Stories that should get a movie

[Zanoan]

Sinister Urge

By Boogeyman, is that the "recent" one? Came out this year or last. I hated it, first I thought I didn't dare see it heh.

Minor spoilers:

I saw Dreamcatcher and thought it was soandso, but pretty creepy after all (those little worm things and when we for the first time saw the alien). Generally it was a good story with the other alien savior guy who made an impact on the other guy's lives, I liked their different abilities and all and especially the stories/memories told from their childhood. The thing that annoyed me the most was the fact, that it was aliens, not demons or whatever.

[Samus Aran]

Nope, this is a different Boogeyman, this one was a short movie made back in 1982, about a dad who goes to the psychiatrist and confesses how he killed his children, he explains that it really was the Boogeyman who killed his kids. Becuase the dad knew about it and wouldnt let his scared kids sleep in the bed with him and his wife, he puts the kids back in their own beds then the boogeyman would sneak out of the small crack of an opening in the closet door and kill them. The kids were scared you see, and by the dad putting them back in their beds he thought he was teaching them to not be pussies by wanting to sleep with their parents when they had a nightmare. This short movie is scary as hell. I saw it a few times as a teen and just typing this 20+ years later i still get the creeps thinking about that shit.

[Burf]

Originally Posted by The Sinister Urge

Good ones
Cujo, Firestarter Dead Zone, Christine, Shining, It, Langoliers(Bronson Pinchot was perfect for that), Shawshank, Dolores Clairborne, Stand By me, Misery, Creepshow, Hearts In Atlantis, Dreamcatcher, Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Boogeyman, Green Mile and Pet Semetary.

'Langoliers' was good until they ran out of money and had a 4 year old kid draw the "Langoliers" with crayons.
'It' was good until the end, also. Gawd, what a shitty ending to an otherwise interesting tv movie.

[Cybsled]

Graveyard Shift, The Mangler, Children of the Corn1, 2, 3, Pet Semetary 2, Creepshow2, Thinner, The Stand, Needful Things, Shining (tv remake), Apt Pupil, Running Man, Silver Bullet, Maximum Overdrive, Secret Window, Dark Half, Firestarter 2 Mangler 2, Sometimes they Come back, Carrie 2, Night Flier,Tommyknockers and The Lawnmower man(though this film isnt that bad except it had almost nothing to do with the novel) .

Running Man had like nothing to do with story, but the movie was pure gold.

"But they were last year's winners!"
"No...last year's LOSERS"

And I liked The Stand mini-series.

[guanna]

dragonlance chronicles

[Hyarth]

I'm not sure I'd want to see The Mist made into a movie. Part of what made the story so creepy is what was left unsaid and that the imagination just ran with.

Dolan's Cadillac would be great if nobody had to worry about the time it took up, or didn't take up. You could fill 2 hours by going into the wife's murder in detail, but it's really just glossed flashbacks. Done correctly, you'd wind up with a well told and well written story, but everybody and their mother would bitch about an 80 minute movie.

I don't trust anybody to make the Dark Tower series. You'd need a phenominal commitment from a studio to get it done right, filming lots of parts all over the place. Jake can't be aging 6 years from The Gunslinger to The Wastelands. And on top of that, how do you show reality being thin? It's something I can almost grasp sometimes, and then slips away.

I, too, would like to see Starship Troopers done correctly. I've avoided the movie like the plague. Stranger in a Strange Land might work as a HBO series. The Long Walk would probably work really well. The book isn't very long, so I doubt there'd be much cutting, and it isn't much to do visually. A (long long) road lined with throngs of people (real people please), and an armored escort with soldiers.

[James]

Originally Posted by Hyarth

I don't trust anybody to make the Dark Tower series. You'd need a phenominal commitment from a studio to get it done right, filming lots of parts all over the place. Jake can't be aging 6 years from The Gunslinger to The Wastelands. And on top of that, how do you show reality being thin? It's something I can almost grasp sometimes, and then slips away.

Exactly. If they just decided to make one movie out of one book, I think The Gunslinger would work well as a movie, even if I didn't like the book as much as the others. But the entire series? No sir.

[Arbitrary]

If King was critically involved in every film made from one of his stories he wouldn't have time to write. The only bugger is that occasionally something is made that is so bad and so far away from the book that it gives me a tumor.

Hearts in Atlantis film was just terrible. The book was four losely tied together stories, and they make a film based on one of them, and use the title of another. It just made no sense. Hearts in Atlantis was actually about college kids playing Hearts right before the antiwar Vietnam movement started.

Then there is Dreamcatcher which is just an excellent story that got murdered in every way that matters in the film.

As far as the Dark Tower goes, I fucking wish I had taken King's warning at the end of the final book and stopped reading. The mainstream audience is going to feel cheated by an ending like that in a movie.

[Zanoan]

Originally Posted by hyarth

I'm not sure I'd want to see The Mist made into a movie. Part of what made the story so creepy is what was left unsaid and that the imagination just ran with.

Well leaving the imaginiation for the people only scares some, like those who praised The Ring and The Blair Witch Projects. It left a lot for the imagination because there were a lot of unanswered questions and stuff that you'd have to fill out yourself. Personally that ruined it for me and therefore I hated those movies.

[Grady]

I'll go with American Gods as well.

[Hyarth]

Originally Posted by Grady

I'll go with American Gods as well.

I think American Gods would require a primer handed out when the ticket was bought. The irony of a movie American Gods is that Americans won't understand the characters they're watching, and the movie would risk a big flop.