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DVD Riding the Bullet (Widescreen Edition)
A vintage Stephen King concept unfolds in Riding the Bullet: a college kid, circa 1970, must hitchhike a very long (and very dark) hundred miles to visit his hospitalized mother. The ghosts waiting for him along the way are either real or of his own mind (which seems to be a dark place itself). As a King short story, this might have been a usefully frightening premise, but it's almost entirely literary; on screen, it boils down to a guy walking down a road at night. Jonathan Jackson is suitably tortured in the lead role (or roles--he frequently appears double on screen, arguing with himself), but the movie is stolen by David Arquette, rocking it up as a '50s greaser who died in a car crash years earlier. Barbara Hershey and Erika Christensen are wasted in support. There's a strain to make the Woodstock-era setting relevant, but this doesn't seem to have a great deal to do with the private demons of the protagonist. (And if you're going to set it in 1970, how hard is it to catch dialogue anachronisms?) Director Mick Garris is a longtime King conduit (The Stand), but this one is misconceived from the start. --Robert Horton
Review(s): DVD Riding the Bullet (Widescreen Edition)
SAME OLD!
Whos to say that nobodyfaced there fears or even drawn out a conclusion to where lifes really takes them.lets face it we all grasp at the fact that we would wanna accomplish things in our life so we can be proud of that.
this movie goes in that direction,mick garris directs a soft approach of where life takes us and the choices we make.the only problem is the movie was slated as a horror movie but really its wasnt spooky.
dont get me wrong it was interesting and kept my presence to see how the characters develop but like only one can tell a story.i wish they brought in erika christensen more and explain more into his life.
overall a subpar flick that really is not what you think it will be about.
i give this movie a 3/5 subparpysche flick that doesnt dwell in the characters like its supposed to.
vintage stephen king
i found this to be a very interesting movie, with a few underlying storylines, to spice up the plot. it's vintage king with spooky overtones, homages to death, questions about life and death, including the grim reaper toking a joint. is it shakespeare? no, it's king. (although he does reference shakespeare) and with king you can't ask for more than a good creepy story full of suspense and the supernatural. also the end was nostalgic and emotional; i really enjoyed this film and will probably include it in my dvd collection and like the films says whether or not we like it, sooner or later we will all have to ride the bullet
The Dead Travel Fast!
Set for no very compelling reason in 1969, this story sees death-obsessed art student Jonathan Jackson walking and hitch-hiking his way along spooky Maine highway in the middle of the night, trying to make it a hundred miles to where his stroke-felled mother (Barbara Hershey) lies in a hospital. Jackson has such a vivid imagination that neither he nor the viewer really knows what, if anything, we see is real, particularly when he is picked up by a messenger of death (David Arquette), driving a Plymouth Fury (Christine, anyone?). Arquette tells Jackson that either he or his mother will die tonight, and he must choose...
Of the many directors who have adapted King's work for the screen, Mick Garris is one of the most faithful, and that is one of the problems with the film. Much of King's dialogue and literary conceits work wonderfully in print, but when translated to a visual medium, the result is frequently hamfisted and overly literal. Such is the case here. Futhermore, David Arquette is quite simply very difficult to buy as a boogeyman. Jackson himself turns in fine work, however. The "is it real or is he imagining things?" technique works to keep viewers off-balance for the first half of the film, but by the end becomes irritating through overuse. A noble effort, then, but with only mixed results.
Two commentary tracks, which is more than this film needs, really, but there you are. The more nuts-and-bolts of the two is the one with Garris, Jackson, DP Robert New, producer Joel T. Smith and two members of KNB FX. Garris' solo commentary is quite engaging, and recounts in very interesting fashion the difficulties he had in getting the film made. There are seven very short featurettes, each lasting only a few minutes or less. They are: "David's Makeup," "Alan's Artwork" (done by legendary horror artist Bernie Wrightson), "Picture Cars," "A Cemetery Shoot," "Fury Crash," "Shooting at Thrill Village," and "Storyboard Comparisons." More of Wrightson's art shows up in a slide-show gallery, and there's athe trailer. Most of the menu is animated and scored, and has a cheerful nostalgic wackiness to it, even if its connection to the film is a bit tangential.
As Stephen King adaptations go, this is workmanlike. But it makes one realized that all those years ago, Stanley Kubrick hit closer to the spirit of King's work by violating the letter.
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