Shame they made such an awful movie, but King can't really shoulder the blame

Rating: 1/10 (9 November 2014)

King is a lousy, hack writer, true, but he puts out the odd interesting story every few years. Gotta hand it to the guy, he's prolific, even if most of his output is garbage.
But with this clunker, I gather the blame does not lay entirely with Stephen. True, there is attempt at social commentary with characters so shallow you could use them as tracing paper - that's a classic King'ism. His characters are only the lines they speak, never anything more - they have no back stories, no lives, no solidity, no believability, and no consistency.
But that ending was apparently entirely the director's idea.
So... after making us sit through the usual King tripe, rooting for the aliens (damn, those bugs were beautiful, and fascinating - where's David Attenborough when you need him), putting up with the completely forced and ridiculous "social situation" fiction ... they try to have an ironic ending.
And then try to legitimise it with one of DCD's most over-used tracks (think this makes the .... no, seriously, the sixth - with a 6 - feature film I've heard 'The Host Of Seraphim' used in).
MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.................
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