Total Hollywood Crapola - Not Like Original Story

Rating: 1/10 (12 April 2008)

WTF??? This movie is not like the story. Crappy CIG, some say? How about NO CGI... Oooh, a bug! Oh, my a tentacle! Yeah! A raving religious zealot!!! YEAH!!! Ooorah.
I started out great. But, as soon as the characters were stuck in the store, it quickly turned boring. It was a simple man vs. man scenario. You a got a couple of local hillbillies as dumb as rocks. You got you religious zealot, which was way, way, way overdone and totally unbelievable. Three cowardly, ahem, soldiers. A slew of old women. Oh yeah, almost forgot the quiet middle aged grocer who, of course, can handle some gun he found -- far better then the soldiers who spent the movie cowering or doing something.
And the ending... **** Super SPOILER **** The father, his kid, the teacher, and two elderly people escape in a vehicle. Well, they seem to avoid all the bugs, and drive until they run out of gas. Then, they all agree to commit suicide. The dad kills his kid, the woman, and the old couple. Pretty crappy ending. The movie was bad enough, then dad just offs everybody for no real reason. Come on... they go through all that trouble to survive, just to run out of gas and BANG BANG BANG BANG. Movie over. Guess there were 5 of them, but 4 bullets. Does Hollywood really think people want an ending like that? It was stupid, what I take as a simple shock stunt by the director. It was tasteless and was inconsistent with the movie and characters. And, lol, King liked the ending. I think he's going senile, his last few books kinda stunk.
Total waste of time. Hollywood completely ruined one of my favorite short stories. Thanks a lot...