[blueerica]

Hmm, brings on a side topic for myself - favorite King adaptation.. I'll save that one for another day.

I suppose that in this thread I have yet to say whether popular = good.

Of course not; at least not on the individual level. But for more individuals than not, or at least those who took the time to respond (and that needs to be taken seriously into consideration when considering what imdb or any movie-related site has to say on a "rating" of a movie based on "popularity") the movie is "good."

"Good" is such a non-descriptor to me these days that they may have just as well said it was "okay." After all, don't most people say their day was "good" if it wasn't totally crap - by comparison, unless a movie was egregiously bad, don't they say "it was good" and if you're lucky enough for a discriminating opinion they might say, "but..."

Anyway... I don't buy much into what people say, aside from a few people I know very well.