*** The Long Walk (Movie Adaptation) *** - Page 2

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8:27p, 10/26/25

Decent movie to to pass the time, but far better short story. It's like they tried to hit on all of the different walker's personalities but outside the main two, none of them were flesh out in the least.

Hammil actually did decently in his role - from what I remember about the story the major was a caricature.

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In reply to brew82 • 3:55p, 12/9/25

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brew82 said:
Finally got around to watching it. I enjoyed it for the most part. Had a Hunger Games feel to me. Can someone post how the book ended. The ending of the movie was pretty blah. Also, were there unimaginable riches going to the winner? Just didn't seem like they were being honest on that part.

Bolded as I'm interested as well.

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In reply to tamuags08 • 6:36p, 12/9/25

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tamuags08 said:
brew82 said:
Finally got around to watching it. I enjoyed it for the most part. Had a Hunger Games feel to me. Can someone post how the book ended. The ending of the movie was pretty blah. Also, were there unimaginable riches going to the winner? Just didn't seem like they were being honest on that part.

Bolded as I'm interested as well.

Been a while, so I might be off a little on details. Pete doesn't win. It gets down to Pete (the black guy with the scar), Ray (the guy that wants to kill the major), and Stebbins (the major's *******).

They get to the crowd like the movie, and Pete falls asleep walking and Ray tries to save him, but Pete sits down and dies. That left Ray and Stebbins, the *******. Ray obviously breaks down and then sees a dark figure ahead and is about to give up and let Stebbins win when Stebbins falls down and gets shot.

Ray is the winner, and when the Major goes to tell him he's won Ray turns, sees the dark figure, and just keeps walking after it. It doesn't tell you what happens after that. The reader kind of decides for themselves if he went crazy, had PTSD and kept walking, or something else.

I remember watching something about Stephen King and how he basically figures out the story as he's writing it. For the vast majority of his novels he doesn't have an ending in mind until he gets there. When I saw that it made complete sense why he's a great writer who cannot write and ending to save his life.

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7:29p, 12/9/25

That ending is not any better than the movies.

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11:50a, 1/9/26

Well, as a Stephen King fan, I hated what they did from the book.

First the almost unimaginable amount of swearing. I don't even dislike swearing in a movie, but it was just so gratuitous.

More importantly, it's what they did to the plot. So in the book, it's not his mother that he's going to see in Freeport. It's his girlfriend, she's his emotional core. There's also no concept of revenge in the book. In an interview,I saw with the director, he said that you couldn't have revenge be the motivation of the winner. Well in the book there is no motivation for revenge and Garraty wins,,, so the revenge change basically made them change the ending of the movie. And then they had the winner exact revenge anyway. Plus,because they made it his mom instead of his girlfriend his mom has to watch him die on TV.
And then Hollywood being Hollywood, even though McVries likely wasn't black in the book, they change it all enough so that the gay black man ends up winning in the movie. And I say that really liking what they did with McVries' character. In the book he wasn't from a broken family. He had an intact family, but they made it more sympathetic in the movie, which was fine and the guy who played him did really well.
Sidenote, in the book, they actually started at the Canadian border in Maine and make their way all the way to Massachusetts I think. Which might've been more interesting in the movie, but I understand for that piece why they did what they did.
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