How could anyone give this anything more than the award of "Worst Movie Ever Made"? I mean, I thought that honor went to "House of Death" (aka "Death Screams"), but after three hours of the worst film quality, lack of plot and dragging pointless dialogue, "The Langoliers" easily gets my personal Razzie Award.
So much is wrong with this movie, I cannot hope to list every last thing in this review. But let's start with the acting. The blind girl is a bit extreme in her acting, and maybe it can be dismissed because she's a child, but it was still over the top. Bronson Pinchot was utterly horrible, being quite annoying. I understand his character was neurotic, but Pinchot played this up to the point of being unrealistic stupid. The only decent performance came from Dean Stockwell, who was given a cheesy character but played it off well (he would have made a good VanHelsing).
The animation for showing the airplane flying. In 1995, it wasn't like footage didn't exist of flying airplanes or that it wasn't easy enough to superimpose a model over a sky of clouds. So why the horrible cartoon drawing of a plane? The Langoliers... who don't bother to show up until past halfway and only stay around five minutes. This is either a blessing or a curse, because you wait forever to see them and then become disappointed by the ridiculousness of them.
The pace. Absolutely nothing happens in the first 90 minutes, a little bit happens in the next half hour, and then the final hour drags on with nothing more than pointless dialogue to pass the time. The whole first hour is the same line over and over again ("where is everybody?") and this whole movie could have been made as a one-hour episode of "The Twilight Zone" with better acting, better directing and probably a bigger budget.
A time travel aspect comes into play, and it makes very little sense. Apparently when you travel to the past, things are more stale or spoiled than they would be in a few days. This seemed really pointless (unless they were implying the taste of things wouldn't show up for a while, but that's really dumb and wasn't made clear).
Two romances exist in this film, both very contrived and leading absolutely nowhere after blossoming from absolutely nowhere. My emotional reaction? Absolutely nothing.
I have never been more happy in my life for a film to be over so I could return it to the video store. The fact I could sit through such vile waste of film is a miracle, and I certainly hope they never let Stephen King get involved with horse apples like this again (I mean, he made "The Stand" and "It" for TV, how did they botch this one?).
So much is wrong with this movie, I cannot hope to list every last thing in this review. But let's start with the acting. The blind girl is a bit extreme in her acting, and maybe it can be dismissed because she's a child, but it was still over the top. Bronson Pinchot was utterly horrible, being quite annoying. I understand his character was neurotic, but Pinchot played this up to the point of being unrealistic stupid. The only decent performance came from Dean Stockwell, who was given a cheesy character but played it off well (he would have made a good VanHelsing).
The animation for showing the airplane flying. In 1995, it wasn't like footage didn't exist of flying airplanes or that it wasn't easy enough to superimpose a model over a sky of clouds. So why the horrible cartoon drawing of a plane? The Langoliers... who don't bother to show up until past halfway and only stay around five minutes. This is either a blessing or a curse, because you wait forever to see them and then become disappointed by the ridiculousness of them.
The pace. Absolutely nothing happens in the first 90 minutes, a little bit happens in the next half hour, and then the final hour drags on with nothing more than pointless dialogue to pass the time. The whole first hour is the same line over and over again ("where is everybody?") and this whole movie could have been made as a one-hour episode of "The Twilight Zone" with better acting, better directing and probably a bigger budget.
A time travel aspect comes into play, and it makes very little sense. Apparently when you travel to the past, things are more stale or spoiled than they would be in a few days. This seemed really pointless (unless they were implying the taste of things wouldn't show up for a while, but that's really dumb and wasn't made clear).
Two romances exist in this film, both very contrived and leading absolutely nowhere after blossoming from absolutely nowhere. My emotional reaction? Absolutely nothing.
I have never been more happy in my life for a film to be over so I could return it to the video store. The fact I could sit through such vile waste of film is a miracle, and I certainly hope they never let Stephen King get involved with horse apples like this again (I mean, he made "The Stand" and "It" for TV, how did they botch this one?).