Stephen King is an idiot

I like King's writing, but his sensibility when it comes to film leaves a lot to be desired. I think the man should be grateful that a master such as Kubrick, who made a relatively small number of films, chose his book, outta millions of others, as his inspiration.

It's within his right to be disappointed with an adaptation of a very personal book. The points he makes are not invalid.

A bad adaptation is not a bad movie, though.

Yes. Stephen King thinks too much of himself. When I saw that he had written a book called, "On Writing", I thought, "That's like Yoko One writing a book called, "On Singing"...

He's merely a reasonably competent writer of mass sensationalist fiction. But he fancies himself another Hemingway.

If he were a filmmaker, King would be somewhere between James Cameron and Michael Bay, whereas if he were a writer, Kubric would be up there with James Joyce, Dostoyevsky, or Nabokov.

What a pretentious post, King felt it was a poor adaptation of a story he created, and he’s right, I thought the book was much better and more unsettling, idiots like you would worship Kubrick squeezing out a shit and call it “great art”

King is far from an idiot, he is, in my opinion, one of, if not the, best horror author out there, and although Kubrick's movie is a decent movie, he did pretty much massacre King's original story.

I like the movie, but much prefer the book, I also like (and I know I'll get ridiculed for this) the mini-series, simply because it follows the original story.

I also think that your opinion of the movie largely follows in which order you read/watched them, people usually prefer the first that they see/read, and from the discussions I've had largely follows that, the fact that 'King fans' prefer Kings book is not so much as them being a King fan, but often because the book is the first version they encounted.

I also don't think that Kubrick's movie ties in so well with Dr Sleep as the book does, but I guess that understandable.

I'm not really a fan of Stephen King overall. The guy can shell out novels though, so his main gift is his productivity.

I do agree that he's not a filmmaker of any measure and his attempts at adapting his own stories to film illustrate his financial power to satisfy his ego rather than explore the genre of filmmaking.

stephen king is indeed an idiot, but mostly for being a raving mad President Donald J. Trump-hater.