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Summary: Tommyknockers knocking at the door
Review: I am a fan of Stephen King and recently it seems that all of his work is been addited for movies. The Tommyknockers or De Gloed (the glow) in dutch is a very good book, as I like SF as well. So when I bought the video I was a little bit chocked. It started well but you will never know why Gardener wasn't affected by the alien influence and later on it seems they run out of time to show the book properly. Nevertheless a average Stephen King movie in the same categorie as movies like the Sphere or Event Horizon. Nice movies but still missing the juice that combines all the ingredients.
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Summary: This movie rocks!
Review: I can't believe people who said they did not like this movie or the book. As usual, the book is much better but the movie is great. I thoroughly enjoyed both. This movie has suspense, a sci fi theme, lots of intersting charactrers, and lots of detail. AND Jimmy Smits is soooooooo hot! Anyone who is a sci-fi fan or Stephen King fan will like this movie.
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Summary: Not bad, but not great
Review: I have seen lots of movies, alot good, alot bad. This ranks somewhere in the middle. It was kind of boring, the only really good part was the end and that was not to great.For me the book was so much better. I think you should read the book befor waching the movie
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Summary: Excellent Book... Not a very good movie and bad acting!
Review: I love the book "The Tommyknockers" and I also enjoy most movies that are made from King's books, but this one (and "Thinner") is an exception. First of all, the acting is horrible. The funny thing is that the best acting comes from former pornstar Traci Lords, and that still isn't very good (but she does look very hot...). The effects are pretty poor and always look the same (ie. green lights). Some of the things from the book translated nicely, like the shed, but otherwise I believe that if I hadn't read the book first that it wouldn't have made any sense at all. It's really sad when I have to say the line: "The best thing about this movie is Traci Lords.". Skip this and read the book.
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Summary: Really nice movie
Review: I really liked this movie but not as much as some King based movies so i'm only giving it three stars. It comes on TV quite often so there's really no need to buy/rent it.
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Summary: what the hell?
Review: I saw the end of this movie when i was a little kid and it scared me, but a few months ago i rented it and sat threw the hole thing (nearly 3 hours) and the only thing it encouraged me to do was go get some Advile! It gave me the worst headach! it is so lame! don't watch it! it is piecie of crap!
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Summary: Not that bad
Review: I'm surprised how this movie got the lower rate than it should be.I agree it's kinda slow and boring but the story becomes more interesting in every pace.If you feel like watching horror movie but don't want too violent stuff,try this one.
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Summary: Stephen King has Writer's Block
Review: If you find lava lamps objects of terror then this might work as a horror flick. A green glow from the forest and in the eyes of the actors who really needed work was the major special effect. Personally I've been more terrified watching the Home Shopping Network. This will be definitely a Christmas present from me to a some luck individual to get it out of my video collection. This is supposed to be a Steve King story but Don King or Larry King could have written a more entertaining story.
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Summary: Idiotic, pointless and, most of all, rubbish
Review: Stephen King adaptations rarely get the treatment they deserve, and therefore (usually) come out looking average and lacksture. So what happens when you go through this process with a King book that was rubbish in the first place?
Absolute crap is the answer, of course. This dire mini-series is 2 and a half hours of sleep-inducing soap opera, twenty or so minutes of midly entertaining ending, and almost 3 hours of pointless viewing in all. King was asking for it though; the actors (including Jimmy Smits, tragically miscast as Gard) have to wrestle with the terrible script and plot, and the special effects are suitably 1930's thanks to the small budget and the ridiculous stuff they had to re-create from the book. I was dissapointed that the evil flying drinks dispenser hadn't made it through to this crap interpretation.
Just don't watch this. It's for your own good.
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Summary: Alien Savants Run Amok!
Review: The book and the miniseries differ, but both are quite good. For the jaded veterans among you, it's essentially Five Million Years to Earth, served up a la King.Marg Helgenberger trips over an ancient flying saucer in the woods one day while walking her dog, and decides it might make a nice private playground centerpiece if dug out and spiffied-up a bit. She starts experiencing a creative psychic brain-boost during the lengthy process, which is shared by a few of the nearby townsfolk. Her old lover, Jimmy Smits, however, an alcoholic poet of some former reputation with a metal plate in his skull, is left cold by Marg's new pet project - the saucer gives him a headache, literally. Pretty soon, the nearby isolated small town begins splitting-up into two factions - those who are sympatico with the saucer's psychic space-vibes, and those who aren't. Those who are become inventive geniuses, and those who aren't start more and more looking like dinner. Only Jimmy Smits is sufficiently immune to the nasty thing to exercise his presence of mind, and somehow stop the saucer and its long-mummified occupants from revitalizing themselves off Marg and the other infected townsfolk. This is a very handsomely produced piece, and sufficiently close to Stephen King's original novel that the changes made in the script - which are only done to simplify (and under-grue) the action, and allow a little alien activity - are more welcome than not. The cast are all terrific, especially leads Helgenberger and Smits. Helgenberger's transformation due to her dangerous alien exposure is nicely counterpointed with Smits' alcoholism, the saucer's influence acting like a drug to those who respond to its emanations. The special effects are great, and the inclusion of the revitalized aliens on the saucer in the finale is a nice touch - they're pretty cool, really. The suspense works well. The only real flaw with this piece is a bit too much padding, but the same can be said of most of Stephen King's work in general, and certainly this production has less of it than the novel on which it is based.
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