Good Flick, But It Haunts Me.
I watched "the Stand" again the last two nights. I've seen it several times now. I do happen to like it. I've never read the book, so I don't care to get into a discussion about how the book is better or how the book is different, etc. Stephen King was IN the movie, and he worked on the screenplay for it, so the movie got his "stamp of approval" and that's good enough for me. Besides, have you ever seen the size of the book? I could use it to prop my car up while I change a tire, it's HUGE......
Anyway, as much as I really like this movie, every time I watch it I have to take extra Klonopin afterwards in order to sleep the night through, because my mind won't stop 'working' on it. Not like nightmares and dreams, more like I can't sleep because I can't turn my mind off. The whole end-of-the-world scenario is one that many authors have worked on and done a different treatment of, and hell, even the end-of-the-world-by-manmade-superflu is not necessarily original. The good vs. evil part that follows it is, of course, pure Stephen King, but there's always things that catch my attention and bug me later on.
Like this morning I'm thinking about this scene in the movie where all the "good" survivors have gathered in Colorado and are having a cookout. Well the people who are serving on the committee to handle the community of survivors are having a cookout. The guy is shown cooking hamburgers on the grill. Now, I know this scene takes place AFTER they have finally found a way to turn the power back on, being that a couple of the survivors turned out to be engineer-types and could get the power going. But, it's supposed to be a couple months after the flu and 99% of the population died. So it occurs to me that, even though they have the power back on and could power the refrigerators and lights and stuff again, where would they have gotten hamburgers? All of the meats in all of the supermarkets would have been rotten long before they got the power on. Red meat spoils very quickly without refrigeration and even if they were deep frozen they'd have had to have spoiled long before. And most of the mammals were also killed by the superflu, so even if someone among them could butcher a cow and produce ground meat, I don't know that they could have almost immediately rounded up enough cows to provide enough meat for a community of over a hundred and some people......
That never struck me before last night, but now it did..... weird, huh? In fact every time I watch this movie something else about it sticks in my craw. As much respect as I have for Stephen King as an author (I went to see him in NYC last year and that respect went UP a few notches, if that's even possible) I just wonder if it's possible for anyone to get every detail right on something like an apocalypse.....
On another note, the more I see of Gary Sinise, the more I love him. LOL
Anyway, as much as I really like this movie, every time I watch it I have to take extra Klonopin afterwards in order to sleep the night through, because my mind won't stop 'working' on it. Not like nightmares and dreams, more like I can't sleep because I can't turn my mind off. The whole end-of-the-world scenario is one that many authors have worked on and done a different treatment of, and hell, even the end-of-the-world-by-manmade-superflu is not necessarily original. The good vs. evil part that follows it is, of course, pure Stephen King, but there's always things that catch my attention and bug me later on.
Like this morning I'm thinking about this scene in the movie where all the "good" survivors have gathered in Colorado and are having a cookout. Well the people who are serving on the committee to handle the community of survivors are having a cookout. The guy is shown cooking hamburgers on the grill. Now, I know this scene takes place AFTER they have finally found a way to turn the power back on, being that a couple of the survivors turned out to be engineer-types and could get the power going. But, it's supposed to be a couple months after the flu and 99% of the population died. So it occurs to me that, even though they have the power back on and could power the refrigerators and lights and stuff again, where would they have gotten hamburgers? All of the meats in all of the supermarkets would have been rotten long before they got the power on. Red meat spoils very quickly without refrigeration and even if they were deep frozen they'd have had to have spoiled long before. And most of the mammals were also killed by the superflu, so even if someone among them could butcher a cow and produce ground meat, I don't know that they could have almost immediately rounded up enough cows to provide enough meat for a community of over a hundred and some people......
That never struck me before last night, but now it did..... weird, huh? In fact every time I watch this movie something else about it sticks in my craw. As much respect as I have for Stephen King as an author (I went to see him in NYC last year and that respect went UP a few notches, if that's even possible) I just wonder if it's possible for anyone to get every detail right on something like an apocalypse.....
On another note, the more I see of Gary Sinise, the more I love him. LOL