The Plague

[RCMerchant]

REGULATORS and DESPERATION . Its a double feature!

[Mr_Vindictive]

RCMerchant,

I loved Desperation but I just couldn't find myself getting into Regulators.  It just didn't quite work for me.

[Amanda]

Skaboi - Did you watch the TV version of Desperation?  I was all excited for it, mainly for Ron Perlman, but really got bored towards the end.  Started out promising though.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Amanda,

Yeah, I watched it when it premiered.  I liked the fact that Perlman was the cop, but it just didn't have the bite that the book did.  That's understandable considering it was made for TV.

I am of the opinion that Mick Garris should be banned from making any more King novels into films.  The man isn't that great of a director, and would rather make made for tv films rather than hold to the source material.  

But, sometimes straying from King's ideas can make the better movie.  Kubrick proved that point with The Shining.  

I say give the scripts to different directors.  Let someone else try their hand at King.  Hell, I'd love to see another Romero/King team up.

[Amanda]

And it's funny that Stephen King HATED Kubrick's Shining.  To me, and I'm serious, that was the only GOOD film adaptation of a King novel ever.  Closely followed by Secret Window, kinda.  Most of the movies made from King's horror novels blow.

Now, Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption...that's another story.