The Stand - The end of Las Vegas

[MrYozki]

What the fuck is this shit? This feels nothing like the book... omg what bunch of douchebags made this?

[213callofduty]

jezz...its like everyone has guns...from light mahcine guns to mpk5s,etc.

[twilightzoneseinfeld]

Fallout was inspired by this!

[pierceys234]

this left out like half the book :/ more than half

[xenoghost1]

this was a great ending, beautiful...

[theValkyrieClan1]

Everyone shut the fuck up its not racist ur all just crybabies

[davehutchinson67]

I don't see how you could make a better nuclear explosion....the testing they did in the 40s and 50s looked much the same.

[davehutchinson67]

I was in Vegas when they were filing this in 92...it was really something to see....

[Nihilgeist]

Only in a Stephen King novel would the devil show up in a denim outfit from head to toe and an SFLB Mullet, running Las Vegas.

Stephen King novels are always white trash fantasy.

[LifterC3]

@Nihilgeist only.. its not the devil fucktard..

[mpauger15]

the book > the mini series.

[PlushMarioRhett1]

@tehzombeh98 i don't know why you dissed the movie it got 4 out of 4 stars

[PlushMarioRhett1]

@DavidToddSchiesler he said my life for you

[vhjuice]

8:20



[freddietz96]

Randall Flagg gives his followers what they want, and what they want is to be able to freely attack this or that group they don’t like. Even the best they can do is attack by proxy, he’ll still find them the weapons and armies to do that--and do it without fear of moral compunction. You wonder how similar our current federal gov’t is to him.

[tehzombeh98]

This movie was terrible.

[alpha18412]

I love it when Hollywood racks a shotgun for effect. "What; you were guarding me with an unloaded weapon? Or.. "did you just drop a perfectly good round somewhere on the floor?

[DavidToddSchiesler]

Trashcan man was good all along!!! he looked at the hand and said fire for you!!! 

[TheSalmonSlammers]

I rented this movie and watched it. They spent 5 hours building up the plot only so glen, Ralph, and Larry would die for no reason and the crazy guy is the true hero. They should've had a different ending.

[RendanSubeta]

@TheSalmonSlammers

just finished the book last night. they actually begin turning the crowd against Flagg before Trashcan Man appears with the bomb. so, they didnt die for nothing..they made a stand =D

[twilightzoneseinfeld]

@RendanSubeta He's talking about the MOVIE though.

[cdbils001]

3 people dont know how to spell MOON

[SPRLDR]

This miniseries was pretty bad, but Jamey Sheridan was a great Flagg. I hope Ron Howard casts him as the man in black in The Dark Tower. Same for Anthony Hopkins as Ted Brautigan, James Cromwell as Father Callahan and Tim Curry as Dandelo.

[oneNonly1fullofsome]

@SPRLDR you can't be serious Imagine got The Dark Tower!!?? here is hoping he just does not cast Tom Hanks in ANY role!!

[llamasarus1]

i like flagg in this movie. he seems like he would be a stand up comedian

[Jurassic0Al]

There is no reason why they couldn't have made that scene much better. An exact adaptation of the book, for example, would have been just fine.

[Elmagnifico37]

Shut up that honky voodoo!

[dingecibbs]

Chief Dorgan says blow a few heads off, ha ha, if that happened, there would have been one helluva shootout with all that shootin' iron.

[ronin6401]

M-O-O-N, that spells anti-climatic. One of the many reasons why I think the Stand (both the book and the series) is really overated. The Dark Tower, The Tommyknockers, It, and especially Rage (back when King was writing under the name Richard Bachman) were all way better.

[hotelmario510]

Right, I'm new to this: Randall Flagg is just a pseudonym of an unstoppable force of evil that was killed by the Crimson King's son, am I correct?

[mst3KGf]

@hotelmario510 Pretty much. Randall Flagg, or Walter O'Dim as he's also known (he has a lot of names and personas) is an ancient demonic wizard who wanders the many worlds of King's multiverses, causing chaos and destruction wherever he goes. He's the Crimson's King's right hand man (essentially his Prime Minster), but he's secretly plans to betray his boss, take over the Dark Tower (the linchpin of all existence) and replace God as lord of all reality. And he really hates Roland the gunslinger.

[howardlol]

@mst3KGf So, who's above The Crimson King and Randall Flagg? The so called Dis (the forces of evil) or the Tower itself?

[drumlip]

In the book, the people in Las Vegas were much more sympathetic. I liked it better that way.

[TheJustguy]

haha! Las Vegas just got nuked. I always wondered if it was Gan or one of the other gods in the tower that was responsible for this nuking of Last Vegas. It doesn't fit Gan's m.o.

[Slide2671]

The movie was good at first. The acting was alright. But they fucking rushed it so bad!!

[gornyson]

great book, shit movie...

[Lazie18up]

@gornyson Its a made for TV series, the acting was great in my opinion key to the characters and Stephen King was a great deal apart of this to do his vision. Sorry if you cant see past low budget effects and take in the art of his visualization of the storrryy.

[SynaNara]

"MYYY LIIIIIIFE FEEERR YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!" God that line makes me laugh.

[Flagg1991]

I still don't know why the hell everyone in Vegas is packing heat. Flagg is a dictator; he wouldn't let his people run around in the streets with guns.

[Slide2671]

@Flagg1991 I don't know completely about that. I think that he knows they can't hurt him, and that they love him too much to go against him. And even if they did, Flagg would just find somebody else. He wants anarchy, not control.

But still, a good point you make.

[sockembopers12]

M-O-O-N, that spells Stephen King is a literary genius who, time and time again, receives the misfortune of having his beautifully constructed novels turned into shitty movies and miniseries's...Laws, yes.

[genesis098123]

@sockembopers12 but i think that he wrote the script for the miniseries and produced it , in every case i belive that the tone of television of that time make most of the damage

[Luba72]

Cool, thanks for uplading I just watched the series where this part was left out. I missed this scene!

[DashCat9]

Poor Bernard. He was just standing up for what's right.

[ijwi]

The ending is a Deus ex Machina because the whole book is a remake of Lord of the Rings set in America... inspired by the post-apocalypse book The Quiet Earth written in the 40s... read Danse Macabre.

[TheKittyMeowMeow]

Is it just me or is the lady at 6:20 the only one afraid of the bomb?

[MuerteDeAmor]

this movie really needs to be remade

[Infam0us69]

I like how Randall randomly whips out an execution scroll.

[londea88]

@Infam0us69 What is he a warlock, a demon, the devil himself, or something completely original?

[Infam0us69]

@londea88 Well, in the books, he's a demon. But in his human form, he's a warlock.

[endlesszero]

@londea88 something completely original.

[MegaSimpson666]

i loved Shawnee Smith in this show, i also loved that girl who played mya on just shoot me. i also love this scene.

[Flagg1991]

One thing I don't get and have never gotten: Why is everyone in the crowd carrying automatic weapons? Flagg dosn't strike me as the kind of person (or deamon) who would let his followers carry guns in the streets.

[merkaba48]

@Flagg1991

I would guess it was a decision to make them seem more 'evil'; I just finished reading the book, then came here and saw this...I imagined the crowd to be a lot less rowdy and a lot more docile. I don't think I'll watch any more of the TV show, it's better in my head!

[delong757]

Okay, those henchmen on stage look WAY too much like bdsm enthusiasts.

[Flagg1991]

@delong757

I know, weid huh?

[WAMill3R]

One criticism I do have is that the ending is a classic example of Deus ex machina.

[jotatanv]

@WAMill3R Is not Deux Ex Machina, the heroes die and in the book Randall don't die, and guess what, everything is just to almosth nothing.

[Waltham1892]

This entire scene was ruined by that junior high school play nuke...

[DeadBodyOutline]

hah yeah poor playing .....

[donniedarkodevotte]

@Waltham1892

I know, right? Someone should post some famous movie endings and have that nuke come riding in and ruin them.

[ScipioXXX]

Notice how all the "bad guys" are either Black or some other minority. Why is it La Vegas would be the headquarters for the forces of evil? Sounds like the writing of a real oakey -someone who hates cities and sees them as places of evil...if that's true why do so many people live in cities and so few live in backwater redneck oakey towns?

[jotatanv]

@ScipioXXX but Mother abigail, the represent of God in the book was a black woman.

[ScipioXXX]

Every Racist propaganda hit job piece has the "Token black person" just to deflect any accusations of Racism. The fect that they made up the Mother Abigail character is like the cover-up to the crime.

[Flagg1991]

What about Judge Farris? He was black. And just because the Rat-man was black means nothing. Movies and novels are repersentations of real life. In real life there are good blacks, bad white, and everything in-between. So, for yoy cry babies, lets just make it so that all blacks are good, and all whites are bad, good?

I think you are the racist.

[WAMill3R]

Yeah...'cause all the villains in the Stand are black, and there's absolutely no black characters amongst the "good guys" (sarcasm). Come to think of it, the Rat Man is the only black guy I remember being specifically identified as one of Flagg's people.

[Flagg1991]

Yep. The "token black man" was on the side of evil. While Mother Abigail and Judge Farris were not.

[Flagg1991]

Shut the fuck up. Flagg is white, Dorgan is white, Trash is white, Lloyd is...dark complexioned, but white. Mother Abigail was black, and she was practicly Jesus. And Las Vegas being the captial city of hell was just a plot device. It was an interesting to put the action.

[SirFukme]

in the book, Randall Flag vanished before the explosion and some mysterious creature was in front of him

[beauiful1990]

Scaryest endin ever in a movie =/

[WAMill3R]

Dude, there are way scarier endings to movies.

[cazmaestro]

@WAMill3R read the book, its not this bad

[WAMill3R]

@cazmaestro

I have. I actually like the book. But Stephen King does have a fondness for resorting to Deus ex Machina. In fact, he directly admits it in the last book of the Dark Tower series (where he sends a message to the Gunslinger as the author and admits that it's a rather blatant example of Deus ex Machina).