User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining and Room 237/@comment-4715955-20160512124917

I tend to like King movies more than King books, to be honest. King has an issue with taking a good idea and overbloating it, usually massively overdoing the characterization. Kubrick did a pretty good job cutting out all the BS and focusing on the heart of the matter.

I'm a bigger fan of the movie Christine as far as King stuff goes. Carpenter made a brilliant choice making the car evil from the get-go, creating one of the most fascinating and underappreciated film characters, and turning the story as a whole into a psycho girlfriend movie...where the girlfriend just happens to be a Plymouth Fury. Way more interesting than an evil dead douchebag possessing his car.