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Summary: A lot of build up and then it just ends.
Review: 'The Golden Years' has a lot of build up and then it just kind of ends. I felt like I was cheated out of four hours of my life. What a disappointment.
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Summary: A lot of build up and then it just ends.
Review: 'The Golden Years' has a lot of build up and then it just kind of ends. I felt like I was cheated out of four hours of my life. What a disappointment.
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Summary: Golden Years
Review: For the few people who remember this tv miniseries - be warned. This DVD has a version with a different ending. Where the show concluded on a dark and ambiguous note, this version has a ridiculous happy ending in which the storyline is wrapped up in 2 minutes. You would think that since this is a DVD, they would have included the original ending as an extra - but that's not the case.
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Summary: Stephen King's worst miniseries to date.
Review: Golden Years features a premise that sounds somewhat interesting, basically about an old man who is growing younger after an accident in a laboratory. Unfortunately, the movie is mostly poorly acted, has TV production values, very pedestrian direction, and an ending that is simply awful. It's also boring, worst of all.
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Summary: Intriguing premise, spotty execution
Review: I knew nothing beyond the jacket blurb when I rented this video. But when I got into it, it intrigued me enough to sit through the whole thing (in two sessions - it's a VHS two-reeler on the long side). See the other reviews for plot details. It's an intriguing premise. The chemically-dusted protagonist comes only gradually to realize he is growing younger. The slow unfolding of that proposition occurs like artichoke leaves being peeled back, well done. The byplay between the elderly couple (Keith Szarabaika and Frances Sternhagen) is very well acted, sweet and almost believable. The heroine Terry (Felicity Huffman) is nice eye candy. The villain Jude (R.D. Call) is duly evil but somewhat over the top. But much of the other acting is truly over the top - the "mad scientist" Toddhunter, the Major, the hippies, etc. Those exaggerated, caracaturish personae get in the way of what began as a promising plot. The ending leaves one kinda unfulfilled, too.
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Summary: Would have Been Five Stars, But.....
Review: I saw the most of the original series when it came out years back but grew bored. When I was the DVD, I decide to buy it and see how it ended. The first two hours on this DVD is great. I think it was the two-hour premiere. However, it goes downhill in the next two hours. Things were taken out that made the plot confusing and even worse some thing were left in that did not make the story flow. The last two hours are disjointed and for some reason goes away from the Protagonist. We don't see him. The ending had to be re-done because the original ending was a cliffhanger for the following season. The ending totally reeks. It is really, really bad. You sit on your sofa for 4 hours and then it ends the way it did was he most disappointing of all. Buy the Storm of the Century instead. That was four hours of chills.
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Summary: Too choppy from the middle to the end
Review: I saw the most of the original series when it came out years back but grew bored. When I was the DVD, I decide to buy it and see how it ended. The first two hours on this DVD is great. I think it was the two-hour premiere. However, it goes downhill in the next two hours. Things were taken out that made the plot confusing and even worse some thing were left in that did not make the story flow. The last two hours are disjointed and for some reason goes away from the Protagonist. We don't see him. The ending had to be re-done because the original ending was a cliffhanger for the following season. The ending totally reeks. It is really, really bad. You sit on your sofa for 4 hours and then it ends the way it did was he most disappointing of all. Buy the Storm of the Century instead. That was four hours of chills.
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Summary: Science fiction at it's best!!
Review: I saw this movie when it first aired, and hope they would show it again. The story is about a janitor who is exposed to a substance and he starts to turn younger, he at first does not understand what is happening and then the fun starts. Of course the government wants him for tests but all he wants is to be left alone with his wife. So on the run he goes = there are some neat effects and it ends kind of sadly - but this movie is worth seeing - as i said before I waited, and waited and waited for it to come back to tv - never happened = so now i am going to purchase the viedo -- won't you take a chance? If you love stephen king -- then come on down it's much better than cujo,,,,
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Summary: One of King's overlooked better works
Review: Okay, it needed an editor to get a hold of this, but it is King and they don't edit his books near enough, so a tale where he had a hand in production, even directed part of it, was sure to be the same. Despite that, it is a marvelous tale, not so horrific as most King stories, so most King fans will find it dull. It is more that horror or Sci Fi, it is a gentle tale and romantic, in its own fashion. Keith Szarabajka (Mickey Kostmayer of the Equilizer; Angel; Nighlight) is a superb, underrated talent. In his middle 30's in real life at the time, he portrays an old man nearing retirement working at a top secret lab as a janitor. There is (UNFORTUNATELY) the mad scientist that King should have been ashamed for creating in the stereotypical fashion straight from 1930's horror films, but there is also so really neat characters that round at the tale and make up for the deficiencies. Ed Lauter is great, in a range of role he does not usually play. In a lab accident, Szarajabka is accidently exposed to a substance that reverses his age. And that is what makes the tale work so well. The fine, subtle talents of Szarabajka and the amazing Francis Sternhagen as his wife, who is watching her beloved husband grow younger day and day, make up for the uneven writing by King and sloppy editing. Maybe everyone should forget this is Stephan King, and just judge the film on its own merits and I think you will be surprised. I nice way to pass a rainy day.
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Summary: Golden Years
Review: Short N' Sweet
Good: The movie was mostly true to the series, very entertaining and not bad special effects. Not over played.
Bad: They cut the segment that showed how they group came up with the police car before the bus. They did not have enough of the theme by David Bowie as the series had.
Overall: I liked it and felt worth the bucks I spent for it.
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