Annoying Kid!

exactly! i was wishing that he would die as soon as possible just to shut up

Erm...the kid talks about God the whole time because that's how Stephen King wrote the damn book. David's the most dynamic character. So everyone shut up. =]

The Kid character was an obvious plot device. His spiritual character was required in this case because the story was very much about a conflict between good and evil, heaven and hell, God and Tak (Satan). In one part of the movie it refers to Tak as the 'god of this world' an obvious reference to Tak being the devil. The whole groeve 'pit' theme where Tak resides connects that character to the devil or satan refered to in biblical terms. One very interesting theme was the Kid as being the savior of those who do survive in the end. That was reinforced in a scene when they are in the theatre and the Kid finds a bag containing five tins of sardines (fish) and a box of soda crackers (unleavened bread. He hands the food to the others and says "there is plenty for everyone" If you notice that as each character takes a can, there is always five cans left in the bag. Even whan all 7 people take a can. This is a direct plot device to have the Kid 'feed the masses' as is written in the New Testament when Christ hands the fish and bread to the masses.

Steven King did a great job, and the movie, although slower moving pulled it off. If you remember in his "Langoliers" that movie was slow but also brilliant in its depiction of existence.

Yes the Kid was annoying but a necessary plot device to move the story along to its brilliant end.

Im not an atheist, I'm an Agnostic...

It is weird that a child would have no desire to explore or experience new things. It is weird that he would suffocate the very human, very American, desire to rebel. Nothing saddens me more than seeing a child who has closed himself off to all the world has in order to sit around an re-read some book. And all because some authority figure told him to...

That's just silly. Just because people were annoyed by the kid's faith, that doesn't mean he has to be the polar opposite. There are many types of personalities between "quiet God-boy" and "sexist, cussing, smoking, brat".

The kid was great. He was not annoying, he was the center, and the main protaganist. Tak knew this. The mother was the annoying one with her blatant,ignorant,bigoted,atheism and it was the reason that Tak chose her for his next host. No faith, no defenses.