your mother and i saw two different versions of that movie.

The Stand is my favorite SK book of all, the movie wasn't all that bad, I mean I liked it personally but it did leave a lot of shit out that was in the book.

ok well i got to like halfway and got sidetracked by Pet Semetary but i am about to start reading it again!

If you liked the stand You would love Swan Song. It has a Story line thats a lot like the stand. Can't remember the name of the auther Though.

robert r mccammeron .. wrong spelling .. butsomething like that

I havent read the book. As im not a book person. But I saw the movie and loved it.

Is the translation really that bad is it?

The movie sucks balls. Horrible translation.

I did watch the whole movie--I think I liked reading Dicken's "A Tale Of Two Cities" more--UGH.

Yes, the movie translation really is that bad. Horrible, in fact. This story never should have been adapted for the screen, and particularly not for network TV. They left out SOOOO much (anyone else remember Rita Blakemoor? How about Frannie's mom?), and changed things that easily could have been left alone. It was also the most horribly cast movie I've seen in a long time (Molly Ringwald as Frannie? Please give me a freaking break! Where is the "puking my guts out" smily??). I'm not sure which was worse, this or the idiotic TV adaptation of "It" --- neither one was worth a damn, as far as I'm concerned.

Read the book, and you'll discover just how bad the movie sucked.

P.S. to Urgeok -- Swan Song was written by Robert McCammon. You were close! :)

I dunno if I could go through a whole book. Its just not me. And if I did read it it would take months literally. But since I like the movie so much it means that I would definately love the book.

And that suck bigtime. Too many movies that do come out miss too much that was in the book.

its unfortunate but it cant be helped ...
A clever director (who is hopefully a fan of the book - but not always) will know how to balance the job of extracting the essentials without dissapointing the hard core fans of the book.

Every book would be a 20 hour long movie if they were to be filmed verbatim.

The fillmakers task it to pull the book apart and see what characters/sequences can be left out without hurting the integrity of the story.

a lot of things that flow well on paper do not look good on screen either.

I think Dune was a prime example where it failed because it couldnt please anyway. When you take on a huge cult fan favorite - you are setting yourself up for a no win situation.

Fans of the book will be pissed because so much has been left out... non fans wont understand it.

Personally I enjoyed Dune because i could understand why certain things had to be left out - and i'm a fan of the book.


Look at Lord of the Rings ... never has there been such devotion to capturing as much as possible of the book .. and the hard core fans still werent happy.

its a dicey position for a filmmaker to put him/herself into.