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Summary: I NEED MORE STARS!
Review: The movie is GREAT! However, I have to say it comes side by side with Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (That's just for me), the movie "The Stand" has everything! It's more than worth it even for it's long length. Along with the expected horror you get from Stephen King, you get a touch of romance (Like Stu and Frannie), friendship (Like Nick and Tom), and much more! The music is great and the movie can keep you in your seat wanting to know what happens next for the whole 6 1/2 hours. I can give so many more reasons why to get it but I I would run out of my 1,000 word limit. I definatly recommend this movie!
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Summary: I liked the book, but this interpritation, eeeeeeehhhhhhhha
Review: Not exectly bad, but,...not exactly good eitherbut
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Summary: Really loved it -- and I don't even like apocalypse films.
Review: Just a word to anyone wandering around here who, like me, usually avoids dystopic sci-fi films like the plague (sorry). Don't make the mistake of passing this film by. Other reviewers have commented at length on the vividness of the characterizations so I won't do that here. Instead I'd like to mention the camerawork that makes the film visually stunning, not only the expected "horror" elements of cities filled with corpses, and Army massacres of unarmed civilians, but also in the beautiful scenery through which the principal characters travel. This film is powerful and excellent.
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Summary: I wish there were more stars!
Review: The first King book I read was The Skeleton Crew and I enjoyed it. However, I was not compelled by it to continuing reading more King books. But then one day I was watching a channel affiliated with ABC and saw the previews for an upcoming mini-series called The Stand. I was blown away! It looked awesome. I waited in anticipation for its showing. I watched all of the six hours of it and couldn't get enough. Wanting to get more of The Stand I went out and bought the uncut version. Despite the plethora of pages, I read the book in 2 monthes non-stop, and I loved every bit of it. I have since bought the newest version on DVD and I also loved it. Gary Sinse, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, and, of course, Ruby Dee (I'm 102 years old and I still make my own bread) are all great in this movie. I also love Laura San Giacoma in her role. Stephen King writes the best books and always has the best film adaptations.
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Summary: M-O-O-N that spells moon.
Review: I am the lucky owner of the unedited book version of The Stand number 104 of 750 printed in dutch. It was expensive but it was worth it. The book is magnificent and when I saw the video I was in chock. What a movie ! The hours just seems minutes (ALMOST 6 HOURS OF FILM) and I showed it to all my friends. It is long and I was afraid that my friends couldn't focus such a long time, but they all loved it. I saw it now several times and every time it gets me. M-O-O-N is one of the highlights of the story and I can't keep my eyes dry when Nick helps Tom on the way back from Las Vegas. The film is realistic and shot in such a way that it looks like you are there yourself and the music they use is very good.(buy the CD) Like the craw and Don't fear the reaper at the beginning when you get a inside look where the trouble begins. Movies like virus can't compete with the Stand. Just buy it, watch it and love it.
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Summary: Satanical but not virginal
Review: The book has a strange history because it had two successive editions, the first one having been reduced tremendously by the publisher. It is the final catastrophy novel where the whole of humanity is destroyed by some military research. This is secondary in the book or the video. What is essential is the spectacle of the slow and precise decaying of our society and the emergence of two possible futures. One is positive and is inspired by an old black woman. The other is negative and instilled in the minds of some deranged men by the famous Dark Man, the famous Randall Flagg, the famous etc. On one side the good ones reinvent democracy and American history. On the other side the bad ones reinvent a fascist society based on torture and absolute tyranny. What is interesting, first of all and above all, in the book and the video is the concept of sacrifice. The good ones, be they in the hands of God or of any other spiritual force, it does not matter since if you don't believe in God, He believes in you, can only impose their humane vision on the world, hence save humanity and not only the human animal, by sending four of their foremost leaders to get sacrificed (after three spies, which makes seven delegates) by the monster. And it is in fact more witnesses than lambs that are sent. Two will be sacrificed, one will be shot in prison, one will be shot on his way to Las vegas, and one will kill herself not to speak. Only two will survive. One because he broke his leg along the way and did not reach Las Vegas. The other one because he managed to escape due to his retardness. The world saved by this sacrifice and by the retarded individual that can escape any scrutiny, even that of the devil. Yet the video lacks something, it lacks the virginal ending of the book, the return to some natural life, to a natural couple with a child, to the Garden of Eden, and ends only on a happy ending. Kind of a shame that King cut off that purely naive ending that gave some new perspective to the story: we have to reinvent Eden if we want humanity to survive, not only Boulder, that is to say a new Jerusalem, some kind of ambiguous ending because of the echo it finds in some puritan vision, at least of God and humanity as a whole. Jacques COULARDEAU Paris Universities IX and II
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Summary: 100% King
Review: This movie has something for everyone...yes it's 6 hours long...but for this movie...more is better. In all the movies I've seen...this is my favorite. The effects, the music, the actors...everything is top rate...with the exception of the man who plays Randall Flag. Not a man I would choose as evil...he's way too clownish for my taste. Gary Sinise is remarkable. If you're a Sinise fan...sit through the 6 hours..you won't be dissappointed. The beginning of the movie can't be discribed. It is the most visual display of death you will ever see. Although this means the movie is NOT meant for young children...stick to 15 yrs. and up. I enjoyed this movie so much I ran out and bought the unedited version of the book..($65.00)worth. Now that is something I never do...I'm not a big reading fan. I usually stick to reading things that aren't movies or save it for extremely exceptional works. Never have I watched the movie and then decided to read the book. Definitely WATCH THIS MOVIE...but make sure you have the 6 hours free...because once you start the movie, you won't want to stop it.
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Summary: Just another fan
Review: It's true I'm just another fan, I mean I've read everyone's reviews and there are a lot, a lot more good then bad though I'm happy to say. But nothing I can say can ever compare to what all the others say, or what this movie stood for. *Get it STOOD for* I don't think I've ever seen another movie that was combined with such great actors, not to mention cute. I mean watching Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, and Adam Storke for 6 HOURS? That's just pure heaven. But there's more to it than that, it was no horror book or movie at all, I maybe only 17 years old, but I have read the book. Everything the actors did I will never forget, the way they sacraficed things. And not to mention the bad guys, they were good too. Even Harold, who got lead astray, my dad says he feels sorry for him as he's like Judas Ascariot. The point is is that you have to see this movie or at least read the book, the ending on the book leaves you wondering more though. It makes me cry everytime I watch the movie, its probably one of my favorites now. "Baby Can You did YO man" "He's a righteous man" TO MAKE A STAND
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Summary: The best adaptation of King's work on Television
Review: THE STAND is my personal Stephen King novel and when I first heard it was going to be a TV series I was somewhat doubtful that ABC could do it justice. I was happily mistaken. ABC did a fantastic job of adapting the characters of the novel to the small screen and the plot (while not exactly following the Novel) was clever and interesting. All the actors in the movie did an excellent job. This is a 6 hour long movie and it will hold your interest from the beginning to the last scene. Kudo's to ABC.
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Summary: In the Seventh grade
Review: I was in the seventh grade when the made for television movie came out. At the time, I was not a Stephen King fan at all. When a good friend of mine handed me the book one day, I thought "yea right. like I am going to be able to completely read a 1141 page book." Well, once i got started there was no stopping.then once the movie came out on video, i spent some of the babysitting money i had saved and bought it. now that i am in the Navy and stationed overseas, i canhardly believe i left my most favorite movie of all time back in small town Ohio. Gary Sinise made me blush everytime he smiled, and Molly Ringwald made me feel as though I could be Frannie. If your not sure about buying the VHS or DVD, please take it from a broke seventh graded, buy it now.
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