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I liked this movie for it's "classic" quality that it delivers in the horror genre. I thought that it was very well done for the 80s and is also a classic of the 80s as well. I had always wanted to see this movie but never got the chance until now. I am very glad that I did and I also added it to my horror collections as well. I highly recommend this movie to anyone that likes the "classic" horror flicks of the 80s.
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Its almost always better to read the book than to watch a movie especially when it is something written by the master of horror, Stephen King.
This movie is not one of the best representations of Stephen's writing, but it is still good to watch.
3 stars.
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Its a classic horror flick in my mind, i saw it years ago, when i was into the horror scene and it actually carried onto the years where im not so much into it anymore...so i definately give it a 4 star rating.
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Back in 1986 this probably passed for good entertainment. We were nearing the end of a decade of glorious cheese TV (A-Team anyone?). It was just different back then. I remember seeing this for the first time in 1987 and actually being scared at some of the scenes, but now in 2007 I'm sitting here watching it and I'm extremely disappointed. If you want to hear ACDC just buy the albums. Skip this tripe.
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In 1986, I was still a Steven King fan, but those days were coming to a close, and this movie helped me lose interest in King.
Was it because of the quality of the movie as a whole? No. This movie was based on the short story "Trucks" from his collection "Night Shift". Actually, "Trucks" proceeded "Christine" in writing, and "Christine" was actually better as a movie.
This movie, as a lot of Steven King's story, has a scientific explanation for the horror. In this case, the tail of a comet brought machines to life. Yet they had an intelligence that is unexplained. Also unexplained is why it didn't effect the cars of some of the people who ended up at the truck stop.
One person criticized the acting, but I thought the acting was decent. The problem was the scripting; it came across like an amateur screenwriter, who could learn from better writers like the popular horror writer Stephen King . . . Wait! King is that amateur screenwriter! One thing I didn't like was a boy asked about his father. The lead characters were going to lie to him, and the truck stop owner coldly told him the truth. The lead characters acted like the problem was telling the truth, not the manner of telling that truth.
Included was an early cameo of King, but it came across in his first scene that he was looking behind him to make sure the camera was working; it did not seem natural.
The item I really despised was a religious hypocrite in the movie. By that point, I was beginning to see Christian hypocrites were common in his stories. The one here corresponded with a character in the short story, but the religious aspect of the short story character was absent. This was what helped me get over my King fandom, and I hadn't read a novel of his since seeing this movie.
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