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Directed by: Tom Holland Starring: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse Director: Tom Holland Starring: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse, COUSIN BALKI!!!! Plot: A group of people, including an airline pilot, fall asleep on a routine cross country flight. Waking up mid air, a blind girl reaches out to find her aunt's seat empty, and the plane deserted... Views: Made for TV and based on the Stephen King novella of the same name, The Langoliers was never going to be high class cinema. Yet, it posesses a peculiar charm that can't be denied. The acting is passable, if not commendable, and it's excellent to see international superstar Bronson Pinchot, better known as Cousin Balki, in his breakout role as a loving nutcase. The CG is pretty bad, even for it's time, although I must sympathise with the artists, given that King's description of the Langoliers was essentially "legs with teeth". Nobody expected this film to be as good as it was.. and that works in it's favour. Go into it expecting quality, and you'll be confused, if not let down. However, go in with low expectations, and you'll be pleasantly suprised. 3/5, bumped up to 4/5 due to COUSIN BALKI 
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Nothing in this movie inspired any favor from me. I looked at my watch numerous times, wondering when it would be finished. Of all the Stephen King movies or made-for-TV films, this is by far his worst, in my opinion. 1/5
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May 3, 2004 10:04
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Any hope of redemption for this one kinda dies as soon as the langoliers show up looking like the spawn of the tasmanian devil and some turds. To it's credit it had Balki getting creamed by a toaster and is responsible for the old Captain Brian Engle!! image threads, but it's still a total stinker.
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May 3, 2004 10:13
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Crap, absolute crap. 4 hours of hell. 1/5
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May 3, 2004 10:17
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quote:velocityJE came out of the closet to say: I could not have said it better.
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May 3, 2004 12:01
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I really liked the overall premise in theory, but it went on way too long. And the special effects were absolutely laughable. Those things looked like 3D Pac-mans with some sort of skin rash. Another potentially good Stephen King story ruined by a mediocre movie.
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May 3, 2004 16:33
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Maybe my view of this movie would be different if I watched it today. But I when I saw it 6 years ago I enjoyed it. Nothing special about it though, not worth a rental, but if it's on TV I'd recommend seeing it.
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May 3, 2004 16:57
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Kings' books often don't work well as movies. This one is a glowing example. 2/5
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May 3, 2004 17:18
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This is one of those movies where you wait through the crappy acting and stupid story because you're curious to see what the monsters turn out to be. Then they turn out to be poorly CG'd levitating venus flytraps with chainsaw teeth that chase the bluescreened actors around while making dumb noises. That's when you punch yourself in the face until you pass out as punishment for watching a made-for-TV miniseries by Stephen King. .05/5
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May 4, 2004 18:19
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CAPTAIN BRIAN ENGLE!!! http://www.somethingawful.com/images/engle.gif http://www.somethingawful.com/images/engle-2.gif http://www.somethingawful.com/images/engle-3.gif http://www.somethingawful.com/images/engle-4.gif
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May 4, 2004 18:29
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I liked this one. It was made with an extremely cheap budget and various daytime tv actors, but it still kept me wondering what was going on and then worried about the Langoliers showing up. I loved Bronson Pinchot because he was a fussy little business man who became a knife-weilding psychopath, stabbed the blind girl, then had hallucanations on the runway before being eaten by giant balls with teeth. 3/5, it's not a good movie but I still enjoy it
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May 4, 2004 18:34
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This one gets a 2/5 for havign Balki in it. It would be a a 3/5, but Cousin Larry never showed up.
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May 4, 2004 18:47
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Another shining example of why so many Stephen King books/novellas make lovely movies. The one King movie I actually like is the one he hates- Shining. Langoliers was laughably bad.
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May 4, 2004 22:35
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quote:Ozma came out of the closet to say: Yeah, for some reason he really hated the film adaptation of the shining. As for this film, I have to admit that it's about 7 years since I saw this as the 'scary' film at a sleepover when I was a wee lad (the 'scary films' that we picked meant that I got to see the masterpiece that was 'Skeeter' a film that got a glorious 2.3 on imdb). This wasn't a good film, it was poorly acted and poorly budgeted. However that doesn't mean it wasn't an entertaining film. If you really don't want to concentrate and just want to laugh at a crappy film, this is a good choice. However it's still a really bad film. I give it a 2/5
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May 5, 2004 00:07
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"Legs with teeth"? I thought they looked like giant raisins with chainsaw mouths. What a weird description. Nevertheless, it scared the poo poo out of me when I was little. 4/5 for sentimental value.
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May 5, 2004 21:49
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I remember me and my brothers watched this movie a long time ago and didn't mind it that much. Then we saw it again and realized that it was just funny. We MST3K'd it the whole way through. My favorite quote is "It's making that awful cereal noise!" Voted it a 2/5 because it had some good moments...some. Oh Stephen King...you have been disgraced once again.
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May 5, 2004 22:18
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As one of the aforementioned brothers, I can personally attest to the humor of this supposed terror-inducing TV movie. The special effects are bad enough, but with lines like this, it just gets funnier and funnier: WOMAN: They sound... BLIND GIRL: Weak? WOMAN: Yes... almost as if they didn't have any strength.
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May 5, 2004 22:37
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I think in my case, I would have enjoyed this more had I not already read the book and a picture of what the characters looked like, etc. I think that is the problem with a lot of Stephen King book-to-movie deals. He's a terrific writer, and in most cases, it's difficult to improve upon his books with a movie version. That being said, 2.5.
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May 6, 2004 00:38
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quote:ElecHeadMatt came out of the closet to say: I just used that because that was how king described them in his book
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May 6, 2004 13:07
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I liked this movie. It's not really a "good" film but it has its moments. I love the paper tearing.
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May 6, 2004 14:03
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I liked the film, but that's mostly because I really really really liked the novella. Voted 3/5 but can very easily see why it could be hated.
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May 6, 2004 23:07
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As a horror it gets .5/5 As a comedy it gets 4/5
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Gived that there are now 71 votes for this movie, that means other than me, Stephen King needs to get started on 70 hand written apologies. .5/5 I HATED this movie with the kind of contempt I usually only reserve for some people.
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