True story: My family watched the mini-series once and when the Langoliers appeared, the TV started glitching until the end of the scene, when it crashed. We always joked that the Langoliers ate the rest of the story.
"Time travel is diferent. You can't go back to November 1963 and stop Kennedy's assassination" "OF COURSE NOT. IT WOULD BE AN AWESOME SERIES". - Years later, Stephen King Writes 11.22.63 . And the miniserries based on it is amazing. NEAT.
@TheLambdaTeam i like to think that weird ripping sound described at the end of the story when he travels back to the present after saving Kennedy is the langoliers destroying the space time continuum
This is the VERY FIRST episode of Nostalgia Critic I ever saw. I was really depressed at the time and wasn't doing very good financially. I've always been a fan of mystery science theater type humor and I looked it up and his video was on the recommendations. I laughed my ASS off, in fact I hadn't laughed like that in months. Been watching him ever since and I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode. Thank you Critic for saving me with laughter.
Nate J. Written by the original writers, Robert Lopez doing the music, starring Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt? If it isn't any good, that in of itself will be a miracle.
I don't have time for this stupid meme. I HAVE AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETING IN BOSTON THIS MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK, AND MY WIDE-ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST!
Gotta love a guy who graduated magna cum laude from Yale who is best known as a goofy foreigner on a forgettable late 80s sitcom. At least the other Ivy League actor from a sitcom whose character was goofy and comes to mind turned out to be Fonzy, an American treasure... until he jumped a shark. Still a better performance than Balkie the Businessman 🤣
"Yay! We made it back to our world! Oh wait, how do we tell the officials about the dozens of people that disappeared during the flight... ...or the dead kid with a stab wound that's still on the plane?"
@retrobeats but the past is being eaten. That doesnt sound to well. and it also doesnt make the situation better, when it comes to the little girl with more then usual blood in her lungs.
@retrobeats In the book it was implied that the people that didn't sleep stayed on the present, but the plane did not, so they simply fell from the sky to the ground
@@HoradeFidges Actually, Jenkins deduces that everyone that didn't sleep just disintegrated or evaporated. No explanation explains why items on or in anyone's person were left behind but clothes weren't.
@@WarmLusamine That was my guess too and the reason the survivors could remember those people could have been because being asleep while going through the time rip put them out of sync with the original timeline.
+darcanjel7 how about as your alarm. just download it, open it in audacity.. set the gain allllll the way to the max. have fun with bleeding ears whenever you wake up.
darcanjel7 I want to do that so bad, though it would probably confuse people. I mean, if I was sitting in a meeting and heard "Scaring the little gIRL?!" coming from someone's phone, I would go "Huh?"
One of the things that's always bugged the shit out of me is that, unless the survivors all ran like hell, they're going to have to answer a lot of awkward questions about the lack of other passengers and the DEAD GIRL, who apparently just got left on the plane? IDEK.
Alexandre Martins If that's the case, wouldn't the survivors of the time rip also have their memories erased? Like they wouldn't remember there were other people on the plane? Also: even though they survived, they still went through the time rip, so will they return home to find out no one remembers them? Hell, I'd be intrigued if the miniseries went that way.
Actually now that you bring it up, I'm kind of curious about the plane. As I recall, at the end the survivors arrived slightly ahead of the present and had to allow time to catch up with them. They had to hug the wall so as to not materialize inside of anyone when the time came. They only come to this conclusion some time after landing and I doubt they and the foresight to park the airplane somewhere off the runway.
The little girl that Balki keeps scaring was in an early 90s adaptation of “The Secret Garden.” With good writing and direction she could be a terrific actor.
Really? I thought it was ridiculous and stupid. It was seriously entertaining for much of the same reason the mini-series is. It's hard to take any of it seriously when it goes out of its way to be goofy (Like having a character say "Don't fart" during a high tension moment.).
@suny123boy1 It's accurate, but kind of low hanging fruit. It wasn't a major motion picture, it was a low budget made for TV mini series shortly after the writers strike.
I had spinal surgery at 15 and the ONLY thing that played on the hospital tv on a loop for 2 weeks was THIS MOVIE to the point I thought I was going insane! In retrospect perhaps I was actually caught in a loop myself🤔 Really enjoyed this review and my re-descent into madness🤪
To be fair, the whole idea of eldritch beings that devour space and time leaving an empty void behind is a cool idea. Like the Mattermouths in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
7:30 - Children comforting their parents is actually pretty realistic. When there's a mature, complex reason to freak out, sometimes kids just don't and fall back on simple expressions of comfort and advice.
The first time I watched this review, I was unironically engaged in the mystery the show was setting up, even with the hammy acting and NC making fun of it. The isolation of somewhere you associate with crowds and the effects of time stopping on stuff like the drinks is so uncanny. Even when the Langoliers were described I imagined a vortex with teeth closing in like a black hole. That and the atmosphere did a great job of setting up a urgency of returning to reality. Then those stupid fucking meatballs from Abe's Odyssey showed up. They're fucking tiny and don't eat time as much as cut trough it like safety scissors, how would they even go trough the universe at that rate? What a fucking letdown.
Didn't see the whole movie as a kid; I only saw the scene of the plane taking off at the end. Thought the langoliers were dumb, but the scene with them looking down as the last bits of the world crumbling into a void, that really stuck with me as a kid.
Well, when time doesn't work, you have eternity to eat every plancksecond of reality. Doesn't matter how long it takes, yeah? They're always just a moment behind us.
You're not only wrong but probably wrong as the moving cars he pointed out were two cars that were moving one of which was a dark color while the other was white
The Langoliers as a CONCEPT is pretty terrifying, especially the way King describes them in the book. I think you really COULD pull off a great adaptation today, just b/c the image quality has improved, with differing color gradients, it would be easier to portray how… unnerving it would be to suddenly wake up in a world where everything is less colorful, and some good sound design would REALLY help in portraying the creepy noise these monsters make. It would start out subtle, and then you slowly build the tension. It really could work. As for the Langoliers themselves, you’d have to do it in a VERY abstract way, not direct horror but INCREDIBLY UNSETTLING.
Four separate stories; The Langoliers, Secret Window, The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. No real link between the stories but I really enjoyed this book.
@@cheatcode436 It's in King's compellation Four Past Midnight. It's the first story in the four story series. You can probably find it on Amazon or Ebay real cheap. I think ours game in from a garage sale or auction.
One of my favourite reviews! Incidentally (for anyone who's interested), that whole thing about "having to take the ___ out" scenario in films? Complete bullshit. If you EVER find yourself in that situation, especially near a major organ or vein, leave whatever it is in. It's stopping the wound from getting worse, and taking out the ___ can actually do WAY more damage than good.
“And thus when all time passes, you will see... giant ape testicles that eat up the world like a tuna sandwich.” “... Sorry, can you repeat that?” “WRITE IT DOWN!”
i’ve been saying.. “sCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?” for about 3 years of my life and i could never remember where the hell it came from, and then i remembered this gem. legit one of my favorite nostalgia critic episodes.
In quntum leap it was one of the beast episodes with Sam bekit leaping through lee Harvey Oswalds life and starting to think that he is lee havey Oswald will tring to stop the asination and ended with the twist that they hade be ther to save Jkeay kenneder not to stop the asination
Red Dwarf did a JFK story too, where the cast somehow find a time machine, and decide to go back in time to enjoy a fish and chip shop that Lister remembers, but get the co-ordinates extremely wrong and end up pushing the assassin out of the window. This leads to what is practically the end of the world, with World War 3 or something, and they have to go back in time to kill him again. Only none of them want to actually do it, so they go and find the one man capable of shooting JFK... Himself.
Because this is CoD. Okay but in all seriousness even though bullets travel at ridiculous speeds they still travel technically "through time" from when you pull the trigger to when you hit your target. Even point blank range there is still however time for the bullet to travel from the chamber to the target. A knife on the other hand doesn't have to travel through time in a technical sense because of the fact someone is using it and is direct, unlike a bullet which is indirect. If in the movie though the bullet actually leaves the chamber and hits the guy but does not die then I have no real idea how to explain it.
In the book, everything has gone odd and flat because it's the past. So food tastes wrong, beer and pop have no fizz, and matches/gunpowder/fuel don't properly combust unless brought into the airplane. (Since they apparently brought some of their own time with them or something, so it recharges things.)
+BlueMoonZerc knifes, guns and all other things are just metals, powder with addition of oxygen for reaction. I don't think that time differs one from another, so if the gunpowder is getting weaker, then the other chemical reactions should obey this laws, so I think that, for example, the oxygen from yesterday shouldn't be enough for them to breath normally.
Another change I can think of would be the sound the Langoliers make. Instead of "Rice Crispies", why not make it like the sound of a buzzsaw cutting into metal?
@@randalgraves6979 Considering the ridiculous amount of money Disney has spent on marketing that flood of nonsense, even the fucking dead would understand that reference.
I may... be able... to explain the... pilots flying... through the... skygina... they... couldn't see... the... skygina... from their... side... as... it was... by no means... a virgin... skygina... it had... been... done in... by the universe.
23:58 Lois: Peter, how are you doing that? Peter: I don't know. I'm scared Lois: Come down from there Peter: I can't. Call someone. Lois: Who do I call? Peter: I dont know. Call the police, no, the fire department. No, a scientist! Call a scientist. Peter: Am I going to die?
Though I mostly agree with you on this one, I appreciated the "YOU SCARED THE LITTLE GIRL" guy. His story added a lot to the group. His dynamic seemed to completely contrast from the rest of the cast. Obviously, this man has severe hallucinatory psychosis or something similar, and it was very realistically portrayed, actually. I mean, you'd think someone like that would have been sent to an asylum five times over by now. But, I digress.
"Time travel is different. You can't go back to November 1963 and stop Kennedy's assassination", well Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula did an episode on Quantum Leap about this, it was one of the greatest episodes of the series.
I just finished reading the actual story and surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly) this is one of the most faithful stephen king stories. Coke must stay in your system for very long time.
At one point Star Trek the Motion picture has several storylines that Gene Roddenberry considered. One about the Kennedy assassination was one of them.
When I was a kid I was fascinated by this mini series. I still don’t understand the ending but it was a fun ride. I didn’t care about the effects because I didn’t know any better.
i feel sorry for the bussiness guy.. not only was he killed but he was killed in a way that his remains wont exist.. dont get me wrong, im sorry for the other guy too but.. god i hate these kinds of deaths.. and he didnt even have a good life, his father seems like one of the worst ones ever, the kid was crying and he just kept going, all just because of an A-? that's tragic.
DA MotoNeko It's kind of too tragic, though, when his life is such a parade of misery and we have no idea why he even gets up in the morning. And why was his dad such an asshole to him, what's his deal?
CruelestChris likely a perfectionist who was raised similary. But yea, a parade of misery and have it all end like that? not a single one even reaching their hand out to atleast try and help him when this happens? if i was god i'd give him an honorary ticket to heaven because living that kind of life and having it end like that.. holy christ in the church during christmas that is tragic..
DA MotoNeko BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GUY. NOT ONLY DID HE MAYBE DIE BUT THEY FORGOT HIS BODY. THEY ACCIDENTLY LEFT HIM TO BE FORGOTTEN BY HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
sigh824 Buddy, i agree and i think about him too but when i see a child crying, it affects me more. the sight of someone treating a child to the point were they cant hold back tears, it infuriates me.
This movie actually scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The whole having the world eaten disturbed me to no end. Now it just looks like Sega Saturn quality spikey balls 😂.
I love that movie, it's so freaking eery. You're in a plane, and people vanishing. The survivers don't know what's going on, and have to rely on the plane. To take you out of the situation. Oh! Balky is awesome in this movie to.
True story: My family watched the mini-series once and when the Langoliers appeared, the TV started glitching until the end of the scene, when it crashed. We always joked that the Langoliers ate the rest of the story.
A Link Between Games cool.
that actually would be a better ending
Press x to doubt
I wish
@@ellnats Agreed
"Time travel is diferent. You can't go back to November 1963 and stop Kennedy's assassination" "OF COURSE NOT. IT WOULD BE AN AWESOME SERIES". - Years later, Stephen King Writes 11.22.63 . And the miniserries based on it is amazing. NEAT.
Only months later, book was published November the same year of this review.
Apparently, the Langoliers weren't that hungry that time, so the guy could travel back and find people and working world there.
This.. 😂 I was about to say the same thing...
Thank you for reminding me of this series, gotta go rewatch it. Haven't seen it since I was a kid lol
@TheLambdaTeam i like to think that weird ripping sound described at the end of the story when he travels back to the present after saving Kennedy is the langoliers destroying the space time continuum
This is the VERY FIRST episode of Nostalgia Critic I ever saw. I was really depressed at the time and wasn't doing very good financially. I've always been a fan of mystery science theater type humor and I looked it up and his video was on the recommendations. I laughed my ASS off, in fact I hadn't laughed like that in months. Been watching him ever since and I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode. Thank you Critic for saving me with laughter.
Same here, I can totally relate to your story!! :)
+lololandify Same here!:)
Andres Esqueda Same here! I've watched him since 2008, and it's amazing how his show's evolved and helped so many people with laughter.
This one and the captain planet review are two of my favorites from the critic
Nate J. Written by the original writers, Robert Lopez doing the music, starring Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt? If it isn't any good, that in of itself will be a miracle.
1:54 “You got all these other people, meeehhh who cares, TOM HOLLAND!!!”
Captain America: Civil War in a nutshell
😂
Tom holland was the hook to civil war😂
Outlined in shiny metallic lettering!
It was more "Who Cares SPIDER MAN"
1:17 Spiderman hired an assassin? Huh... guess he found Uncle Ben's killer..
Now I wish the assassin survived!
Or even better, Thanos' Son
Looked like Spider-Man turned into Uncle Ben to me.
That ending freeze frame was so out of nowhere, it's hilarious.
It's so 90s.
SCARing the little gIRL?!?!
AuroraKnux LADY!
I don't have time for this stupid meme.
I HAVE AN IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETING IN BOSTON THIS MORNING AT NINE O'CLOCK, AND MY WIDE-ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST!
AuroraKnux MY WIDEANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST
sans the skeleton AND I FORBID YOU-
AuroraKnux Pennywise: wha-ha-wha-ha-wha-ha
My senior quote is going to be “horrible cereal noise” without any context
All right, buddy, fess up. Was it?
It's very faint. A really terrible, awful sound. A little like Rice Krispies after you pour on the blood.
She Dosent know what they look like so she’s like
Ｉ ＳＥＥ ＭＯＮＳＴＥＲＳ ＡＮＤ ＣＲＡＣＫＬＥＳ
At least u got a senior quote. I'm here without knowing what to put lol
@@tealnoise I see no reason why it shouldn''t be "horrible cereal noise"
The CGI still looks better than Foodfight.
karasuat lolnope
And Birdemic 1 & 2.
THERE'S A SECOND ONE?!?!?
The cgi in Foodfight was much scarier. Can you imagine cgi Christopher Lloyd coming at you?
karasuat OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You need some ice for that third degree burn, Stephen King!?
Bronson Pinchot's overacting makes it all worthwhile. Seriously, the man is a fountain of hilarity.
He was the best part of the mini series.
I cant tell if hes just terrible at acting in a serious movie or if the writing just forced him to be ridiculous
Or he went out of his way to be the best part of the mini series. Knowing how much it was gonna suck.
Gotta love a guy who graduated magna cum laude from Yale who is best known as a goofy foreigner on a forgettable late 80s sitcom. At least the other Ivy League actor from a sitcom whose character was goofy and comes to mind turned out to be Fonzy, an American treasure... until he jumped a shark. Still a better performance than Balkie the Businessman 🤣
Don't be ridiculous.
"Scaring the little girl !?!?"
Geez this guys voice crack is worse then Dipper's
Hell, it's worse than Screech.
ScArInG tHe LiTtLe GiRl !!?!?!!???!!
@@PatrickBoi6497 LADY!
🤣
oh come on, Dipper's awesome.
"Yay! We made it back to our world! Oh wait, how do we tell the officials about the dozens of people that disappeared during the flight...
...or the dead kid with a stab wound that's still on the plane?"
I'm under the belief that the people that disappeared just don't exist anymore.
@retrobeats but the past is being eaten. That doesnt sound to well.
and it also doesnt make the situation better, when it comes to the little girl with more then usual blood in her lungs.
@retrobeats In the book it was implied that the people that didn't sleep stayed on the present, but the plane did not, so they simply fell from the sky to the ground
@@HoradeFidges Actually, Jenkins deduces that everyone that didn't sleep just disintegrated or evaporated. No explanation explains why items on or in anyone's person were left behind but clothes weren't.
@@WarmLusamine That was my guess too and the reason the survivors could remember those people could have been because being asleep while going through the time rip put them out of sync with the original timeline.
So, uh.....This movie's ending and purpose is the same?
It was...Time-consuming. 😆
Rebecca Boyer I tip my fadora to you my sir.
Just kidding I don't actually have the money for a fadora
Harry the cat XD
Umm...STANDING TAAAAALL on the wings beneath my dreams.
Good one.
I want "Scaring the little girl!!!" as my ringtone. I laughed harder and harder every time he says it.
+darcanjel7 how about as your alarm. just download it, open it in audacity.. set the gain allllll the way to the max. have fun with bleeding ears whenever you wake up.
+darcanjel7 That is the best idea EVAH!! I just made that my text tone.
darcanjel7 I want to do that so bad, though it would probably confuse people. I mean, if I was sitting in a meeting and heard "Scaring the little gIRL?!" coming from someone's phone, I would go "Huh?"
That would be amazing. "Scaring the little giRL?!?" What the heck was that?
Oh sorry, it was my phone. In one minute I have to take this- Hey Mom!
If you don't answer it in time, the langoliers will eat you and your phone.
"SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!" Oh dear God, the Ham-o-meter is off the charts! It can't take the pure unadulterated hamness!
Never go full HAM!
@@SaikoKujo Tell that to Nicolas Cage, Michael Sheen, Eddie Redmayne and Jeremy Irons.
Balki: Nothing but teeth, hair, and fast little legs
Nostalgia critic: Robin Williams?
One of the things that's always bugged the shit out of me is that, unless the survivors all ran like hell, they're going to have to answer a lot of awkward questions about the lack of other passengers and the DEAD GIRL, who apparently just got left on the plane? IDEK.
In the story that this movie is based on Dinah the dead blind girl disappears when they go back thru the time rip.
Still, they have a lot of explaining to do, and some of them may end up in jail or a mental asylum.
Not if the disappeared people leve no memory in the minds of the people in the normal tipe flow. Anyway, another terrible King plot.
Alexandre Martins If that's the case, wouldn't the survivors of the time rip also have their memories erased? Like they wouldn't remember there were other people on the plane? Also: even though they survived, they still went through the time rip, so will they return home to find out no one remembers them? Hell, I'd be intrigued if the miniseries went that way.
Actually now that you bring it up, I'm kind of curious about the plane. As I recall, at the end the survivors arrived slightly ahead of the present and had to allow time to catch up with them. They had to hug the wall so as to not materialize inside of anyone when the time came. They only come to this conclusion some time after landing and I doubt they and the foresight to park the airplane somewhere off the runway.
"Dorky and The Black Guy" sounds like the greatest sitcom ever.
I would definitely recommend that to anyone!
It would have to have like a Pinkie and the Brain type of theme song.
@@dr.altoclef9255 yes
@@dr.altoclef9255 nice reference
Isn't that just Ghosted
The little girl that Balki keeps scaring was in an early 90s adaptation of “The Secret Garden.” With good writing and direction she could be a terrific actor.
So that's where I recognize her from!
That movie is depressing af lol
@@patrickgogan3517 u thought so? I thought it was actually pretty touching, even as a kid I loved it
Actress, dear boy
The book version of The Langoliers was really creepy, I loved it. I've also got a soft spot for the mini series despite its flaws, it's great.
I've never read the book, but now would like to. I've always had a strange fascination with this mini-series.
@@jeffsims8270 It can be found in "Four Past Midnight".
@@jbvader721 Oh yea! I remember seeing that title in the opening credits. Cool, thanx so much!!👍😊
Agreed
Really? I thought it was ridiculous and stupid. It was seriously entertaining for much of the same reason the mini-series is. It's hard to take any of it seriously when it goes out of its way to be goofy (Like having a character say "Don't fart" during a high tension moment.).
“Now you might be wondering how I know who Tom Holland is”
Watching this is in 2019 means something completely different
Wrong Tom Holland. The director (who made this) is American and 76 years old. The kid who plays Spiderman is British and 23.
Cassandra Morrison it was a joke dipshit
@@CassandrashadowcassMorrison Still weird how they have the same name
@@monhunterz5430 IKR! What are the chances of 2 people having the same name??
It just seems totally impossible!
Is every other comment in this thread a rude or passive-agressive reply to the one that came right before it?
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?!?
LADY!!
I have a meeting at Boston this morning!
MY WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST
GarrettCube THE LITTLE SCARING GIRL....ooh I think I just gave Stephen king his next book/movie title
16:30-16:40
Stabbing the little GIRL?!
This is the most underrated nostalgia critic episode
Fact Fact Fact
@suny123boy1 It's accurate, but kind of low hanging fruit. It wasn't a major motion picture, it was a low budget made for TV mini series shortly after the writers strike.
@@Gunner192 There were no writers strikes in the 90s.
Doesn't matter if it was made for TV, Trilogy of terror is a classic and that was made for TV. ;)
@suny123boy1 I rewatch this episode quite often
I had spinal surgery at 15 and the ONLY thing that played on the hospital tv on a loop for 2 weeks was THIS MOVIE to the point I thought I was going insane! In retrospect perhaps I was actually caught in a loop myself🤔 Really enjoyed this review and my re-descent into madness🤪
I saw this movie in a hospital too!
@@evewrubel3000 you poor souls
That's pretty cruel of the hospital.
Pumped full of hospital drugs and forced to watch the Langaleers
A horrible fate 😔
To be fair, the whole idea of eldritch beings that devour space and time leaving an empty void behind is a cool idea. Like the Mattermouths in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Just make sure your CGI can live up to that image.
7:30 - Children comforting their parents is actually pretty realistic. When there's a mature, complex reason to freak out, sometimes kids just don't and fall back on simple expressions of comfort and advice.
Yeah I comforted my mother.
*MY WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST!*
That line sounds like something the camera man would blurt out halfway into filming a POV shot for a porno.
Regardless of what you thought of the mini-series, you got to admit that the mystery in it does keep you intrigued.
Oh definitely, this movie was very good at that.
It really does keep u intrigued it I enjoyed the movie despite how the Langoljiers looked
Yup. I liked the suspense.
7:50 Why do I see Toph from Avatar saying something like this?
Beyotiful XD
HA
Animated-Aaron I thought of Azula when that guy was having dad visions
Hmm, now that I think about it, Mr Toomey does remind me of soka
Cuz toph was.sassy like really sassy
"Ah, man, the Sky-gina is gonna be pissed..."
"I'm blamin' you."
Why the fuck was that so funny to me?! XD
I love the look on the critic's face, it's priceless XD
+Brian Moro I no rite?!
"Groundhog Day" is a funny movie too ;-)
agreed
First thing I thought of when they showed that rip in time lol
Balki’s performance when he screams about scaring the little girl always manages to put me in a good mood.
The number of random people I've met who understand the reference when I yell it out randomly is more than I ever thought possible lol
It would make a real funny ringtone
Jesus, Peter isn't taking being fired from the MCU very well.
He shouldn't have slipped on those spoilers.
MY WIDE ANGLE LENSE IS ABOUT TO BURST!
GhostOfVegeta if i had a dollar for everytime he complained about the lens
GhostOfVegeta i loved that part! XD still laughing
My LAUGHING JAW IS ABOUT TO BREAK!
GhostOfVegeta SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!
Exploding Baconeer LADY!!!
(See's Toomy being eaten)
They're eating him! And then they're gonna eat me!
…OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!
Will you pipe down? You're scaring the little girl.
“SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!!!”
@@Lord_Marshal_Valdar LADY!!!!
Epic
MY WIDE ANGLE LENS..IS ABOUT...TO BURST!
Nickman1024 Best part.
14:58 It's kind of interesting how Stephen King would eventually write a story about going back in time to stop the Kennedy Assassination.
Guess the Langoliers weren't hungry that time. Or they went on a vacation.
They were off scaring the little girl
@@sweetcinnamonpnchkin SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!!
The first time I watched this review, I was unironically engaged in the mystery the show was setting up, even with the hammy acting and NC making fun of it. The isolation of somewhere you associate with crowds and the effects of time stopping on stuff like the drinks is so uncanny.
Even when the Langoliers were described I imagined a vortex with teeth closing in like a black hole. That and the atmosphere did a great job of setting up a urgency of returning to reality.
Then those stupid fucking meatballs from Abe's Odyssey showed up.
They're fucking tiny and don't eat time as much as cut trough it like safety scissors, how would they even go trough the universe at that rate? What a fucking letdown.
The Meatballs from Abe's Oddyssey. That is the best comparison anybody's made.
The book is so much cooler at describing the actual Langoliers. But I love Bronson's interpretation of Mr. Toomey. He was brilliant.
Didn't see the whole movie as a kid; I only saw the scene of the plane taking off at the end. Thought the langoliers were dumb, but the scene with them looking down as the last bits of the world crumbling into a void, that really stuck with me as a kid.
Rhino 'n Chips
Well, when time doesn't work, you have eternity to eat every plancksecond of reality. Doesn't matter how long it takes, yeah? They're always just a moment behind us.
The "moving car" was actually part of a building.
I can still see the other cars
You're not only wrong but probably wrong as the moving cars he pointed out were two cars that were moving one of which was a dark color while the other was white
you can literally see multiple other cars in the shot they just let it slide cause people couldn't pause their tv in 1995
The Langoliers as a CONCEPT is pretty terrifying, especially the way King describes them in the book. I think you really COULD pull off a great adaptation today, just b/c the image quality has improved, with differing color gradients, it would be easier to portray how… unnerving it would be to suddenly wake up in a world where everything is less colorful, and some good sound design would REALLY help in portraying the creepy noise these monsters make. It would start out subtle, and then you slowly build the tension. It really could work. As for the Langoliers themselves, you’d have to do it in a VERY abstract way, not direct horror but INCREDIBLY UNSETTLING.
The Curious Case of Tom Holland. Went from a middle aged man directing cheesy horror films to a 20 some year old Hollywood actor. What a turnaround.
I was looking for a comment like this, I’m not disappointed
Note: “The Langoliers” is actually based off the four-novel series “Four Past Midnight,” which were written by Stephen King.
4 part series?! Does anything, like, happen? In the book version?
Four separate stories; The Langoliers, Secret Window, The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. No real link between the stories but I really enjoyed this book.
And all of the stupid stuff from this mini series is in fact present in the book The Langoliers.
@@SunnysFilms Where can I find this book?
@@cheatcode436 It's in King's compellation Four Past Midnight. It's the first story in the four story series. You can probably find it on Amazon or Ebay real cheap. I think ours game in from a garage sale or auction.
I burst out laughing when I heard the opening music to Airplane playing over The Langoliers.
..............aren't you dead?
Jk. XD
Honestly, reading the opening to the book made that music play in my head.
Hello Mr Ebert!!
“The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.”
*SCARING THE LITTLE G-I-RL?!*
LADY!!!
Stephen King is from Maine. That’s why he’s always putting his stories in there
And he receives a commission from the Maine Tourist Board.
I'm from a small city in Illinois and I would never set a story here.
Captain Obvious is obvious.
Eugene Sutherland I’m from Massachusetts and I would put a number of stories in the Midwest.
Nah, he's from the fucking ocean.
(there's a vine of something involving lobster)
One of my favourite reviews!
Incidentally (for anyone who's interested), that whole thing about "having to take the ___ out" scenario in films? Complete bullshit. If you EVER find yourself in that situation, especially near a major organ or vein, leave whatever it is in. It's stopping the wound from getting worse, and taking out the ___ can actually do WAY more damage than good.
Olivia McDonagh The more you know!
And knowing is half the battle GI JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE
Cool. That will come in handy. I get impaled every other week.
+D3mon Edg3
And knowing makes it even more confusing. *UWE BOOOOOOOOOOLL!*
+Olivia McDonagh really? removing a knife is BAD?
Best Balki moments:
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9:43
11:15
12:43
12:56
17:12
18:28
18:43
Enjoy!😉
I am the only motherfucker who thinks he hot!!?
“And thus when all time passes, you will see... giant ape testicles that eat up the world like a tuna sandwich.”
“... Sorry, can you repeat that?”
“WRITE IT DOWN!”
The skyginas gonna be pissed
I’m blaming you 😅
Took me all these years to realize the langoliers are the time cops on Rick and Morty. They just gave them bodies.
This is like a George Lucas film with no budget.
Toad Lash I can see that in some of his short stories...
*𝕊ℂ𝔸ℝ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕃𝕀𝕋𝕋𝕃𝔼 𝔾𝕀ℝ𝕃!?*
tbh its so nicolas cage
I really cringed when she said "really badly wrong"
+DramaHateNation what's wrong with it?
DramaHateNation awe come on a lot of people have done it
+DramaHateNation come on they're taking something they like and putting it in their name
DramaHateNation calm down and have a pancake
Same here
i’ve been saying.. “sCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?” for about 3 years of my life and i could never remember where the hell it came from, and then i remembered this gem. legit one of my favorite nostalgia critic episodes.
When I found out Tom Holland was playing Spider-Man, I watched this video before and I was incredibly confused
That's a different Tom Holland
Emily's Cinema TOM FUCKING HOLLAND 😤
1:47 Maybe the DVD cover guys knew how big Tom's name would go after Spidey: Homecoming.
Man that guy really didn’t want to miss his 9 AM appointment
I blame his dad
understandable, but it does not call for SCARING THE LITTLE GUUURL .
@@saidi7975 SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?!? LADY!!!
HIS WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST
In my Balki impression "Of course not, don't be ridiculous!"
MY WIDE ANGLE LENSE IS ABOUT TO BURST
Stop yelling, you're scaring the little girl
@@LiTtLeJuNe3 SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL!?
@@dredskl SCARING THE LITTLE GIIIRL ?! LADY !!
AND I FORBID YOU!!!
1:52 critic is so wise and knowing he knew about Homecoming before anyone else
"My wide angle lens is about to burst!"That line always makes me laugh!
The funny thing is he mentions someone going back and time and saving JFK. Stephen King actually wrote a book with that plot.
It's also Funny cous den Stockwell was in quntum leap and that dead the jfk story
Really? But that's one of the most uninspired and hackneyed plots ever. That and going back in time to kill hitler
In quntum leap it was one of the beast episodes with Sam bekit leaping through lee Harvey Oswalds life and starting to think that he is lee havey Oswald will tring to stop the asination and ended with the twist that they hade be ther to save Jkeay kenneder not to stop the asination
Red Dwarf did a JFK story too, where the cast somehow find a time machine, and decide to go back in time to enjoy a fish and chip shop that Lister remembers, but get the co-ordinates extremely wrong and end up pushing the assassin out of the window.
This leads to what is practically the end of the world, with World War 3 or something, and they have to go back in time to kill him again. Only none of them want to actually do it, so they go and find the one man capable of shooting JFK... Himself.
***** So... Were the writers over at Red dwarf on drugs?
Don't you just love going back to watching old nostalgia critic videos it's always a good feeling
MY WIDE ANGLED LENSE IS ABOUT TO BURST.
TheRcanmeananything Lol! I read this at the same time as he said it!
@@lunabearsong2043 HOLY SHIT, ME TOO! LOL!
Me too the fuck
New Stephen king trope
Psychic powers
Guess Stephen always wanted to be a psychic type pokemon
You know, I thought this looked ok... until the cgi giant meatballs showed up
You or your loved one may need to see a doctor.
8-Bit Squirrel
What's embarrassing was that I thought they were scary as a child, but that's Stephen King for ya...
Imagine Steven Kings writes a story that finally explains all the psychic children in his stories.
Doctor Sleep? 😉
why do knives work but bullets don't?
i love your profile picture
Because this is CoD.
Okay but in all seriousness even though bullets travel at ridiculous speeds they still travel technically "through time" from when you pull the trigger to when you hit your target. Even point blank range there is still however time for the bullet to travel from the chamber to the target. A knife on the other hand doesn't have to travel through time in a technical sense because of the fact someone is using it and is direct, unlike a bullet which is indirect.
If in the movie though the bullet actually leaves the chamber and hits the guy but does not die then I have no real idea how to explain it.
BECAUSE TWIST
In the book, everything has gone odd and flat because it's the past. So food tastes wrong, beer and pop have no fizz, and matches/gunpowder/fuel don't properly combust unless brought into the airplane. (Since they apparently brought some of their own time with them or something, so it recharges things.)
+BlueMoonZerc knifes, guns and all other things are just metals, powder with addition of oxygen for reaction. I don't think that time differs one from another, so if the gunpowder is getting weaker, then the other chemical reactions should obey this laws, so I think that, for example, the oxygen from yesterday shouldn't be enough for them to breath normally.
This should be remade as an animated film!
Yess!
Yeah and I think if there are to be any major changes in it, it's that Dina lives, I mean I really don't think she deserved to die
Another change I can think of would be the sound the Langoliers make. Instead of "Rice Crispies", why not make it like the sound of a buzzsaw cutting into metal?
@@WarmLusamine Nice.
I completely 100% agree with you!
"Ah man the skygina is gonna be pissed." "I'm blamin you"
Ded
05:05 MY WIDE ANGLED LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST!
It’s really strange looking back that this is the only Stephen King review to NOT be in Nostalgia-Ween.
1:51 how you want Tom Holland’s name to be in the Infinity War Credits! XD
"He won't feel so good by the end of the movie."
I understood that reference. 🤔
Thanos in the oven! Mm-hmm!
Why would that entire Marvel....mess care about the director of Child's Play, Fright Night, and The Temp?
@@randalgraves6979 Considering the ridiculous amount of money Disney has spent on marketing that flood of nonsense, even the fucking dead would understand that reference.
18:31
Great Scott, Marty! We're almost out of time! Also, we're in a Stephen king film!
Morty! (Belches) It's those ballsac time aliens again! Oh no Rick! What do we do?!
Rick: Wasn't me this time!
he’s referring to back to the future
Jaden LaFrance I tried changing it back! I would never do such a thing!
I may... be able... to explain the... pilots flying... through the... skygina... they... couldn't see... the... skygina... from their... side... as... it was... by no means... a virgin... skygina... it had... been... done in... by the universe.
Why.. the... fuck... do... you...use... so... many... goddamn... periods?
Citizen Plague
Because dear Read...It add..to the effect...But please...correct me if im..wrong..
Neko Sun your...not... Wrong...read...er
corthmic I... agree with.... neko....it's to.... make him..... sound.... more..... chatner
It...also...makes....you....more....drama....tic.
There should be a modern remake of this with actually good effects and acting
This episode is a Nostalgia Critic classic.
So how much time does it take the langoliers to eat a moment?
a moment it takes a moment
A moment is 30 seconds
“Set your Johnson to its full upright position...oh yeah...”
Pretty damn funny, not gonna lie.
Some Gamer you haven’t heard of reminds me to clean off my wonder boner soon. Fishing season...
23:58
Lois: Peter, how are you doing that?
Peter: I don't know. I'm scared
Lois: Come down from there
Peter: I can't. Call someone.
Lois: Who do I call?
Peter: I dont know. Call the police, no, the fire department. No, a scientist! Call a scientist.
Peter: Am I going to die?
*MY WIDE ANGLE LENSE IS ABOUT TO BURST!!!!*
Stephen King: making Maine more important than it actually is
true there isn't anything worth seeing :|
Profile picture source now
Who?
+jemsrandømness :3TM I live in Maine and I have to say that is correct.
Same here
Though I mostly agree with you on this one, I appreciated the "YOU SCARED THE LITTLE GIRL" guy. His story added a lot to the group. His dynamic seemed to completely contrast from the rest of the cast. Obviously, this man has severe hallucinatory psychosis or something similar, and it was very realistically portrayed, actually. I mean, you'd think someone like that would have been sent to an asylum five times over by now. But, I digress.
If there was such a film to redo, THIS would be one
Nah, this plot is just too dumb to ever work.
Been saying this for years. It if we’re modernized, it would be terrifying
"What is your fetish with there?"
(internets) "King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine."
Fact that nobody asked: Me and King actually share the same birthday. Mine is September 21, 1995.
This is what happened to Malaysia airlines flight 370, except they didn't make it out.
Holy shit.
billyman48 This is starting to make too much sense.
billyman48
*X-Files Theme plays*
When I was following that news sotry I kept having flashbacks to this movie and a few episodes of the Twilight Zone =3
It is like a shitty episode of the twighlight zone. You know like anything out of the 2002 remake.
...okay, I gotta say it. "SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!"
TheHeroOfTomorrow *l A d Y*
You and like, 20 other people in the comments.
"Time travel is different. You can't go back to November 1963 and stop Kennedy's assassination", well Dean Stockwell and Scott Bakula did an episode on Quantum Leap about this, it was one of the greatest episodes of the series.
This feels like a bad Dr. Who filler episode.
Now that you mention that, this does remind me of the episode "midnight"
every weeping angel episode ever.
A better comparison would be "Sleep No More"
+Joseph Carlisle hmm, I thought that 'angels in Manhattan' hit it on the head.
Angels wasn't a filler though. It was a devolopment in the character arcs of Amy and Rory.
6 years later and the 'MY WIDE ANGLE LENS IS ABOUT TO BURST' always makes me crack up.
I just finished reading the actual story and surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly) this is one of the most faithful stephen king stories. Coke must stay in your system for very long time.
That would explain the MFTV "The Shining, " then...
The girl was adorable. Easily my favorite character along with the mystery writer dude.
"what is your fetish with that place?": you know critic steven king was born in maine.
Why is no line from this movie yet a meme?
Benjamin Johnson scaring the little GIRRLLL????
gitsiemonster *GAHRLL
um... SCARING THE LITTLE GIIAARRHHL!
THEY WILL EAT YOU ALIVE!!!!!
Alive and screaming?!
King actually did write a time travel story about the Kennedy assasination, and it was really good!
At one point Star Trek the Motion picture has several storylines that Gene Roddenberry considered. One about the Kennedy assassination was one of them.
'By the director himself. Tom Holland'
*Spits water*
Not MCU Spider-Man Tom Holland. “Child’s Play” director Tom Holland.
@@devanhinskey9001 it's a joke. I think.
@@cheatcode436 Yeah, it was.
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When I was a kid I was fascinated by this mini series. I still don’t understand the ending but it was a fun ride. I didn’t care about the effects because I didn’t know any better.
FX and logic/science don't matter if you have a great script. See Twilight Zone, "Time Enough at Last," 1960.
i feel sorry for the bussiness guy.. not only was he killed but he was killed in a way that his remains wont exist.. dont get me wrong, im sorry for the other guy too but.. god i hate these kinds of deaths.. and he didnt even have a good life, his father seems like one of the worst ones ever, the kid was crying and he just kept going, all just because of an A-? that's tragic.
DA MotoNeko
It's kind of too tragic, though, when his life is such a parade of misery and we have no idea why he even gets up in the morning. And why was his dad such an asshole to him, what's his deal?
CruelestChris likely a perfectionist who was raised similary. But yea, a parade of misery and have it all end like that? not a single one even reaching their hand out to atleast try and help him when this happens? if i was god i'd give him an honorary ticket to heaven because living that kind of life and having it end like that.. holy christ in the church during christmas that is tragic..
DA MotoNeko BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK GUY. NOT ONLY DID HE MAYBE DIE BUT THEY FORGOT HIS BODY. THEY ACCIDENTLY LEFT HIM TO BE FORGOTTEN BY HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
sigh824 Buddy, i agree and i think about him too but when i see a child crying, it affects me more. the sight of someone treating a child to the point were they cant hold back tears, it infuriates me.
***** i dont get it..
Scaring the little girl!!!
Lady!!!
tcostner99 Scaring a little GHARRRHL
Oh now that's scaring the little girl
ssKAERING THE lIITLE guUARUUAL ?!
Like always
This movie actually scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The whole having the world eaten disturbed me to no end. Now it just looks like Sega Saturn quality spikey balls 😂.
Mr Toomey sure is very Toony. XD
What'd you expect to see from someone who's zany to the max?
He's Toomey, he's Toony, he's really really loony!
+MrSolomon ROFL!
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?!?!?!
SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?!?!?!
Hey the blind girl plays Mary from The Secret Garden!
She's British.
Not her fault...
I fucking LOVE that overacting!
At least overacting in general has the luxury of being unintentionally hilarious. Underacting unfortunately doesn't.
I prefer overacting as well. Underacting ruins a movie when the characters seem to be unrealistically bored at times.
You're overreacting the little girl.
+Cheepa Creepa OVERREACTING THE LITTLE GIRL?!
SuperDrinkingPepsi LADY!!!
I love that movie, it's so freaking eery. You're in a plane, and people vanishing. The survivers don't know what's going on, and have to rely on the plane. To take you out of the situation. Oh! Balky is awesome in this movie to.