My stupid Review
so, last night until about 3 AM, i finished watching The Stand, a six hour movie gigish thing.
there were some good aspects of it, sure. they did a fair job of telling the story as it is, they got the characters pretty well down (Except Harold and Nadine).
but, though it may have been a while since I've read the book and felt that feeling of intimacy with the story, there were some pretty sad parts to it.
lets put aside the out of date graphics (we're talking MAJOR 90's thing here, crappy graphics, corny "devil" masks, etc), and the style, and lets look at the general movie.
good: story line
bad: everything else...except some actors.
yeah, it was pretty bad. its hard to watch for someone who hasn't read the stand before, and entertaining (as in the laughing-AT kind of entertaining) for those who have.
the stand? what is it?
a great book by stephen king, likely his best piece ever. BIG, but great, awesome to read. i love it. its my favourite book so far.
the book is about the end of the world, pretty much.
see, the government lets loose (by accident, of course0 this freak Superflu, Captain Trips, Plague, call it whatever you want, its let loose. it kills 99.9 percent of the population, leaving a VERY small handful of people who are immune to it for whatever reason.
then they start coming together, and this is where religion starts to come up. everyone starts to have dreams, one with an old black woman in nevada, and the other about the "walkin' Dude", over in Las Vegas.
the old woman is Mother Abigail, the walkin' dude (A devil it seems) is Randall Flagg.
so, everyone starts having these dreams, and starts going to one place, either Boulder Colorado (Mother Abigail), or Las Vegas(Randall Flagg).
so, there are these two "forces" started, one good, one evil.
in retrospect, it really is a rather simple storyline. BUT!!!! it does get complicated. there are bunches of subplots, UP the wang, more than enough characters to follow in different times and areas, all sorts of different ordeals going on (Power supply? Babies Immunity? Flagg? Spies? AHH) all that jazz.
great book, really. sadly, a lot of major characters die... in fact, I'm thinking only two of the original characters live in the end. whoops. anyway, good story (GREAT), but the movie, though it was pretty funny, doesn't earn up to it. once again, if someone hasn't read the book before, they're left a little dizzy after changing from one side of the continent to the other then more south and all over the place.
anyway, i watched it.
i'm starting to realize how predictable Stephen King is though. it sucks. So many stories theres a black person who seems to be the savour of the main character (Talisman, it was the old carnival guy, the shining was that black guy, the stand was mother abigail), and his endings are getting easy to predict.
average stephen king ending:
everything goes up in smoke! the big bang at the end! then, back to the normal life, everything is the same save for a small, almost undetectable factor, and then a small twist at the end.
perfect example is secret window. movie wise, i mean, i haven't read secret window, secret garden yet. i might not, either.
anyway, movie wise, he goes and kills her...then, hes in the store, braces, just you know, some person, then he eats corn that grew over her rotting corpse! buahahaha.
gah. sigh. stephen king, you're letting loose too much!
anyway, this is long enough.
PS
www.bonarlaw.blogspot.com
there were some good aspects of it, sure. they did a fair job of telling the story as it is, they got the characters pretty well down (Except Harold and Nadine).
but, though it may have been a while since I've read the book and felt that feeling of intimacy with the story, there were some pretty sad parts to it.
lets put aside the out of date graphics (we're talking MAJOR 90's thing here, crappy graphics, corny "devil" masks, etc), and the style, and lets look at the general movie.
good: story line
bad: everything else...except some actors.
yeah, it was pretty bad. its hard to watch for someone who hasn't read the stand before, and entertaining (as in the laughing-AT kind of entertaining) for those who have.
the stand? what is it?
a great book by stephen king, likely his best piece ever. BIG, but great, awesome to read. i love it. its my favourite book so far.
the book is about the end of the world, pretty much.
see, the government lets loose (by accident, of course0 this freak Superflu, Captain Trips, Plague, call it whatever you want, its let loose. it kills 99.9 percent of the population, leaving a VERY small handful of people who are immune to it for whatever reason.
then they start coming together, and this is where religion starts to come up. everyone starts to have dreams, one with an old black woman in nevada, and the other about the "walkin' Dude", over in Las Vegas.
the old woman is Mother Abigail, the walkin' dude (A devil it seems) is Randall Flagg.
so, everyone starts having these dreams, and starts going to one place, either Boulder Colorado (Mother Abigail), or Las Vegas(Randall Flagg).
so, there are these two "forces" started, one good, one evil.
in retrospect, it really is a rather simple storyline. BUT!!!! it does get complicated. there are bunches of subplots, UP the wang, more than enough characters to follow in different times and areas, all sorts of different ordeals going on (Power supply? Babies Immunity? Flagg? Spies? AHH) all that jazz.
great book, really. sadly, a lot of major characters die... in fact, I'm thinking only two of the original characters live in the end. whoops. anyway, good story (GREAT), but the movie, though it was pretty funny, doesn't earn up to it. once again, if someone hasn't read the book before, they're left a little dizzy after changing from one side of the continent to the other then more south and all over the place.
anyway, i watched it.
i'm starting to realize how predictable Stephen King is though. it sucks. So many stories theres a black person who seems to be the savour of the main character (Talisman, it was the old carnival guy, the shining was that black guy, the stand was mother abigail), and his endings are getting easy to predict.
average stephen king ending:
everything goes up in smoke! the big bang at the end! then, back to the normal life, everything is the same save for a small, almost undetectable factor, and then a small twist at the end.
perfect example is secret window. movie wise, i mean, i haven't read secret window, secret garden yet. i might not, either.
anyway, movie wise, he goes and kills her...then, hes in the store, braces, just you know, some person, then he eats corn that grew over her rotting corpse! buahahaha.
gah. sigh. stephen king, you're letting loose too much!
anyway, this is long enough.
PS
www.bonarlaw.blogspot.com
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