No-Personality (from Letterboxd)
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From the start, this was an impossible task. The story was too big and too serious, it was destined to fail. And everything about this miserable miniseries is an example of failure. I said on Letterboxd, and I stand by it, checking out Gary Sinise's amazing butt is the only satisfaction to get here.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
From the start, this was an impossible task. The story was too big and too serious, it was destined to fail. And everything about this miserable miniseries is an example of failure. I said on Letterboxd, and I stand by it, checking out Gary Sinise's amazing butt is the only satisfaction to get here.
And when I call it dour, that's a potentially flattering way to describe the aesthetic of this agonizingly plain flop of a movie about armageddon. The subject matter begs for tension, you'll get none. That this was based on a Stephen King story, infamous for conjuring immense dread, is dumbfounding.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
And when I call it dour, that's a potentially flattering way to describe the aesthetic of this agonizingly plain flop of a movie about armageddon. The subject matter begs for tension, you'll get none. That this was based on a Stephen King story, infamous for conjuring immense dread, is dumbfounding.
If you tried to sell me this concept as a 6-hour film in line at the ticket counter, I would pass. In record time. Unsurprisingly, watching it proved exactly the disaster I expected. A celebrity-stacked cast, mixed with a depressingly low budget (for 6 hours), does nothing to liven its dourness.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
If you tried to sell me this concept as a 6-hour film in line at the ticket counter, I would pass. In record time. Unsurprisingly, watching it proved exactly the disaster I expected. A celebrity-stacked cast, mixed with a depressingly low budget (for 6 hours), does nothing to liven its dourness.
Age-Horror needs its day in the sun. Which it could accomplish with better horror films about it. Meanwhile? Don't ask me why a horror film about people stranded anywhere usually leaves me intrigued. A horror film about a storm somehow spilling the tea of an entire town's dark secrets? Sign me up.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Age-Horror needs its day in the sun. Which it could accomplish with better horror films about it. Meanwhile? Don't ask me why a horror film about people stranded anywhere usually leaves me intrigued. A horror film about a storm somehow spilling the tea of an entire town's dark secrets? Sign me up.
6. The Stand (1994)
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
6. The Stand (1994)
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.
If the last 4 films on this list (beginning with Langoliers) were - somehow (unfathomably) - released theatrically and I decided to pick one to see based on word of mouth... it might make me look boring if I chose Golden Years because there aren't many horror films about aging.