# Movies you've seen recently (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906 "2014-09-29T21:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 221
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4415 "2022-06-29T13:33:40Z")
Yeah, I thought it over carefully and reached the same conclusion. Don’t think I’ve seen Children of the Corn though. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4416 "2022-06-29T13:48:34Z")
I think the short story version of “The Mist” is better known than the original novella, and the movie isn’t terrible. Faint praise, but that means it’s better than most. ETA I see that there was also a miniseries…I was thinking of the Thomas Jane film, haven’t seen the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4417 "2022-06-29T15:04:02Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Have any good movies ever been made from a Stephen King short story? 1408 is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4418 "2022-06-29T15:07:25Z")
Okay, I’ll concede that one! I didn’t see it, but heard it was decent. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4419 "2022-06-29T16:00:56Z")
I’ll also add **Apt Pupil** to the list of good SK adaptations. I don’t hear it mentioned much in SK threads but I think it’s pretty chilling. Ian McKellen as a former Nazi is quite the performance. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4420 "2022-06-29T16:08:47Z")
That one I did see, and thought it was all right, but Apt Pupil is a novella. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4421 "2022-06-29T16:14:13Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Have any good movies ever been made from a Stephen King short story? **Shawshank Redemption** (based on the Stephen King short novel _“Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”_) is an excellent film, but I agree other film adaptations of King’s work is disappointing. I’m particularly disappointed in all the adaptations of **“It”** , which still ranks as the scariest book I’ve ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4422 "2022-06-29T16:35:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Was going to mention the _Different Seasons_ stories which produced two outstanding films and a halfway decent one, but technically they are novellas rather than short stories. > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I’ll also add **Apt Pupil** to the list of good SK adaptations. I don’t hear it mentioned much in SK threads but I think it’s pretty chilling. Ian McKellen as a former Nazi is quite the performance. > [@Tibby](#): > > **Shawshank Redemption** (based on the Stephen King short novel _“Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”_) is an excellent film, **Shawshank Redemption** and **Stand By Me** are the two outstanding films I meant, and **Apt Pupil** the “halfway decent” one. The film adaptation of the fourth novella in the collection, “The Breathing Method” was in production limbo last time I checked but apart from the accident scene is less interesting than the other three. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4423 "2022-06-29T16:46:19Z")
Well, if we’re doing novella adaptations, I’d add “The Langoliers”, which is cheesy fun. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4424 "2022-06-29T16:53:03Z")
I forgot about **The Green Mile** , another great film. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4425 "2022-06-29T17:28:56Z")
I’d consider The Green Mile a full-length novel. It’s when they take a short story of only a few pages and try to stretch the dickens out of it, that they produce a crap movie. ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4426 "2022-06-29T17:45:18Z")
I would hesitate to claim it’s great (I think it undermines itself by giving away the fates of the main characters in the first few minutes) and yet for some reason I really liked the film **Hearts in Atlantis** which is based on another **King** novella. TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4427 "2022-06-29T18:43:47Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The film adaptation of the fourth novella in the collection, “The Breathing Method” was in production limbo last time I checked _Very_ difficult to imagine this story being stretched into a full-length movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4428 "2022-06-29T18:59:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’d consider The Green Mile a full-length novel. It’s when they take a short story of only a few pages and try to stretch the dickens out of it, that they produce a crap movie. I read each serialized segment of it when it was being released. It’s definitely a novel. Strangely, just yesterday I was in a full-blown bookstore(Barnes & Nobles) and they had a copy of the entire book bound together, something I had not seen, but makes a lot of sense. It’s a lot shorter than I realized when I was reading it monthly(?) or so. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4429 "2022-06-29T19:38:44Z")
Yeah, I have it as the separate small books also! Spilled some Windex on one of them, but hopefully they’ll still be valuable collector’s items some day… 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4430 "2022-06-29T23:02:02Z")
Perhaps you could have them signed, “_I did this - Stephen King_” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4431 "2022-06-30T21:13:53Z")
_The Lost City_ on Paramount+, Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum. Okay, I was bored and thought “how bad can it be”. Pretty bad, as it turns out. It had some okay scenes, but the whole subplot with the agent was lame, and Oscar Nunez must be desperate for cash to embarrass himself like that. Brad Pitt might have saved this, but he turned out to be a cameo. Avoid. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4432 "2022-07-02T16:14:33Z")
The Lost World (1960) Movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel about an eccentric scientist claiming to have discovered a land which contains living species such as dinosaurs and other creatures understood to have been extinct as well as bizarre plants and vegetation. He quite naturally is ridiculed and besmirched but doubles down on his claim by leading a small expedition group to prove it. Very enjoyable movie. Obviously with these old sci-fi adventure movies the effects are extremely amateur compared to the technology at the disposal of movie makers today. But the dialogue, little subplots among the characters and the set they created is quite impressive still. Jill St John stars in this film. Thought she died years ago but I’m wrong! She is still around at 81 years old. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4433 "2022-07-02T16:16:34Z")
Just watched _Lincoln_ last night. I was expecting it to drag some – especially since it’s such a well known story – but it kept my interest more than I expected. I especially like Tommy Lee Jones’s and Sally Field’s performances. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4434 "2022-07-02T16:44:10Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Just watched _Lincoln_ last night. I was expecting it to drag some – especially since it’s such a well known story – but it kept my interest more than I expected. I especially like Tommy Lee Jones’s and Sally Field’s performances I liked that movie when it was released. How accurate is it to anything we know from history, though? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=222)