rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban) (05/01/84)
First the bad news: "Stephen King's Children of the Corn" finally openedin good ol' Columbus, Ohio, and I am here to say that it is everything those of you who have seen it said it was...UNBELIEVABLY AWFUL!!! Why did King let his name be affixed to this garbage? It certainly has little to do with his originalshort story (which isn't the best choice for adaptation, anyway). Production values are sloppy, the script is hysterical, and the acting ranges from wooden to really wooden! Listen, this movie is *so* bad that they actually had to flash the words "THE END" on the screen so the audience would know it was over; sadly, they didn't know enough to realize that the movie was over from the very start...dreary! Now the good news: I saw an advance showing of "The Bounty" with AnthonyHopkins and Mel Gibson, and I found it to be very good. Anthony Hopkins is superb in the role of Bligh, the heretofore cardboard villian of previous film versions of this story of mutiny, who in this film becomes the sympathetic character that historians have uncovered. At 130 minutes, I was prepared for some slow going, but the film is fascinating and never dull. A superior enter- tainment all around, I highly recommend it!!