolted upright in my chair, thinking, "Oh SHIT, I'VE CAUGHT IT!!!!!". ...good times.
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I think King's best scene is the Lincoln Tunnel one in The Stand.
If you mean the book, not the miniseries, I agree! :thumb:
As for best King movies, my money's on Shawshank Redemption, with Misery at a very close second, and The Shining a very close third.
But, wtf was up with switching Annie's axe with a sledgehammer in Misery!? ...just sayin'
Scots Taffer on 7/6/2007 at 23:48
Another classic example of curtailing King's excesses to make an eminently more terrifying and realistically chilling scene that's one of the creepiest in movie history.
For the record, my King movie favourites probably go a little like this:
The Shawshank Redemption
Misery
The Green Mile
Apt Pupil
Stand By Me
It (miniseries)
The Shining (miniseries)
Dolores Claibornes
The Shining (movie)
The Stand (miniseries)
Carrie
Pet Sematary <- unintentional comedy gold
Maximum Overdrive <- intentional comedy gold
Creepshow
Cat's Eye
Hearts in Atlantis
Tommyknockers (miniseries)
Sometimes They Come Back
The Night Flier
Thinner
Cujo
Christine
I'm curious with 1408 will rank on the list, also I'd like to see all the short story adaptations made from Everything's Eventual - they were all pretty good.
Phydeaux on 9/6/2007 at 09:35
The only Steven King movies I liked were (perhaps not so) coincidentally his more straight-foreward ones. Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me. No monsters, ghosts, aliens, or clowns. Of course, The Shining was good, but that was all Jack's performance, not the story. The Green Mile was good too, but again, it was all the actors' performances more than the story.
Come to think of it, that's about the only Stephen King I've seen movie-wise. I guess I'm just not all that into the paranormal stuff.:erg:
