Agee !This still one of my favorites As a Book Another earlier book on my favourite on this scenario EARTH ABIDES this Is even older tham King In their times and still yeo of the best Also most others came after and totally used these as well ss. Lot of old SF Horror story shorts Ray Bradbury being one of the best
This is by far one of my most re watched/ re-read novel. King wrote a masterpiece and this screening and cast is be far Perfection! Thank you for your time putting this up for us to watch.
One of my favorites. I ended up in ER and ICU during covid times. Lucky for me, it wasn't covid, just metastatic breast cancer. It was surreal. Seperate spaces for covid and noncovid patients. Nurses suffering from PTSD. Crazy times, but nowhere near as crazy as The Stand. If you are wondering, I've been in remission since then.
Nope. Didn't find Molly or Laura fit the book characters. Even Gary didn't fit Stu, who seemed more like a Vince Gill type of character. I like these actors but not in these roles. Actually, the Hulu miniseries was a better take. This script was better then the newest version which is so disturbing. Like the writer was just opening the novel and shooting whatever he found. Sad.
This never gets old to me. I absolutely love what they did with this series. I read the book first and boy was it a lengthy read, but they couldn’t have done better with the cast! All around, excellent performances. This story seems quite fitting these days in many ways… Long live The Stand. Thank you for sharing this. 🍂🌹🍂
I read this book when I was 12 years old. so difficult to make a movie out of it. They did a really good job of it and yes... the casting was excellent.Never gets old to me either Willfade. Great comment! Cheers. 8^)
I have watched this every day for the past 3 weeks! I remembered it and watched it and couldn't believe how great it still was, actually got even better somehow but I put it on at night when I play my nightly games in bed before I go to sleep
This just speaks to me….the idea of finding yourself in a world where evil walks on two feet. Well, looking at the news, I guess we are already in the updated version of the Stand. See you all at Hemingford Home.
Stephen King has said that The Stand is not his personal favorite of all his books, but that many of his fans say it is their favorite. It's certainly my favorite of his, for sure. And this 1994 miniseries is unbeatable. And it's eerily prescient of the way the world is polarized between good and evil today.
What I have always liked most about this miniseries is the one thing most movies and TV shows today forget stay as true as possible to the source material the Shadowhunters started off good Harry Potter also but by the end the screen writers had rewritten them so much it wasn't the same story's
Very eerily prescient. Perhaps King himself has a sort of ESP - OR great minds (Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, HGWells, Asimov, Ray Bradbury, even Poe &too many others to note) through reason & genius, can forecast better than the average citizen. Or both?
This is a work of art. The acting is first rate. The book was a long one, but I think they did an excellent job bringing this to the screen. It gives the current climate of COVID a bit of forethought. This never gets old.
When Stephen King wrote this story, he knew what was gonna happen in the future what you watch all of these movies you were watching is the future and we are witnessing today that’s how much ignorant a lot of people are. Oh it’s just a movie, it ain’t real bullshit. It is real. That’s the plan is to genocide.
This movie pulls you right into the late 80s/early 90s. And if you're Gen X - you'll get all the actors, places, haircuts and clothes. The acting was so, so, but good enough to enjoy. It's a good movie and fun to watch!
Older millennials too. I watched this when this aired on tv over a few weeks. We watched the Langoliers, too. I'm 42, and I have always loved the Stand.
What's sad is if you read the original script for that series that was written in 2015 we could have had a very good version of The Stand, almost better than this but for some reason they turned him down and he rewrote it and it ended up being what we got on CBS.
It was made shortly after the Soviet Union dissolve due to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe. Back then, everyone was afraid of stray Soviet missiles making their way into the wrong hands. It can sort of be seen here.
I first read the Stand when i was about 17 in the late '80s because of my late father who was a big Stephen King fan, and it was the best book i had ever read. I must of read it 30, 40 times or more over the years. I keep going back to it, it's my favourite book. I like this screen version of it, but I'm so glad that i read the book first. I've never seen the recent remake of the Stand. It's got a lot of mixed reviews and from what i've read most people prefer this version. I will get around to buying the DVD or Blu-ray of the 2021 version at some point just out of curiosity, but i would definitely recommend the book to anyone who hasn't read it.
@@householdgambler 👍 I'm just about half way through another read of it. I never tire of it. Even though i've read it so many times i forget little bits in it that are really good. All the best on reading that masterpiece again mate. 👍
The Stand is my favorite book of all time...my friend bought me a special edition with extra chapters that were not included in the original...it's scary how similar this book from the 70s is to modern times. It was even scarier watching during the pandemic 😳
One of my favorite books and films of all time. I recently watched a remake of this on Paramount+, and it sucked so bad it made me sick. Then this showed up in my UA-cam feed, and after watching the original, it made it all so much better. The perfect eyewash.
I have watched this series probably mora than 20 times, and I just cannot stop crying when Glen gets what happens done to him in the jail. He is such a sweet man.
I’ve been searching for years for this adaption of the Stand . The showing of it in the 90s was so powerful I’ve never forgotten it unlike a lot of other series. Human behaviour never changes
But I do agree with you All of his movies I watched as a kid definitely probably too young to be watching them Yeah they scared me but they did teach me about human behavior and I really think that's why I try to avoid being like that and why I see so much of it. It's good that you're aware though Don't become like those "people" sad part is movies are more and more realistic these days people actually do act like this and like his show the mist, We saw it during COVID The amount of selfish hoarding the amount of resource hoarding The willingness to bow down to the govt without question and then to watch people turn on others who did question things was scary And now look at the world. We are living in a Stephen King novel lol
The real problem was that that disease was real and was killing people. Some refused to accept that Dolt45 was lying about something he was completely ignorant about. My family was lucky no one died from it. I met people who lost 5 family members.
I can't believe all of this version is right here to see! Particularly when the hard to find DVD just showed up in the mail! I hope it stays here, for sure. Read the book not long before this was shown on television, and both are great. For me, there's no comparing them at all, both the book, and the series, even if a little different, are fine works equally. Still haven't watched the later version, I will, but the thought of a different cast, just doesn't sound right. I mean Ossie & Ruby together! Unbeatable! Now I shall experience it again.... back later...
I like the Langoliers, too. It's got some cheesy 90s moments in it but the miniseries itself is really good. Not nearly as good as the Stand but I really like it
Stu red man is still my favorite hero in this book/series. His steadfast dedication to his family is always something that I admire. He shows he isn’t perfect but he keeps trying to be better for himself and other. I also love Nick and cried when I first saw his death when I watched the series when I was a kid.
This is probably the best thing I have ever seen. I am always exited to watch 5 hrs non stop and am sad at about hour 4 when I know I have to come back to THIS true version of man’s downfall. Thank you Mr. King you keep saving my life and you don’t even know it.
This is looking more and more likely as time progresses. One of my best and oldest friends recently asked me if I'd read this book (as he knows I'm a Stephen King fan) and I told him I had read it many times, and he then told me that he started to read it but couldn't finish it because it was pertinent and terrifying to what's been going on recently. I told him that while that may be true, he should absolutely finish it because it's a great book and worth the read. I often wonder just how long it may be until this becomes reality.
I find it so interesting that Stephen King who was admittedly not a Christian, yet he wrote this book with the end time battle of good vs. bad! I read the novel back in the 80's, longest book ever but I never forgot it. I have since become a born-again Christian and it has so much more meaning now. God bless you all to overcome till the end
"One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist." (--John Wilkinson, . 1836.) which, updated in 1995 to in a line by Verbal Kint, was "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.)
So true!! Even in today's world the devil wants people to believe he doesn't exist, but he does!! So armor up with God's armor everyday!@@marcneville42
I felt the exact same way when I read the book, and watched this mini series on tv. I do think the years have taken a toll on SK. I think he was much more open to views and opinions 40 years ago.
Stephen King's greatest work. And one of his longest books. I read ALL 1,153 pages cover to cover. This screenplay adaption was pretty good also. Great cast.
The Stand is my ultimate favorite King book and this adaptation was phenomenal. IMO, it is as close to perfect as you could get telling this epic tale. With one or two minor exceptions it was perfectly cast as well. I believe it was Rob Lowe’s comeback. Well deserved.
@@OneOfDisease agreed, I had so much hope for it. I saw it BEFORE I read the books (glad about it actually). I think it has potential to be an awesome TV series, or mini series.
@@SMaamri78 a certain characters death made me cry so hard I couldn't see or speak. I was trying to tell my boyfriend and roommate what happened and I couldn't talk for like 15 - 20 min. Every time I tried I was a sobbing blubbering mess!
I remember watching this when I was in middle school. I liked it all the way through. Became one of my favorites to watch. I had the hots for Stu and Larry. I always wanted a musician in my life, now in my 40s, I met a musician and still together. 😊
I don't know how but I completely forgot about this movie (miniseries) for probably a decade. I remembered it and watched it a few weeks ago and now I've watched it 4 times since then. The score in this movie is incredible. I choke up when I hear the music as the 4 men go on their journey. 5:08:45
Thank you so much for this! The quality of this video is as clear as when it first came out on tv! This version is my favorite of Stephen King's The Stand, also my favorite Stephen King book!
I read the novel in 1979, it was high summer, A Friday, I want to work feeling sick, by 10 am I felt awful, I was 21 then with no car, I punched out and stopped at the library on the way home, I figured if I was gunna be laid up for a few days, I might as well have a good book to read, by that evening, I was running a 102 fever, I was sick and reading this, coughing and chills, it was almost eerie, The fever broke Saturday night, I read the whole book in 5 days, I’ve been hooked on Stephen King since
I read a story in Ladies Home Journal magazine that was an excerpt from Cujo, The Monster in the Closet. I remember reading it at lunch hour one day in Pizza Hut. I got the book, then had to catch up with everything he had written before then. His writing captured you. I was a volunteer EMT for awhile, I remember staying up all night at the squad building reading “Four Past Midnight”. King is on par with Jimmy Buffett as a pop culture icon.
I remember watching this on TV and later online, since it is one of my favorite Stephen King Adaptations, but I have to say that this really hits differently when watching this after COVID. Good stuff!
We managed to watch this movie once or twice a year for decades. There is just *something* about this movie. I see other fans below have noticed it as well. This is one you take to Mars with you.
I re-read The Stand during the Lockdown...covid 19 ...Luckily, I am retired ,had money comi ng in ,didn't have to work and be worried about lack of money ..or food and supplies because I knew something was coming from 2018 onward and really started stocking up on EVERYTHING. .And I live very rural, good landlord too.
I love Stephen king & the stand. Anyone born 1970, 60,50 & so on, will have a greater understanding of the '94 version and also of the characters. They have depicted today, yesterday. Thank you Mr. King. I love you & Tabitha
Please donate to black lives matter so we can prove to our allies u ain't racist. Cuz if you don't donate, it makes it seem u enjoy lynching me and my race simply bc we black. If you don't mind being racist then ignore me. #BlackLivesMatter
Yes, agreed. As always around this time of year, we watch this, Ghostbusters, and a few others Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin lol, that belongs on the list
Thank you so much for uploading this! The reboot of this series recently came out and I wanted to rewatch the original before checking out the new version. This is one of my favorite of King's works. Thanks again!
I am now in the fourth hour of the movie and it is exactly like the book. It is unbelievable how well the movie looks like the book. I cannot stop watching it. And ofcourse Stephen King himself plays a small role in it, like he does in all his movies. I am enjoying it immensely.
It's not exactly like the book, they made Lucy Swann the caretaker of Joe whereas in the book it was Nadine, and Lucy Swann died of an overdose before they even got very far in the book.
@@badbette1916 Have you read the book? The remake destroyed the characters. It had slicker special effects, but it made Frannie and Mother Abagail horribly unlikeable and Nick might as well not have been there at all. Poor Tom was ridiculous.
Yeah, I had it on VHS too. Sometimes I really wish still being able to watch all those old VHS movies, I had, I miss so many of them, I havent been able to find again later, this among them. So happy to have finally found it again!
I’ve been a Stephen King fan since I was 14 and read my first book. I don’t read books a second time, but I actually read this three times. I had to read the unabridged version when it came out and then I read it again a couple of years later. The first publication was the least interesting. Stephen King knows what he’s doing and he has proven it time and time again! I love that I’m an Oregonian and have been to Mt. Hood and so many other places that were done here!
I read the paperback when I was in high school. Read it twice since, including the unabridged version. I have watched this miniseries countless times since it first aired in 1994. Such a sweeping, complex story. Although the book is by far so much better, this telling of his narrative, also his screenplay, is none the less very compelling.
It's an agenda. A diabolical agenda since the beginning of creation. Bible is truth. Sad humanity does not see what is blatantly put in our faces. Pick your team
When this came out in the 90’s I was in college. I was one of those students that spent all my time studying and working to pay for college. I read the book but never saw the movie. This was exactly the way I thought it would be. Very cool.
Hard to belive it's 30 years ago this TV show was made.I was in Junior Highschool when I watched this show on TV.It's a bit outdated since it was made before the Internet became public+the fashion of the era,clothes and big hair. Thanks for uploading this on UA-cam.
was telling my fiancee about this version and she wasnt old enough to remeber it on tv. she was only 5 or so but i plan on having her watch this because i havent seen the more recent version...dont know if i ever will this is one of those movies tnat will basically "Stand" the test of time. The cast only accents this nobel adaptation and with recent events maybe reminds us that life is short and can end at a moments notice...so try to be the best person you can and be prepared for the worst.
I was never much impressed by Stephen King’s writing until I was stuck on a 13-hour road trip and I ended up reading my father’s copy of *The Stand (Complete and Uncut)*. First off, as a 12-year-old, intellectually-precocious kid who had hit puberty around 9, and had power fantasies on top of the lot of it, I was entranced by the figure of Randall Flagg. Now in my 40s, I feel as if civilised Americans are beset on all sides by tens of thousands of little Randall Flaggs.
@@horsthooden4600 You must not know very much about what's going on in the world...what I said was more cringe than president biden taking showers with his young daughter?
I have the book and the DVD. I have watch this move over a dozen times and it is still great to watch. Thanks. I thought of this movie when COVID hit. Scary that this could actually happen.😮
Thanx for posting this Kontribus, great film, great memories, took me 4 sessions to watch and loved it all.....Nearly 6 hours of classic 80 -90's visual Tech (Historically State of the Art at the time) and an absolutely spot on Audio track. Thank you mate.
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I've always thought that when "Don't Fear The Reaper" kicks in near the start, it's the greatest placement of music in film history.
Agreed, that moment is definitely up there 😊
I love the beginning of this movie.
Absolutely
it is !
Never heard the song the same way again!!!
No one can tell a story better than stephen king. I like this movie. But the book is so much better.
Agee !This still one of my favorites
As a Book
Another earlier book on my favourite on this scenario EARTH ABIDES
this Is even older tham King
In their times and still yeo of the best
Also most others came after and totally used these as well ss. Lot of old SF Horror story shorts Ray Bradbury being one of the best
check out Swan Song too
Im almost 80yrs and never get tired of this movie or book, takes my mind of this shit storm thats coming
That storm is here and is named population control
The four horseman are coming of the apocalypse!!
Same here 72 living one day at a time no need to rush
This is by far one of my most re watched/ re-read novel. King wrote a masterpiece and this screening and cast is be far Perfection! Thank you for your time putting this up for us to watch.
Far better than the new version is!
Read the book and liked it until the very end. It was such a long read I felt shortchanged at the end.
Almost all of the cast was great. Molly Ringwald sucked so hard as Frannie.
Cough, cough, cough....great book and movie
@@sabine4759 That's for sure! The new series lacks that constant sense of dread. And everything about Goldberg and Heard offends me.
One of my favorites. I ended up in ER and ICU during covid times. Lucky for me, it wasn't covid, just metastatic breast cancer. It was surreal. Seperate spaces for covid and noncovid patients. Nurses suffering from PTSD. Crazy times, but nowhere near as crazy as The Stand. If you are wondering, I've been in remission since then.
So it's all about you?
Nice! You tell those boobs who's boss!
@@ShayJaxson-m2zCRAWL BACK UNDER YOUR ROCK NOW .
Sorry, but... how can someone say that covid is worse than breast cancer??? There's no how to compare how worse a cancer is!
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Couldn't have picked a better cast. One of the best Stephen King adaptions.
So true
As opposed to the newer version, which is gawd awful in almost every respect. 🤢
@@soonerdave01 it's had poopie hoeburg in it, what did you expect??
@@soonerdave01 you probably hate that they changed one character to a black man and another character to a female lmao
Nope. Didn't find Molly or Laura fit the book characters. Even Gary didn't fit Stu, who seemed more like a Vince Gill type of character. I like these actors but not in these roles. Actually, the Hulu miniseries was a better take.
This script was better then the newest version which is so disturbing. Like the writer was just opening the novel and shooting whatever he found. Sad.
This never gets old to me. I absolutely love what they did with this series. I read the book first and boy was it a lengthy read, but they couldn’t have done better with the cast! All around, excellent performances. This story seems quite fitting these days in many ways… Long live The Stand. Thank you for sharing this.
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I agree with you. This is the only mini series I will watch for THE STAND.
I read the book too. It was so good and I agree the series was great. They did a good job condensing the book down for this series.
I read the book so much & lent it to so many friends, it’s the only book I’ve had that fell apart. Never gets old.
Same. The remake of this was awful…I tried to watch it but then acting was horrible. This version is the best!
I read this book when I was 12 years old. so difficult to make a movie out of it. They did a really good job of it and yes... the casting was excellent.Never gets old to me either Willfade. Great comment! Cheers. 8^)
Could watch this version everyday. I remember renting the 3 vhs's from block buster in the 90s. Luckily, now I own the DVD.
Me too!!! I love this movie!!
I have watched this every day for the past 3 weeks! I remembered it and watched it and couldn't believe how great it still was, actually got even better somehow but I put it on at night when I play my nightly games in bed before I go to sleep
This just speaks to me….the idea of finding yourself in a world where evil walks on two feet. Well, looking at the news, I guess we are already in the updated version of the Stand. See you all at Hemingford Home.
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Stephen King has said that The Stand is not his personal favorite of all his books, but that many of his fans say it is their favorite. It's certainly my favorite of his, for sure. And this 1994 miniseries is unbeatable. And it's eerily prescient of the way the world is polarized between good and evil today.
What I have always liked most about this miniseries is the one thing most movies and TV shows today forget stay as true as possible to the source material the Shadowhunters started off good Harry Potter also but by the end the screen writers had rewritten them so much it wasn't the same story's
Only book I've ever read that I had to put down because it scared me...Flagg and Nadine getting together *shivers*.
King’s Christine was my book that I couldn’t finish because it was too scary
@@dancingnature haunted car wooo
Very eerily prescient. Perhaps King himself has a sort of ESP - OR great minds (Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, HGWells, Asimov, Ray Bradbury, even Poe &too many others to note) through reason & genius, can forecast better than the average citizen.
Or both?
This is a work of art. The acting is first rate. The book was a long one, but I think they did an excellent job bringing this to the screen. It gives the current climate of COVID a bit of forethought. This never gets old.
The story subject is great. The acting is the worst!!
first rate????
are we watching the same film? lollll 😂
Good movie with a great cast 💯
When Stephen King wrote this story, he knew what was gonna happen in the future what you watch all of these movies you were watching is the future and we are witnessing today that’s how much ignorant a lot of people are. Oh it’s just a movie, it ain’t real bullshit. It is real. That’s the plan is to genocide.
Nah, some of the acting is pretty bad, Nadine and Harold for example. They could have been better at their parts. But it's a really good movie anyway.
This movie pulls you right into the late 80s/early 90s. And if you're Gen X - you'll get all the actors, places, haircuts and clothes. The acting was so, so, but good enough to enjoy. It's a good movie and fun to watch!
Indeed on the Gen X! ❤
@heatherbarbourstonebarger1258 @felix1185 GenX here too, agreed.
Makes me want to watch Alf again lol
I'm thinking they oughta make this the Sunday night family movie.
Older millennials too. I watched this when this aired on tv over a few weeks. We watched the Langoliers, too. I'm 42, and I have always loved the Stand.
This is so much better than the 2020 version. They really robbed us with that version. I hope they make another one.
Why so you can be robbed twice?
The 2020 version is video diarrhea.
Even if they did, I don't think they could match this one!
There has NEVER been a decent remake of a Stephen King movie. So far they're 0/10.
What's sad is if you read the original script for that series that was written in 2015 we could have had a very good version of The Stand, almost better than this but for some reason they turned him down and he rewrote it and it ended up being what we got on CBS.
One of my favorite films of all time. A forever classic.
Cmon..... someone paid you to say that...
This movie sucked from the word go, with a capital G
It was made shortly after the Soviet Union dissolve due to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe. Back then, everyone was afraid of stray Soviet missiles making their way into the wrong hands. It can sort of be seen here.
@@Gfysimpletons You miss your nap?
@@ShayJaxson-m2z maybe but still doesn’t change the fact that this, as well as every other Simpy King movie, sucked….
@@Gfysimpletons Have you ever seen his movie The Langoliers? That was pretty cool.
I never get tired of watching this series.
I first read the Stand when i was about 17 in the late '80s because of my late father who was a big Stephen King fan, and it was the best book i had ever read.
I must of read it 30, 40 times or more over the years. I keep going back to it, it's my favourite book.
I like this screen version of it, but I'm so glad that i read the book first.
I've never seen the recent remake of the Stand. It's got a lot of mixed reviews and from what i've read most people prefer this version. I will get around to buying the DVD or Blu-ray of the 2021 version at some point just out of curiosity, but i would definitely recommend the book to anyone who hasn't read it.
I read it when I was 18 I'm 45 time to bust it out again
@@householdgambler 👍 I'm just about half way through another read of it. I never tire of it. Even though i've read it so many times i forget little bits in it that are really good. All the best on reading that masterpiece again mate. 👍
@@kevanbrown7620the unabridged version of the book made this series seem tame by comparison.
Any book i read that was later a movie, the book was much better and glad i read the book first.
@@earlwright9715 I agree 👍
I remember watching this on TV when it first came out. Loved it then and still love it now. Brilliant mini series.
Cheesy, incomplete rape of a wonderful book. For goobers who cannot read.
The Stand is my favorite book of all time...my friend bought me a special edition with extra chapters that were not included in the original...it's scary how similar this book from the 70s is to modern times. It was even scarier watching during the pandemic 😳
one thing great about this movie is they got the casting right for every single character.
I’m in hospital right now trying to get my broken back sorted and i honestly can’t think of anything better to watch while waiting
One of my favorite books and films of all time. I recently watched a remake of this on Paramount+, and it sucked so bad it made me sick. Then this showed up in my UA-cam feed, and after watching the original, it made it all so much better. The perfect eyewash.
I watched the remake too, and I just couldn't make myself care about the characters in that version the way I do this one.
This is my "feel better" movie. I watch this when I'm sick.
Same.
fuckin SAME
Me too- also when I’m sad or really stressed out- always works it’s magic!
Same
Hard To Believe It's Been 30 Years Since This Miniseries Came Out Time Goes By,Thanks For Putting This On UA-cam
I have watched this series probably mora than 20 times, and I just cannot stop crying when Glen gets what happens done to him in the jail. He is such a sweet man.
This early version of the Stand has grown on me over time. The cast, for the most part, is superb.
I’ve been searching for years for this adaption of the Stand . The showing of it in the 90s was so powerful I’ve never forgotten it unlike a lot of other series. Human behaviour never changes
But I do agree with you All of his movies I watched as a kid definitely probably too young to be watching them Yeah they scared me but they did teach me about human behavior and I really think that's why I try to avoid being like that and why I see so much of it. It's good that you're aware though Don't become like those "people" sad part is movies are more and more realistic these days people actually do act like this and like his show the mist, We saw it during COVID The amount of selfish hoarding the amount of resource hoarding The willingness to bow down to the govt without question and then to watch people turn on others who did question things was scary And now look at the world. We are living in a Stephen King novel lol
The real problem was that that disease was real and was killing people. Some refused to accept that Dolt45 was lying about something he was completely ignorant about. My family was lucky no one died from it. I met people who lost 5 family members.
It's 2023 I think it's gotten worse 😢
@@jackiemarini3203definitely hits closer to home in a post covid world.
I can't believe all of this version is right here to see! Particularly when the hard to find DVD just showed up in the mail! I hope it stays here, for sure. Read the book not long before this was shown on television, and both are great. For me, there's no comparing them at all, both the book, and the series, even if a little different, are fine works equally. Still haven't watched the later version, I will, but the thought of a different cast, just doesn't sound right. I mean Ossie & Ruby together! Unbeatable! Now I shall experience it again.... back later...
I saw this in vhs in early 90s and I loved it . Always hoped to see it again and here is the video in YT . Thanks for the posting.
One of the best scenes in this movie/miniseries is when Tom says he's God's Tom and finally says "M-o-o-n.... That spells moon." ❤❤
One of the books that transferred well into a movie. One of my fav SK stories. I like Needful Things too.
I like the Langoliers, too. It's got some cheesy 90s moments in it but the miniseries itself is really good. Not nearly as good as the Stand but I really like it
Stu red man is still my favorite hero in this book/series. His steadfast dedication to his family is always something that I admire. He shows he isn’t perfect but he keeps trying to be better for himself and other. I also love Nick and cried when I first saw his death when I watched the series when I was a kid.
Yah, I also cried my heart out when Nick died. Saw it first when I was 12 years old with my Mum. Love these old adaptions of S.K. so much
I cry every single time they do the slow motion clips of the faces of each character who died in service to the Lord. 😭😭
This is probably the best thing I have ever seen. I am always exited to watch 5 hrs non stop and am sad at about hour 4 when I know I have to come back to THIS true version of man’s downfall. Thank you Mr. King you keep saving my life and you don’t even know it.
Excited, not "exited"... Learn to spell. 🙄
Nearly 30 years later and the movie still makes me cry. I'm just watching the scene where Stu comes back to Franny
I’ve must have read this book 100’s of times in the 90’s. Love this version of the book.
No you didn't
A question in the book all black characters are also just old people?
Thank you so much vor keeping this legend alive. I had to dig through the hole internet to find it. But so lucky to find it at least.
Im happy you found it. Best film ever. Don't understand that nazi part in Vegas, because everything else is perfect. Whish you a wonderful day
This is looking more and more likely as time progresses. One of my best and oldest friends recently asked me if I'd read this book (as he knows I'm a Stephen King fan) and I told him I had read it many times, and he then told me that he started to read it but couldn't finish it because it was pertinent and terrifying to what's been going on recently. I told him that while that may be true, he should absolutely finish it because it's a great book and worth the read. I often wonder just how long it may be until this becomes reality.
I find it so interesting that Stephen King who was admittedly not a Christian, yet he wrote this book with the end time battle of good vs. bad!
I read the novel back in the 80's, longest book ever but I never forgot it. I have since become a born-again Christian and it has so much more meaning now.
God bless you all to overcome till the end
You can only be born once. The rest is all made up bs. Enjoy the ride, it's the only one you've got.
"One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist." (--John Wilkinson, . 1836.)
which, updated in 1995 to in a line by Verbal Kint, was "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.)
@@marcneville42 more mythological bullshit.
So true!! Even in today's world the devil wants people to believe he doesn't exist, but he does!! So armor up with God's armor everyday!@@marcneville42
I felt the exact same way when I read the book, and watched this mini series on tv. I do think the years have taken a toll on SK. I think he was much more open to views and opinions 40 years ago.
Sooooo much better then the remake, 1000000000000000% better.
YEESS!! 💯❤
These actors were BORN to play these roles
For sure
Stephen King's greatest work. And one of his longest books. I read ALL 1,153 pages cover to cover. This screenplay adaption was pretty good also. Great cast.
Had me thinking about this book when the carona hit. This is one of my ole time favorites, read this book numerous times in my life.
Thank you for sharing this movie.
Watching in 2022❤️🙏🇺🇲
The Stand is my ultimate favorite King book and this adaptation was phenomenal. IMO, it is as close to perfect as you could get telling this epic tale. With one or two minor exceptions it was perfectly cast as well.
I believe it was Rob Lowe’s comeback. Well deserved.
Watched this with my parents and sisters growing up, my dad read the book first
Rob Lowe is so young here such an fantastic series 😊
I love how the movie starts with “Don’t Fear the Reaper” at 3:55. Well done.
A couple years ago I read the entire series of The Dark Tower. I think that is King's ultimate masterpiece, and I cannot recommend it more!❤
I read the entire series, too. That ending. Caught me by surprise.
Same!! 3x!!
Too bad the dark tower movie wasn't nearly this close to the books
@@OneOfDisease agreed, I had so much hope for it. I saw it BEFORE I read the books (glad about it actually).
I think it has potential to be an awesome TV series, or mini series.
@@SMaamri78 a certain characters death made me cry so hard I couldn't see or speak. I was trying to tell my boyfriend and roommate what happened and I couldn't talk for like 15 - 20 min. Every time I tried I was a sobbing blubbering mess!
I loved this as a teen, I read book than 2 yrs later the mini series came out
I never get tired of this movie, love, love Stephen King
Read the book many times love this movie
I remember watching this when I was in middle school. I liked it all the way through. Became one of my favorites to watch. I had the hots for Stu and Larry. I always wanted a musician in my life, now in my 40s, I met a musician and still together. 😊
And I wanted to be Stu or Larry ha
@@householdgambler I'd pick Stu because he survived.
I don't know how but I completely forgot about this movie (miniseries) for probably a decade. I remembered it and watched it a few weeks ago and now I've watched it 4 times since then. The score in this movie is incredible. I choke up when I hear the music as the 4 men go on their journey. 5:08:45
Thank you so much for this! The quality of this video is as clear as when it first came out on tv! This version is my favorite of Stephen King's The Stand, also my favorite Stephen King book!
I HIGHLY recommend The Dark Tower, if you've not read them.
I believe those books are King's masterpiece.
Ain't read much of his work, have you?
I enjoyed seeing this movie again, I just wish so much had not been cut from it.
I didn’t know there was more footage! How much is missing???
If you had read the book, you would know.@@bobbypayne6366
This movie has had more “cowbell” than most made for tv movies ever!!! “Don’t fear the Reap-er”🎶🎶🎶
I read the novel in 1979, it was high summer,
A Friday, I want to work feeling sick, by 10 am I felt awful, I was 21 then with no car, I punched out and stopped at the library on the way home, I figured if I was gunna be laid up for a few days, I might as well have a good book to read, by that evening, I was running a 102 fever, I was sick and reading this, coughing and chills, it was almost eerie,
The fever broke Saturday night, I read the whole book in 5 days, I’ve been hooked on Stephen King since
That's the year I was born.
I read a story in Ladies Home Journal magazine that was an excerpt from Cujo, The Monster in the Closet. I remember reading it at lunch hour one day in Pizza Hut. I got the book, then had to catch up with everything he had written before then. His writing captured you. I was a volunteer EMT for awhile, I remember staying up all night at the squad building reading “Four Past Midnight”. King is on par with Jimmy Buffett as a pop culture icon.
1979 means that you read the original version of The Stand and not The Complete & Uncut Edition from 1990 that most readers are familiar with.
I remember watching this on TV and later online, since it is one of my favorite Stephen King Adaptations, but I have to say that this really hits differently when watching this after COVID. Good stuff!
Just love this movie seen it so many times and still can't get enough of it.❤❤❤
So well done. It really hit me deeply when I saw it years ago.
We managed to watch this movie once or twice a year for decades. There is just *something* about this movie. I see other fans below have noticed it as well. This is one you take to Mars with you.
I re-read The Stand during the Lockdown...covid 19 ...Luckily, I am retired ,had money comi ng in ,didn't have to work and be worried about lack of money ..or food and supplies because I knew something was coming from 2018 onward and really started stocking up on EVERYTHING. .And I live very rural, good landlord too.
Sounds good Linda
I love Stephen king & the stand. Anyone born 1970, 60,50 & so on, will have a greater understanding of the '94 version and also of the characters. They have depicted today, yesterday. Thank you Mr. King. I love you & Tabitha
Wow , 6 hours and no ads 👍
Just finished watching this for Halloween. Such a gem!
The theater movie sucked. This was awesome!
Please donate to black lives matter so we can prove to our allies u ain't racist. Cuz if you don't donate, it makes it seem u enjoy lynching me and my race simply bc we black.
If you don't mind being racist then ignore me.
#BlackLivesMatter
For hell•o•ween this is real, forget hello ween and try to survive things to come.
Yes, agreed. As always around this time of year, we watch this, Ghostbusters, and a few others
Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin lol, that belongs on the list
@@elisheva7305 very nice!
Thank you so much for uploading this! The reboot of this series recently came out and I wanted to rewatch the original before checking out the new version. This is one of my favorite of King's works. Thanks again!
Amber Heard plays Nadine..that's all there is to say...
The remake is an abomination.
One of the greatest fiction books written. When you're reading it you go into become a part of this world.
He runs home from his post at the gate in seconds but drives for minutes to reach the gate. Gotta love it.
I am now in the fourth hour of the movie and it is exactly like the book. It is unbelievable how well the movie looks like the book. I cannot stop watching it. And ofcourse Stephen King himself plays a small role in it, like he does in all his movies. I am enjoying it immensely.
It's not exactly like the book, they made Lucy Swann the caretaker of Joe whereas in the book it was Nadine, and Lucy Swann died of an overdose before they even got very far in the book.
So much better than the remake
Just like Thing. I´ll never understand why people feel the need to remake something that´s already perfect.
I just finished the remake last night and I thought it was really good so much better than this one I mean come on
@@badbette1916 Have you read the book? The remake destroyed the characters. It had slicker special effects, but it made Frannie and Mother Abagail horribly unlikeable and Nick might as well not have been there at all. Poor Tom was ridiculous.
The remake is insanely bad.
@@badbette1916 zooomer moment
I still laugh when Flagg tells Lloyd, "Please to meet you Lloyd, hope you guess my name".
*Rolling Stones plays in the distance*
I loved reading this book when it first came out! One of his BEST!!❤❤❤❤
This is a work of art combining these episodes
I freaking love this movie!!! We had it recorded on 2 VHS back in the day. Ty so much for this!
Same here! Had it recorded on a well worn VHS tape after rewatching it so many times!
It's like you earnt and captured your own magic box with VHS. Now that was power. Drug addiction
Yeah, I had it on VHS too. Sometimes I really wish still being able to watch all those old VHS movies, I had, I miss so many of them, I havent been able to find again later, this among them. So happy to have finally found it again!
I’ve been a Stephen King fan since I was 14 and read my first book. I don’t read books a second time, but I actually read this three times. I had to read the unabridged version when it came out and then I read it again a couple of years later. The first publication was the least interesting. Stephen King knows what he’s doing and he has proven it time and time again! I love that I’m an Oregonian and have been to Mt. Hood and so many other places that were done here!
Thanks for putting this together
Best Stephen King movie..all perfect casting ..music😍
I read the paperback when I was in high school. Read it twice since, including the unabridged version. I have watched this miniseries countless times since it first aired in 1994. Such a sweeping, complex story. Although the book is by far so much better, this telling of his narrative, also his screenplay, is none the less very compelling.
Who else recorded on VHS? Those tapes were rough, nice to see it high quality here. Casting was great, acting was great, story was great.
This whole scenario sounds far too familiar now, don't it?! Yeah - I know, right?
You couldn't be more correct.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who thinks so.. I've been saying this all seems like "the stand" for 4yrs now..😮
Oh, I don't know about you but my lockdown wasn't spent with anyone as fetch as Molly Ringwald! 29:00
It's an agenda. A diabolical agenda since the beginning of creation.
Bible is truth. Sad humanity does not see what is blatantly put in our faces.
Pick your team
Lesser magic. Please wake up.
M-O-O-N that spells X I love that
Best line in the whole show
They should've remasters this classic not tried to do a new one.
This is Top quality viewing
So happy to have the chance to see this again. Thank you so much!
When this came out in the 90’s I was in college. I was one of those students that spent all my time studying and working to pay for college. I read the book but never saw the movie. This was exactly the way I thought it would be. Very cool.
A Stephen king I actually never watched. Not sure why. I loved it. Great cast
Watching this travesty, it's almost as bad as how they butchered Firestarter.
This series reminded to me something that started on March 2020
You reminded me to be glad I learned to speak and write correctly.
@@cmerton English is not my native language, it is my fourth. English is not so important these days.
One of my favorites by stephen King and the superior broadcast of it as well. Thank you for posting it.
Hard to belive it's 30 years ago this TV show was made.I was in Junior Highschool when I watched this show on TV.It's a bit outdated since it was made before the Internet became public+the fashion of the era,clothes and big hair.
Thanks for uploading this on UA-cam.
Love this one! I won’t even watch the remake they did. Storm Of The Century is another one I enjoy, and can’t forget IT with Tim Curry.
was telling my fiancee about this version and she wasnt old enough to remeber it on tv. she was only 5 or so but i plan on having her watch this because i havent seen the more recent version...dont know if i ever will this is one of those movies tnat will basically "Stand" the test of time. The cast only accents this nobel adaptation and with recent events maybe reminds us that life is short and can end at a moments notice...so try to be the best person you can and be prepared for the worst.
What age were you? 🤔
I'm actually 47
One of my favorite movies based on a Stephen King book! ❤Epic!
Thank you for posting. What a great movie and hard to find
I have the movie on VHS.
4K looks good but no ads is much better - good work
Of course I rewatched this during the pandemic
I was never much impressed by Stephen King’s writing until I was stuck on a 13-hour road trip and I ended up reading my father’s copy of *The Stand (Complete and Uncut)*. First off, as a 12-year-old, intellectually-precocious kid who had hit puberty around 9, and had power fantasies on top of the lot of it, I was entranced by the figure of Randall Flagg. Now in my 40s, I feel as if civilised Americans are beset on all sides by tens of thousands of little Randall Flaggs.
You are SUPER AWESOME for uploading this. Thank you.
Wonderful! I won't watch the latest adaptation, this is the one I like!
I have been reading the whole book three times and I absolutely loved it. And now I am gonna sit down in my pillows and watch the whole movie.Great!
This is my favorite Steven King book. It’s long but it moves right along. I’ve read it already 4 times and never get tired of it. 👍
The best series is The Black Tower, an unbelievable story about evil and good and many books long!! But I agree, the Stand is a great book.
I like The Stand and have reread it several times over the years, but of the King stories I've read, I like Dolores Claiborne best.
Towards the end, I cried tears of joy and almost felt human
so what R U a vampire?
@@davidluck1678 No I'm a vegan and do not consume blood..I don't really identify as a human and it's not easy for me to explain
@@donsaxon1948 That was the cringiest bit I ever read anywhere. Congrats.
@@horsthooden4600 You must not know very much about what's going on in the world...what I said was more cringe than president biden taking showers with his young daughter?
I have the book and the DVD. I have watch this move over a dozen times and it is still great to watch. Thanks. I thought of this movie when COVID hit. Scary that this could actually happen.😮
Maybe it will..stay tuned
I have read the book so many many times. The characters are like my old familiar friends. One of SK best most compelling works. Epic in every way….
Back when SK was a great writer. LONG time ago. Loved the book, loved this mini-series.
Thanx for posting this Kontribus, great film, great memories, took me 4 sessions to watch and loved it all.....Nearly 6 hours of classic 80 -90's visual Tech (Historically State of the Art at the time) and an absolutely spot on Audio track. Thank you mate.