Poll of the Day > New Stand vs Old Stand.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Well, just one episode down, but so far the old stand seems much better even though it looks like it was significantly shorter.

First, the cast, so far, does not hold a candle to the previous cast.

Franny is almost dislikable in this one, Molly Ringwald was a great Fran, but honestly her character for the most part isn't THAT important. Sue Redmand though, Garry Cinese (sp) was freaking great as Stu, and this guy has none of his charisma.

Most of the first episode revolved around the above characters stories along with Harold (neither actor really stood out to me, though I did prefer the old harold slightly). The story was also more disjointed jumping around in time, and didn't involve some of the main characters at all.

If coming at it fresh, without having seen the previous one, I would say it is fairly decent. The problem is the original mini-series had a great sound track to draw you in, had a few really good actors playing main characters right from the start (Stu/Fran/Nick/Larry/Trashcan man/Nadine/floyd and of course Randal).

In the mini series you only really see stu/fran/harold for the first episode), you get a glimps at randal, but, I don't see any way he's gonna compare well with the Randal from the original (Jamey Sheridon was freaking awesome).

Also, it seems to be going a bit away from the books as well, changing things up a bit more, while the first was very true to the books, and in a weird twist, actually showed more of what happened in the books, even though this mini series is going to be longer.

Not impressed so far, but I was a big fan of the original. I'm keeping an open mind though and hope it'll draw me in. Hope they get a good actor for nick (not sure you can beat rob low), and honestly not sure about Whoopie as mother abigal yet.

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Muda Muda..

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Yare yare...

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Dora Dora....

Ora Ora.....

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baka baka

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Rero rero rero rero

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M-o-o-n

Anyway, I haven't watched the new one, but the original one is dear to me, so based on testimony so far in this topic I'd likely prefer the original one too.

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I loved the book and thought the first one was really well cast. I have no desire to see this one. The trailer looked terrible and again , back to the cast, just looked wrong.

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It's not up there with remaking The Princess Bride, but I honestly don't see how they could have improved on the first, and yeah, not impressed by their effort so far.

I mean, it's fine IF there wasn't already a really good adaptation, but there was, in fact, I would consider it the best conversion of a stephen king book to film so far.

Gotta see nick and larry (and nadine), but yeah, there was almost nowhere for them to go but down. First mini-series was a freaking 10 in my books. The soundtrack was freaking perfect, Randal Flag was...like the best freaking possible randal flag a real human without special effects etc could play.

Molly hit the sweet hometown girl out of the park, Gary made you feel the East Texas in Stu, The dude who played Larry was awesome, you can't beat max headroom as trashcan man, Nadine was also pretty damn good in her role, heck even the guy who played harold didn't suck. Nick by rob low was also a great cast.

Seriously, why would you make it over with so much win in the first one already?

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wolfy42 posted...

feel the East Texas

@Zareth

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M-O-O-N that spells MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA

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@EvilMegas

TOOOOOOORURURURURURU

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I don't think they did the time jumping super well. I'm normally okay with that sort of thing but I had some trouble figuring out the timeline.

I think the Harold actor is great, I very quickly hated him lol. He was GIDDY finding her suicide attempt, smiling. Holy fuck dude.

Honestly I'm mostly watching cause Skarsgrd >.> He's hot

Saw Amber Heard is in the credits though....? :/

Watching the 1994 show for the first time now though

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grimhilde00 posted...

I don't think they did the time jumping super well. I'm normally okay with that sort of thing but I had some trouble figuring out the timeline.

I think the Harold actor is great, I very quickly hated him lol. He was GIDDY finding her suicide attempt, smiling. Holy fuck dude.

Honestly I'm mostly watching cause Skarsgrd >.> He's hot

Saw Amber Heard is in the credits though....? :/

Watching the 1994 show for the first time now though

So Jelly, loved that show, seen it soo many times.


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