3 Stars - So Bad It's Good
Once again I jump ahead with the schedule I'd set up for myself, why? Because I really don't like the Bag Of Bones miniseries... So it's onto a film based on two of King's short stories which had previously been collected in the book Night Shift, Quitter's Inc. and The Ledge, and a silly bit at the end made up for the film with a goblin...
Quitter's Inc. tells the story of Richard Morrison, a man who wants to quit smoking, and has a friend recommend him the company Quitter's Inc. who boast a 98% success rate, due to their cruel and vicious methods of making you not smoke, and even the unregenerate 2% never smoke again, they guarantee it...
The Ledge tells the story of John Norris, who is forced into a crazy bet by a vicious mobster, he has to traverse the side of a tall tower block on just a small ledge going around the edge of the building.
The film is very silly, tied together by a cat travelling between the stories on its way to rescue Drew Barrymore from a breath stealing Goblin... it makes very little sense, but it is enjoyably bad. It seems to miss the serious tone of Quitter's Inc. and lacks the tension of The Ledge, plus it's full of references to other Stephen King films, which is just weird.
As an adaptation of the stories I guess they get the main story points right, but as I said Quitter's Inc. (which is my favourite Stephen King short story) isn't taken seriously enough, which is a real shame, because it should be very unnerving and somewhat scary. The ledge they get okay, other than not being very tense.
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