I was unimpressed with most of it. The special effects were pretty hokey on the big screen. But that "fuck you" ending won me over…

In othe news,
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dun dun dun dun gonna cut you open

Yes i have been watching Scrubs reruns(E4 and Comedy Central,since im from England)

The ONLY saving grace to it is that the scenes looked almost-verbatim how they had in my mind when I was reading it.

Now, I'm anxiously awaiting The Talisman, Cell, and, to a lesser extent, Bag of Bones to hit the screen. As for "From a Buick 8", I could care less. I didn't like the story too much to begin with.

I thought The Mist adaption was excellent — close to the books in all aspects that mattered. It could have used a little bit of fleshing out in certain areas, and the CGI was a bit wonky at times (the tentacles didn't bug me — the bird-thing did), but overall, it worked.  I thought the ending, which a lot of "purists" hated, was the right approach for the movie version, since the "Hartford/Hope" ending from the story wouldn't have worked too well in a visual medium.

Now, onto my King movie list (to steal an earlier poster's method):

Must-see:

The Mist
Shawshank Redemption (the obvious best interpretation of King's work)
Misery
The Green Mile (spot-on, the closest interpretation of King's work)
The Shining (Kubrick version)
Salem's Lot (original)
Salem's Lot (miniseries)
Carrie
The Stand (miniseries) (My favorite adaption of my favorite book)

Should-see:
1408
It (miniseries) (would be 'must-see', but the last 30% fell apart for me)
The Shining (miniseries)
The Raft from Creepshow 2 (the rest of the movie blows, but The Raft is great)
The Dead Zone
Cujo
Stand by Me
Needful Things

Mixed Bag:
Thinner
Maximum Overdrive
The Dark Half
Christine
Firestarter
The Running Man
Pet Sematary
The Langoliers
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (liked some, hated others)
Rose Red (should be lower, but the movie was well-done)

Avoid at all costs:
Kingdom Hospital
Tommyknockers
Golden Years
Sleepwalkers
Silver Bullet
Graveyard Shift
Dreamcatcher

On The Shining vs The Shining. The Kubrick version was much scarier, and altogether a better movie. The miniseries DRAGGED for far too long. There are only 2 places I feel that the latter beat the former: 1) It was much closer to the story, and 2) The Characters were closer to their counterparts in the book. Jack Torrance was supposed to be a normal (though flawed) guy driven insane by the house, which Weber pulled off well. His wife was supposed to be strong (which the mini again pulled off well).
Nicholson, from the start of the movie to the end, seemed nuts. I swear, if you see him in a phone service commercial, you're waiting for him to haul off and kill someone. Plus, Duvall was WAY too mousy for the role of Wendy.
Overall, though, the Kubrick film was superior.

Finally, on the two Salem Lots. It's strange to like 2 versions of the same story for totally different reasons. Hands-down, the first was scarier, so as a straight horror film, it was the best (especially that kid scratching the window which gave me nightmares for weeks, even though I was 4 at the time and had only seen the f'd up commercial). The 2004 version was closer to the story, and held up not because of horror, but because of the characters. It added some of the background stories missing from the original.