The Stand, for me. But I think my Stand love is pretty well established.
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Matt Frewer as Trashcan Man was pretty inspired casting, I thought.
Molly Ringwald, on the other hand...
Matt Frewer as Trashcan Man was pretty inspired casting, I thought.
Molly Ringwald, on the other hand...
Actually, I thought all of the casting, except for Molly Ringwald, was fantastic for the Stand.
Gary Sinise was perfect as Stu Redman, even though I had my doubts when I first heard he was cast in the part. (I always pictured Stu as being at least ten years older, which made the whole Fran/Stu relationship even more May/Decemberish and icky, but that's just me.) I also loved Ray Walston and Miguel Ferrer, but the guy from Coach who played the "M-O-O-N, that spells XXX!" character was unable to make him less annoying than written, which wasn't his fault but King's.
Tom Moon very nearly made me want to root for Randall Flagg's side.
I was thinking about seeing The Wedding Date for fluffy fun, but its Rotten Tomatoe-meter score is the lowest I've ever seen. Have we ever had a 0%?
It's up to 10% now. There have been a bunch of single digit ratings, including Catwoman. Either Out Cold or House of the Dead is the worst I've ever seen, with a 3%.
You know how the current teaster ads for Hide & Seek say "Don't let anybody tell you how it ends?"
That's because if they did, no one would go see the thing.
I came very close to walking out at the twist. Unless you have a fetish for seeing small children in danger, don't see the movie. Seriously. It was just depressingly bad.
I have a fetish for being creeped out. And since Dakota Fanning creeps me out even when she's not evil and doesn't have Emily the Strange's hairstyle, I MUST see her as evil!precocious-girl.
And since the twist, theoretically, is near the end of the movie, that means the first bits of the movie will provide creepiness. Which is all I desire.
And since the twist, theoretically, is near the end of the movie
I want a movie where the twist is in the first ten minutes, from which all trailers are made, giving the audience an entirely false impression as to what the movie is actually about.
"Don't miss the last hour-and-a-half!"
I used to think I had the perfect ST:TNG episode: The Enterprise confronts some horrible new adversary - and gets blown-up ten minutes into the show. The remaining 35 minutes is just a black screen.
P-C, I think that would be cool, and would give them major promo points.