I love the Cap arena of the MCU, so I’m excited for this one. The potential to see Ford Hulk out is worth it alone
The Rose Red miniseries deserves consideration because it is a mess, but I kind of enjoy it partly because the fantastic Melanie Lynskey is ideally cast as the stand in for Eleanor from Haunting of Hill House (which it is a ripoff/homage to)
The people in the novel’s Vegas were people who craved order and were sold on Flagg’s fascism. They would’ve fit in in Nixon’s “silent majority” (what I think King was mostly commenting on) or in more recent groups that shall remain nameless. They were cops, hardhats, mostly the kind of people who love appeals to “law…
Ugh, that Shining mini-series. As much as King complains about the Kubrick adaptation, the only two things that are really missing that matter are Hallorann’s greater role and the palpable sense of desperation that the Torrance family has in the book when Jack takes the job.
All I can remember about that awful Shining mini-series was how whiny and annoying the kid playing Danny was. I don’t reflexively hate Kubrick’s film and think it deserves to be a classic, but I’ve always thought the casting was just... weird, except for Danny Lloyd.
Danny Lloyd may not have been the best part of the Kubrick Shining, but my god was he ever light years better than the kid they got for King’s version. I recently watched the bathtub sequence of the remake and he makes it absolutely unwatchable for all the wrong reasons.
Steven Weber... Do you think there’s a parallel universe where he’s got Woody Harrelson’s career? I kind of do. I was rooting for him.
While I haven’t watched it in years, I remember feeling like Dreamcatcher started off really well. Maybe it was the anticipation/foreboding of the whole thing, then it fell apart probably around the time the aliens took center stage.
It really was. It was very high quality on its own, and it also made me wonder why we don’t get remix versions of other people’s work. Surely instead of rehashing stories that have been told many times we can throw a bunch of them in the bag and come up with something more interesting, right?
You know who I think would do it justice? Damon Lindelof. He's got a heavy interest in religion and spirituality, and his work on The Leftovers convinced me he'd get the tone right for The Stand.
They don't even mention Maximum Overdrive!
The Dark Tower wasn’t a bad movie considering they took 8 books and crammed them into 95 minutes. It should have been a mini-series on cable/streaming. I hope that it does make it way there at some point.
It’s a combination of bad writing, overacting, truly crappy FX, and an odd TV-movie sappiness underlying it all. The only one not overacting was David Morse, and he just walked around with a vaguely half-scared/half-constipated look on his face. And the “everyone jumping excitedly into the air with a big YEAH!!!”…
The newer take on The Stand deserves a place here. So many awful mistakes made. So many changes that were either at best just unnecessary or at worst weakened the story. The one that comes to mind was the Dark Man’s enclave in Vegas. The book’s group of technically adept people who worked hard and were absolutely…
So ‘It Chapter Two’ belongs on this list but ‘Lawnmower Man’ doesn’t? Keep up the bad work, Mills.
Castle Rock was so good and it sucks so bad that it was cancelled.
For whatever reason, I often find myself enjoying a lot of these really bad ones. In particular, I watch The Langoliers anytime I randomly stumble across it because it makes me laugh a lot (Dean Stockwell reminds me more of Doc Brown than Shatner, but I can see where you’re coming from). Similarly, The Tommyknockers ho…
Nope. The Langoliers is the worst of the worst, hands down. Everything about it was hell to watch. I spent the whole time wishing someone would have booted Bronson Pinchot and that annoying ass blind girl right off the damn plane.
Good.