04-12-2022, 05:24 PM
NewtonMP2100 wrote:
....honestly, there has been maybe 1-4 good adaptations of King's works.....either most of his stuff doesn't translate well or they were not done well.....don't find a story about a pyrokinetic to be that enthralling....
Mostly I agree with you ... one of my other favorite adaptations of his was The Stand (the 1990's version, not the horrid recent one)...
But to say that Firestarter is just about a pyrokinetic isn't quite fair. It's also about clandestine government experiments into drug-induced torture and psychic phenomena (which has a basis in real life, for example Google for MKUltra), eugenics, government overreach with private citizens, etc. As books go, it was actually fairly ahead of its time. It's a bit similar to Jurassic Park, in that the book goes into far more detail than the film, and the film is more or less a crowd-pleaser and far less intellectually-based than the book. (I'm a big fan of the book in that case, not so much the film.)