CanuckAmok
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Sun Aug-01-04 09:01 PM
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One beef with the TV movie of Stephen King's "The Stand" |
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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.
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GhostThatWalks
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Sun Aug-01-04 09:05 PM
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I don't care much for that movie. Come to think of it.... I really don't like any Steve King TV movie.
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Sun Aug-01-04 09:05 PM
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2. Read the unedited version of the book. |
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Much better than the movie.
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CanuckAmok
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Sun Aug-01-04 09:07 PM
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It's one of two King novels I like (the other being "IT").
It's just that one scene was so...stupid...
"Hey, Bobby, stop puking! You and your sister and I are going to go one more time on the Tilt-A-Whirl, just for old times' sake.."
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Sun Aug-01-04 09:28 PM
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4. Remember W's advice @ Ground Zero - GO Shopping! Same thing! n/t |
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