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Bullet update
Hi
The official site for Riding the Bullet has been updated with this interesting poster among other things.
http://www.ridingthebulletmovie.com/
Lilja
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The official site for Riding the Bullet has been updated with this interesting poster among other things.
http://www.ridingthebulletmovie.com/
Lilja
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Lilja's Library - The World of Stephen King: http://www.Liljas-Library.com
Comments
I would probably be better off just skipping this one.
Well, you could just go watch it without thinking of it as a movie connected to or based upon the story. It did wonders for me with The Lawnmower Man 1 although that's entirely a whole different story
At the risk of sounding rude Bev, perhaps the reviewer (well reviewers since I've seen nothing but one scathing review after another) was simply looking for an engaging experience?
Not every reviewer is so unprofessional as to not allow him/herself to be pleasently suprised by a film that was different than or even exceeded their expectations.
If the movie was simply good, I think at the very least the reviewer would be willing to say that despite the lack of "horror" that the film was actually a capably constructed piece of cinema. Some King fans seem to think that movie reviewers have some sort of ajenda to trash any King movie. Still, reviewers (and the public) gave such non-horrific works such as "Stand By Me", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "The Green Mile" high marks. I'm sorry, I don't believe it when people say that the moviegoing audiences cannot deal with a non-horrific movie based off of Stephen King's literature.
Garris' track record is spotty. Well, perhaps that's being nice. I thought "The Stand" was a respectable piece of work. Everything else the guy has produced has seemed to range from utter dreck (see "Sleepwalkers") to something that is perhaps marginally good (see "The Shining").
In a way I was kind of eager to hear the reviews on this film, since this is really the first piece of work from (well it seems like it's the first piece of work from) Mick Garris that didn't have anything to do with broadcast television or with Stephen King's direct involvement. At least Mick was given some more room to stretch himself creatively with a feature film. In every interview Mick has stated that he quickly "clicked" with the story and pounded out a draft in a matter of weeks. Now this is finally an example of what Garris is as a screenwriter/director, even if it's based off of a King short story.
I emailed the reviewer to talk to him about his review, since at many times it was so over the top.
His response was that he wanted to like this movie and that he's a Stephen King fan. Here is the opening line to his review:
"A poorly made film that insults one's intelligence."
When I asked him if the movie really was that bad, he said yes.
It seems that the Fangoria review is the nicest review out there.