The Worst Film Ever

Simply A Masterpiece

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

When Stephen King's work started being turned into movies, they were always great, but the newer stuff, has really been hit or miss. For the first hour, Desperation was great and Ron Pearlman was hilarious as the twisted sheriff, abducting people on the highway. Unfortunately, about half way through this film, the movie changes focus to young David, played by the kid from the Stacy's Mom video, Shane Haboucha. David is some kind of prophet who is more aware of things than the other. That was cool, but his constant ramblings about God, and spouting of all this religious garbage got really annoying. By the time things built up to the end, I was so annoyed with this little kid and his ramblings that I just didn't care about what was going to happen. I just wanted the film to be over. Desperation is just another case of a writer and an actor taking things too far, to a point where it taints the whole movie.

First off, I would like to say that Desperation is my all-time favorite book. Then I have to say that, this is a terrible adaptation of it. The book focuses on David Carver's connection to God and how it connects to the events going on in Desperation. Personally, I'm completely agnostic but the way the movie portrays Carver's connection to God is not deep enough. In the novel, it's a lot more than just "I'm doing things because God told me to". That is the biggest flaw in the movie. I could go on and on about how the acting is terrible and the script sounds like it was written by a middle schooler and the cheap special effects for TAK, but i'm just gonna leave it at...trust me...read the book, skip the movie

Excitable Nevada patrolman Collie Entragian, who regularly railroads innocent travelers into the prison of an apparently-abandoned sheriff's station, holds the key to a decades-old mystery surrounding the mining town and its former residents. TV-made adaptation of Stephen King's book, by King himself, is a meandering collage of brutality. As Entragian, Ron Perlman starts where "The Shining"'s Jack Nicholson left off; with chapped lips and raw crisscross scars on his face, Perlman definitely looks menacing, but what is the character after all? The Bogeyman (with a big mouth) in desert light? He browbeats and brutalizes a group of terrified vacationers, going head-to-head with a child who uses Christianity as a defense. It's a mind-bogglingly overwrought enterprise, with cartoonishly-ugly dialogue that browbeats the viewer as well. Technical aspects well up to par, yet any style or talent which went into "Desperation" is flogged by King's loathsome script.

I've Read the Book Roundabouts of Twenty or so times, one of my Favorite SK Novels and Am Quite Displeased with both Characters and Ending of movie.Point A. Steve Ames was Described as bluntly 'an 80's Rocker who never got out of it.' He had long hair, otherwise okay, Cynthia was supposed to have Two Colors in her hair, I believe Green and Pink (Could be mistaken though.) Point B: Johnny, Wasn't 'Thin' He was getting a Gut (Too much Booze., Yet, He is an Older (60's) In Decent Shape man.That and Cantak was Released/freed. Just A few days before The 'Travelers' Get to Desperation.So its not as Accurate As people think.My Advice, Read the Book, its Better.