The Langoliers

Come see Pac-Man's mutant redneck cousins eat time itself.

Typical Steven King lousy story adapted with even more lousy special effects. I am sick of Steven Kings terrible stories with their pointless stupid 5 minute plots told over the course of an hour and a half. How does he make his idiotic mini stories engaging to watch, and why until you get to the end do you wonder just how in the world you managed to sit through the entire crappy movie. I hope I never again attempt to watch another Steven King movie, they are all a waste of time.

Was anyone else waiting for Bronson Pinchot to say, "And now we do the dance of joy!" I know I was.

Uh, Cousin Balki gets eaten by vicious Pac-men? Impossible to go wrong. Worth watching for the cheesy "jump into the air holding hands" freeze-frame at the close of the miniseries.

Disgustingly low production value makes The Langoliers a chore to sit through. Crap!

Those are some fine effects you got there, hyuk.

Okay actioner from the stables of steven King about a plane full of people who discover they've gone a day into the past. the creatures are cool(ish)

good

inexplicably enjoyable

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.

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

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

Strong first half with nothing of interest to reveal once the mystery of it all dies down. This cast is probably the most varied, in terms of talent and range, in all of moviedom.

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

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

when lenin said "there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen", the decades of nothingness he was describing are... felt here

A lot of successful suspense. intriguing mystery and creepy moments/atmosphere. Good and interesting explanation to the mystery, and a good ending. But in the middle my interest declines when there's some dumb paranoia action stuff and characters making dumb decisions sometimes. But it does go back to normal soon after.

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.

Slow moving with a stupid premise.

The book was better, as are most Stephen King adaptations. The graphical effects were lacking. Despite its shortcomings, the film was still entertaining.

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.

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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.

The film would have ranked a lot higher if it weren't for some of the worst CGI in the history of film.

D

Sometimes chilling. Mostly laughable.

Cheesy but fun enough for what it is (a TV movie adaptation of a Stephen King book)

I like a lot of things about this movie, but the "special effects" and the awful child actress aren't any of them.

A real anomaly: a really good TV adaptation of a Stephen King story

beautiful story compensates for the terrible acting, funny CGI and the 179 minutes

Too long. And the ending was kinda corny. Pinchot was fun though in his Mickey Rooney turning-over-a-new-leaf role.

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.

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.

As usual the CGI in Stephen King movies are hilarious...

A King movie bad enough to be good.

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. / 2. izleyis: 6 agustos 2015, mexico city - madrid ucagi. haksizlik etmeyelim halen muthis bir heyecan barindiran bir geceyarisi kusagi filmi.

Bronson Pinchot turns in a great performance but everyone else might as well be cardboard cutouts. Add that to the lethargic pace (three hours from a novella? Really?) and the awful effects and you've got yet another sloppy, third-rate Stephen King TV miniseries, and from one of his better works, too.

Read the book. It is much better than this made-for-TV goo.

Stephen King TV movie. YAWN.

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

This terrified me to no end as a kid.

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.

One in a long line of Stephen King stories committed to film that everyone should see. While each may not stand alone, each has its place as a part of the overall body of work.

There is a true air of mystery hidden in the script for this one. Enough that it will probably draw you in. If not the wild over the top performances (lookin' at you Bronson Pinchot) will. The infamous ending does bring it down to be sure. But enjoy the ride, its worth it.

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

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.

The only thing that my fuzzy memory of this was correct about were the cheap-o special effects, otherwise this is very enjoyable and effective. Folks gripe about the performances, and while they aren't quite award winning none of them struck me as particularly awful.

hokey