The CGI in this was laughably poor. This was a dreadful idea all around and even King's story its based on was pretty average.

It's really fucking bad but for some reason I'm pretty sure I'd watch it again if it came on television.

So wait, they eat the past? How does that work? Wouldn't simply existing for one second longer be enough to defeat the -- aww screw it.

For hours an impending doom creeps closer. The terrible sound of distant cereal popping is now replaced by the screeching of a defective whipper-snipper. The actors prepare their best o face as the menace bursts through the trees... then the audience bursts out laughing. CGI fail. What holds your interest before that is Pinchot (aka Balkie!). His outbursts of self-entitled obnoxiousness and hysteria-fuelled rants are unparalleled. That scenery chewing outpaces anything the Langoliers can muster.

This terrified me to no end as a kid.

Worst CGI I have ever seen in my life. Ridiculous.

This emerges as a deft King translation that scores on several levels -- as an atmospheric fear flick, a trippy time-travel adventure, and an engrossing disaster drama populated with complex characters brought to life by an excellent cast. Under Holland's direction, it represents a rare case of an elongated running time being used to add nuance, ambience, and suspense, with no unnecessary filler to kill the story flow.

For 70 minutes this is watchable, even if the standard is only that of a below-average made-for-TV movie. But in the final act, the appalling $10 "special effects" turn the whole movie into a ridiculous joke instead of a grippng sci-fi thriller. Worth seeing, just to see what it would look like if you let your 8-year-old brother draw some monsters in Microsoft Paint on a 1980s bedroom computer, and slap them on top of a dramatic work costing a few million dollars. And starring David Morse.

Dated effects and some annoying acting but I still enjoyed seeing the concept on film.

21 may 2011 & kucukken bir geceyarisi tv'de izlendiginde, ustunuzde biraktigi etkiyi ileriki yaslarda izleyince alamiyorsunuz. ama yine de bazi anlari tuyler urpertici olabiliyor. evet, berbat bir cgi. ama konu olarak cok surukleyici. Lost yapimcilarinin stephen king ve bu oykusunden etkilendikleri cok acik.

I still want to demand the time it took to watch this back from Stephen King.

Awful in every way, but as a result pretty entertaining!

A pretty forgetful novella from King turns into a terrible mini series. God awful affects make this one massively entertaining in all the wrong ways.

Those are some fine effects you got there, hyuk.

There is something eerily effective about the concept that holds up to this day, but you should watch it for nostalgic reasons only: To remember a time when tv-series was close-ups upon close-ups, overacting and no lower standards for how bad CGI could be, and for a time in television history when the black character called everyone 'Mister', and none of the others would lament his ultimately redundant demise.

What could have been at least entertaining is marred by a more- annoying-than-usual Bronson Pinchot and CGI on par with the cut scenes from Super Mario on SNES.

inexplicably enjoyable

I actually enjoyed this movie up until the cartoon monsters appeared.