The Feud: Stephen King by Candide [Game Over]

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  1. Pennywise
  2. Stand By Me
  3. Carrie (the remake)
  4. Nick Andros
  5. Dolores Claiborne
  6. The Body
  7. Running Man
  8. Salem’s Lot
  9. Jack Nicholson
  10. Kathy Bates
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  1. The Clown from IT
  2. Stand By Me
  3. The Running Man
  4. Roland Deschain
  5. Anne Wilkes (from Misery)
  6. Rage
  7. Rage
  8. ???
  9. Morgan Freeman
  10. Kathy Bates
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I really wish I’d thought of Pennywise. :frowning:

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  1. The Crimson King

  2. The Shawshank Redemption

  3. Maximum Overdrive

  4. Stu Redman

  5. Annie Wilkes

  6. The Jaunt

  7. The Running Man

  8. Jerusalem’s Lot

  9. Jack Nicholson

  10. Kathy Bates

  11. Can’t remember the full title. Kept waffling between it and The Shining. Went with it, because as likely as it is to get a bunch of hits, I just don’t LIKE The Shining.

  12. Lots of competition, but I think it takes the cake.

  13. Jesus, I hope I spelt his name right.

  14. My favourite is Autopsy Room Four, but The Jaunt gets too much love here for me not to say it.

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Good god…Pennywise?

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  1. Pennywise
  2. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
  3. The Lawnmower Man
  4. Nick Andros
  5. Charlie McGee
  6. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
  7. Thinner
  8. Derry
  9. Tim Robbins
  10. Kathy Bates
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?

Care to explain your incredulousness?

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  1. Pennywise from It
  2. Dolores Claiborne
  3. The Stand
  4. Alan Pangborn (That sheriff from Castle Rock)
  5. Vera
  6. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
  7. Rage
  8. pass
  9. Wil Wheaton
  10. Kathy Bates
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Delores Claiborne was made into a movie?

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Yep.

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  1. George Stark
  2. The Stand
  3. Kubrik’s The Shining
  4. Eddie Dean
  5. Jessie Burlingam
  6. The Body
  7. The Long Walk
  8. Derry
  9. Johnny Depp
  10. Kathy Bates
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I haven’t read enough of King’s books to participate, but I want so share some love for one of his later short stories - “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”
Also, if you’ve never listened to SK on audiobook, I highly recommend it. He is one of the most listenable authors I’ve heard, and I think that’s where his true genius is shown.

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I honestly don’t find the ‘scary clown’ thing to be that scary to begin with, and Pennywise never struck me as a particularly scary incarnation of it.

(But then, I haven’t actually read the book, just seen the TV miniseries - the book probably makes him more scary.)

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Yeah, a creepy looking clown that pulled little kids into the sewers, calls you on the phone to torment you, hides under your bed, appears out of nowhere with balloons full of blood, or can transform into your worst nightmare isn’t scary at all.

ETA The worst fim was The Langoliers.

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I did not put a space in front of no.7. Mistyped. Should I resubmit?

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  1. Pennywise the Clown
  2. The Body/Stand By Me
  3. The Stand
  4. Stu Redman
  5. Delores Claiborne
  6. The Mist
  7. The Long Walk
  8. Derry
  9. Tom Hanks
  10. Sissy Spacek
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The TV miniseries suffered from being a TV miniseries, with its low budget and its limitations on what level of gruesomeness you can show on TV.

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No. I can live with typos.

Thanks for asking!

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There’s a reason that I picked “It” for worst translation to screen. There are some things that just can’t be translated from book to screen, and It is one of them.