Because it’s not. It plain goofy. I won’t say there are moments to the film. But over all it is just an overplayed same old hippie living free story. We have seen the premise a million times especially in the 70’s.
How did I not know abut this?! The Stand is one of the best ever Stephen King "doorstops", the way he juggles different first-person narratives is a masterclass of popular writing. The Stand TV series was erhmmmokay but a FILM?! Damn seeing the destruction of Captain Trips on screen would've been brilliant.... "Oh God...they're going to pull us apart..." "CIBOLA!" Nick, Harold, Stu, Mother Abigail, Glen, Frannie, Larry, Tom and of course, Randall Flagg, one of King's best villains ever...the unexpurgated adaptation is a truly great book which poos all over "It" (which I've never rated that much)...glad to see you back Tyler! Also The dark Half is one of my fave King books, and the film is great. Didja know that Richard Stark gets his name from the pseudonym of the guy who wrote The Parker series, which the Lee Marvin/Mel Gibson "Point Blank" films were based on? I love all that stuff...great video man good to see you creating again! EDIT: Well, we're getting the all-star TV adaptation soon and tbh I can't wait for it . Great cast, really promising script writers and directors, I think this might be something of an "event"!
I've tried reading The Stand but can't get past the stupid hillbillies at the gas station in the beginning. SO annoying and it drags oooon, man! But I loved the Dark Tower series, read them all and the graphic novels.
This was an amazing min doc. And personally my opinion on the last three dead films? Land is underatted (nowhere near as good as the first three but still very good) Diary and Survvival? Well...The execution and end result was poor. But there where nuggets of potential brilliance in them was well that wasn't fully fleshed out.
No the pie fight wasn’t a good thing. It wasn’t funny it wasn’t needed and so many on the film thought it was just stupid. Argento had it cut from the European version as he found it stupid.
Hey man, new to your channel, just want to say yr videos are great and am a fan of yr unmade masterpieces videos such as the David Lynch videos as well others. Look forward to more content. :)
Romero hated dealing with studios.....he also lost millions on Night of the Living Dead because of contractual and public domain issues.....and all i know about the stand was that Sean Connery was interested in playing Randall Flagg The Dark man
There are so many woulda/coulda/shoulda's that no one has ever heard of. Better than a lot of the crap that we know of and wish that we didn't, today. It seems as it's who you blow, not who you know.
Wish I could give this 1000 thumbs up. I recall reading about Romero’s and King’s plans to work together in 1979, in Fangoria magazine. I was really excited to see their version of THE STAND and figured it would happen. CREEPSHOW finally got released and I figured, “Well, this proves they work together well and can manage a budget effectively, so THE STAND should be next up for them,” then nothing. I wasn’t all that taken with the TV adaptation. I think Garris did the best he could but it didn’t pull me into it. I still would love to have seen Romero’s take on it.
I actually was in the remake of the Crazies. I filmed for 6 weeks working with Timothy Olyphant. You see a soldier with him, most of the time it’s me. Anyway, during the winter casting call in Iowa, George’s name was still attached to it at that time. Even calling it George romeros Crazies. Apparently he didn’t get to direct it or he didn’t want to. He was known as difficult so maybe that had to do with it
Thank you for the video, love this shit. I did a script for The Stand that was inspired by the fact that i knew he was going to do this, so I mocked up a version I felt that he would do. Hopefully one day we'll get to pierce it through and get it made. As you can imagine, it would be very expensive. Romero is my all time favorite film director, I miss him very much and I hope to carry something from him into the future.
Thank you for watching! I'm hoping to complete another Romero video for October. He's a far too under-appreciated artist. I wish you luck on your own endeavor as well!
Sadly George started to believe his own hype and suffered from it. His ex wife talked about how he would get so mad because of situations out of his control in the world. And mad because he couldn’t make the movies he thought he should make. His films became way to preachy. Thinking he had to interject his “60’s ideology “ in everything. And started to believe in the hype that Critics and college professors read into his films. Even when at first wasn’t his intentions.
After 19+ minutes we finally get to the main story. Everything up till then is a recap of everything Romero's done and King's written, and the works they have done together. Almost gave up waiting for their take on The Stand. Never mind. Still nothing after 27 minutes. Finally made it to the end. Waste of time if looking for info on unmade Stand movies, nice retrospect of Romero's career.
