It's a fun premise, but the dialogue is cheesy, the plotting is sloppy, the shots lack energy, the time travel rules are impossible to follow, and the whole thing feels like it was made as cheaply as possible. They attempt to make it back to their time and place before they too are eaten by monsters and erased from existence. It's a Twilight Zone-esque tale about a plane that flies through a wormhole and most of the passengers vanish, and the only survivors are people who were asleep when it happened. Unfortunately, nothing else works well in this two-part ABC adaptation of the novella from King's Four Past Midnight collection, either. They look like the Flying Toasters screensaver. Even by 1995 standards, the titular interdimensional demons are terrible computer animation. King said the movie's lead Jack Nicholson was "a fine actor" but was "all wrong for the part.It's not fair to pick on old shows for their lackluster special effects, but boy oh boy are the effects in The Langoliers bad. That was the basic flaw: Because he couldn't believe, he couldn't make the film believable to others." "So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters, and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel. First, Kubrick is a very cold man-pragmatic and rational-and he had great difficulty conceiving, even academically, of a supernatural world. I think there are two basic problems with the movie. "Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. He told Playboy in 1983: "I'd admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. However, the story came from King's 1977 novel of the same name, and he wasn't happy with the adaptation at all, although in recent years has praised it for contributing to the horror genre. Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall is considered one of the greatest horror films ever made and is a pop culture staple thanks to moments like "Here's Johnny!" Jack Nicholson peering through axed in door in lobby card for the film 'The Shining', 1980.
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