Steven King's "The Mist"

[marshallfever]

Re: Steven King's "The Mist"

Yea i just saw the movie last nite. Definitely a good movie. Its more about the human character than it is fighting a monster(s). The movie was good in every front. The creatures were believable and the cast was fantastic.

I guess like every Steven King movie i've seen, the ending was almost abrupt. Within the last 10mins of the film, I knew what would happen and i hated it when it happened.

Great movie though

[AuburnAlumni]

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Just got back from seeing this...

In a word...bleak. Very very bleak in all aspects.

Great movie. Good character development, and like another said, more about the battle of Human will/spirit amongst each other than simply, humans vs monsters.

It's not the "Feel good" movie of the year that's for sure.

[Boltman]

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I am not going to the theaters to see this. But I am dying to know the story and how it ended. Can someone please post it via spoiler tag or pm me please.

Gracias.

[Porschebenz2001]

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I am not going to the theaters to see this. But I am dying to know the story and how it ended. Can someone please post it via spoiler tag or pm me please.

Gracias.

PM sent

[CMH]

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Just got back from seeing this...

In a word...bleak. Very very bleak in all aspects.

Great movie. Good character development, and like another said, more about the battle of Human will/spirit amongst each other than simply, humans vs monsters.

It's not the "Feel good" movie of the year that's for sure.

So when you say bleak you mean that's how it made you feel. Not that the movie was terrible.

[Beantown]

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So when you say bleak you mean that's how it made you feel. Not that the movie was terrible.

Yeah, that's what I took from it as well.

[Kanobi]

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Good movie. Loved how they stayed with the main character and his location. They could have moved around - showed the wife and her ordeal at the house, or how the military was dealing with the situation. But sticking with the main character made you feel isolated, cut-off and look at the situation as hopeless which, of course, fed perfectly into the ending.

[AuburnAlumni]

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So when you say bleak you mean that's how it made you feel. Not that the movie was terrible.

Like I said.

Great movie.

But a very bleak one. There isn't a lot of "hope" in this movie...at all. For humanity, survival, etc.

What's really scary is that the majority of actions by humans in this movie would probably really occur in a similar situation in the real world. We are by nature..an insane race, bent on killing each other if more than 2 of us are in the same room. (Props to a certain character in the movie for this reference).

[Boltman]

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PM sent

Got it, many thanks my man!


Edit: I have a "summing up" or "ending sequence" of events if you so choose to read. It was sent to me via pm by Porschebenz.

I know that some of you do not plan on seeing this film (as I do not as well), but still want to know what all this "bleak, very bleak" talk is about.

I will put his pm in a spoiler tag, *DO NOT CLICK IT IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE ENDING* for those who are curious.

Spoiler

Saw you asked about the ending of the Mist, here goes.

Some people buy into that crazy religious ladys crap. Some of the locals, including the main character and his son, try to get out of the store and escape. The crazy woman and her mob try to stop them. She tells them to get the kid, but Ollie shoots the crazy lady, killing her.

Finally they all get outside. There are 5 people left in the jeep. Before they leave the parking lot the main character reaches for the gun, and gets it, which is very important. First, they go the main character's house but he finds that his wife is dead. Then, they drive untill the gas runs out and hear the sound of what they think is monsters. The gun has only 4 bullets, for 5 people. The main character kills the other 4, including his son. He gets out of the car, yelling at what he thinks are the monsters.

The mist clears and he sees that it is the military, there to save everyone. The monsters were done. He sees a woman from the beginning of the movie who no one would help home because of the mist. She was rescued, along with her kids, who she left the store to get. The end is him yelling up at the sky in terror. Like someone else said, not exactly the feel good movie of the year.

[CMH]

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Just watched this and while I think the ending was well-done I'm not sure it was gripping.

I thought what would happen was pretty predictable once the protagonist suggested they do what they did. But I agree that the end result was bleak. In fact, the entire movie was definitely bleak.

One of those movies that makes you realize why you should fear people more so than whatever living creature could be outside in a blind mist.

Amazing because it's true. Here's this woman preaching about God and she was actually the catalyst of the destruction of man-kind - at least in the case of the people stuck in the supermarket.

I obviously won't bring religion into this discussion because of TOS but you can make your own assumptions and realizations.

I want to read the novella now. If the overall story of the novella is anything like the movie then Stephen King pretty much solidified himself as one of the best writers in our era. To interchange fear of an unseen beast with the fear of people that we see everday equates to genius.

[Beantown]

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Easily the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

But...so ****in' good, at the same time.

[AuburnAlumni]

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Easily the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

But...so ****in' good, at the same time.

LMAO....

Yup. It's oh so bleakishly wonderful in a bleak kind of way. Did I mention that the movie is rather bleak?

[Beantown]

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LMAO....

Yup. It's oh so bleakishly wonderful in a bleak kind of way. Did I mention that the movie is rather bleak?

Seriously...

I have never been so emotionally involved in a movie. Ever.

The grocery store scene, with the soldier, made me want to jump through my TV with a ****in' machine gun and kill everyone.

[greenegt]

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Just saw this on DVD, myself. Cool movie. Very well done.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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This movie was a total joy and finally a horror movie with some depth. I rented this not expecting much because of all the horror drivel that's been released in the last decade and local reviews in my newspaper gave it OK reviews but nothing great. I didn't think it started off great and some of the acting was weak but than it just kept steamrolling and got better and better and showed why humans are bigger monsters than any creature lurking outside. It seemed like a perfect adaptation of a book rather the tired formula of let's make an ouzi and blow these ****ers away like most recent horror movies where they all of a sudden become Rambo.

The ending was out of left field but boy Tom Jane does have bad luck with his timing.





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I like the fact that they kept the origin of the creatures secret and didn't delve into the other dimension and showing the military trying to contain it. It put you in the same helpless situation with the people in the grocery store not knowing why the mist is there and will it ever go away.