Firestarter: Two-Movie Collection
by Mark L. Lester, Robert Iscove
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Actor: Danny Nucci, Dennis Hopper, Drew Barrymore, Malcolm McDowell, Marguerite MoreauDirector: Mark L. Lester, Robert Iscove
Brand: MCA
Producer: Frank Capra Jr.
Producer: Jeffrey Morton
Producer: Judith Craig Marlin
Writer: Philip Eisner
Writer: Stanley Mann
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 284 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Firestarter: Two-Movie Collection
DVD Review: Somebody needs to shoot the producer
Summary: 3 Stars
Now I have seen my share fo good movies and read some really good books and I have to say that of all the books and all the movies, Stephen Kings orignal Firestarter has to be one of my absolute favorites. I have read this story enough to know it backwards and forward. It is a story that I have a invested a lot of time viewing and reviewing. So when I learned that there was going to be a sequel I had really high expectations.
In the sequel we are first introduced to how Charlie lost her mother. This is something that avid Firestarter followers will see as a studio seen pitch to add drama and effect to a story that is needs none. Not to give the story away for fan but it can be safe to say that the writers, and the directors didnt bother to research the book or the storyline enough to know how this happened out in the original. Had that time for the research been done it would have probably been accepted. Secondly we are introduced to a group of survivors of the original experiment. This is something that is a direct contridiction of the original book, becuase there were only 2 survivors and they married, raised a child, and then killed. Other then that there were no Lot Six survivors, in the movie. In the book however there were 2, on man that was kept in a small room on an island compound, and of course Charlie McGee.
Finally and this is what I found the most distrubing, the charater played by George C. Scott, (John Rainbird) has been re introduced in to the story, He is no longed the cold calculated killer that burned to death in the barn from the last story, now he is a scientest. Not just any scientest he is someone that is some how part of the Lot Six program. A program that was has not spawned several children that have "special" abilities.
According to the book and to the orignal movie, the reason that they wanted Charlie in the first place was because she was the only person that had any abilities as a result of the Lot 6 Experiment that didnt tax the body physically. That was why they wanted her to begin with. She was supposed to be used as a weapon. A weapon.
If you are going to re make a movie at least read the original. Case in point "Back to the Future."
Description of Firestarter: Two-Movie Collection
No description available for this title.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 06/01/04
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
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