The Tommyknockers
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Movie Reviews of The Tommyknockers
Movie Review: Did you read the book?
Summary: 2 Stars
Not really worth watching if you read the book. Do yourself a favor and read the book.Movie Review: Idiotic, pointless and, most of all, rubbish
Summary: 1 Stars
Stephen King adaptations rarely get the treatment they deserve, and therefore (usually) come out looking average and lacksture. So what happens when you go through this process with a King book that was rubbish in the first place?
Absolute crap is the answer, of course. This dire mini-series is 2 and a half hours of sleep-inducing soap opera, twenty or so minutes of midly entertaining ending, and almost 3 hours of pointless viewing in all. King was asking for it though; the actors (including Jimmy Smits, tragically miscast as Gard) have to wrestle with the terrible script and plot, and the special effects are suitably 1930's thanks to the small budget and the ridiculous stuff they had to re-create from the book. I was dissapointed that the evil flying drinks dispenser hadn't made it through to this crap interpretation.
Just don't watch this. It's for your own good.
Movie Review: tommyknockers
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted to buy this movie after reading the book to compare the differences between the pieces. Upon watching the movie and comparing it to the book, I was very disappointed in the movie. It does not follow the book well enough to earn the creditation it has receieved. In my opinion, the movie has far too many variations from the book and doesn't have the detail the book has. I understand that a movie is only based on the novel, but I don't believe the movie does justice to the book at all. I am a strong Stephen King fan and have read many of his novels...as well as watched the movies based on those novels. Usually the movies follow fairly well with the novel. The movie for Tommyknockers does not. I would have expected some variation of the movie, however not to the extent this movie was.Movie Review: Poor Quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm not going to waste a bunch of my time or yours giving a personally oppinionated review of the movie plot. It's redundant and unnecessary, and whether someone likes the story or not is irrelavent. Only you can form an opinion of whether you like it or not by watching it yourself. Double that with the fact that most movies hardly ever line up with the book that's based on and well...
My gripe is the transition from putting the movie in it's original format onto DVD was bad. The soundtrack is about 1/2 to 1 second off from the video part of film, therefore the voices don't sync up with the lip movement.
Movie Review: Absolute Garbage; Not Worth Watching
Summary: 1 Stars
This is by far the worst movie adaptation of a Stephen King book. Large chunks of the plot were cut out. The movie is chock-full of TV/movie cliches. The acting throughout is cheesy; one expression would be that the actors are chewing the scenery. The ending is changed around completely - in the book, the good guys don't win, and there is an appropriate apocalyptic resolution to the story; in the movie, the plot changes course for no apparent reason and the ending makes absolutely no sense. Don't even bother renting the movie unless you can't read. The book is a lot better and it will scare the **** out of you.