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Summary: Stephen Kings best!
Review: This movie has it all! Suspense, mystery,and excitement. Stephen Kings best. Better then the book. A masterpiece. See it!
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Summary: One of King's greatest works!
Review: The movie was thrilling since the beginning!! The book is even scarier! One on my Top-Ten List
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Summary: Guaranteed to give everything one wants in suspense
Review: The drama that unfolds gives the viewer a sense of urgency and fright, like those of the passengers, to understand the dilemma that their in and how to escape from it.
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Summary: This film was very suspensful and scary.
Review: I would really recommend this film to fans of horror/suspense films because its atmosphere and music and the acting sets the spine-chilling atmosphere for this movie. The idea that the sky in the movie changed from day to night and vice versa really freaked me out. The only thing that I wanted to see most was the langolier eating people up, but unfortunately they didn't show it. But overall this movie was a great one.
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Summary: This was one of the best movies I have ever seen.
Review: I like Stephen King's Movies. My favorite part is when the langoliers come down and cause the distruction.
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Summary: The Story Will Do the Work, Not the Acting
Review: For a four hour movie, "The Langoliers" was unexpectedly easy to sit through for me. Stephen King's name an reputation are most likely what drew people to the movie when it first aired on cable tv in 1995, and what still stands today is not the praise over grand performances, but rather the clever plot. 9 passengers and one pilot who fall asleep on a commercial airline flight, suddenly find themselves in a time-warp, with many questions to be answered and not enough time to answer them. Its nieve to say that the movie keeps you watching to see what happens next, but watching the 10 time-stranded passengers figure out how to escape possible vanishing from existence is all it takes to keep you interested. Stephen King backs up every scenerio with simple but clever obstacles that the cast must overcome...and as you realize why time is critical in their situation, then you will get to know the Langoliers. The cast is well done for this movie, Mark Lindsay Chapman (Nick Hopewell) is pretty much 1995's answer to todays' Russel Crowe. His character is rather annoying at times but interesting to watch. Dean Stockwell is the "philosophical answer man" so to speak, who's character as you will see is the most critical in finding the hiddin clues in their journey. Kimber Riddle, a never before seen cutty plays one of the two young people in the group, who basically assist the others in working on getting out of their predicament. Bronson Pinchot plays Craig Toomey, a disturbed buisness man who is driven by intimidating voices of his dead father, and who winds up a key element in the group's survival. And a few familiar faces appear in the cast as well. The movies' not about a lot of action, but King is well known for working around that and making a good movie. The movie again is about four hours long...but if you ask me it was easier to sit through than "Titanic".
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Summary: I forgot to set my snooze!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Boring. Even the actors sleepwalk during this film. Simply put, the atmosphere wasn't there and they never bothered to cast good enough actors in this film. There were also holes in the storyline. Typical Stephen King...he'll write a classic then come back a year later with a bomb like this one.
Watch the original "Shining" or "Salem's Lot" instead.
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Summary: Pretty good, except for the special effects.
Review: Everything was really good about this film. A good Stephen King adaption of the book which really made you realize that they were all alone in the world of the past. For a movie to do that is pretty hard. And what really got me is the mysterious music, and don't ask me why, but the music is usually what always attracts me to a movie. As for the effects, well they're as flat as an old tire. You still get the idea of the Langoliers though.
American Pride flight #29 to Boston is a seemingly normal flight to Massachussets until about 19/20 of the passengers disappear. In the midst of it all, the ten passengers that are left find on landing to Bangor, Maine for a less busier airport, that everyone else had disappeared to on the ground. To add up to the problem, nothing works anymore. Matches refuse to light, eletrical equipment refuses to turn on, sound defies logic by not echoing, and the air has no odor to it even after just landing. And not only are the people gone, but it seems all living life has disappeared too. But upon exploring the matter more, maybe what has happened has happened to the ten survivors of flight #29, and in the spiralling vortex that has the ten trapped, there may not be a way out for the even approaching evil in the emptiness of this world.
I really like the concept of time travel in the book (which was also very good, a part of the novella Four Past Midnight) and how you cannot hope to time travel and find that everything is once what it used to be.
I always wonder where Stephen King gets these crazy ideas of his, but I find it just comes by simple things complicated into being something different which is how I found the fourteen year old author within myself by the help of Stephen Kings inspiration. His movies may help a little too, but won't scare you nearly as much as the books do, take it from a huge Stephen King fan.
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Summary: The Master of Horror returns
Review: I am a big Stephen King fan, and I have to say that I enjoyed The Langoliers very much. Based on the novella in Stephen King's book Four Past Midnight, The Langoliers is the tale of 9 people on a red-eye flight coming from LA who awaken to find themselves all alone on the plane--everybody, including the flight crew, having disappeared when the plane flew into a mysterious "time rip" that was directly in their path. Luckily for the others, one of the passengers happens to be Captain Brian Engle, a pilot dead-heading home after receiving the news that his ex-wife was killed in a fire. When Capt. Engle takes over the controls of the plane and diverts their flight to Bangor, Maine, that's when the fun and suspense begins.Although I have to agree that the special effects were rather obvious and cheesy, I felt that the story and acting more than made up for it. David Morse was great as Capt. Engle, the pilot who finds himself in a situation that he's never faced before. I loved Mark Lindsay Chapman as Nick Hopewell, the British government "assassin" who suddenly finds himself re-examining his life as the langoliers come after him and his compatriots aboard the plane. It was very nice to see The Secret Garden's Kate Maberly as Dinah, the young blind girl with a power that may help save the others from what's coming. Patricia Wettig handled herself quite well as Laurel, the schoolteacher that takes Dinah under her charge, and who Nick finds himself falling for. Quantum Leap's Dean Stockwell was wonderful as Bob Jenkins, the mystery writer who seems to be the voice of reason among all the others. I had a few concerns at first about Bronson Pinchot as Craig Toomey--my first thought when I saw him was OMG, Balki from Perfect Strangers is playing a crazy guy--but as the story went on I felt that he did quite a good job with his part. In the end, I thought that The Langoliers was an excellent piece of storytelling, even with the cheesy F/X, and one of Stephen King's best miniseries to date. It's a keeper, folks.
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Summary: Big Disappointment
Review: The Story: The premise is that the past does not just go away as we move into the future, it is actively destroyed or eaten up by creature called langoliers. In the movie, the cast has either stopped moving forward or the langoliers have started moving too fast; either way, instead of just eating up the past as we move through time, the langoliers and their ongoing demolition are catching up to the main characters. I never read Stephen King's short story upon which this is based, but this is a very weak movie. The premise could have gone somewhere, but the movie didn't. The dialog is very weak, the special effects are weak, and most of the acting is weak. I got the impression I was watching a rehearsal, and that the actors did not believe in what they were doing. "The Stand" was better in every aspect.
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