i'm attempting to watch the stand. i usually don't write and watch movies at the same time, but it's just not holding my attention. it's super-cheesy and despite the fact that there are quite a few good actors in it, it just feels 'flat'. did the director tell them all to behave like drama queens? and you don't really believe these people are going through what they're going through--it's like watching passions. and where the hell is joe-leo? they left the damn trashcan man in (most irritating stephen king character ever, and at first i thought they got THE NUGE to play him--hahahahaha), but deleted joe?!?!
god, this is excruciating to watch. are we supposed to believe that this top-secret military bio-hazard super-flu factory chose to install a cheap wire fence on training wheels as their main gate? i mean, that flimsy contraption was supposed to serve as the big 'lockdown'? a big wheel could've crashed through that thing (campion looks like that dude from the twisted sister videos, you know the animal house "what do you wanna do with your life?" dude). laura san-giacomo is so freaking annoying...how the hell does she get jobs? laura, for some reason, felt compelled to put nadine on the short bus. and i guess i was blinded by my love of '80's teen flicks, because molly ringwald is really not a good actress. hearing her croak through amazing grace was painful...and what in hell was she wearing?! wardrobe and hair must've hated claire standish, because she was stuck with a horrendous bob and clad in god-awful jean shorts and a black bra. oh, she was wearing a shirt, if you call a piece of puke gray cloth tied around your bra a shirt. i felt as if she should've had a big gulp in one hand and a bag of cheetos in the other ("where's mah lighter?"). what is up with the crypt keeper as randall flagg?
i will only finish this movie because i feel if you are going to criticize a movie/book/whatever, at least give it a chance and finish the damn thing, otherwise you have no grounds to base your snearing sarcasm upon.
update: okay...i could not finish it (i know, i know--i am a hypocrite), but i wouldn't make anyone suffer through this agonizingly dull shite. i tried, but when i figured out they had indeed cut joe out, i was out. i'll stick with the book. i have to revise my statement:
if you are going to criticize a movie/book/whatever, at least give it a chance and finish the damn thing (unless it's fucking stupid...you know i sat through MF robin hood: men in tights and i couldn't sit through the stand. that's saying something...'cause i am definitely, no way, shape or form, a mel brooks fan. so. not. funny. ugh. yes, throw the tomatoes at me, i stand by that opinion), otherwise you have no grounds to base your snearing sarcasm upon.
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