jmichaelnu I was absolutely blown away with the mini-series. I have really enjoyed reading the novels and then viewing the mini-series, including IT and 11.22.63. I feel that the only true way to represent a Stephen King novel is to do a mini-series. You just need a great deal of time to capture all the important details of a King novel, let alone the 1000+ pages of the Stand. I do believe the movie watered down some of the more horror scenes in the book but Randall Flagg was spot on. Also, Gary Sinise was a perfect choice for Stu Redman. Even Stephen King, the legend himself, appears in the movie. Oh how wonderful it is to see him interact with the characters his imagination created. Wonderfully done and I can't wait to watch it again!

gretchengreenwood I never would have imagined putting Gary Sinese and Molly Ringwald together as a (romantic) couple, but for some mysterious reason it seems to have worked really well. I found myself quite moved in a couple of places, which was a nice surprise.I was also amazed at how perfectly cast Laura San Giacomo was as 'Nadine.' Very scary, almost too scary like it was real life, not acting. Corin Nemac was also good as 'Harold,' the unsuspecting victim of her super scariness.

Realrockerhalloween The Stand is an epic tale between the forces of good and evil battling for control on the verge of civilization's collapse.While a made for television production, The Stand managed to weave a great caste into a six hour format allowing time for us to get to know the characters and watch as they develop for better or worse.As the survivors of a horrifying deadly plague gather in two camps one lead by an Antichrist like figure Randall Flagg and the saintly mother Abigal both vying for the occupation of the world for generations to come.The story isn't all black & white as their are traitors and deserters among the ranks. Two stand out Harold Lauder who's felt like a big fat loser all his life and Nadine Cross an earth child with a mysterious mystical link to Flagg.These two characters bring out a lot of morality questions like how far does free will reach over selective destiny? Are they sacrificial lambs for the slaughter or was the choice to decline offers already in place?But that's what good story telling can accomplish by making you think and feel.The music hit the mark each time and the editor better have gotten overtime for the natural flow of scene changes from beginning to end.The Stand was Stephen King's Lord of the rings that's never been topped.

ElessarAndurilS I read the book the year before the mini series came out, so naturally I was disappointed. In time I realized all movies fall short of the books because they take you through detail and imagination where a movie never can and I should judge the series on its own merit. When doing so I realized that the mini series was entertaining, filled with stars new and old, present and past, and had a lot of entertainment value. After watching it again with a more proper perspective I realized it was an entertaining movie that I liked much more than I realized as I purchased it off of amazon and have enjoyed watching it about once a year since. The book is great and more engaging than the movie. But the Movie is still s solid 7 our of 10 that has brought me a lot of entertainment.I think when Peter Jackson did such an excellent job of making the Lord of The Rings was when I realized what an impossible task it was making a movie as good as a book. As good as I thought the movies were, and I think they are of the best ever made, still nowhere near the books. But how could all the history embedded in the books translate into a movie? He did as good a job as could be, but still no Tom Bombadil, likely because he was interesting in the book but would have added nothing to the movie but time, something Peter Jackson was challenged to keep down as long as they were. He could have made 30 hrs of film and still not captured the detail of the books because they are different media. You don't know what people are thinking in movies and do in books. History, so important in LOTR was left out other than the very good job of capturing how ancient Middle Earth was.My reason for bringing up another movie in the review of the Stand is I've learned that each must be judged separately and rated on their own merits. The stories are always slightly different, the question is given the medium it was presented how good is it, not how does it compare to the book. The stand is a solid movie that entertains and I enjoy it regularly not that I have released it from the bonds of equaling the book, something no movie has ever done. It is relatively true to the book storyline with the typical omissions caused by the media on which it the story is told. But it is solid and entertaining, and worth the watch.