"It's going to suck, let's watch something else.... It's going to suck, let's watch something else.... King Adaptations always suck, let's watch something else."
"You realize it's John Carpenter right?"
"Oh, let's rent Christine."
That is honestly how the conversation went when I was in High School.... and I am glad I gave it a chance. It's actually one of the better adaptations of a King novel, and, really, this was CLASSIC King.
Carpenter did a great job of cutting away the fat and making a screen adaptation of a King novel that still held true to the spirit of the novel.
I was surprised, but, then, Carpenter is really great at that sort of thing.