Stephen King's - The Long Walk

[Limbo Pete]

Are you referring to The Long Walk? It;s really not that great imo

It's not one I re-read too often, but it's the best Bachman book imo (although The Running Man has the best ending)

 

[Prefect]

I read the original novella and wasn't impressed, so I'll be skipping this. The Running Man looks interesting, although of course it can never compete with the glory of Prime Arnold.

Don't be a just a . Watch the movie and be a movie .

 

[ricc505]

I'll watch it when it streams. Probably. Maybe. I can't be bothered to watch many new releases any more, I feel like I suddenly turned 80 and only want to watch TMC movies

 

[Fedorgasm]

F£ck Stephen King.

Exactly.

He has a couple good offerings, but I firmly believe it's only because he uses the million monkeys method

 

[Loiosh]

Exactly.

He has a couple good offerings, but I firmly believe it's only because he uses the million monkeys method

I outgrew King 30 years ago, but he created a genre of horror, and has left us some classics.

This film was really, really good. Probably an 8/10 from me.

I thought the casting was phenomenal and I was riveted right to the end. The changed ending was a bit jarring but I don't know how someone unfamiliar with the source material would feel.

David Jonsson was a real standout for me and I'm going to check out more of his stuff.

Can't wait for The Running Man.

 

[Natural Order]

Does any King movie adaptation keep the book ending? Id say more often than not theyre heavily altered or changed completely.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Does any King movie adaptation keep the book ending? Id say more often than not theyre heavily altered or changed completely.

That's because Stephen King isn't very good at writing endings. Shawshank and Dolores Claiborne are the only 2 that I think he ended well.

But there's a whole host of books that he wrote where at some point he just gets sick of his own story and just introduces some unexplained magic that saves the day.

Needful Things was the worst one. Thank God they fixed it in the movie.

 

[Pittie Petey]

That's because Stephen King isn't very good at writing endings. Shawshank and Dolores Claiborne are the only 2 that I think he ended well.

And then they destroyed his great ending in the movie version of Shawshank, poor guy cant catch a break!

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

That's because Stephen King isn't very good at writing endings. Shawshank and Dolores Claiborne are the only 2 that I think he ended well.

But there's a whole host of books that he wrote where at some point he just gets sick of his own story and just introduces some unexplained magic that saves the day.

Needful Things was the worst one. Thank God they fixed it in the movie.

I still have to finish reading the entire ‘Dark Tower’ series but knowing all of his works take place in the same universe the unexplained magic ending thing makes more sense.


Not that I care for most of his endings either. But, well, there it is