Brent_Marchant
Director Francis Lawrences screen adaptation of Stephen Kings novel by the same name is one of those pictures that makes me want to stand up in the theater and exclaim that the Emperor is indeed naked (though Id probably be quickly escorted from the moviehouse if I did so). The source material for this production, originally written at the time of the Vietnam War, was an allegory about the draft and its impact on young American men at the time, a mandate that often led to their deaths in an unpopular and largely unexplained conflict. And its a statement thats admittedly still valid (albeit perhaps not as relevant) all these many years later. However, the storys translation from book to screen in the present day leaves much to be desired, in...