Synopsis
When you fight the past, the past fights back.
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
2016 Directed by Kevin Macdonald, Fred Toye …
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
J.J. Abrams Stephen King Bridget Carpenter Bryan Burk Joseph Boccia James Franco Brian Nelson Quinton Peeples Kathy Lingg
22/11/63, 22-11-1963, 22-11-63, 22.11.1963, 22.11.63, 11/22/63, 11-22-63
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I waited until after I had seen the entire thing to judge it completely, so this review is for the entire series, not an episode.
This is one of the best series I have watched (not THE best but ONE OF the best) and I don't watch too much television but I LOVE mini-series. The actors, the writers, the director, everything about this is literal perfection and the amount of tears I cried by the end of this is too high of a number.
i'd like to give a shoutout to the worst thing ever aka this review which spoiled a big part of the finale without putting a spoiler tag. like yeah the part this review spoils was kinda speculated to happen since the show began and might be in the source material but as someone who REALLY fucking enjoyed this and hasn't read the novel, i was pissed.
basically lalalalalalallalala the past fucks with james franco for an eight episode run and it's definitely flawed but i loved every second of it and the last ten minutes of this made me forgive franco for unfollowing me on instagram and made me want to fuck him again and considering i've been holding a…
me: I’ve had enough 🙅🏼♀️ of men 👨🦰 ❌ all they do is lie, cheat, and steal 🤬
george mackay in a dirty wifebeater with a kentucky accent: heya there darlin’
me: not you baby 😌
Overall, a really solid adaptation of an excellent, massive novel. Sometimes uneven. Sometimes questionable. Maybe I would have enjoyed it even more if I watched it 5 years ago. But still really good overall.
The single greatest television series I’ve ever seen. I was absolutely blown away when I watched it 2 years ago and today I rewatched the entire thing and that feeling has not changed in the slightest. The direction from everyone involved is superb, Stephen King’s writing is nothing short of genius, the set design is second to none and James Franco gives the best performance of his illustrious career - as do Sarah Gadon & Daniel Webber. If you for some reason haven’t seen this, I wholeheartedly implore you to give it a go. It’s 8 hours of pure mastery with perhaps my favourite ending of all time in both television and film. I fucking love this with every fibre of…
"It's okay. You're a good man, Mr. Epping. You are a good man."
When Doc Brown waved Marty McFly and the audience a goodbye in 1990's Back to the Future: Part III, he left us with some powerful words;
"Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you."
Since then, we've had time travel story galore from Joseph Gordon-Levitt hunting down his future self in the form of A-lister and money lover Bruce Willis, to Ethan Hawke fucking themselves in Predestination. Regardless, we have had a lot of time travel stories since the definitive Back to the Future, and rather than focusing on the message that Christopher Lloyd so strongly left us, they…
it was great except for the part where i had to look at james franco's ugly mug for eight episodes
You shouldn't be here.
-Yellow Card Man
Finished the book coincidently on Stephen King’s birthday (the 21st), started watching this the day after and the day after that we finished it. That was fun and interesting.
The book is written from the first-person point of view which usually causes a problem when adapting to the screen. This POV tends towards having everything expressed internally and unless you’re going to fill your movie/mini-series with voiceovers what else is there to do? This one here finds a great solution to that. Basically, expanding a certain character’s role in the story solves that problem which also added a lot of unpredictability for anyone that read the book. At one point I wasn’t sure…