...The Stand (1994)

I kept watching The Stand, an excruciatingly long television mini-series that attempts to act as a treatise on good and evil but fails miserably, in the hopes that it might get better but, because the underlying post-apocalyptic tale seems a separate film from the morality tale (between Mother Abigail and Randall Flagg), the whole series was just disjointed and uninteresting. Although it seems a precursor to the current crop of multiple story line television series' (like Lost and Jericho), the performances, script and production values of the latter are more intriguing and expensive than those in the former. And if that doesn't cap it all in a top hat, the banal ending was poor manipulation; if you're gonna manipulate my emotions, do it right.

...Creepshow (1982)

How do you rate a movie that is comprised of five different stories, directed by one George A. Romero and written by another Stephen King? If it's Creepshow with its vacillating quality, none too highly. The creepiest story is Something To Tide You Over with Ted Danson and Leslie Nielson and the showiest is The Crate with Hal Holbrook and Adrienne Barbeau so it would behoove you to fast-forward to these sections.