Yep, complete agreement. I love the movies, but they take too much investment on my part to watch them. They're almost too epic to just play as background noise, or watch casually.
Your "Always Watch" Movies
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Shawshank Redemption is usually the one the catches me on TV. Always have to watch it if it's on.
If I wanted to do that, I'd point to IT or Langoliers. At least Shawshank is watchable.
Man I don't care what anyone says about IT, it was one of the first horror movies my dad, brother and I watched together and Tim Curry is fucking amazing in it. This laugh, man.
Oh, I know it's not great, my dad loves Stephen King. But it's more one of those warm fuzzies movies because of the ties it has to me growing up.
Has there been a single good Steven King adaption? The Green Mile was good, but that was a single story out of an anthology that they stretched into a movie. Kingdom Hospital was fun but it was an adaption of a Dutch TV series. IT and Langoliers are just TERRIBLE.
Really, Shawshank is really the only thing that comes close to being good and at least it's had some lasting pop culture impact.
Really, Shawshank is really the only thing that comes close to being good and at least it's had some lasting pop culture impact.
See, I forgot about a bunch of those. Also, Delores Claiborne? I don't think I've ever heard of that one. What's it about?
It's about a nurse who may or may not have killed the person she was hired to care for. It's not so much a whodunit as a didshedoit.
I highly recommend it, it's great at building tension and has one of my favorite lines of all time.
"Sometimes, Dolores, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend."
It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kathy Bates.
Stephen King may have problems wrapping up his storylines sometimes, but he sure as hell knows how to write believable characters.
I'm pretty sure this movie is on Netflix: Watch it Now.
People tend to think only of horror movies when they think Stephen King, but his non-horror movies have been some of his best. As long as he doesn't write the screenplay.
I highly recommend it, it's great at building tension and has one of my favorite lines of all time.
"Sometimes, Dolores, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend."
It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kathy Bates.
Stephen King may have problems wrapping up his storylines sometimes, but he sure as hell knows how to write believable characters.
I'm pretty sure this movie is on Netflix: Watch it Now.
People tend to think only of horror movies when they think Stephen King, but his non-horror movies have been some of his best. As long as he doesn't write the screenplay.
The Green Mile was a 6 mini-book stand-alone series, not a short story out of one of his anthologies.
I have three movies that I can almost always throw on, either pay rapt attention or have on in the background, and will always put me in a good mood:Batman: The Movie, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie, and Purple Rain.
Actually, it was a serialized novel. That weighed in at over 600 pages once it was finished. You're thinking of Shawshank.
I find King's short stories usually translate better than his longer works.
Gladiator: I just watched it again for the umpteenth(holy crap that passed spell-check) time last night.
You mean Silver Streak, right? I meant to include that one in my list, but took it out when I realized it wasn't a Mel Brooks movie (I meant to add it back in separately but never did). To this day I have never seen the whole thing in one sitting.
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Whoops, yes, I meant silver streak.
Heh, I was trying to remember at what point in Stephen King's Silver Bullet there were mentions of Muslims. 
That wasn't a quote from the movie, it was just GB expressing his hopes about this thread.Heh, I was trying to remember at what point in Stephen King's Silver Bullet there were mentions of Muslims.
Oh. Well, that shows how much I remember about either movie.
Heh, me too.
My new go to movie is Nick's Prom Night. It is like a mash-up of Sixteen Candles and Eyes Wide Shut.
My new go to movie is Frosty Susan. It is like a mash-up of Eyes Wide Shut and The Blob.
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