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I saw that movie The Mist over the weekend

Fritzo

Fritzo

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At first, I thought it was a Steven King ripoff of The Fog, but it has its own twists to it.

Anyway, the ending of this movie really got to me. It was disturbing, twisted, and completely unnecessary. I HATE movies like that where the focus of the story fails in the end. It makes me feel like "Why did I spend all this time watching this?"

Fail.
 
I don't think my wife and I got half way through this film. The characters were so freaking stupid that it made it unwatchable.

Don't get me wrong, I expect characters in horror movies to make stupid decisions in order to drive the story along. But the characters in The Mist gave stupid a bad name.
 
I couldn't get into it and I hated Marcia Gay Harden's character so much I wanted to punch my TV over and over and over. A lot of people seemed to like it though.

KT
 
I enjoyed it. The whole story was more of a psychological mind mess. Could have done more with it. IMHO the ending totally makes what the movie was about, how far are you going to go in the face of certain death?
 
The premise of the movie/book is fairly intriguing - it's just a shame that King missed the mark by so far. It's a great concept from a psychological standpoint - group of people trapped together fearing the unknown outside. Tremendous opportunity - which is then entirely squandered by introducing us to 50 ft tall Half-Life crabs. Absolutely fucking retarded.

The ending was only just the icing on the cake. The book actually ends entirely differently (and how a movie of this type should end), but apparently the director of the movie approached King with the new idiotic ending and King loved it (because, well, he's an idiot).
 
i thought the ending was awesome. sometimes its nice to get something different than the tired and cliche "good defeats evil, everything wrapped in a nice pretty bow"-endings.
 
add jennifers body to the fail list, story framed through eyes of the plain friend you wish megan fox would just kill...



and moon...no good reason he needs to be there. entire premise fails
 
Fritzo said:
At first, I thought it was a Steven King ripoff of The Fog, but it has its own twists to it.

Anyway, the ending of this movie really got to me. It was disturbing, twisted, and completely unnecessary. I HATE movies like that where the focus of the story fails in the end. It makes me feel like "Why did I spend all this time watching this?"

Fail.
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The Mist was based on the Stephen King novella from both Dark Forces (1980) and the Skeleton Crew (1985), and it was originally called The Mist.

The ending of the movie was fantastic. Disturbing, yes, but that's the way it's supposed to be. The book's ending pretty bleak, so I'm glad they ended the movie the way they did.
 
anxi80 said:
i thought the ending was awesome. sometimes its nice to get something different than the tired and cliche "good defeats evil, everything wrapped in a nice pretty bow"-endings.
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That's just it. I like closure in a movie. This guy kills his family to prevent them from being eaten and then gets rescued 5 minutes later. Not only is it twisted, it's corny. I was expecting Rod Serling to step out of the fog and take over the scene.
 
Fritzo said:
That's just it. I like closure in a movie. This guy kills his family to prevent them from being eaten and then gets rescued 5 minutes later. Not only is it twisted, it's corny. I was expecting Rod Serling to step out of the fog and take over the scene.
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Hey, McCoy killed his dad and then almost immediately a cure was found. Shit happens.
 
Yeah, their was some corny and anticlimactic cliché moments, but the movie did have some imagination that I enjoyed.
 
jonks said:
Hey, McCoy killed his dad and then almost immediately a cure was found. Shit happens.
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And look what happened:

The Golden Raspberry Awards also known as the "Razzies", saw Star Trek V win the award for Worst Picture of 1989, with Shatner also winning for both Worst Actor and Worst Director. The film earned nominations for DeForest Kelley as Worst Supporting Actor as well as Worst Screenplay for David Loughery, William Shatner and Harve Bennett. Bennett was also nominated as the recipient of the film for being the "Worst Picture of the Decade".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_V:_The_Final_Frontier
 
I liked the novella a lot. The movie was ok where it was faithful to the book and bad where it departed from it. I thought the interdimensional monsters were quite well done though.
 
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