i really love this movie series...i see it these days again, i have only seen it once in the past...and now i realize i love it even more after all these years...it is so old but yet so new....and the music cover in the whole movie just wonderful...
I couldn't help but notice many similarities with resident evil....just without the zombie part....
This just came down the news wire: New super-flu created in lab for no reason.
"A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands,"
LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING THE WALKIN' DUDE. JESUS CHRIST!!!!
Stephen King is a 'Story Teller', The Stand, I think was a comment on the human condition and what else is a story? Some people expect definitive answers but that's not what story telling is about, what could be, what might be, reflections of what all of us fear, good job!
Thanks a lot, Mr. King. Now every time I get a cold, I get paranoid (Trips, baby, Captain Trips). Seriously, thumbs up, the best, most haunting intro I've seen in a while.
I agree that a monser of a novel like the stand (i have the unabridged version nyaaah) can't be put into a 3 hour miniseries, and keep all of the story elements, but they kept the meat of it and got the story there for all to see. best thing i seen in about 20 years
people complain about the beginning like its not realistic but facilities like this will halon the whole place at the first sign of escape - dropping everyone where they sat or stood. can you imagine the remake set in todays climate of...change?
if mr. king doesnt wanna write the script - I WILL.
@PrimeTargetSecurity Working from the book, there was appaently no need to halon the base as the virus was accidentally released, and was in a hugely concentrated form so itipped through and killed all the staff in less than 5 mins. Not gettin at you cause i agree that such systems are in place toprotect sensetive(illegal?) facilities, just trying to explain a bit more backgound for the 'unrealistic setting' people
I think the other aspect is the virus was also engineered to mutate rapidly, so by the time Campion was exposed it had already evolved into a form more easily transmitted with delayed mortality. Had it just remained that deadly, it would have gone extinct in the base.
@AaronCherr A good point, The expansion of the main story in nthe novel does mention it is a shifting antigen virus, designed to apapt to everything an immune system can throw at it
Exactly. It took a normal trait of the influenza virus and accelerated it to the point where it would occur multiple times within the same host; this not only guaranteed mortality but also ensured they would remain infected for as long as possible to spread it to others. So, they would recover repeatedly but ultimately lose the battle but not before spreading it far more than any conventional influenza.
Stephen King designed one hell of a nasty biological weapon...
@Damn69HolyCrap me too =) i think they need to remake this because as memerable as it is, i fell as though its been rushed because the begining was greate but trailed down at the end. the best thing about the stand for me was the 1: the mood it it was set in 2: the characters: 3 the music
@comicguy00 I dont want to pay alot for this movie. Of course it was on NetFlix last month so I will have to see if its still on there and watch it, but if I could find it for around $20-$30 bks that would be great.
Best about this mini is this very intro, sends shivers down my spine everytime I see it, the series itself doesn't really do the book justice, too low-budget, I think.
Could be very big, though, if they decided to put some effort and money into a full blown remake....
I've seen the horror stories of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Saul being turned into shit when made into movies or mini-series. However, this was one of the exceptions cuz this series was awesome and truly disturbing. Jamey Sheridan as Flagg was really spooky - well in my opinion!
Hollywood could knock this one out of the park. Instead of My name is Eli and whatever Will Smith did, how bout you do the end times right. Stu Redman forever.
Yes, the use of this great song as the opening to 'The Stand' was very effective, and left a big impression on me when I first saw it in the 90's. Thanks for posting.
@OtherTheKat No. Swine flu and bird flu are no more deadly than the ordinary flu. And they are curable. Captain Trips was almost impossible to create a vaccine against because it was a shifting-antigen virus, similar to HIV. In real life, no strain of flu is shifting-antigen. In fact, its impossible for an airborne shifting-antigen virus to exist because the protein shells of those types of viruses are too bulky and fragile to survive outside a host for more than a few seconds.
@bumoffhtestreet the shifting antigen aspect is already present in the flu, it's just much, much slower, wich is why we have a new version to cope with every now and then. the gents on project blue basically sped up the mutation by a factor of around 10 to power of 3, destroying any chance of adaption by an immune system.
@MrRaziel22 That and they used a stronger version of the flu to start with. The type A flu, like H1N1 but without any of its flaws. And the communicability was enhanced to 99.4%.
@bumoffhtestreet Theres also the concept of error catastrophe. A virus can only reproduce and have viable offspring up to a certain rate of mutation. Once that threshold is passed, the offspring produced have too many errors and the population dies out due to instability. Or so the theory goes.
A good reference for a disease like the initial strain of the superflu might be the "sweating sickness" in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries...it killed very quickly, so quickly in fact that it ultimately drove itself to extinction (hopefully). After 1551 it was never seen again and as of yet there's no idea what it was.
@AaronCherr This was the more unreal part of the story, that such a powerful and infectious virus would remain untill babies were on their way for the free zone. by molecular biology rules bumofthestreet is perfectly correct. This virus should have burned itself out after doing a thorough job. If anything, it should have committed suicide just through it's own mutations. Luckily, this is a book and Stephen King's imagination (and artistic license) just keeps it so much scarier.
The most brilliant (and chilling) opening for a series ever. Hooked me right in. And Snuffy Walden's fantastic soundtrack was perfect for the dramatic scenes.
this is one of the best scenes out of anything on TV. steven king is really into music and this couldn't have been more perfect. it manages to scream doom and when the power switches off and the music box flickers was genius. i also like how the crow and doll scene was redone in the walking dead with a crow pecking at road kill. thanks for posting this. i missed this scene when they ran it today on scyfy
anyone realised, why there are so many stephen king TV-Movie-serieses? its simple: the books are so deep and full of story, that people got to understand, they could never put it into a 90 Minutes cinema-Movie...
these scientists got what they deserved when they applied for the 'biological weapon engineer wanted' job application in the back of the sunday times.
@Sconz32 There's a reason for that. It was fresh from the lab, at its highest concentration and thus it literally burned through that base like a wildfire. At least that's what I think anyway, though I could be wrong lol.
@csgamer89 Yeah that's what I was thinking would be an ok way to explain it to. Viruses don't actually work that way, but hey maybe it's some kind of weird new breed..
@Sconz32 - Didn't the first people in the lab die almost instantly though because the virus was so potent at it's first release? It's been about 10 years since I read the book.
im reading this book its so good also hahaha they all look like their asleep blue oyster cult rocks people who dont know him should search up burning for you its a great song
@reaperman2010 well i didnt quite like the fantasy part of it. at first i thought it would be a realistic movie about a virus that got out of hand. but it turns out to be something with special people with special powers that dream about a black woman on a plantation.
@TheNeonTide hey it's King , what do you expect . I gotta side by you though . You don't need magic to lead the world to Anarky , if Flagg had done nothing more magical than turn into a Crow . All would be well , not only would he have set him up for the Dark Tower , but he wouldve proved his ingenuity . The Plantation's a debateable plot point though , but I guess a Radio transmission couldve easily made up for the dreams .
why did they all suddenly just drop dead? wouldn't captain trips make them die in sicker positions than, say, playing ping-pong and standing in line for lunch?
@grandpathong I would assume, in my opinion, they were just going about there daily lives. I mean if you know (or don't know) you have a deadly disease what else can you really do?
@LinFungZhou well, in the book they died a lot more..chaotically, i guess. when revisiting the base starkey (ed harris's character) notes stuff like people died while having sex in hallways, shooting each other in mercy killings, and one guy writes "IT WORKS, ANY QUESTIONS?" on a whiteboard before dying, and so on.
perhaps in some areas it was either superconcentrated or part of the security system was a poison gas dispenser that made damn sure the interior of the base buildings were contained.
@grandpathong Hmm.. yeah I remember that in the book, but I assume being for television it was a little more.. mild? Well either way this was good, but i think more Chaotic ways would've been interesting and a little more.. ... proper.
@BrendanIsCool now that i think about it, when i was reading the book i assumed there was a countermeasure that simply didn't extend to campion - ie., a virus gets out, the security system lets out some kind of lethal odorless, colorless gas that kills everyone and keeps the virus from being able to get out. unfortunately, it jammed up or had a fluke or something where campion was, and gave him a window of opportunity to escape while infected.
@grandpathong doesn't quite seem plausible and if that was the way things happened, I imagine it would have been made clear in the book. Let's write the Mr. king!
@BrendanIsCool you said "I was always bothered by how inaccurate a quick death would be. No virus can kill you standing up playing table tennis or eating lunch" i said "not yet"
this is a great intro it looks like the end of the world,its believable,i think thatif something like this was to happen id be one of the people who doesnt get sick
awesome
blackbeltrobin 4 days ago
Flagg, One Day, The Gunslinger will catch up to you.
METALGEARMATRIX 1 week ago
I agree the Best intro to any mini series ever Still one of my favorites since I was a kid Love the Book my all time favorite for sure
49ersfan4446 2 weeks ago
Come on down and visit me ya hear!
penguinboy666 3 weeks ago
I had to come see this video after reading about how scientists in Rotterdam have created a new version of the bird flu that is airborne.
daemonwulfe 1 month ago
@daemonwulfe Watch out for the Walking Dude.
slayerkiller47 2 weeks ago
@daemonwulfe
Reading that in the news made me not want to read the news. Time to go bury my head in the sand.
dogsCANNOTlookup 1 week ago
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MrMushroom123 1 week ago
I'm so glad Stephen King got coked up and wrote good shit in the 80's. he's a genius!!!
2degucitas 1 month ago
@2degucitas woa sundown?
jutubaeh 1 week ago
@jutubaeh Say what??
2degucitas 1 week ago
If they're to do a Remake of The Stand. it has to have this scene
MisterChuck719 1 month ago
Creepy intro :/
Chandler21Beatles 1 month ago
i really love this movie series...i see it these days again, i have only seen it once in the past...and now i realize i love it even more after all these years...it is so old but yet so new....and the music cover in the whole movie just wonderful...
I couldn't help but notice many similarities with resident evil....just without the zombie part....
Congratulations Stephen King!
eve125851 1 month ago
A bunch of scientists in the Netherlands JUST NOW made a highly contageious, deadly super flu virus. Dunno about you, but I'm heading to Boulder.
turtlewings 2 months ago
@turtlewings i heard about that crazy huh?
TheResistancedude56 2 months ago
@turtlewings I too read it on the interwebs
but we have other nasty things in labs for decades, I'm sure it's safe
BrendanIsCool 2 months ago
@BrendanIsCool yah just HAD to invoke Murphy, didn't ya??!?
MrRaziel22 1 day ago
This just came down the news wire: New super-flu created in lab for no reason.
"A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands,"
LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING THE WALKIN' DUDE. JESUS CHRIST!!!!
colinreilly 2 months ago 2
this movie freaks me out since it came out .. will it be this way??? :O
josipmickovic 2 months ago
Stephen King is a 'Story Teller', The Stand, I think was a comment on the human condition and what else is a story? Some people expect definitive answers but that's not what story telling is about, what could be, what might be, reflections of what all of us fear, good job!
davmil51 2 months ago
Thanks a lot, Mr. King. Now every time I get a cold, I get paranoid (Trips, baby, Captain Trips). Seriously, thumbs up, the best, most haunting intro I've seen in a while.
comgeek24 2 months ago
Every time i have a cold i say to myself
C'mon baby, dont fear the reaper
sodalmen 3 months ago
BEST. INTRO. EVER
MakeMeaSandwhich1 3 months ago 3
Thee best opening sequence in any movie or tv show. EVER
gooyzit 3 months ago 14
@gooyzit lol
jutubaeh 1 week ago
Love the newspaper comics on the wall. Great touch.
Kevin90028 3 months ago
10 people need to be sent west....
DarkKnightShawe 3 months ago
Rat tartare
wendynicholson1 3 months ago
Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub
benito73 3 months ago
I agree that a monser of a novel like the stand (i have the unabridged version nyaaah) can't be put into a 3 hour miniseries, and keep all of the story elements, but they kept the meat of it and got the story there for all to see. best thing i seen in about 20 years
MrRaziel22 4 months ago
@MrRaziel22 It's great. I agree.
promisedeyes 4 months ago in playlist Even More Meme And Comedy Junk
@MrRaziel22 6 hours actually
Youriberg 2 months ago
@Youriberg yes sorry, no idea why i put 3 hours, watched it enough times!
MrRaziel22 2 months ago
@ImmortalLove11 not quite a bowl of soup, looks likea plate of ghoulash, but well spotted!
MrRaziel22 4 months ago
at 1:07-1:19
FiREFLYSerenity408 4 months ago
Baby can you dig your man?
He's a rightous man
tell me baby can you dig your man.... "Larry Underwood, Stephen Kings' The Stand"
misskitty91683 4 months ago 2
M-O-O-N that spells dont fear the reaper
paradox2235 5 months ago
@paradox2235 M-O-O-N, spelled Officer Karl Metzger from OZ. :)
JohnACorp782 4 months ago
people complain about the beginning like its not realistic but facilities like this will halon the whole place at the first sign of escape - dropping everyone where they sat or stood. can you imagine the remake set in todays climate of...change?
if mr. king doesnt wanna write the script - I WILL.
PrimeTargetSecurity 6 months ago
@PrimeTargetSecurity Working from the book, there was appaently no need to halon the base as the virus was accidentally released, and was in a hugely concentrated form so itipped through and killed all the staff in less than 5 mins. Not gettin at you cause i agree that such systems are in place toprotect sensetive(illegal?) facilities, just trying to explain a bit more backgound for the 'unrealistic setting' people
MrRaziel22 4 months ago
@MrRaziel22
I think the other aspect is the virus was also engineered to mutate rapidly, so by the time Campion was exposed it had already evolved into a form more easily transmitted with delayed mortality. Had it just remained that deadly, it would have gone extinct in the base.
AaronCherr 2 days ago
@AaronCherr A good point, The expansion of the main story in nthe novel does mention it is a shifting antigen virus, designed to apapt to everything an immune system can throw at it
MrRaziel22 1 day ago
@MrRaziel22
Exactly. It took a normal trait of the influenza virus and accelerated it to the point where it would occur multiple times within the same host; this not only guaranteed mortality but also ensured they would remain infected for as long as possible to spread it to others. So, they would recover repeatedly but ultimately lose the battle but not before spreading it far more than any conventional influenza.
Stephen King designed one hell of a nasty biological weapon...
AaronCherr 1 day ago
@AaronCherr He tapped into a collective nightmare and gave it his own unique twist....
MrRaziel22 2 hours ago
These guys are just so fucking lazy...
leopheard 6 months ago 2
2:55 Holy shit, I used to have an Andy doll!
CrOeDdE 6 months ago
I tried watching this sunday, and this intro killed me. I couldn't stop laughing.
hurricanebtvs 6 months ago
I hoped to see a man with his face in soup plate...
terraitya 6 months ago 8
@terraitya and then have his face pulled out of it a good few days later by a general XD
OW41N 6 days ago
ANTIGEN SHIFT AND MUTATION
HIGH RISK/EXCESS MORTALITY
Dagger33 6 months ago
Con questo libro e con questo adattamento Stephen è veramente il King!
saveriope 6 months ago
epic soundtrack.big movie.stephen king is the fucking king
metrozocker 7 months ago
''COME DOWN AND EAT CHICKEN WITH ME BEAUTIFUL IT'S SO DARK!''
UmbrellasSpy 7 months ago
@Kimw1967 i have the DVD =) 2 disc set
Damn69HolyCrap 7 months ago
@Damn69HolyCrap me too =) i think they need to remake this because as memerable as it is, i fell as though its been rushed because the begining was greate but trailed down at the end. the best thing about the stand for me was the 1: the mood it it was set in 2: the characters: 3 the music
cjjtheone 6 months ago
I can never hear this song without thinking of this movie.
kwill81 7 months ago 2
Great movie, too bad I cant find it anywhere on DVD.
Kimw1967 7 months ago
@Kimw1967 you can probably get it on amazon.
comicguy00 7 months ago
@comicguy00 I dont want to pay alot for this movie. Of course it was on NetFlix last month so I will have to see if its still on there and watch it, but if I could find it for around $20-$30 bks that would be great.
Kimw1967 7 months ago
@Kimw1967 well i got it on a region 1 dvd but its is years since i bought it
fubu6400 4 months ago
I might just be a pussy or crazy, but instead of finding this ironically amusing or creepy, I just find this sad.
servomoore 7 months ago
I remember watching The Stand and being completely mesmerized by this scene and the song (it was the first time I'd ever heard it). Great miniseries
JGT021 7 months ago
"Hey, Trash, what'd Blue oyster Cult say when you burned their cowbell?"
"*burns Carley Yates* YAHAHAHA!"
MicWings06 8 months ago
Best about this mini is this very intro, sends shivers down my spine everytime I see it, the series itself doesn't really do the book justice, too low-budget, I think.
Could be very big, though, if they decided to put some effort and money into a full blown remake....
arthur42 8 months ago
i am searching for a ka-tet.
replies will be answered in english, german or turkish.
i prefere german.
may eld be with us.
pox1234 8 months ago
btw the gunslinger = roland deschain.
randall falgg = the dark wanderer.
they all bow befor the the dark tower.
pox1234 8 months ago
randall flagg fears the gunlinger.
long live the tower.
pox1234 8 months ago
Intensely troubling...
maryncf 8 months ago
I've seen the horror stories of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and John Saul being turned into shit when made into movies or mini-series. However, this was one of the exceptions cuz this series was awesome and truly disturbing. Jamey Sheridan as Flagg was really spooky - well in my opinion!
mishim100 8 months ago
see, that's what happens in a lab when someone forgets to buy the coffee.
chavling 8 months ago 2
Hollywood could knock this one out of the park. Instead of My name is Eli and whatever Will Smith did, how bout you do the end times right. Stu Redman forever.
Dihn87 8 months ago 2
They needed a bigger budget but very good acting apart from Stephen King.
johnny67448 8 months ago
I just watched this on netflix, I remember when this was "coming soon to CBS" or whatever network... Time flies
mrtamez2009 8 months ago
Honestly, this was one of the best intros for a miniseries I've seen.
Phabaitos 9 months ago 2
Now you see, if they would've just brought the cowbell, the flu would not spread and there would be no story ; )
NewYorkS4U 9 months ago
Yes, the use of this great song as the opening to 'The Stand' was very effective, and left a big impression on me when I first saw it in the 90's. Thanks for posting.
ProgsterJohn 9 months ago
Where was the guy with his face in the soup?
Pizzopizzaz 9 months ago
I fell in love with this intro.
UndeadOutbreak 9 months ago
at first i thought they were sleeping then i saw the woman with the redneck and open eyes then i said''.....yup.....their dead...''
mrgreatninja 9 months ago
its already happening...
heard of the SUPERBUG already in the news spreading/?
a super flu with NO CURE
shit.
OtherTheKat 9 months ago
@OtherTheKat No. Swine flu and bird flu are no more deadly than the ordinary flu. And they are curable. Captain Trips was almost impossible to create a vaccine against because it was a shifting-antigen virus, similar to HIV. In real life, no strain of flu is shifting-antigen. In fact, its impossible for an airborne shifting-antigen virus to exist because the protein shells of those types of viruses are too bulky and fragile to survive outside a host for more than a few seconds.
bumoffhtestreet 9 months ago
@bumoffhtestreet This was an anthropogenic disease though. There could have been ways to get around that.
the5chronicles 8 months ago
@bumoffhtestreet the shifting antigen aspect is already present in the flu, it's just much, much slower, wich is why we have a new version to cope with every now and then. the gents on project blue basically sped up the mutation by a factor of around 10 to power of 3, destroying any chance of adaption by an immune system.
MrRaziel22 1 day ago
@MrRaziel22 That and they used a stronger version of the flu to start with. The type A flu, like H1N1 but without any of its flaws. And the communicability was enhanced to 99.4%.
bumoffhtestreet 1 day ago
@bumoffhtestreet Theres also the concept of error catastrophe. A virus can only reproduce and have viable offspring up to a certain rate of mutation. Once that threshold is passed, the offspring produced have too many errors and the population dies out due to instability. Or so the theory goes.
bumoffhtestreet 1 day ago
@bumoffhtestreet
A good reference for a disease like the initial strain of the superflu might be the "sweating sickness" in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries...it killed very quickly, so quickly in fact that it ultimately drove itself to extinction (hopefully). After 1551 it was never seen again and as of yet there's no idea what it was.
AaronCherr 1 day ago
@AaronCherr This was the more unreal part of the story, that such a powerful and infectious virus would remain untill babies were on their way for the free zone. by molecular biology rules bumofthestreet is perfectly correct. This virus should have burned itself out after doing a thorough job. If anything, it should have committed suicide just through it's own mutations. Luckily, this is a book and Stephen King's imagination (and artistic license) just keeps it so much scarier.
MrRaziel22 2 hours ago
The most brilliant (and chilling) opening for a series ever. Hooked me right in. And Snuffy Walden's fantastic soundtrack was perfect for the dramatic scenes.
BrownBrown90 9 months ago
2012! yay
cutiepie1995lol 9 months ago
This is the way the world ends....
This is the way the world ends.......
This is the way the world ends.........
Not with a bang but with a whimper....
Wolfshadow18 9 months ago 13
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Wolfshadow18 9 months ago
"trash, go out in the desert and bring me more cowbell!"
"my life for you!"
dkupke 9 months ago 72
@dkupke Nice!
Diversion 8 months ago
@dkupke Nice!
Diversion 8 months ago
@dkupke Bump de Bump de Bump (goes out and looks for a cowbell).
wd40isgreat 5 months ago
This is now streaming on Netflix.
mymovienerd 10 months ago
@mymovienerd I KNOW I JUST WATCH ALL 4 parts
deathdontwait 9 months ago
Loved the book and have the DVD! Great story, could be that it's what we deserve.
jlc5809 11 months ago
now i know why i know Blue Oyster Cult.. was confused about that name the whole day :-)
SuperAndros1 11 months ago
I've got a fever, and the only thing that can cure it, is more cowbe...
Oh wait. It's 99.4% fatal.
Never mind.
pyroclasm32 11 months ago 44
@pyroclasm32 HA!
Obeefnik 11 months ago
pretty perfect though it could have used more cowbell /badinternetjoke
wuzlump 11 months ago
I'm going to Boulder!
turtlewings 1 year ago
Hmm... This could be our near future.....
AetiusPraetorian 1 year ago
fucking breat song great intro and a great movie
cdbils001 1 year ago
I can't understand why a tv show is still running on the television when the world is suppose to be over lol. Other than that, the show looks cool!
bravo45th 1 year ago
@bravo45th The virus was just released. The virus hasn't spread yet. Just everyone in the facility has died from it, not anyone on the outside yet.
NWOTruther 1 year ago
@bravo45th thats because the leak of disease had just started there 5 mins ago
thework4444 10 months ago
very sad they couldnt exit though
SuperXena10 1 year ago
omg it is the bird flu lol.
hillboy762 1 year ago
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sickofcommies 1 year ago
this is one of the best scenes out of anything on TV. steven king is really into music and this couldn't have been more perfect. it manages to scream doom and when the power switches off and the music box flickers was genius. i also like how the crow and doll scene was redone in the walking dead with a crow pecking at road kill. thanks for posting this. i missed this scene when they ran it today on scyfy
judyluvsnoel 1 year ago 4
can we agree to get the comments to 666 and then not make anymore?
blastocyst 1 year ago 3
This is eerie and creepy, just brilliant
leopheard 1 year ago
anyone realised, why there are so many stephen king TV-Movie-serieses? its simple: the books are so deep and full of story, that people got to understand, they could never put it into a 90 Minutes cinema-Movie...
AlexCopyPaste 1 year ago
Jeden z moich ulubionych filmów! One of my favorite movies! Thank You!
marjan2004 1 year ago
einer der besten Filmanfänge aller Zeiten...
MrSmith0374 1 year ago 2
these scientists got what they deserved when they applied for the 'biological weapon engineer wanted' job application in the back of the sunday times.
gringolazlo 1 year ago
now mesh it with Walking Dead.
xysfere 1 year ago
strange scene because captain trips usually takes a couple of days to kill people but it looks like everyone here died almost instantly.
Sconz32 1 year ago
@Sconz32 There's a reason for that. It was fresh from the lab, at its highest concentration and thus it literally burned through that base like a wildfire. At least that's what I think anyway, though I could be wrong lol.
csgamer89 1 year ago
@csgamer89 Yeah that's what I was thinking would be an ok way to explain it to. Viruses don't actually work that way, but hey maybe it's some kind of weird new breed..
Sconz32 1 year ago
@csgamer89 Yes, I agree. But why was the sentry affected? His air supply was separate and clean (external air)
antarcticamoon 1 year ago
@Sconz32 That's because they were exposed to the most potent form of the virus. Everyone else just got a watered down version of it.
SouthernNYCgal 1 year ago
@Sconz32 - Didn't the first people in the lab die almost instantly though because the virus was so potent at it's first release? It's been about 10 years since I read the book.
Shrawty 1 year ago
Great 'movie', great song. Stephen is the KING.
MrX7order 1 year ago
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great 'movie', great song
MrX7order 1 year ago
should I read the book before watching this movie?
XxTestProfilxX 1 year ago
@XxTestProfilxX cant say, but this is a rlly long movie, but it is worth the watch
417Guardian 1 year ago
the song makes it somewhat creepy.
excellent job
chimpbottle 1 year ago
the origin of my ocd captain trips f''d me up
longtreebeard 1 year ago
more cowbell
dudehorner 1 year ago
im reading this book its so good also hahaha they all look like their asleep blue oyster cult rocks people who dont know him should search up burning for you its a great song
anonymousmysterygirl 1 year ago
Ive just finished the stand, I feel like ive lost a friend, I want to be back in shoyo with nick wondering what to do with his dying prisoners.
gringolazlo 1 year ago
The Stand was my favorite book of all time. The miniseries did not disappoint.
OldeVampyr 1 year ago 2
OMG THIS IS MY THEME SONG GIMMY MY SCYTH SO I CAN SLICE AND DICE SOME PEOPLE >:P
reaper83001 1 year ago
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I LOVE THE INTRO
but the rest of the movie sucks
TheNeonTide 1 year ago
@TheNeonTide ...maaan you stupid child :(
TK2Antiheld 1 year ago
@TheNeonTide Watch it one more time...when you have the time and you're not tired. It's a great movie if paid attention to.
reaperman2010 1 year ago
@reaperman2010 well i didnt quite like the fantasy part of it. at first i thought it would be a realistic movie about a virus that got out of hand. but it turns out to be something with special people with special powers that dream about a black woman on a plantation.
TheNeonTide 1 year ago
@TheNeonTide hey it's King , what do you expect . I gotta side by you though . You don't need magic to lead the world to Anarky , if Flagg had done nothing more magical than turn into a Crow . All would be well , not only would he have set him up for the Dark Tower , but he wouldve proved his ingenuity . The Plantation's a debateable plot point though , but I guess a Radio transmission couldve easily made up for the dreams .
Sasoriemo 1 year ago
does anyone know how to open a playlist on you tube
PowertripMom 1 year ago
King's best book! Perfect song for this movie!
MindHunterST 1 year ago
More then likely that is how we will all go.
d2001griffiths 1 year ago
i love this film and this book and the music in this film !!!!! :)
TK2Antiheld 1 year ago
Did I miss the guy with his face in the soup?
MasochisticX 1 year ago
Wow a most fantastic video intro to a cult fav...
"All our times have come
Here but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
We can be like they are
Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper"
Manymachines 1 year ago
Perfect song for a perfect scene... also the Don't Dream It's Over scene really moved me... great, great film.
TakeHold0fTheFlame 1 year ago
First time I ever heard this song was in this show.
tripwilliams2 1 year ago
Opening predated "Resident Evil" by about 12 years...
ugmodude 1 year ago
Se tu mettessi l'intero film sarebbe una cosa fantastica.
Lux583 1 year ago
why did they all suddenly just drop dead? wouldn't captain trips make them die in sicker positions than, say, playing ping-pong and standing in line for lunch?
grandpathong 1 year ago
@grandpathong I would assume, in my opinion, they were just going about there daily lives. I mean if you know (or don't know) you have a deadly disease what else can you really do?
LinFungZhou 1 year ago
@LinFungZhou well, in the book they died a lot more..chaotically, i guess. when revisiting the base starkey (ed harris's character) notes stuff like people died while having sex in hallways, shooting each other in mercy killings, and one guy writes "IT WORKS, ANY QUESTIONS?" on a whiteboard before dying, and so on.
perhaps in some areas it was either superconcentrated or part of the security system was a poison gas dispenser that made damn sure the interior of the base buildings were contained.
grandpathong 1 year ago
@grandpathong Hmm.. yeah I remember that in the book, but I assume being for television it was a little more.. mild? Well either way this was good, but i think more Chaotic ways would've been interesting and a little more.. ... proper.
LinFungZhou 1 year ago
@grandpathong I was always bothered by how inaccurate a quick death would be. No virus can kill you standing up playing table tennis or eating lunch
BrendanIsCool 1 year ago
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grandpathong 1 year ago
@BrendanIsCool now that i think about it, when i was reading the book i assumed there was a countermeasure that simply didn't extend to campion - ie., a virus gets out, the security system lets out some kind of lethal odorless, colorless gas that kills everyone and keeps the virus from being able to get out. unfortunately, it jammed up or had a fluke or something where campion was, and gave him a window of opportunity to escape while infected.
grandpathong 1 year ago
@grandpathong doesn't quite seem plausible and if that was the way things happened, I imagine it would have been made clear in the book. Let's write the Mr. king!
BrendanIsCool 1 year ago
@BrendanIsCool not yet
TheNeonTide 1 year ago
@TheNeonTide what not yet?
BrendanIsCool 1 year ago
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@BrendanIsCool you said "I was always bothered by how inaccurate a quick death would be. No virus can kill you standing up playing table tennis or eating lunch" i said "not yet"
TheNeonTide 1 year ago
@grandpathong
yeah, they got a bit of time to make their deaths right. same with the people that lie down dead in their cars.
chimpbottle 1 year ago
one of the best intros on movies ever
speedemongr 1 year ago
Ironically, when reading the book, I felt my favourite part to read was when Stephen King described humanity's downfall..
Reading about people dying en Masse makes me smile.
MsHenryTheGreat 1 year ago
@MsHenryTheGreat You should check out I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Marioag20 1 year ago
Gotta love that crow.
disdajuice1 1 year ago
We can be like they are
C'mon Mary, don't fear the reaper
We'll be able to fly
Don't fear the reaper
Baby take my hand
Don't fear the reaper
Baby, I'm your man.....
disdajuice1 1 year ago
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disdajuice1 1 year ago
My favorite song, by anybody!
StephenKingFan100 1 year ago
not much of a fan of the mini (I don't really watch TV often), but I adore the book! Randy is my (and I use the term lightly) hero!
MyCagedButterfly 1 year ago
''Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful it's so DARK''!
UmbrellasSpy 1 year ago
this is a great intro it looks like the end of the world,its believable,i think thatif something like this was to happen id be one of the people who doesnt get sick
likelytodye 1 year ago
why is the blackout part in Spanish?
brocky70 1 year ago
Rob Lowe was great in this.
SmokeBojangles 1 year ago
We are on the eve of destruction...
SmokeBojangles 1 year ago
Epic intro. Awesome song. Just as awesome film. Even more awesome book.
SacredTaffle 1 year ago
is there any more morbid video in existence?
BrendanIsCool 1 year ago 32
@BrendanIsCool There are, but this one clearly