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Leonard Johnson's commentary on
Review Copyright Leonard Johnson, 2002
I just finished watching the 3-night miniseries of Stephen King's Rose Red. I
recorded it for watching when I wanted a break from writing.
It was one of the most awful pieces of dreck that I have seen in a long, long
time. I know that if it wasn't for the author's name, this crap never could
have become a teleplay (maybe the book was better, but I can't see how given
that the characters were generic King concoctions).
Actually, this stuff was so bad that even Kinko's would refuse to allow him to
make copies on their premises for fear that he might distribute them. They
would have cited the same rules that they have for the reproduction of Hate
literature - publications that are meant to belittle, denigrate, or abuse
targeted groups. In this case, the group was the thinking public intent upon
seeing a decent movie.
I expected the first night to be bad - that's generally true for most made-for-TV
flicks as they try to breathe life into their 2-D characters. In this case,
"2-D" stands for "Damn Dumb!" But, it dragged on with the characters getting
more random and inconsistent by the frame. By the end, I was rooting for the
house. I kept watching because I had to know what was driving a couple of main
characters who slightly interested me to behave in such ways. I mean, if
somebody's all across the board that way, you figure that at the end, it would
be "discovered" that they weren't who they are supposed to be (ghostly
substitution, possession, something like that).
In the end, all I discovered was that King had the last laugh for getting paid
to write and produce this piece of work. I got no no hidden meanings, no
revelations, no nothing. Wait, that's not true. There was something: I got a
headache. Okay. That makes it: No hidden meanings, no revelations, and one
big-ass headache.
Rose Red (TV miniseries review)
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