I vote for Stand By Me, because of where it stands in light of what came before it. I liked SK movies to a point, but for some reason, directors always wanted to deviate from the story line, even Kubrick. Rob Reiner of all people, brought SK into a light he'd never been seen before, sentimatality. Now fans of SK novels know that Steven King was very sentimental, but his novels in the hands of aspiring horror directors and screen writers, always came across a very slick and shallow. Reiner made a movie that was sentimental, but also clever and smart; smart in the way it told the story from a kids persective without being cloying or degrading and without insulting the intelligence of the audience, child or adult. It was also, to that date, the most faithful to the novel (actually in this case, novella - The Body). Up to that point directors and screen writers made King look like some kind of hack (something King did as well when he wrote his own screenplays). The Stand may not be the best SK story turned movie, but its my favorite because of what it represented.

As far as some of King's novels turned mini-series, they all showed promise, they all stayed somewhat faithful to the novel. but they all ended so hokey. Every big finale was sooo clumsy. It was as if on every project they realized they were over time so the ending got edited so badly. And because of the scope of King's vision, TV is just never going to do justice to a SK novel. Tommyknockers is a case in point. The production on this mini-series barely rivals the Dark Shows soap-opera for hamfisted effort. Especially in the scenes when they are escavating the spaceship, and its obvious that the props for the ship are merely sitting on the ground with dirt piled around them, instead just 'going for it and actually digging holes, into the ground. How about the creature at the end of It; looks like the spider from Gilligans Island. I hear there is going to be a mini-series of The Talisman. I can't imagine how pathetic this will be on TV if they approach it in the same manner as the other mini-series.