SilverWook said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

What is it with Steven King Mini-series starting out good and then somewhere around the half way point turning into a joke? I swear that is what happens to ever single one I have ever watched. It's like he starts out with a good idea but then doesn't know what to do with it so he drags things out and then pulls some insane twist that the only reason you don't see it coming is that it is so stupid.

King still bitches about Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining after all these years. It must suck to cash the royalty checks for sales of the novel with Jack Nicholson's face on the cover.

Nobody constructs elaborate theories or conspiracies about the tv miniseries version. ;)

Yeah I never understood that. I mean does he really think anyone would care about the sequel he wrote if the movie wasn't out there? That is the version of the story people remember. Does he really think the movie would have been better with bad stop motion hedge monsters and a badly foreshadowed explosion at the end? Where would the tension come from that? The Shinning is my favorite horror movie of all time and the fact that King still bad mouths Kubrick almost two decades after his death combined with the fact that King himself has yet to make a good miniseries doesn't make me think much of him.