I just got done watching the film “Stephen King’s the Mist” which was written and directed by Frank Darabont, I can tell you right now, that “The Mist” is possibly one of the worst movies I ever seen. It was downright horrible. Bad acting, bad directing, bad writing by Darabont, just an all out terrible movie that I’m not gonna review it. What’s worse about the movie is the ending to the movie version of “The Mist”. I will not talk about the ending since I don’t want to spoil anything. “The Mist” was crap crap crap. I don’t see how this film is getting good reviews by critics and the fans. The movie was awful. King didn’t write the script/direct “The Mist” Darabont did I know, but Darabont did work closely with King for this movie just like Darabont did with “The Green Mile”, and “The Shawshank Redemption”, those two movies were better than “The Mist”.
I used to admire Stephen King’s novels back in the 80’s and early 90’s but his new work hasn’t been that great. I am currently reading Stephen King’s new novel “Duma Key” and it’s hard to get into, I’m not getting into that story, it’s boring to read. King’s work keeps getting lamer and lamer. I believe he really has lost it since his accident when he got hit by a van years back. His writing was great before then, his writing is horrible now.
He can’t come out with any good “movies” or “books” anymore. His past work with books like “The Stand”, “It”, “The Shining”, “Pet Sematary”, “The Talisman”, “Needful Things”, “The Dark Half”, “Christine”, “The Tommyknockers”, the Dark Tower series, etc. They were all amazing and mind blowing stories.
Hollywood can’t make good movies for him anymore as well. Not even his new TV mini series movies are good anymore. COME ON STEPHEN! Come out with some decent work so we can all worship the writer we all once loved back in the good old days.
Stephen King used to be one of my big heros back in the old days but I’m losing interest in him. One of his new books “Lisey’s Story” was the only good new novel he put out. “Lisey’s Story” was amazing but his other new stuff is trash.
The problem is, Stephen has been staying away from the horror genre lately. He’s been writing more serious stuff. If he gets back to writing true “horror” again, he’ll get all his old fans back. We need the real Stephen King back, where’s the “master of horror” that he once was?
Kev
K'Brocking 
Well you cannot talk of the “now” Stephen King and in the same sentence talkj about The Mist which was written more than 20 years ago! And do you think it would have been a good/better movie if it ended with a they all lived happily ever after!!!
Yeah, like the previous comment said, I was about to tell you “The Mist” got published in the early or mid 80s in a short story collection called SKELETON CREW. Don’t blame King for a movie adaptation sucking; they often do, but he has no control.
I have to disagree with Kev. Duma Key (2008) , Lisey’s Story (2006) and The Colarado Kid (2005) are some of the best things King has ever written.
Yes I agree that “Stephen King has lost it” I just watched “Desperation” I desperately wish I had not.
“Cell” freaking blew compared to what I thought it was going to be. If you’re going to dedicate a book to Richard Matheson and George Romero, it better be right up there with their level of impact, and it fell short. His repetition of phrases (most of which he coins and aren’t that clever) has reached a new level of annoyance. The version I read contained an excerpt of “Lisey’s Story.” So far, I’ve surmised that her story is quite boring and I don’t care how it unfolds or ends.
I choked my way through Dreamcatcher as well. So much repetition of phrases I thought I was accidentally re-reading chapters over again. Since most of the book’s essence took place in people’s minds, naturally the movie captured hardly any of that and was not worth watching. And the movie’s twist of making the metally-challenged kid in actuality be an alien was extremely tasteless to say the least.
Having said that, King’s work from Carrie up through around The Dark Half is untouchable, and even though I don’t care for his more recent work, Bentley Little’s stupid comment that his own work is for the “post-Stephen King generation” when King is still alive and writing is both arrogant and untrue – especially if you read his piece of crap Dispatch (talk about a good idea gone waaay south in the delivery!).
I really enjoyed Lisa’s story and Duma Key. The Green Mile was amazing, Misery, and all the rest. Stephen King hasn’t lost it at all, but he’s a writer, and a writer must first entertain himself/herself. He has to stay excited to stay motivated. He wants to do something different. I am happy to let Stephen King write some of the ‘different’ books for other readers, and buy the ones that speak to me. This amazing writer and storyteller has kept us all on the edge of our seats for years. I can’t count how many times I rushed home with his latest hardcover and couldn’t wait to curl up with it. I liked some better than others, but I’ve never been disappointed. Some of his work is like a live performance. Personally, he doesn’t owe me a thing. Keep writing, Steve, whatever takes your fancy.
I have read many of King’s novels and enjoyed a few, but Bag of Bones, From a Buick 8, Dreamcatcher, Lisey’s Story, Duma Key, the whole Dark Towers series, Gerald’s Game, Cycle of the Werewolf, Pet Semetary, The Dark Half, The Dead Zone, Hearts in Atlantis, and a bunch of others are truly terrible, as are the “Richard Bachman” books and most of the movies he’s written. It’s sad that someone who’s written over 40 novels and 200 short stories will be forgotten a few years after his death–sad, but just. Although I like his persona and some of his novels, he hasn’t earned a place alongside the immortal writers. Edgar Allan Poe has nothing to fear, nor have the other truly great names in the genre. Please, Mr. King, keep your promise to retire.