One beef with the TV movie of Stephen King's "The Stand" [View All]

[CanuckAmok]

It's on now; Im watching it while I wax the floors.

So...this flu wipes out the whole of humanity, except a few people, right?

So, the deal is, you get the flu virus, you get sick, and you die over a period of a few days.

Okay...fair enough. But there's this montage of different locations with corpses litering the landscape (or devoid of any trace of mankind at all). A deserted beach. Times Square littered with smoking vehicles and scorched bodies. An empty shopping mall.

and then...

A Tilt-A-Whirl ride at an amusement park. With corpses in the cars.

What?!

It's like..."hey, kids, everyone around us is dying from the flu. I think your mom is dead, and I'm not feeling so hot myself. You guys liik a little feverish, too...wanna go die at Funland?"

What the hell was the director thinking?!

Sheesh.