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Has anyone seen the Stephen King Short Movie called The Langoliers?

 

This is a excerpt from Wikipedia, BOLDED is the STEPHEN KING SX based on Benzo WD, to sum it up, things in a BENZO REALM are just like this if you can use them as metaphoric examples and use your imagination to make connections to DP and DR.

 

It's like we are not in today and the day we are in, all the things around us are dead and cannot be made useful in the BENZO REALM.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers_(TV_miniseries)

 

Brian takes over the plane and heads to Bangor International Airport, in Maine, an airport with less traffic and an extra long runway. He insists that going to Bangor instead of their intended destination of Boston with no radio and no visibility of the ground makes a safer zone for an emergency landing. Toomey proves to be a psychotic who is panicked about not making it to Boston, but Nick manages to quiet him down. Dinah, who apparently has psychic power, sees through Toomey's eyes and recognizes he could be a danger. After making no contact with anyone on the ground, Brian and the survivors make it to Bangor and land at the airport.

Everyone is relieved until they deboard the plane. The airport is devoid of people and automobiles and service vehicles are abandoned on the tarmac. The survivors discover the oddity of no smells in the air that should be on an airport tarmac, like fuel. Toomey begins an outrageous demand to get to Boston again and his thoughts go back to the bitter treatment he received as a child from his verbally abusive and overbearing father. Toomey's building desperation to get to Boston stems from the fact that his father used to warn him about the Langoliers: hairy, spherical creatures with razor-sharp teeth that chase down the lazy and purposeless and eat them alive.

As the survivors get inside the airport terminal, they discover an odd environment. Sound does not reverberate, there is no electricity, and gadgets with batteries have no power. Inside the terminal, everything is dark. Toomey escapes the group and hallucinates his father is scolding him for missing his appointment in Boston. He warns Toomey that if he remains here any longer, the Langoliers will find him and eat him. Toomey becomes even more anxious to escape and hides in the airport security office. There, he finds a revolver.

Dinah begins to hear crunching sounds in the distance and warns the group that whatever the sound is it continues to get closer by the moment and that they must escape before it gets to them. In the restaurant, after learning that matches don't burn and food and drink has no taste, Bob Jenkins begins to hypothesize that they have traveled into the past to a dead, silent, and empty world that may be wearing down; when the energy of existence moves on, this is "what happens to today when it becomes yesterday". He suggests they went through a "time rip". Brian thinks that Jenkins could be right because the plane flew through an Aurora Borealis that spotters and airlines saw over the Mojave Desert. They realize they must make their way back through that rip, to rejoin the current time flow.

Just then, Toomey bursts into the restaurant and takes Bethany hostage. Albert attempts to subdue Toomey and gets shot, but the bullet has no force. Albert admits that because of Jenkins' theory, he didn't think the gun would fire at all. Nick ties Toomey up and, eventually, the crunching sounds can be heard by all. Bob tells Brian that the plane can be refueled and they can escape to go back home but Brian insists that everything in the world they're in is expired, and therefore, jet fuel won't burn. Albert, however, using Jenkins' theory again, experiments and discovers that inside the plane, the survivors had brought their "time" with them. The dead matches and drinks become revived after being in the plane. So, they guess that jet fuel will work once loaded inside.

Meanwhile, Toomey explains the Langoliers and their purpose to Laurel and Dinah. After leaving him in the restaurant alone, Toomey manages to escape, finds a knife and attacks Dinah, fearing that she is the head Langolier and the others as Langoliers as well. Nick and Laurel attempt to bandages Dinah's wound while Mr. Gaffney and Albert go in search of a stretcher. Toomey attacks them and stabs Gaffney in the back, killing him. Albert knocks Toomey unconscious. Nick finds them and sends Albert back to the plane. Nick contemplates killing Toomey, but then remembers Dinah's order to him: "Don't kill Toomey; we need him," and leaves.

The remaining passengers gather up the service vehicles and begin to manually pump fuel into the plane as the sound of the approaching Langoliers increases. Dinah lures Toomey out of the airport building by persuading him telepathically that the meeting has been moved from Boston to the airport tarmac. On the tarmac, he hallucinates a meeting with his boss (played by author Stephen King himself). Toomey proclaims that he deliberately lost their money and cost the company millions, ensuring his eventual firing and disgrace; his boss transforms into his father, who angrily hisses at him and then makes a threatening gesture that resembles the Langoliers' movements and Toomey then realizes this was all a vision.

With the plane's fuel tanks full, Brian starts up the engines as the Langoliers approach, chewing through the forest and destroying everything in their path. Toomey sees them and flees for his life. The Langoliers chase him, taking him away and them away from the plane. They catch and eat Toomey. Brian gets the plane onto the runway and on its way while everyone else stares at the Langoliers as they eat away the terminal. Bob determines that they are simply timekeepers of eternity; they eat up the past to clean it in the most efficient way possible. The Langoliers pursue the plane and almost catch it when the plane lifts off from the very end of the runway. As the plane achieves cruising altitude and pulls away from the airport, the passengers can see that the remaining portion of the airport disintegrates.

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I have seen the whole thing...in fact i had a collection of Stephen-King-books in Germany, that included almost 30 books.

I never really liked the movies they made of most of those, but one is good and quite close to the book...it`s The Stand.

One of my favorite movies, as i am not watching so much stuff, i prefere reading.

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