the stand erghhh

[Turhamkey]

(As a foreward, i apologize because i accidentally posted this in the shining section because the link was right next to the stand.. i missed XD)

Im currently watching it, and i have only one complaint...
I accept that in order to make the movie as short as it was (which isnt very) they had to cut some things out. (nadine wasnt who she was in the book, they didnt go into detail about the guy in jail, etc) But above all... i think they made harold too...clean. Then i pictured harold in the book, i pictured an obese disgusting kid, in the movie all they seemed to do was make a skinny slightly greasy dude...
what do you guys think?

[Raq]

I honestly think that the movie sucked....I mean for a movie it was something circa 5/10 but as for an adaptation of the book its like 2-/10...Not one character is even close to those in the book (or comic book even). Harolds is very bad but what Mick did with Tom, Nick, and Flagg...well let's just say I hated it, because I don't think you guys tolerate the kind of languega I would have to use to describe it.

[mstay]

(As a foreward, i apologize because i accidentally posted this in the shining section because the link was right next to the stand.. i missed XD)

Im currently watching it, and i have only one complaint...
I accept that in order to make the movie as short as it was (which isnt very) they had to cut some things out. (nadine wasnt who she was in the book, they didnt go into detail about the guy in jail, etc) But above all... i think they made harold too...clean. Then i pictured harold in the book, i pictured an obese disgusting kid, in the movie all they seemed to do was make a skinny slightly greasy dude...
what do you guys think?

That is how I pictured Harold too. I think they probably couldn't find an actor that looked like that. I liked the movie but I did think some of the casting left something to be desired. In my opinion, Tom was perfect and Stu was not too bad.

[Turhamkey]

Yea, i agree tom and stu were fine... even if tom looked older than what i pictured. For flagg... i definately saw more of a...dashing rogue figure, and a little less... caveman i guess

[K4driver]

Larry was meh....I pictured him exactly like Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Darkness on the edge of Town.

[Countrygirl_sass]

I am reading this right now and agree about some of the characters not living up to their literary selves. But the book is awesome! And it is also very, very long. lol

[GreenEyes]

I liked the casting of Gary Sinise as Stu and Adam Storke as Larry...I didn't think much of Molly Ringwald as Frannie and didn't like Jamey Sheridan as Randall Flagg. Christopher Walken would have been perfection in the role of Flagg; he is a frightening, powerful, intimidating man and yet also oozes charm.

[Srbo]

Christopher Walken would have been perfection in the role of Flagg; he is a frightening, powerful, intimidating man and yet also oozes charm.

Amen.

[DancingCorpse]

I don't plan on watching the adaptation. I saw a picture of the dude who played Flagg and that was enough to make me think, that is not the 'Walkin Dude who i imagine strolling and whistling down the dark deserted streets of my mind.

[Turhamkey]

I definitely agree that he didn't match up with who i thought he would be