i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Good idea lost in the noise

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I personally thought this min-series was great. I loved each of the characters. I was easily able to build a connection with them. There was definitely a lot of planning involved in this movie. Stephen King was able to bring every character's backgrounds into play. I think it was a great cast. They all did a extraordinary job in making me believe that this will be the way that post-apocalyptic society will interact. Might I also add that they did this without pushing the bounds over-the-top. The way society had come to rebuild during the mini-series, it was very believable. The immune started back at square one after the plague broke out, and wiped out most of the world. The script did an excellent job on every character's story. There was a lot of detail put into their backgrounds. This revealed some idea as to why some of the characters went the route of the post- apocalyptic demon, or the godly-grandmother in their dreams. It shows all anger, and really gets into each characters purpose. The war continues between good and evil throughout the whole entire movie. Either people will follow the Demon who walks the Earth, or they will follow mother Abigail Freemantle, at Hemmingford Home. People are getting confused on who to follow throughout the film, and some are driven to the demon due to being hurt (scenarios like love and jealousy). While all this is going on.. ninety-percent of the rest of the planet is dead, completely wiped out and deserted. At the end, it's the choices that are made that decide human fate.This was a terrific mini-series. The script, acting, and dialog were outstanding (for television). I would definitely buy this mini- series on blu-ray, and recommend it to any horror lover.

The Stand is an epic tale between the forces of good and evil battling for control on the verge of civilization's collapse.While a made for television production, The Stand managed to weave a great caste into a six hour format allowing time for us to get to know the characters and watch as they develop for better or worse.As the survivors of a horrifying deadly plague gather in two camps one lead by an Antichrist like figure Randall Flagg and the saintly mother Abigal both vying for the occupation of the world for generations to come.The story isn't all black & white as their are traitors and deserters among the ranks. Two stand out Harold Lauder who's felt like a big fat loser all his life and Nadine Cross an earth child with a mysterious mystical link to Flagg.These two characters bring out a lot of morality questions like how far does free will reach over selective destiny? Are they sacrificial lambs for the slaughter or was the choice to decline offers already in place?But that's what good story telling can accomplish by making you think and feel.The music hit the mark each time and the editor better have gotten overtime for the natural flow of scene changes from beginning to end.The Stand was Stephen King's Lord of the rings that's never been topped.

It's a made for TV movie, not some Hollywood blockbuster with a massive budge that is plastered wall to wall with movie star A-Listers. That being said, there are a surprising number of top notch thespians.Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald lock things down with solid performances that represent "The Light" side. In a nutshell there is a massive die-off in the form of a deadly plague that basically remakes the entire Earth. The planet as we know it goes from 7.5 billion population to somewhere around 10,000 planet-wide! To further complicate world matters there appears to be a supernatural biblical force behind the entire event. There are now two sides to this event: the side of God and the side of the Devil turning this disaster into what appears to be an apocalyptic event.The evil is concentrating around Las Vegas 'Sin City" so aptly named. A biker looking rebel with a legendary mullet by the name of Randall Flag is leading the darkness.The good are behind a devout old woman of 106 name Abigail Freeman who is gathering the light to her via dream messages.This series can drag on in some parts, but it's a fantastic showdown that can't be missed! Be sure to watch this one!

I read the book the year before the mini series came out, so naturally I was disappointed. In time I realized all movies fall short of the books because they take you through detail and imagination where a movie never can and I should judge the series on its own merit. When doing so I realized that the mini series was entertaining, filled with stars new and old, present and past, and had a lot of entertainment value. After watching it again with a more proper perspective I realized it was an entertaining movie that I liked much more than I realized as I purchased it off of amazon and have enjoyed watching it about once a year since. The book is great and more engaging than the movie. But the Movie is still s solid 7 our of 10 that has brought me a lot of entertainment.I think when Peter Jackson did such an excellent job of making the Lord of The Rings was when I realized what an impossible task it was making a movie as good as a book. As good as I thought the movies were, and I think they are of the best ever made, still nowhere near the books. But how could all the history embedded in the books translate into a movie? He did as good a job as could be, but still no Tom Bombadil, likely because he was interesting in the book but would have added nothing to the movie but time, something Peter Jackson was challenged to keep down as long as they were. He could have made 30 hrs of film and still not captured the detail of the books because they are different media. You don't know what people are thinking in movies and do in books. History, so important in LOTR was left out other than the very good job of capturing how ancient Middle Earth was.My reason for bringing up another movie in the review of the Stand is I've learned that each must be judged separately and rated on their own merits. The stories are always slightly different, the question is given the medium it was presented how good is it, not how does it compare to the book. The stand is a solid movie that entertains and I enjoy it regularly not that I have released it from the bonds of equaling the book, something no movie has ever done. It is relatively true to the book storyline with the typical omissions caused by the media on which it the story is told. But it is solid and entertaining, and worth the watch.