Nonureva Really Surprised!

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

bsmith5552 "The Langoliers" was a TV mini-series/ movie that left me scratching my head. It starts out OK and ends OK but the middle part is more than a little weird.The story starts out like an episode of Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" where ten passengers on a cross country flight wake up and discover that the other passengers and crew have disappeared. They then try to determine what has happened. Among the befuddled passengers are airline pilot Brian Engle (David Morse), British hit man Nick Hopwell (Mark Lindsay Chapman), an over the top business executive Craig Toomey (Bronson Pinchot), a school teacher Laurel Stevenson (Patricia Wittig), a young blind girl Dinah Bellman (Kate Maberly), a mystery writer Bob Jenkins (Dean Stockwell) and Don Gaffney (Frankie Falson) and Harlan (Tom Holland) .It's rather convenient that there was an airline pilot among the survivors to take control of the plane. But...he can't contact anyone on the ground and is left to his own devices. He manages to divert the aircraft to Bangor, Maine (hey this IS a Stephen King story after all) where they land.They disembark and discover that there are no people about and that the air is dead, there are no echoes, the food tastes rotten and so on. So far so good. But..,.this is where it really gets weird. Dinah detects a noise of an approaching force coming to kill the survivors. Bob Jenkins also feels something. Then they are attacked by the Langoliers coming from God knows where, chomping up everything in sight...a sort of Pac Man with teeth.The group except for one member escape to the plane and barely take off in time before the monsters can get them. Engle and Nick surmise that they must have crossed through some sort of time warp and entered an alternate existence. They then decide to seek out the portal and...The performances are generally good considering the movie's premise. Morse and Chapman lead the way and dominate the story. Bronson Pinchot's character is way over the top. The flashback sequences with his father John Griesemor) weird as they are, show insight into Pinchot's mental state. Dean Stockwell's character is obviously meant to be Stephen King who incidently has a cameo in the story.

huutheheckcares Yes, why do I (at least) enjoy repeatedly watching this movie every now & then? What is there about it that makes this so?Well, I think maybe I may have figured it out. I think there are several reasons: For one, is its simplicity. It kinda reminds you of an amateurish production, but a GOOD one at that. Maybe a secret desire in us to at last watch a GOOD amateur film and we wish ALL of them could be good. Next are the characters - what a wonderful mix; each played pretty well, although maybe a bit amateurishly (but, remember we want to see a good amateur film). The main characters all have a pretty strong presence. Probably almost everyone can relate to one of the characters. The budding romance between Laurel & Nick is touching (especially, their parting scene - "remember the daisies"). I could certainly fall for someone as sweet as Laurel!Third, the whole movie has quite a surreal feeling - the music track helps that - it is almost like a dream (or nightmare) - you can really kind of escape into this make believe situation.Then there is a bit of humor - Mr Toomey is almost laughable in a pitiful way - Bronson's overacting is a hoot. And of course, when the title characters come on screen, you really got to cringe AND laugh at them at the same time.Lastly, it just seems the entire cast enjoyed making this film - maybe not, but it seems that way. How about a Langoliers II? Somehow the same characters coincidentally find themselves all together on another flight 20 years later. Are all the actors still available? Imagine the possibilities! Hey, Stephen!

GL84 On a plane to Boston, passengers awake to find themselves the only people on board and finally land on a desolate strip of land only to come to the realization that they have passed through a time rip into a world inhabited by Langoliers and must try various plans to be able to leave.As far as miniseries go, this one isn't half bad. The film's real selling point is that this does a spectacular job of building up their situation and the resulting circumstances surrounding it, using the film's central storyline to great effect here. The beginning is incredibly tense and suspenseful, due to the unknown which this one plays with like no other film, as what is happening is the complete opposite of what should be in this situation and it becomes fearful that there is something out there with the group awaking in that condition and trying to rationalize what's has happened while struggling to make sure they stay alive which is a rather interesting concept and is played out rather intelligently. That also works wonders for the airport in the other world. The sound and the visual destruction of the countryside are quite chilling, and they make the difference there in the film's suspense by making the world completely weird and freaky. From the food and beverage moments all the way they mention the world around them in the lack of sound or other people around them despite the situation, these here all combine to make it a pretty creepy place. Even the flight back and their encounters with the creatures at the airport as well are all handled really well, which altogether make this series really watchable. This doesn't have a whole lot of flaws, with one of the key issues being the fact that this one never once addresses several big questions. The bigger one of the two is that the disappearances from the plane go unnoticed here, as nothing is made to explain what happens, it just does and that itself is quite hard to ignore. The other one that needs explaining is a theory about where the time rip originated. There's no reason why anyone would be open to even trying such a move, let alone be allowed to do so. There's not a force-field that pulled it in, so how it happened is a little hard to swallow. The last flaw with this one is that there's a little too much padding to it. It's a miniseries and should play out in such a manner, yet this one probably could've told the same story with a little chopping here and there. About a two-and-a-half movie rather than over three would've worked, telling the same story in the same way, just without the padding. One of the easiest ones to chop out is the freaked-out passenger who goes around chasing the others which just doesn't offer up any kind of enjoyable work and there's little about it that should've been put here which is helpful to the situation so his scenes are completely useless and just don't belong here as he just pads out the film. Otherwise, these here don't hurt it a whole lot.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

Danii Disaster Well, it did read better on paper than it looked on TV...But I did not think it was "the worst movie ever made", like some of the reviews I've read claimed. Yes, it was a bit too long. Yes, the acting was sub-par. Yes, the dialogue was utterly ridiculous. Yes, the appearance of the creatures was a bit disappointing.But it is still a good movie overall. One thing going for it: it was very, very suspenseful -- something most modern movies lack, which made me really appreciate this one. The CGI was pretty tacky and exceptionally primitive -- even if you take into consideration the fact that it's a relatively old movie. I've seen some 70s movies with better special effects. I found the characters to be quite well-written, and not too cheesy or stereotypical -- another thing that can't be said for most modern movies. Character development was sufficient, and they were interesting enough, but, like I said, the acting was not very good -- the little girl and the British guy were particularly unconvincing. When the infamous langoliers finally arrive, you can't help but feel a bit disappointed, though. I don't know what I was expecting to see, but something better (more interesting? more convincing?) than this, I suppose. Anyway, despite all of that, I did like the movie and would watch it again. If you're a fan of glossy, fast-paced SCI-FI thrillers, I don't think you'll be particularly impressed with The Langoriers, but I'm not a fan of generic Hollywood action flicks, so I was able to enjoy it.