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22:40 that’s actually kinda clever and cute. Since he’s deaf he can’t hear the anthem, but he can feel the vibration of his friend singing it with his hand on his chest. Leaning into the 2 “broken” people compensating for the other to make them “complete” theme they have.
I like that scene as well. That and him standing up to that awful gun-toting young woman on his friend's behalf. I suppose she forgot he could read her lips and body language.
@@Whyteroze28 Wow. Astonishing. You're an amazing Person. No one but you ever draw this simple conclusion. Wow. Wow. Wow. Im so jealous. You are so clever and wise wowwowwowwowwow
It's amazing the flip that happens when you have a short pause in insurance. Even if you can pay cash they get so hostile if you don't have insurance. And, no automatic scheduling for follow up appointments.
Green Mile also has positive Christian messages and overtones - meaning that it's not so much pro-organized religion as much as it is discussing values. I think King mostly just hates the organization part, which is fair.
Not to mention, King also hates when "Christians" use/abuse their faith to cause suffering among others they feel are inferior to them (especially those they claim they "love"; looking at you Margaret White) and justify it with said faith. See Mrs. Carmody in "The Mist" or the Warden in "Shawshank Redemption" as examples. Which, again is fair.
Okay I just spent like 40 minutes typing a long-winded version of this comment and then saw that somebody else already beat me too it in like 25% as many words. D'oh!
“I’m not responsible for you being here.” “Than who is?” “No one! , Everyone! , God!” Well at least the dude covered all the possible bases. This has to be one of the most random and simultaneously amazing things that I’ve heard in recent history!
The book elaborated a little on that. Who is responsible? - The general who wanted research in biological weapons? - The scientists who created the virus? - The technician who built a faulty piece? - The person who approved the faulty piece? - The security guard who ran out? - The person who hired said security guard? We can argue that everybody is responsible, yet the responsibility is spread so thin that nobody is responsible. If one believes to a higher power, one can blame it for so many errors aligning so perfectly.
My theater teacher said that he watched the original IT when he was a kid and that it's the reason he's afraid of clowns. Then I asked "Are you also afraid of balloons?"
One small correction, Fran didn't have Stu's baby, she was pregnant before the flu hit and the baby's father died early on. Her telling Stu she was pregnant was just to let him know, putting her cards out on the table, so to speak. That was one reason the settlement was afraid the baby would catch the flu when it was born, since it had one immune parent and one non-immune
Yeah, she tells Stu she is pregnant pretty early on in the book, and when Stu gets back to Boulder, the reason why Frannie is so scared is because another pregnant woman who had a non-immune partner lost her baby to Captain Trips already.
Yeah there was a whole subplot about Frannie being pregnant in the beginning of the plague. But for some reason they glossed over it in the mini series!
@@Kyolover8 Yeah too bad that remake just made other things even more confusing and they removed some of the best parts, like damn they could have done the Lincoln tunnel justice but instead opted to replace it with a cheap ass sewer scene.
They explain why Mother Abigail disappeared for a while. She felt that she sinned in pride. Sitting on the porch with all the pilgrims coming to see her, she felt that she lost sight of God's will. So she went into the wilderness just as Jesus did to make penance.
@@tanimation7289 That was the parable he was going for. She was more of an apostle through most of the story rather than a Christ surrogate though (Or a John the Baptist since she baptized (showed the way) to those who were meant to save the world and fight evil. It would be closer is Flagg had succeeded in having her killed... maybe had her head brought in on a platter ALA John's head in the Bible). Larry would be the most clear Christ surrogate oddly. He had the temptation, the martyring... and Stu would probably be St. Peter who lived on and became the first Pope (who helmed the church after the resurrection). Anyway... that's how I saw it.
Fun fact: Outhouses don’t get cleaned out. They just have a large and sometimes deep open-air pit beneath where that sort of thing just sorts itself out naturally.
@@catdogmousecheese Depends on the type of outhouse. Out in the countryside they'd just fill up the old hole and dig another and move/rebuild the outhouse on the new hole. In cities pre-indoor plumbing, where they didn't have the space to just build a new one every time it filled up, they'd use a "privy midden" where the hole was lined with stone or brick and could be emptied. Kinda like a permanent Don's Jon, except even less pleasant.
When asked about the religious aspect of this movie, King said his aim was to do his take on the Hero's Journey narrative set in a uniquely American and modern way. The HJ always has a mystical element to it and, to him, the only thing that made sense to be both mystical and modern in America was Christianity. The structure of the story he's telling literally required him to do a positive take on Christianity.
Another thing that may have contributed is the fact that He wrote The Stand to be 'Lord of the Rings In an American setting'. And Christian theming was a huge thing in Tolkien's work. Adding onto this, Abigail seems to have Gandalfs role and Gandalf was the Legendarium equivalent of an Angel.
In the book it comes off as being heavy handed on the Christianity aspect but even that is really just the basic good v.s evil plot line boiled down to its most basic form and took very little from Christianity at all actually aside from the generic "it's God's will" shit.
@@andrewzamora2689 I never saw it as heavy handed because it doesn't go into any kind of detail on any kind of dogma. It's very generic on every detail, just using it, as you said, as the foundation for good vs. evil. My parents have some of those real Christian post-apocalypse novels, though, so my perspective might be a bit skewed.
@@erickamakeeaina1649 but it is Not a heros journey! Who is the hero here, stu. Has he changed as a character, no he is the same as in the beginning, the only change is he has a wife again, and that is not a character development. And i loved the book as a Teen. He did nadine dirty, she had no free will witch is against christianity, her free will was larry banging her, that is Not free will. Only do get free will when she jump that was a sin in christianity, so he did her dirty again. And why needs the bad guy a virgin, witch is a sexist thing of christianity for the "good people" only.
Kareem Abdul Javar running around the street with a bell yelling about the plague and the end of the world honestly looks more like an Eric Andre sketch than anything else.
@@titusmccarthy It's actually a thing. To oversimplify, you CAN sort of "hear" music through touch to a certain degree, as sound is just a pressure wave. A related example is the reason I hate overly loud bass. it feels like, for lack of a better explanation, my head resonates from the sound and is physically painful.
Yep, and King made Dick Hallorann survive the burning of the "Black Spot" thanks to his _shining_ ability in *It* (yeah, Dick was in *It* . There was a Kingverse/Towerverse before it was cool), turning him in quite the badass hero in that flashback. He used the _shining_ to save Mike's father's life, who in turn was pivotal in taking down Pennywise... Curse you Kubrick! (still a great adaptation, even if King dislikes it...)
Black characters shouldn't be immortal or "favored." Lots of white people die... it's just more noticeable when the only 1 or 2 black people die. Large parts of the United States have a small black population. My high school had ONE black student. (it was about an hour away from where the fictional town of SouthPark was located) The "token" black person is not just fiction.
@@randallflagg3700 Hell, King had a connected universe even before the "Towerverse". It was called Castle Rock. (Not the TV series). The town of Castle Rock appeared in or was the setting for several of King's stories, including 'The Dead Zone', 'Cujo', and 'Needful Things', as well as several short stories like 'The Body' (aka 'Stand By Me'), and 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption'.
That line is straight from the book, although the actor didn't say it quite like I heard it when I read it. I loved it. It was so random and delirious.
"If God wants me to eat, he'll send food. If God wants me to drink, he'll send water." If God wants you to get somewhere safer, he'll send friends willing to carry you!
Melvin Shaw Gotta Say, Though the only reason I even know both the song and the band is from hearing it on Supernatural, back when I still watched that show, y’know before it in my opinion jumped the shark by becoming uber focused on God and the Devil.
Ngl, whenever I hear the line "Baby, I'm your man" in that song, my mind _always_ follows it up with "He's a righteous man" just because of the use in this mini-series
Yep, that's why they were concerned the baby would not inherit immunity to the virus because her father wasn't immune, and the baby was sick for a few months after birth if I remember correctly and then got better and survived, and the entire town was concerned because hers was the first birth in that community and some of the other pregnant women were worried that it would be possible the baby would somehow catch the virus even if both parents were immune and may not fight it off in time as newborns simply because they had seen so much death Igyess and they weren't absolutely sure as these were the first births. The entire community was worried as well. They cared for the people as individuals and they also knew if the babies didn't survive and inherit the immunity from their mothers, that would be the end of any generations going forward and presumably the human race besides those in vegas with the dark man, Randall Flagg. Sorry for the run-on sentences.
@@drmantistobboggangonzodr3961 That's an interesting plot point. I mean, I'm no geneticist, but I don't think both parents being immune guarantees the baby will be immune, though it would raise the likelihood.
@@Krendall2 I think you're right, but I'm no expert on that subject either. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that within the world of King's novel that was the survivor's reasoning/ concern.
@@ThePa1riot In Book 7 of The Dark Tower. Mordred kills him. He survives The Stand, left as a question, as he vanishes as the bomb is going off, in the 1978 release. In the 88 release, he comes to on an island, surrounded, and soon worshiped, by natives.
@@dadeleemurphy85 Yes, and in The Stand, Flagg appears in visions as a red eyed demon that comes out of the field, and in the novel is called "He Who Walks" and "The Walkin' Dude", and Hemmingford Home (The town where the protagonists gather in The Stand) is the next town over from Gatlin (the town from Children of the Corn) it is implied that they are the same being.
Whereas the sequel was called "The Squat," and later, "The Fidget From One Foot To Another Because You Have to Pee"... that one sorta jumped the shark.
9:05 Interesting change from the book. In the book, Stu had fully sterile immunity to the virus. Even when injected with the virus, his body killed it.
This might be the first project where that is survivable. It’s so long and the references are so spaced out that your liver has time break down at least some of the alcohol. Granted you will still be hella drunk just not dead
Not only is this the book that got me into reading Stephen King, but this is the book that got me into reading in general. I couldn't put it down. (True story, my mom worked as a librarian, and one day my 15 year old self was walking down one of the isles in the library waiting for her to get off work, and I found the SK section. I pulled out this book because of how large it was, and laughed to myself, "who would really read such a large book".......me 1 week later......."I guess I would". I was hooked from three pages in).
I was 9 and in third grade when I first read the Stand. Had the Stand as my silent reading book. I'll never forget my teacher coming up to my desk, kneeling down next to me, and asking if my parents knew I was reading that since it was a pretty big and grown-up book. She was super nice about it, but didn't believe me when I told her my parents knew I was reading it and they said it was okay. She knew I was a strong reader and tended to blow through the books in our classroom library pretty fast, but she was a little concerned about me undertaking The Stand for so, so many reasons now that I understand what I was reading. (My mom is a librarian too and both her and my dad are not only huge readers like me but huge fans of Stephen King his books were all over my house growing up) my teacher actually called my mom to talk with her about my choice book. The rule with me reading it was if I didn't understand a word or what was happening in a particular chapter I was to ask my parents and show them the part I was struggling with and it wasn't a question to be asked at school. I also wasn't allowed to talk about the book with my friends at school or repeat anything I read in it. It was and still is one of my favorite books. When the mini-series came out a year later when I was in 4th grade I was so excited and it didn't disappoint.
I read the stand last year...and I hated it. After the first half which did a GREAT job showing the characters reacting to everyone slowly dying, it just fell apart. Why did Lloyd exist? Why did Harold need to exist? What the hell was that ending?
I really like how Flagg suggests his allegiance when he meets Lloyd by referencing rolling stones sympathy for the devil " pleased to meet you Lloyd, hope you guess my name"
@@Rachel59435 It means thet Bobby Terry(the gunman who lived) got a far more gruesone death than most. Probably from Flagg tearing him open with his teeth.
@@curtisberard7831 It was "crucifixion". That's one of the few lines I remember from the book. Although, in all fairness, it was the unabridged version so maybe the original version had a different word.
@@ph89787 For the uninitiated: "Maine" is a Stephen King trope. King grew up in that part of America, so all of his stories/films/adaptations are MATHEMATICALLY CERTAIN to contain that singular state, in some kind of setting, or comparison, or even just the barest mention, in scripted conversation. King is so relentlessly predictable with this trope, that it has become the lasting impression that everybody has of Stephen King films. Turning it into a drinking game is also virtually guaranteed to lead to a few fatalities...
Randall Flagg is a servant to the Crimson King, who's basically the "devil" of Stephen King's multiverse. Flagg appears in several other King stories under different names, most prominently as the "Man in Black" aka Walter O'Dim in The Dark Tower. So while he's not a servant of the christian version of the devil, he IS a servant of the ultimate evil in King's writings. Therefore I think it's up for debate if the God Mother Abigail serves is literally the christian God, or if it's another benevolent deity in King's universe like the giant space turtle Maturin. EDIT: and as soon as I write that, Malcolm mentions Maturin.
In the Dark Tower universe, "God" is *Gan* , aka "The White". The benevolent force that the gunslingers serve. He is first mentioned by name in the 6th book, "Song of Susannah", as the enemy of the Crimson King and Discordia.
All well and good yet in this mother Abigail constantly mentions the Christian god and sings what a friend we have in Jesus, I think what they were going for with this miniseries was less the expanded universe and a simple matter of a servant of god and a servant of Satan
I was looking specifically for this answer, thank you :). There is also the scene in the Dark Tower series where the Ka-tet comes across the abandoned highways that were the aftermath of this virus. I agree that the true nature of the god that Mother Abigail is following is up for debate, but I think that NC makes a good point that to her, it is the Christian God.
at the start of the covid outbreak, a lot of people where making comparisons between captian trips and covid so King tweeted something like "guys, covid is nothing like the supeflu in the book, at all!" and one guy replied "pff what do you know, did you even read the book!?" made me smile, and apparently King too, since he didnt remove the comment (and liked it i think)
Fun Fact: Vivian Thomas, the man responsible for breaking down the barriers of heart surgery, was originally a Janitor/maintenance man at the university he would later make infamous. I have no problem believing Stu would try to practice surgery out of necessity. All you need is a strong stomach and steady hands theoretically. Oh and a willingness to learn and adapt.
If it is of interest, it isn't really even hinted at in the mini series or the book, but Randal Flagg does appear in King's Dark Tower series. He isn't the devil per say, but he is an Ancient Sorcerer of some variety... ...what? This is Steven King's work after all!
*in the book. Which is a pretty constant thing, especially in this series. Like the woman who leaves New York with Larry is a combination of a previous woman and herself.
@@WolfHreda the woman Larry first meets is much older and she sleeps with him. She later kills herself. I felt like Nadine wasn't a composite for the movie.
@@WolfHreda In the mini series, too. Fran confesses to Stu that she hasn't been taking the sleeping pills because she's scared it would hurt the baby (and this happened before they slept together for the first time).
Dear Critic, I’ve been a fan of yours for more than 10 years now and I really admire the way you have evolved. I just watched ‘Tenet’, after the movie ended I instantly thought “this is gold material for a Nostalgia critic review”
@@shindari Salem’s Lot is at almost 90% on Rotten Tomatoes ... I know it looks kind of outdated now (especially the wardrobe) and we’re all conditioned to think Stephen King miniseries = bad but it did a pretty great job capturing the creepy atmosphere and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” type horror of the book.
I still clearly remember the nightmarish scene I had about Flagg in my dream. What occurred was that I was one of the survivors of the virus. I decided to explore my abandoned grandmothers house. And that’s when I encountered him. He was in the main coatroom area of her house and it was nearly pitch black. I didn’t see him however I could *feel* him. His grin, the laugh, the watching of his demonic eyes. I didn’t see him yet I could. My heart was racing and I couldn’t breath. It all felt so real which is what made it terrifying. i sure as hell got the fuck outta there but I never had felt pure terror like that before. It’s one of the many reasons why I adore the stand because never has a villain from a book ever appeared in my dreams let alone scare me to such a degree. Oh and I also had another nightmare where everyone I loved was dying from the sickness around me and I could do nothing about it to stop it. Fun times.
Scream Queen 👑 Also if you're a fan of the book 📖 Nadine (who's my favorite character by the way) Wasn't Just crazy, She was acting like that because she was losing her soul while with Randell Flag (Which is better paced in the book
That's one thing i hated about this version. She just came off really unhinged from the beginning in the novel she was Joe/Leo's adoptive mother and she was normal but her sanity slowly slipped away over the course of the novel.
Ok, the first thing I have to say is: this was masterpiece, and the book even more so. The second thing I have to say is: a virus kills loads of Americans? Quarantines? Looting and rioting? Man, I had no idea when I first saw this mini series that I was looking at America's future
Listen up, name-tags!! I need to wire some cash to my son so we can make bail. Apparently, that musical he was producing was just a front for a crystal meth lab. And here's the kicker: he fled to Toronto so now the freakin' Mounties are involved!!
I remember crying when Kelso retired. He was the only character I wanted to kill who turned out to be one of the best parts, except for Pierce in Community
@@MrSmileyRay There have been 44,5 million people infected by covid according to google where of those 44,5 million 1,17 million have died..that is a deathrate of 2,6%...meaning you don't have a survival rate of 99,9 but rather 97,4...huge fucking difference my man.
why is it everyone remembers the government downplaying but forgets how the media tried just as hard BEFORE the government decided to go with that route?
All I know about this book is the review my husband drunkenly wrote for it after finishing: Tears welled in Fran's eyes as she realized she would never hear the fruit stripe gum commercial anymore. She had just finished her journal entry about how much she loved Stu and hated that nerd Harold. The council meeting was about to happen. The town was filled with very skilled people, lawyers and other highly educated folks but the council was populated by mechanics and pregnant college dropouts on the grounds that they arrived to the town a week before the populace that had the proper experience in such matters. Meanwhile in Las Vegas there is some seriously cool shit going down. Like, if this was a Stephen King novel the horrific stuff that you would be interested in hearing about.....we've been on this for at least 6 pages now.... Meanwhile in Boulder Colorodo here comes 200 pages of town council meetings to discuss what the town flower and gem is going to be. Fran starts to cry, and Stu says "what is it Fran?" "It's the yummy fruity one Stu! The yummy fruity one!"
Critic: “The film starts with a deadly virus being released and the government downplaying the threat” “Ha ha ha fiction!” Me: already this is off to a good start😑
Well considering every dumbass and their mother started hoarding toilet paper when they found out. I'm not sure there was any good way to tell people about it. Imagine what else they would've hoarded if he didnt downplay and just said what others were saying.
Let’s hope he actually knows how the virus came to be. Cause there’s no way he’s serious about believing a deadly virus released by the government is fake
@@HexManiacQuinn doubt it considering barely anyone in the riots are wearing masks and i highly doubt him not downplaying would caused a butterfly effect and prevent all that shit.
I read the book, I saw the series (twice). Great cast - Gary Sinise before Forest Gump. Camp element to it. Thanks for making the vid. It takes me back to my early twenties when I was coming down with a case if Stephen King Fever, I was obsessed with King. Also, thanks for making Langoliers. I read that too. Great work critic, long time sub.
That kinda reminds me of the bit in the bible where jesus chased merchants out of his temple with a whip because they were trying to profit off of people that were just going to worship god.
I sat down and watched this during early March, cuz I had heard a news report that gave me flash backs to that opening sequence with the scientists all laying dead while Don't Fear The Reaper jams out. To King's credit, that whole scenario in the first act, while the speed of spread of the contagion is a bit exaggerated in some regards, turned out to be frighteningly accurate. One single man toured italy during 1-2 weeks in the month of February 2020, struggling with a strange and persistent mild flu which never seemed to go away. Over the course of that time span, between playing soccer with friends, going on jogs out in public, and just generally enjoying the Italian countryside, it's estimated that he spread the virus to nearly 400-700 other people, blissfully unaware of what his increasingly severe symptoms actually meant. It wasn't until two separate hospital visits after his symptoms worsened that doctors finally realized that the man was extremely contagious. As a matter of fact, he was basically the real world equivalent of that one single man and his family from The Stand who seeded a virus across the entire country over the course of a single 8-12 hour drive just by making a couple of stops at gas stations along the way. #StephenKingBeScaryRealLikeThat
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Penny wise Stephen King time
It's STEPHEN KING TIME!
This movie predicted covid19.,
Can you review The Expanse?
22:40 that’s actually kinda clever and cute. Since he’s deaf he can’t hear the anthem, but he can feel the vibration of his friend singing it with his hand on his chest. Leaning into the 2 “broken” people compensating for the other to make them “complete” theme they have.
That's how I always thought of that scene as well.
I like that scene as well. That and him standing up to that awful gun-toting young woman on his friend's behalf. I suppose she forgot he could read her lips and body language.
It's mentioned in the book that Tom has an inhumanly beautiful singing voice.
Wait. What video are you talking about?
@@Whyteroze28 Wow.
Astonishing. You're an amazing Person. No one but you ever draw this simple conclusion. Wow. Wow. Wow. Im so jealous. You are so clever and wise wowwowwowwowwow
Thank the word and the giver of his laws. IT'S STEPHEN KING TIME!
How Did I Forget Get About That!🤣
Yay! *plays the theme*
This quote is the meaning of life!
And the 42nd like i gave it just proves it.
CORN
🤷(head bobbing left and right)
The opening to this, using Blue Oyster Cults "Don't Fear The Reaper", is still one of the best openings in both TV and Cinema...
And also the use of 'Don't Dream It's Over' by Crowded House. Perfect. Wish the makers of the new Stand were music lovers too.
@@haroldwhite5761 yeah it feels like that's what the new one was missing in it's opening, was great music :\
@@weresmurf5731 ...and great acting and direction, hahaha. But I bet Skarsgaard will do a good job.
@@haroldwhite5761 oh the original didn't have great acting bar Gary Sinise lol
Its so good that the song was even used in the badass opening of Prey. 😊
"Shouldn't we help him?"
"He doesn't have insurance."
"Ah."
Health Care in the U.S in a nutshell...
"He ain't even hurt" Joel Miller 2013
It's amazing the flip that happens when you have a short pause in insurance.
Even if you can pay cash they get so hostile if you don't have insurance.
And, no automatic scheduling for follow up appointments.
"I CAN HEAR!, I CAN TALK!"
"I CAN SIIIIIIINGGGG!!"
I'm done XD
That part cracked me up too 😂😆
“I CAN FIGHT!” *rips shirt off*
"Ooo help me dr zauis"
But can he play the piano anymore?
@@areyousureyouenteredyourna85 ofcourse he can
Green Mile also has positive Christian messages and overtones - meaning that it's not so much pro-organized religion as much as it is discussing values. I think King mostly just hates the organization part, which is fair.
Yea but I don't wanna see a mouse get stomped on
Not to mention, King also hates when "Christians" use/abuse their faith to cause suffering among others they feel are inferior to them (especially those they claim they "love"; looking at you Margaret White) and justify it with said faith. See Mrs. Carmody in "The Mist" or the Warden in "Shawshank Redemption" as examples. Which, again is fair.
Okay I just spent like 40 minutes typing a long-winded version of this comment and then saw that somebody else already beat me too it in like 25% as many words. D'oh!
I guess you don't know about the novel's ending?
My issue with it as well.
Love God. His fan club, not so much.
“I’m not responsible for you being here.”
“Than who is?”
“No one! , Everyone! , God!”
Well at least the dude covered all the possible bases. This has to be one of the most random and simultaneously amazing things that I’ve heard in recent history!
The book elaborated a little on that. Who is responsible?
- The general who wanted research in biological weapons?
- The scientists who created the virus?
- The technician who built a faulty piece?
- The person who approved the faulty piece?
- The security guard who ran out?
- The person who hired said security guard?
We can argue that everybody is responsible, yet the responsibility is spread so thin that nobody is responsible. If one believes to a higher power, one can blame it for so many errors aligning so perfectly.
Biden:)
@@Mr3DLC no this is Patrick
@@ryanhiggins8869 wouldnt be surprised from biden at this point
Is he even trying? :)
Teacher: what’s your favorite holiday
Me: Stephen King Time!!!!
What about Secret Origins Month?
@@jeremyusreevu237 at4w fan i see
My favorite requires an “I donut donuts shirt”
I've been hoping you'd do this series for years!
Now I kind of want to rewatch it
Honestly, I'm *glad* the actress played Julie as so utterly despicable; she was one of the villains from the book that I loved to hate.
Just like Jack gleeson as joffery baratheon
@@austinmasoni1896 Thanks for repeating the same shit from the Video
Kinda makes her death in Saw 3 more enjoyable. I actually met her at a con, she's a little annoying but nowhere near this terrible of a person!
Julie played brilliantly by Shawnee Smith, a shamelessly underrated actress.
(Check out the 80s remake of "The Blob", she's awesome).
You read the book
24:14 "Do you have any soup dresses?"
WHY ARE YOU BUYING SOUP AT THE CLOTHES STORE?!
“FUCK YOU”
I love that video
Hey man I need your help.
@@arkauthor I can't. I'm buying clothes.
Well hurry up and get over here.
My theater teacher said that he watched the original IT when he was a kid and that it's the reason he's afraid of clowns. Then I asked "Are you also afraid of balloons?"
THEY FLOAT! THEY ALL FLOAT!
WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE!
Yes but only the red ones
Strangely enough I used to be scared of clowns then watched the original IT, and was no longer afraid of clowns when I was around 13 or so.
Why would he be afraid of balloons? The balloons didn’t kill anyone.
One small correction, Fran didn't have Stu's baby, she was pregnant before the flu hit and the baby's father died early on. Her telling Stu she was pregnant was just to let him know, putting her cards out on the table, so to speak. That was one reason the settlement was afraid the baby would catch the flu when it was born, since it had one immune parent and one non-immune
Yeah, she tells Stu she is pregnant pretty early on in the book, and when Stu gets back to Boulder, the reason why Frannie is so scared is because another pregnant woman who had a non-immune partner lost her baby to Captain Trips already.
Yeah there was a whole subplot about Frannie being pregnant in the beginning of the plague. But for some reason they glossed over it in the mini series!
I immediately noticed this mistake as well. I understand the movie is 6 hours but is it too much to ask for the Critic to keep up with the GD Movie???
I'm surprised there wasn't a Lieutenant Dan reference when Stu broke his legs climbing the hill.
Wasn't Gump after this?
M-O-O-N that spells Nostalgia Critic.
@@KairuHakubi as a southerner you're half right
No it spells Patrick
And he remembers that so you don't have to.
she wasnt pregnant with stu's baby, she had just found out she was pregnant when the virus was released. her and stu just fell in love.
It never clarifies that does it? Or does it???
@@earlthepearl6414 In the book, but not in the show/movie.
@@neoasura I believe they mention it in the remake. They might have realized the confusion it caused in the original and tried to correct it
@@neoasura they do in the new 2020 version.
@@Kyolover8 Yeah too bad that remake just made other things even more confusing and they removed some of the best parts, like damn they could have done the Lincoln tunnel justice but instead opted to replace it with a cheap ass sewer scene.
They explain why Mother Abigail disappeared for a while. She felt that she sinned in pride. Sitting on the porch with all the pilgrims coming to see her, she felt that she lost sight of God's will. So she went into the wilderness just as Jesus did to make penance.
Nice catch.
she went to bring roland and company food in the forth dark tower book wizards and glass
@@willscott174 Mmm.. Nozz-A-La and Popkins
Are you referring to the 40 day quest Jesus had to do to test himself?
@@tanimation7289 That was the parable he was going for. She was more of an apostle through most of the story rather than a Christ surrogate though (Or a John the Baptist since she baptized (showed the way) to those who were meant to save the world and fight evil. It would be closer is Flagg had succeeded in having her killed... maybe had her head brought in on a platter ALA John's head in the Bible). Larry would be the most clear Christ surrogate oddly. He had the temptation, the martyring... and Stu would probably be St. Peter who lived on and became the first Pope (who helmed the church after the resurrection). Anyway... that's how I saw it.
Fun fact: Outhouses don’t get cleaned out. They just have a large and sometimes deep open-air pit beneath where that sort of thing just sorts itself out naturally.
@ never been in a place where they clean them out. I've I've seen over a hundred or so over the years.
Maybe they just built a new outhouse every time the one they were using filled up.
Don't they throw a limestone to get rid of the smile
@@catdogmousecheese Depends on the type of outhouse. Out in the countryside they'd just fill up the old hole and dig another and move/rebuild the outhouse on the new hole. In cities pre-indoor plumbing, where they didn't have the space to just build a new one every time it filled up, they'd use a "privy midden" where the hole was lined with stone or brick and could be emptied. Kinda like a permanent Don's Jon, except even less pleasant.
I was going to ask about that too,@@seanquek3231 . Or whatever that blue stuff is
When asked about the religious aspect of this movie, King said his aim was to do his take on the Hero's Journey narrative set in a uniquely American and modern way. The HJ always has a mystical element to it and, to him, the only thing that made sense to be both mystical and modern in America was Christianity. The structure of the story he's telling literally required him to do a positive take on Christianity.
Another thing that may have contributed is the fact that He wrote The Stand to be 'Lord of the Rings In an American setting'. And Christian theming was a huge thing in Tolkien's work.
Adding onto this, Abigail seems to have Gandalfs role and Gandalf was the Legendarium equivalent of an Angel.
In the book it comes off as being heavy handed on the Christianity aspect but even that is really just the basic good v.s evil plot line boiled down to its most basic form and took very little from Christianity at all actually aside from the generic "it's God's will" shit.
@@andrewzamora2689 I never saw it as heavy handed because it doesn't go into any kind of detail on any kind of dogma. It's very generic on every detail, just using it, as you said, as the foundation for good vs. evil.
My parents have some of those real Christian post-apocalypse novels, though, so my perspective might be a bit skewed.
@@erickamakeeaina1649 but it is Not a heros journey! Who is the hero here, stu. Has he changed as a character, no he is the same as in the beginning, the only change is he has a wife again, and that is not a character development.
And i loved the book as a Teen.
He did nadine dirty, she had no free will witch is against christianity, her free will was larry banging her, that is Not free will. Only do get free will when she jump that was a sin in christianity, so he did her dirty again. And why needs the bad guy a virgin, witch is a sexist thing of christianity for the "good people" only.
@@alien777Wtf have you just said
Not gonna lie, favorite character was Trash Can Man. He was like Gollum with a bomb fetish
I think King would have loved that way too much, given how he set out to write an American Lord of the Rings when writing The Stand.
@@melvinshaw7574 And with the Dark Tower as well
That actor played Pestilence in *Supernatural,* too. (Matt Frewer ) Also, Max Headroom... and in Orphan Black and Fear the Walking Dead, etc. etc.
@@BlackavarWD He was Taggart in Eureka as well, one of the best characters on that show
Hope the kid is in the new movie
Kareem Abdul Javar running around the street with a bell yelling about the plague and the end of the world honestly looks more like an Eric Andre sketch than anything else.
Oh my God, you're right!
was it supposed to be the real k.a.j. in the movie who survived?
Bird Up!
Nick had his hand on Tom's chest during the national anthem so he could feel the vibrant. He is Literally feeling the song
Cringeworthy
God, I got that, even though I never saw the miniseries, how did doug not figure it out?
@@titusmccarthy It's actually a thing. To oversimplify, you CAN sort of "hear" music through touch to a certain degree, as sound is just a pressure wave. A related example is the reason I hate overly loud bass. it feels like, for lack of a better explanation, my head resonates from the sound and is physically painful.
he was feeling up Tom's pecs for sure.
I never knew the voice of Patrick Star was in this mini-series.
Me neither .
yep
He's the voice of Sans too....seriously look it up.
They actually made a reference to it in SpongeBob. I wish they would have known about that clip, they probably would have played it.
And Broadway from Gargoyles
To be fair, Kubrick killed off the black guy from The Shining, not King.
Yep, and King made Dick Hallorann survive the burning of the "Black Spot" thanks to his _shining_ ability in *It* (yeah, Dick was in *It* . There was a Kingverse/Towerverse before it was cool), turning him in quite the badass hero in that flashback.
He used the _shining_ to save Mike's father's life, who in turn was pivotal in taking down Pennywise...
Curse you Kubrick!
(still a great adaptation, even if King dislikes it...)
@@randallflagg3700 Oh yeah, I loved all those little connections between King's books. There's tons of 'em! :D
To be faaaaair...
Black characters shouldn't be immortal or "favored." Lots of white people die... it's just more noticeable when the only 1 or 2 black people die.
Large parts of the United States have a small black population. My high school had ONE black student. (it was about an hour away from where the fictional town of SouthPark was located) The "token" black person is not just fiction.
@@randallflagg3700 Hell, King had a connected universe even before the "Towerverse". It was called Castle Rock. (Not the TV series).
The town of Castle Rock appeared in or was the setting for several of King's stories, including 'The Dead Zone', 'Cujo', and 'Needful Things', as well as several short stories like 'The Body' (aka 'Stand By Me'), and 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption'.
12:17 "Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful...it's so DARK!"
*wheezes in humorous agony*
Oh YES....they FLOAT!
That line is straight from the book, although the actor didn't say it quite like I heard it when I read it. I loved it. It was so random and delirious.
"If God wants me to eat, he'll send food. If God wants me to drink, he'll send water."
If God wants you to get somewhere safer, he'll send friends willing to carry you!
And He did all of those things.
Lol there is no god
Atheists worship the god of no god
@@nunyabizness6376 actually, the God of Atheism is an entirely different religion
It's hilarious that Larry fights so damn hard to bring Stu on to inevitable death.
I hope he'll re-created the Filmmation version of Ghostbusters or the Scooby-Doo theme song next year.
the Adams Family opening would also be quite fun, especialy if he uses the new version.
@@MrKlausbaudelaire Lets hope so.
Invader zim
Scooby doo wouldn't be bad at all
@@SoloJona It wouldn't, since he already reviewed the first 3 live action movies and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
Jamey Sheridan is insanely underrated as Randall Flagg.
Way better than Skarsgård. And Jamey looked better in a pair of blue jeans.
Isn't he the man Roland Deschain wants to put in the ground?
And Miguel Ferrer was great in this too. Overall great ensemble gast
"Does M-O-O-N spell moon?"
"No, it's spells Patrick!"
The starfish friend of Spongebob ?
I laughed way too long at this...
@@JamesMC04 ...Yes. That is the obvious joke.
"Is this the Krusty Krab?"
"NOOOO!! THIS IS PATRICK!! ... I'm not a Krusty Crab!"
@@sebastianemond5313 cringe af
I love that the radio was playing Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper”
That song is literally the novel's epigraph. Say what you will about the guy, but his taste in music is pretty on-point
Melvin Shaw Gotta Say, Though the only reason I even know both the song and the band is from hearing it on Supernatural, back when I still watched that show, y’know before it in my opinion jumped the shark by becoming uber focused on God and the Devil.
Ngl, whenever I hear the line "Baby, I'm your man" in that song, my mind _always_ follows it up with "He's a righteous man" just because of the use in this mini-series
I fell in love with Blue Oyster Cult because of this movie
@@That.Lady.withtheYarn Love that group..
Fran wasn't pregnant with Stu's baby , she was pregnant before she left Maine. Her boyfriend died from the virus.
Well, it’s Doug Walker.
You can’t ask him to notice details like those.
Isn't helped that whole sub plot at the start of the novel with franny, her mother, and boyfriend cut out of mini-series. It set up she was pregnant.
Yep, that's why they were concerned the baby would not inherit immunity to the virus because her father wasn't immune, and the baby was sick for a few months after birth if I remember correctly and then got better and survived, and the entire town was concerned because hers was the first birth in that community and some of the other pregnant women were worried that it would be possible the baby would somehow catch the virus even if both parents were immune and may not fight it off in time as newborns simply because they had seen so much death Igyess and they weren't absolutely sure as these were the first births. The entire community was worried as well. They cared for the people as individuals and they also knew if the babies didn't survive and inherit the immunity from their mothers, that would be the end of any generations going forward and presumably the human race besides those in vegas with the dark man, Randall Flagg. Sorry for the run-on sentences.
@@drmantistobboggangonzodr3961 That's an interesting plot point. I mean, I'm no geneticist, but I don't think both parents being immune guarantees the baby will be immune, though it would raise the likelihood.
@@Krendall2 I think you're right, but I'm no expert on that subject either. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that within the world of King's novel that was the survivor's reasoning/ concern.
Malcolm looks like he had the most amazing time playing that lady. Every second his happiness was simply tangible. XD
Proof that Stephen King’s Stand is Rolling Stones and when he wrote this story it turned into a globe.
Nah its The Ramone
Normal People: Oh cool, another Stephen King Movie review!
Me, an intellectual: Stephen King is.... an ENEMY STAND USER?!
*Hmm intensifies*
Everything is a JoJo reference. Except for JoJo.
It’s name: reaper. Because… because the opening song… uh
Power! Wildly inconsistent storytelling!
Stand User: Stephen King
Stand Name: Fearing Reaper
This year’s theme is AWSOME and I adore how both Chaplin AND Buster are ghost mascots
Oh crap,I was wondering who the cats were!Man that makes much more sense now.
Doug Walker is awesome 👌 👏 😎
@@chasehedges6775 He's "Channel" awesome.
The opening w/ "Dont Fear the Reaper" is burned into my memory.
You're not alone.
Good example of imagery and music going together.
Makes Joke about he who walks behind the rows...Randal Flagg later revealed in the dark tower series to actually be he who walks behind the rows lol
Oh god, that's completely untrue.
@@jcaseyjones2829 uh did you read the series?
@@mcleary22x for the love of God, I've read everything he's in.
Stop trying to convince me Flagg is an electrified gopher
Considering Randall Flag is "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" the Children of the Corn reference is warranted.
agent of The Crimson King
Doesn’t he die at the end of that though?
@@ThePa1riot Not in the book.
@@ThePa1riot In Book 7 of The Dark Tower. Mordred kills him.
He survives The Stand, left as a question, as he vanishes as the bomb is going off, in the 1978 release. In the 88 release, he comes to on an island, surrounded, and soon worshiped, by natives.
@@dadeleemurphy85 Yes, and in The Stand, Flagg appears in visions as a red eyed demon that comes out of the field, and in the novel is called "He Who Walks" and "The Walkin' Dude", and Hemmingford Home (The town where the protagonists gather in The Stand) is the next town over from Gatlin (the town from Children of the Corn) it is implied that they are the same being.
Stephen King: the author or the future seer of 2020?
Yes
He also predicted both WTC attacks. Weird coincidences.
Do enough coke and you can see anything
I guess Biden does kind of look like Randall Flagg doesn’t he?
..and riots during an outbreak, he and George Orwell are neck & neck.
Kinda easy tho. Pandemics have been a recurring thing throughout known history, and the American govt has....been like that.
The prequel is called "The Sit"
LOL!
The sequel will be 'The Lie'
I thought the sequel would be called “Roll over.”
LMFAO!!!!!!
Whereas the sequel was called "The Squat," and later, "The Fidget From One Foot To Another Because You Have to Pee"... that one sorta jumped the shark.
The reason King uses Maine a lot as a background is because it’s the MAINE character!
Good one..
Insert Tim Curry laugh here
This comment is super underrated
That and (on a serious note) he was born n raised in Maine. Much like John Hughes always setting his films in Chicago.
*bah dum tss*
(I actually liked the joke lol)
Fun fact about the dead scientists in the beginning: they were filmed in Utah and everyone was impressed by how realistic they looked.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
Uh, I don’t get it...
They have scientist's in Utah?
Please it’s been years, what did you mean by this???
@@Howard_T_Duck Republicans outlaw science is what I meant.
9:05 Interesting change from the book. In the book, Stu had fully sterile immunity to the virus. Even when injected with the virus, his body killed it.
I've waited through numerous Nostalgia-weens for this.
I was not disappointed.
Time for another round of "The Stephen King Drinking Game!"
Secondary challenge: Watch all the Stephen King movies and play "The Stephen King Drinking Game".
Sorry, no can do this time - the last one killed me.
@@Liowen Bonus Round: Every time you see Stephen King in his own movies take twenty shots of tequila.
No thanks.
This might be the first project where that is survivable. It’s so long and the references are so spaced out that your liver has time break down at least some of the alcohol. Granted you will still be hella drunk just not dead
"The Stand" sounds like it's about a haunted piece of IKEA furniture
Not only is this the book that got me into reading Stephen King, but this is the book that got me into reading in general. I couldn't put it down. (True story, my mom worked as a librarian, and one day my 15 year old self was walking down one of the isles in the library waiting for her to get off work, and I found the SK section. I pulled out this book because of how large it was, and laughed to myself, "who would really read such a large book".......me 1 week later......."I guess I would". I was hooked from three pages in).
I was 9 and in third grade when I first read the Stand. Had the Stand as my silent reading book. I'll never forget my teacher coming up to my desk, kneeling down next to me, and asking if my parents knew I was reading that since it was a pretty big and grown-up book. She was super nice about it, but didn't believe me when I told her my parents knew I was reading it and they said it was okay. She knew I was a strong reader and tended to blow through the books in our classroom library pretty fast, but she was a little concerned about me undertaking The Stand for so, so many reasons now that I understand what I was reading. (My mom is a librarian too and both her and my dad are not only huge readers like me but huge fans of Stephen King his books were all over my house growing up) my teacher actually called my mom to talk with her about my choice book. The rule with me reading it was if I didn't understand a word or what was happening in a particular chapter I was to ask my parents and show them the part I was struggling with and it wasn't a question to be asked at school. I also wasn't allowed to talk about the book with my friends at school or repeat anything I read in it. It was and still is one of my favorite books. When the mini-series came out a year later when I was in 4th grade I was so excited and it didn't disappoint.
This was my intro to King as well, easily one of his best and...eerily topical these days.
I read the stand last year...and I hated it. After the first half which did a GREAT job showing the characters reacting to everyone slowly dying, it just fell apart. Why did Lloyd exist? Why did Harold need to exist? What the hell was that ending?
The Stand and IT are probably his longest books. King had a thing for long stories in his early career.
@@Supervillain725 *looks pointedly at salem's lot and carrie, neither of which are especially long*
Devil: Crimson King
God: The Dark Tower
Randall Flag: Man in Black
The thing about the Crimson King is that it's a sta-
-avid? Where did you go?
Gunslinger: Roland Deschain
And Oy.
@@victorm152 and Jake and Eddie and Susannah
Hotel: Trivago
“Do you have any soup dresses” got me 😂 Tamara’s face was perfect.
So hilarious and I agree with the critic that any other day from around Halloween would be weird 😅
I really like how Flagg suggests his allegiance when he meets Lloyd by referencing rolling stones sympathy for the devil " pleased to meet you Lloyd, hope you guess my name"
I always wondered how many people didn't get that inside joke of who Randall really was
I done did got it
Tbh, The Stand has the best Stephen King quote..
‘There were worse things than crucifixion. There was teeth.’
Actually I'm pretty sure the line was "there were things wirse than *death* there were teeth "
Meaning? (didn't read the book)
@@Rachel59435 you could get crucified. But you could also get your lady parts sawed into shreds by Satan's yellow, crooked teeth
@@Rachel59435 It means thet Bobby Terry(the gunman who lived) got a far more gruesone death than most. Probably from Flagg tearing him open with his teeth.
@@curtisberard7831 It was "crucifixion". That's one of the few lines I remember from the book. Although, in all fairness, it was the unabridged version so maybe the original version had a different word.
I re-watched all 6 hours of Stephen King The Stand 1994 in one day and I loved that it never got boring to me.
“M-O-O-N”, that spells coronavirus.
No it spells Patrick
@The Eyes Of A True Demon M-O-O-N spells horse radish which is not an instrument either.
“M-O-O-N”, that spells Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ok that was funny af :D
Wow.. bet you had to dig deep for that one 🙄
ITS NOSTALGIAWEEN AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS , ITS STEPHEN KING TIME 🥳
Malcolms’s mother Abigail is Emmy worthy, I swear. “I don’t know, let me ask God. 🤙 Hello, god?”
“MAINE! I know were not playing the Steven King drinking game but I got to take a drink to that!” (6:57)
What is your fetish with that place.
@@ph89787 For the uninitiated: "Maine" is a Stephen King trope. King grew up in that part of America, so all of his stories/films/adaptations are MATHEMATICALLY CERTAIN to contain that singular state, in some kind of setting, or comparison, or even just the barest mention, in scripted conversation. King is so relentlessly predictable with this trope, that it has become the lasting impression that everybody has of Stephen King films.
Turning it into a drinking game is also virtually guaranteed to lead to a few fatalities...
MAINE I think all the Stephen King videos is making me addicted to that place
Randall Flagg is a servant to the Crimson King, who's basically the "devil" of Stephen King's multiverse. Flagg appears in several other King stories under different names, most prominently as the "Man in Black" aka Walter O'Dim in The Dark Tower. So while he's not a servant of the christian version of the devil, he IS a servant of the ultimate evil in King's writings. Therefore I think it's up for debate if the God Mother Abigail serves is literally the christian God, or if it's another benevolent deity in King's universe like the giant space turtle Maturin.
EDIT: and as soon as I write that, Malcolm mentions Maturin.
In the Dark Tower universe, "God" is *Gan* , aka "The White". The benevolent force that the gunslingers serve. He is first mentioned by name in the 6th book, "Song of Susannah", as the enemy of the Crimson King and Discordia.
All well and good yet in this mother Abigail constantly mentions the Christian god and sings what a friend we have in Jesus, I think what they were going for with this miniseries was less the expanded universe and a simple matter of a servant of god and a servant of Satan
I was looking specifically for this answer, thank you :). There is also the scene in the Dark Tower series where the Ka-tet comes across the abandoned highways that were the aftermath of this virus. I agree that the true nature of the god that Mother Abigail is following is up for debate, but I think that NC makes a good point that to her, it is the Christian God.
@@Celebriel82 Yeah to her definitely.
Dumb question about the Crimson King: is that where the prog-rock band King Crimson got the name from?
at the start of the covid outbreak, a lot of people where making comparisons between captian trips and covid
so King tweeted something like "guys, covid is nothing like the supeflu in the book, at all!"
and one guy replied "pff what do you know, did you even read the book!?"
made me smile, and apparently King too, since he didnt remove the comment (and liked it i think)
It is better than a comment received by Isaac Asimov, "Just because you are the author does not mean you know what is in the text."
Where do you think they got the idea. The whole Covid thing was war games several years earlier. Event 201. 🇺🇸
Fun Fact: Vivian Thomas, the man responsible for breaking down the barriers of heart surgery, was originally a Janitor/maintenance man at the university he would later make infamous. I have no problem believing Stu would try to practice surgery out of necessity. All you need is a strong stomach and steady hands theoretically. Oh and a willingness to learn and adapt.
Well not exactly. Only his contract mentionned his presence as a janitor. He was a chirurgical assistant since his first day of job.
No, you definitely need an intricate knowledge of internal organs and how they function.
@@dreamlandnightmare pretty sure they botch the surgery in the book
@@DMKA94 the surgery in the book was going rsther well. It isn't ststed explicitly how he died. I'm guessing blood loss or shock.
Stand master: Stephen King
Stand name: Pet Sematary
Is that a jojo reference?
Summons dead animals lol
what a minute in the shinning Danny have a friend who can't be seen by other people and who can predict the future and detect ghost.
Tony is a stand!!
@@laurietremblay1934 So Danny's stand Is just him from the future?
Somehow that doesn't seem out of place...
@@dastvan8002 or it's like Epitaph
You know you had spot on casting when you can't picture anyone else in the role. Gary Sinese was perfect
Stephen King's Harold that nerdy entitled kids were future terrorists was eerily prescient.
Incels.
Another great review keep on dominating this October and every single day
Tommy! Love your channel and content! Great to see you here!
Thank you so much
Ahhh i see you’re a man of culture! Love your channel. Hope all is well!
Getting the book into a 6 hour miniseries is possibly the greatest achievement in the history of Mankind
Na. King just drages out his books with unnessery stuff. Too much fluff.
"M-O-O-N, that spells really stoked to see an updated Stand video."
Oh NNOOOOO!! Endless "Is that a JoJo reference?" comments.
Is that a is that a jojo reference reference.
OH MY GAAAAWWWWD!!!!
I think I missed the Jojo reference. Where was it?
@@thaddeuspine Miss Abigail's Face in the sky. Same thing happened with Joseph Joestar near the end of part 3.
Is ThAt A jOjO ReFeReNcE
"HELLO HAS ANYONE HEARD MY SONG"
IM DEAD😂😂😂😂😂😂
“Isaac....did you kidnap Mother Abigail in the middle of the series?”
“NO ONE ELSE SHALL BE THE PROFET IN A STEPHEN KING MOVIE!!!”
Prophet
"Nadeen decides She's jumping for two" as She's free falling made me laugh way too hard.
If it is of interest, it isn't really even hinted at in the mini series or the book, but Randal Flagg does appear in King's Dark Tower series. He isn't the devil per say, but he is an Ancient Sorcerer of some variety...
...what? This is Steven King's work after all!
When I saw it was called “The Stand” I immediately thought it was about Star Platinum.
Ora
Stando powah!
So it’s the same kind of stand as star platinum
ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA
Maybe the author from JOJO was inspired by Stephen King
She’s not pregnant with Stew’s baby, the baby’s father didn’t survive Captain Trips
What was his name? Jess? Jessie?
*in the book.
Which is a pretty constant thing, especially in this series. Like the woman who leaves New York with Larry is a combination of a previous woman and herself.
@@WolfHreda the woman Larry first meets is much older and she sleeps with him. She later kills herself.
I felt like Nadine wasn't a composite for the movie.
@@WolfHreda In the mini series, too. Fran confesses to Stu that she hasn't been taking the sleeping pills because she's scared it would hurt the baby (and this happened before they slept together for the first time).
@@madamefluffy4788 Touché, thanks for pointing that out.
Dear Critic,
I’ve been a fan of yours for more than 10 years now and I really admire the way you have evolved. I just watched ‘Tenet’, after the movie ended I instantly thought “this is gold material for a Nostalgia critic review”
NC: “The Most Popular/Best Stephen King Mini Series.”
Me: “But this isn’t Salem’s Lot?”
It’s almost like your opinion isn’t necessarily the consensus.
It's a lot like saying "Revenge of the Sith" is the best Star Wars Prequel film. Strictly true, but... is that really something to be proud of??
@@shindari Salem’s Lot is at almost 90% on Rotten Tomatoes ... I know it looks kind of outdated now (especially the wardrobe) and we’re all conditioned to think Stephen King miniseries = bad but it did a pretty great job capturing the creepy atmosphere and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” type horror of the book.
theres also SHining mini-series.
@@shindari better a Revenge of the Sith than The Last Jedi
"It must be the work of an enemy Stand!"
I'm not sorry.
And you shouldn't be
Was waiting to see a comment like this.
The Stand is called "Crimson King."
Stephen kings stand would be to teleport anyone at any time to Maine
I think Bohemian Rhapsody would work really well for him since it brings characters to life
I still clearly remember the nightmarish scene I had about Flagg in my dream. What occurred was that I was one of the survivors of the virus. I decided to explore my abandoned grandmothers house. And that’s when I encountered him. He was in the main coatroom area of her house and it was nearly pitch black. I didn’t see him however I could *feel* him. His grin, the laugh, the watching of his demonic eyes. I didn’t see him yet I could. My heart was racing and I couldn’t breath. It all felt so real which is what made it terrifying. i sure as hell got the fuck outta there but I never had felt pure terror like that before.
It’s one of the many reasons why I adore the stand because never has a villain from a book ever appeared in my dreams let alone scare me to such a degree. Oh and I also had another nightmare where everyone I loved was dying from the sickness around me and I could do nothing about it to stop it. Fun times.
Frannie was already pregnant by her ex-boyfriend before the virus outbreak.
In the original Novel, yes. Is that outright stated in this mini?
@@ShadowSonic2 Yes, it is, when Stu kisses her for the first time in the woods, she reveals she's pregnant.
She's also collage age while Stu is in his mid thirties.
@@ShadowSonic2 When you first meet Fran, she had just broken up with her bf. The novel had her tell her bf of the pregnancy.
@@YolandaAnneBrown95726 Sorry, I haven't seen this since it first aired...boy I feel old saying that.
Why does Kareem Abdul Jabbar's cameo remind me of Quentin Tarantino's cameo in Little Nicky?
You make the Lord very nervous...
Scream Queen 👑 Also if you're a fan of the book 📖 Nadine (who's my favorite character by the way) Wasn't Just crazy, She was acting like that because she was losing her soul while with Randell Flag (Which is better paced in the book
That's one thing i hated about this version. She just came off really unhinged from the beginning in the novel she was Joe/Leo's adoptive mother and she was normal but her sanity slowly slipped away over the course of the novel.
I love the “fighting giant Tommy Wiseau” intro
Fun fact: Randall Flagg and Matthew MacConaughey’s character in The Dark Tower are the same person.
There's something poetic about that.
Yeah, Nyarlathotep from H.P. Lovecrafts books
Just call him "The Man In Black," or "The Covenant Man," "The Hardcase," or Walter.
Whaaaat are they really?!
@@ammie341 Supposedly they are.
19:15 "M-O-O-N, that spells..."
Nostalgia Critic: OH MY GOD, SHUT UP! XD
The opening scene with Don't Fear the Reaper is one of my favorite opening scenes in any movie. Eclipsed only by that Gandalf fighting the balrog one.
I shouted IT’S STEPHEN KING TIME so you don’t have to.
Ok, the first thing I have to say is: this was masterpiece, and the book even more so. The second thing I have to say is: a virus kills loads of Americans? Quarantines? Looting and rioting? Man, I had no idea when I first saw this mini series that I was looking at America's future
Am I the only one who can't see Ken Jenkins as anything other than Kelso from Scrubs.
Listen up, name-tags!! I need to wire some cash to my son so we can make bail. Apparently, that musical he was producing was just a front for a crystal meth lab. And here's the kicker: he fled to Toronto so now the freakin' Mounties are involved!!
I remember crying when Kelso retired. He was the only character I wanted to kill who turned out to be one of the best parts, except for Pierce in Community
No I don't think I will barbie. -Dr. Cox. 😂😂😂😂
Say champ what has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap? Bob Kelso! 😂🤣
"This movie starts with a deadly virus being released and the government trying to downplay it... Ha! FICTION!"
Also in a world with a 99.9 death rate no mask, but a 99.9 survival rate mask everywhere
@@MrSmileyRay There have been 44,5 million people infected by covid according to google where of those 44,5 million 1,17 million have died..that is a deathrate of 2,6%...meaning you don't have a survival rate of 99,9 but rather 97,4...huge fucking difference my man.
@@bibbobella have died "with" covid not died because of covid.
Tge "superflu" aka "captain Trips" aka "tube neck" was a weaponized fluvwurh a 99 3% contagion rate.
why is it everyone remembers the government downplaying but forgets how the media tried just as hard BEFORE the government decided to go with that route?
My roommates and I rewatched this series about a month ago, and I'm kind of surprised Critic was so gentle with it.
"M-O-O-N that spells-"
(Patrick voice): Aughh..! For cryin out loud!
All I know about this book is the review my husband drunkenly wrote for it after finishing:
Tears welled in Fran's eyes as she realized she would never hear the fruit stripe gum commercial anymore. She had just finished her journal entry about how much she loved Stu and hated that nerd Harold. The council meeting was about to happen. The town was filled with very skilled people, lawyers and other highly educated folks but the council was populated by mechanics and pregnant college dropouts on the grounds that they arrived to the town a week before the populace that had the proper experience in such matters.
Meanwhile in Las Vegas there is some seriously cool shit going down. Like, if this was a Stephen King novel the horrific stuff that you would be interested in hearing about.....we've been on this for at least 6 pages now....
Meanwhile in Boulder Colorodo here comes 200 pages of town council meetings to discuss what the town flower and gem is going to be. Fran starts to cry, and Stu says "what is it Fran?"
"It's the yummy fruity one Stu! The yummy fruity one!"
LOL "I get it French Class." Thank you for the Honey, I Shrunk The Kids throwback.
I've seen both you and Cinema snob and neither of you commented on the Monty Python bring out your dead reference. I'm disappointed
Always look on the bright side of life
Bring out your dead is what they did call in the middle ages.
Critic: “The film starts with a deadly virus being released and the government downplaying the threat” “Ha ha ha fiction!”
Me: already this is off to a good start😑
Yes
Well considering every dumbass and their mother started hoarding toilet paper when they found out. I'm not sure there was any good way to tell people about it. Imagine what else they would've hoarded if he didnt downplay and just said what others were saying.
Let’s hope he actually knows how the virus came to be. Cause there’s no way he’s serious about believing a deadly virus released by the government is fake
@@DisorientedWanderer Maybe more people would be wearing masks and not heading out to parties, allowing the virus to be better-contained.
@@HexManiacQuinn doubt it considering barely anyone in the riots are wearing masks and i highly doubt him not downplaying would caused a butterfly effect and prevent all that shit.
I read the book, I saw the series (twice). Great cast - Gary Sinise before Forest Gump. Camp element to it. Thanks for making the vid. It takes me back to my early twenties when I was coming down with a case if Stephen King Fever, I was obsessed with King.
Also, thanks for making Langoliers. I read that too. Great work critic, long time sub.
I have heard King say he's actually pretty religious but hates it when people use religion as a means to a end.
Oddly, that's the same as a guy named Jesus.
@@CT_Phipps ...-_-
That kinda reminds me of the bit in the bible where jesus chased merchants out of his temple with a whip because they were trying to profit off of people that were just going to worship god.
I thought Stephen King was an atheist?
@@cassidillard5117 He could be I might be full of shit.
Is this the Stand?
No this is Patrick.
Killer Queen has already touched the phone.
M-O-O-N that spells Patrick.
Is this an old overused meme that people don't find funny anymore?..
Yes
@@joemullarkey5719 M-O-O-N that spells COP: Hold it down.
Maybe it's just the appearance for Gary Sinise when he's being quarantined but I could see a decent Wolverine portayal by him
I sat down and watched this during early March, cuz I had heard a news report that gave me flash backs to that opening sequence with the scientists all laying dead while Don't Fear The Reaper jams out.
To King's credit, that whole scenario in the first act, while the speed of spread of the contagion is a bit exaggerated in some regards, turned out to be frighteningly accurate. One single man toured italy during 1-2 weeks in the month of February 2020, struggling with a strange and persistent mild flu which never seemed to go away. Over the course of that time span, between playing soccer with friends, going on jogs out in public, and just generally enjoying the Italian countryside, it's estimated that he spread the virus to nearly 400-700 other people, blissfully unaware of what his increasingly severe symptoms actually meant. It wasn't until two separate hospital visits after his symptoms worsened that doctors finally realized that the man was extremely contagious. As a matter of fact, he was basically the real world equivalent of that one single man and his family from The Stand who seeded a virus across the entire country over the course of a single 8-12 hour drive just by making a couple of stops at gas stations along the way.
#StephenKingBeScaryRealLikeThat
Gather around children. For it is, STEVEN KING TIME.
More like pre-adult teens
Stephen King Time c'mon grab your friends
We'll go to many creepy lands
8:02
I can hear!
I can TALK!
I CAN SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!