Stephen King's The Mist

Did anyone else play the text-based game back in the 80's? It was like Zork and usually you got the same results no matter what move you made after a certain point... "YOU ARE DEAD".
 
Pros: It's getting generally good reviews on RottenTomatoes.

Cons: The review snippets on the site just blatantly give away what's inside the mist in the movie and its origin, with no warning what so ever for no ****ing reason and now I'm insanely pissed off.

Seriously, what the ****? RT's never done that before. I was really looking forward to this and now the biggest mystery of the movie have been ruined by reviewers who have the nerve to encourage me to see it.
 
Ultimate Houde said:
Without going into too many details, the Mist is not sentient like the Fog was
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Oh. Because I haven't seen any of the Fog movies, or any adaptations of the Mist, and when I saw the trailer for the Mist, I figured it was just a rip-off of the Fog remake.
 
I don't know if I'll bother with this movie, I read the short story a while ago so any mystery has been compromised for me.
 
This looks really good, but I don't know if I'll end up seeing it. Busy with school and all that.

Oh, and for those of you have read the short story, I hear that the ending to the movie is COMPLETELY different. Of course, I have no idea if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I just thought I'd throw that out there.
 
Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, SEE it.

Stop *****ing about "the mystery of the mist" being ruined, that's not the point of the film at all. The point of the movie is actually a very poignant examination of human nature and our reactions in the face of the unknown, cross-laced with some great monster movie segments. In fact, the closet films I could think of to compare it too would be "John Carpenter's The Thing" and, to a lesser extent, "Night of the Living Dead".

In terms of casting, the film is perfect, Thomas Jane in particular. No really big, beautiful stars, but a lot of great character actors that eat up the material and throw themselves into the story. The production is also terrific, the monsters scary and disturbing, and Darabont's use of music (or lack thereof) give it a creepy edge that REALLY keeps you on the edge of your seat. Even if you've read the story, you're biting your nails.

It's the ending though, the ending that TRULY makes this movie superb. Why? Because it finally emphasizes a point that's long needed to be made, the point that while our negative aspects and intentions can be our doom, our positive aspects can be just as dangerous. I won't say word about it, but God if it didn't just. . .

Anyways, this is easily the best horror film of the year, and probably the best in the past five years, and the really great thing about it is that it's a film that plays by the older rules. It isn't splatter porn, it isn't J-Horror, it's a movie that simply scares you because you realize "there's a good chance that's how I would react".

Oh, and to add a little caveat, this movie pretty much affirms that Darabont adapting Stephen King equals gold.
 
this already sounds awesome. I hate splatter films like hostel and crap. I saw rear window last week and wondered how come movies aren't done like this anymore.
 
Willverine said:
Did anyone else play the text-based game back in the 80's? It was like Zork and usually you got the same results no matter what move you made after a certain point... "YOU ARE DEAD".
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Adventure Games = Killing You For No Good Reason Since 1978.
 
Entropy said:
Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, SEE it.

Stop *****ing about "the mystery of the mist" being ruined, that's not the point of the film at all. The point of the movie is actually a very poignant examination of human nature and our reactions in the face of the unknown, cross-laced with some great monster movie segments. In fact, the closet films I could think of to compare it too would be "John Carpenter's The Thing" and, to a lesser extent, "Night of the Living Dead".

In terms of casting, the film is perfect, Thomas Jane in particular. No really big, beautiful stars, but a lot of great character actors that eat up the material and throw themselves into the story. The production is also terrific, the monsters scary and disturbing, and Darabont's use of music (or lack thereof) give it a creepy edge that REALLY keeps you on the edge of your seat. Even if you've read the story, you're biting your nails.

It's the ending though, the ending that TRULY makes this movie superb. Why? Because it finally emphasizes a point that's long needed to be made, the point that while our negative aspects and intentions can be our doom, our positive aspects can be just as dangerous. I won't say word about it, but God if it didn't just. . .

Anyways, this is easily the best horror film of the year, and probably the best in the past five years, and the really great thing about it is that it's a film that plays by the older rules. It isn't splatter porn, it isn't J-Horror, it's a movie that simply scares you because you realize "there's a good chance that's how I would react".

Oh, and to add a little caveat, this movie pretty much affirms that Darabont adapting Stephen King equals gold.
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I was massively impressed with how he handled the film, and our Hero.


I'm all excited with the fact that Darabont is looking at adapting The Long Walk (my FAVORITE King story) to film.
 
Did any one else get this?? I rented it first cause I didn't get a chance to see it when it made it's rounds. But I loved it, so I bought it. Wasn't scary but creepy as hell. It's scary to think how fast people will turn on each other, after you take away all the rules of society and paranoia sets in.
 
Just saw it, and I thought it was more-or-less fantastic. I was a little worried at first because some of the early acting and dialouge was kind of cheesy, but it got better very fast. Overall, I was quite impressed with how much of it felt so natural and realistic.

The ending, I felt, was incredibly powerful. I know how I would have done it differently, but I actively admire what they did. Bottom line,
horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE, LIFE-SHATTERING things happen. You could make a mistake that's too horrible to even think about. But the world keeps spinning. Personally, that's what will always be able to comfort me. Life isn't like the movies sometimes, and as a result, films should reflect that, because you have to be prepared for things like that in your life so you'll be able to find something good to latch on to(e.g. the mist disappearing and billions of other families being okay) and have some part of you, no matter how small, stay sane as a result.

Movies should not, however, just be downers for the sake of downers, which is a cheat, and the fact that this wasn't that, but something much more powerful and poinigant and important, was great.

And that's my take on that. Everything else.... Entropy already said it.

This was definitely better than Cloverfield, too.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Although I'm considering watching it in the Black and White that Darabont intended it to be.
 
Dr.Strangefate said:
I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Although I'm considering watching it in the Black and White that Darabont intended it to be.
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Yeah, I read about that on the net last night. We rented the one-disc set whcih doesn't have it but it seems like it would be pretty cool. I'm not sure it would be that much better than colour for a first-time viewing, though, but if I see it again someday, I'll definitely want to check that out.
 
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