[Ammi]

...just reading some reviews about Dead Zone and also the book and there is a lot more detail in the book, as is often the way...but there is a repeat reference to one specific thing that stands out...(...it’s also more detailed in Johnny’s mother becoming a religious fanatic, which she had t been before...so more covering the ‘before’ stuff ...

...anyway these comments and so many similar ones...


I find it too rushed, the wheel of fortune part is left out (and this was so important), and the Greg Stillson character is made into a one dimensional man.


You know, I've never understood why the wheel of fortune part was cut out. If Cronenberg was going to ditch that, then he should have went ahead and ditched the whole part of Johnny and Sarah going to the amusement park, because it plays out as very odd (and really unnecessary) the way it is.


The film seemed to fly by for me. I agree the pacing is too rushed and they don't do enough to flesh out all of the characters to their potential.



...so I don’t think we missed anything, and interesting that it’s usually because the book has been read that we feel those left out bits but it was felt with this even not knowing the book and how they compared...one of the movies that I’ve always hugely disliked is My Sister’s Keeper because it was not only that so many really important parts were left out but it changed the whole story ending and made it completely different, and obviously ending twists are the whole point of everything that came before....

...anyways, I still thoroughly enjoyed Dead Zone but it did have that rushed feeling and feeling that I’d missed something ...back in it’s time, though... movies in general could have possibly been shorter as a generalisation..?...and it might have been lower end budget as well so had to be kept quite condensed ...and it did work, I hadn’t predicted that twist at all and a good movie...