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Decent
This is a decent movie, but is no where near the book, since it leaves out the majority of what the book was based on, the characters and their stories. Also, alot is abridged overall, which leaves it feeling to rushed and tenuous throughout. It is like a long Twilight Zone episode more than a big movie or film. One thing for those who are not religious, you may be turned off by the constant "God" theme that runs throughout the film. Even for religious people, you may find it annoying - it feels to preachy to me.
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Too Biblical to be fascinating
The book was interesting especially in the descriptions of the decaying nature of Tack as embodied in the sheriff and any other being afterwards. To show it in flipping pictures has a lot less effect. The pangs of conscience and intellect of the main opponent, the one who is going to destroy Tack, or rather to bury him or it alive in the underground mine is less convincing on the screen. Yet the film is strange, just as much as the book was, because Stephen King inverts some essential elements of his vision. For him, over and over again, evil is on the surface and causes damage underground, in the doppelganger world that is supposed to support us and yet is obliged to bear the great destructions we impose onto it. Here evil exists underground and has to be buried alive back into that underground from which human greed has managed to get it out in the most brutal way: mining and exploiting Chinese who are transformed into some un-respected cattle. This simplicity of the relation between the surface and the underground world is surprising for Stephen King who has often accustomed us to more complex relations, like in the Dark Tower. That makes the film slightly superficial and standing only on the frightening leg. We would have liked to be terrorized in our minds more than out superficial nervous system. Apart from that it is well built and directed though the emphasis on God, of course the good old Christian God, is definitely excessive and it should have been widened up to a universal God, ,especially in the present period where some are willing to start religious wars against anyone who is of a different creed or faith.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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pretty good
i enjoyed the film but it just seemed a little empty to me. im not sure what it was missing if anything (it could of been the spots where commercials were) but overall it was exciting and interesting.
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The ending was a let down
This DVD is of a television mini-series, so the obvious thing you see is the spots for commercial breaks. That was kind of annoying. Taken piece by piece, I think it would be easy to find things not to like about this film, but as a whole it worked for me pretty well. I think this would have been 4 star worthy had the ending been a little more suspenseful. Stuffing a shotgun shell in a hole to end a devil's reign of terror just did not do it for me. The kid (as most kids are in this kind of film) was tiring and completely unbelievable. Ron Perlman as the sheriff was fantastic. I wonder if he got paid for this film or just did it for the fun he must have had. His character vanishes about half way through the movie and it kind of slows down from there, but he is definately chewing up the scenery for the first half. Tom Skerritt also gave what I thought was an excellent performance as does Steven Webber, who starts out strong but just kind of fades into the background as the film heads to a climax. Charles Durning was very good as the old guy explaining the history of the town. The women in this film were...Well, they were there. I guess they were there because you have to have women in a horror film. They added little and pretty much just got in the way. Anyway, at a little over 2 hours in length you could do worse. Oh, one more thing...That was a nice bike to just leave setting out in the desert. What were they thinking?
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Desperation
This cd came in a timely manner and was packaged very well. I really enjoyed it
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