The Mist

[Usurper]

Saw the new Stephen King adaptation today, and I'm mighty impressed. Granted, King's done the whole isolation storyline before, but none of them ever hit me with as much emotional force as this one. Might have to chalk that up to the director as well, who apparently changed the ending to one that really meshed perfectly with the theme of the film.

The theme is the effect of fear on human behavior. The ending...well, it's hardcore, and I congratulate the studios for having the balls to end it the way they did.

Anyone else catch it yet?

[hellchicken]

I really want to see this one, I love both Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile and I hope the Mist is at least up to par to these.

What's the running time btw.?

[Mblackwell]

I'll probably go see it, but having read the story I thought at the time "there's almost no way they could make this into a movie". I'm afraid of how much they might have added or changed to make enough material to make this work as a feature length film.

[John]

Everytime I saw the preview I thought "The Fog...?", heh.

[KaiserSoze]

Best movie this year.

[crunchy superman]

Very good movie! I also thought the ending was fantastic! You could kinda see it coming, but what I thought would happen would be that after he shot everybody, he'd get out of the truck, take 10 more steps and be out of the mist. But the ending they released worked very well.

[NutWrench]

I hope Steven King got himself a decent producer for this and I hope he gets final approval on any screenplays. He has had some REALLY bad luck with movie studios that took his short stories and churned out some real barf bags like Creepshow and Cats Eye.

[KaiserSoze]

Very good movie! I also thought the ending was fantastic! You could kinda see it coming, but what I thought would happen would be that after he shot everybody, he'd get out of the truck, take 10 more steps and be out of the mist. But the ending they released worked very well.

Yes, one of the best endings ever in a movie and it's getting pretty hard to come up with ones that are this memorable.

Stephen King is on record saying that he absolutely loves Darabont's modifed ending(I say modified because people are saying it was a new ending. Not true. I've read the short story and let's just say the ending is "expanded" with some new material)

Here's a link to Fangoria's website(I love Fango) with some great interviews with Darabont and King re: The Mist.

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=5507

[avatar_58]

I don't understand, I must be broken or something because Stephen King is talentless to me. I've read short stories and every one of them had me rolling my eyes and asking "What? Who published this nonsense?". The movies I've attempted to watch were all garbage as well.

This new movie looks even worse. A killer mist with monsters inside? Err...ok?

Seriously someone lock this guy up with M Night Shyamalan and throw away the key.

[KaiserSoze]

I don't understand, I must be broken or something because Stephen King is talentless to me. I've read short stories and every one of them had me rolling my eyes and asking "What? Who published this nonsense?". The movies I've attempted to watch were all garbage as well.

This new movie looks even worse. A killer mist with monsters inside? Err...ok?

Seriously someone lock this guy up with M Night Shyamalan and throw away the key.

Banned. :o

King himself admitted during press for "The Mist" that many directors/studios have royally screwed up his material. Darabont is about the only director/writer who's made good King adaptions(The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and now The Mist)

[hellchicken]

Banned. :o

King himself admitted during press for "The Mist" that many directors/studios have royally screwed up his material. Darabont is about the only director/writer who's made good King adaptions(The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and now The Mist)

Agreed. Those movies not only stand out as very much the best book-to-screen adaptations, but also as fantastic films in their own right (don't know about the Mist yet, but I expect at the very least a good film).

Also, don't judge Stephen King by his short stories, most of these fall into the horror genre, some are more creepy, and some are just plain weird.
Him being the one author with the biggest output (or at least he used to be) it's no surprise IMO that there's a lot of junk out there that made it into publication. Nevertheless, a lot of these books do stand out and not every book is horror with monsters or freaky shit going on.
Look at the stories he published as Richard Bachman. The Long Walk, The Running Man, those are fantastic stories IMHO, at least if your into sorta dark dystopic tales. Or Rage. Excellent reads, all of them.

[Mblackwell]

If you want a good Steven King short read "Nona".

It really effed with my head.

And the Mist was actually an interesting short story. The point is not the mist at all, but how the people react to it. It's not a story about some creepy mist, it's a story about a bunch of people locked up together because of the danger and slowly going crazy.

[Needle]

Finally seen this and was pleasantly surprised. I expected the usual crap, but got something that was actually scary at times. Bonus points for the deliciously evil ending.

The only thing that annoyed me a little bit was that most of the trapped people went from mostly reasonable to completely insane zealot in less than a day. Not very believable.

[hellchicken]

Saw it, hated it. Almost every bit of it. The CGI was the best part of this film, and they were on par with what you see in the Xena TV Show, at best. :rolleyes:

Admittedly the german dubbing was outright awful, I might give this film a second chance on DVD with the original language track. But still I can't believe this was directed by Frank "Shawshank Redemption - one of the best movies ever EVER" Darabont. And was his DOP maybe drunk while shooting? Or why is almopst every shot out of focus?

The ending felt forced, I felt absolutely no sympathy for any of the characters, especially Thomas Jane's, who IMO ran around like an idiot and was pretty useless most of the time, even more at the ending.

When the bugs appeared on the window I just thought "turn off the lights, right now", but instead they turn on more lights first.
Also, as mentioned in another post, the people go from being rational to "zealot follower of the crazy annoying woman whose best moment in the entire film is when she dies" way too fast.
No no, I get it, I'm supposed to be annoyed by her and hate her, it's the way her character was written, and that's fine. But I'm more annoyed about how stupid everyone else is. Take the army guys, now they were pretty much useless except to serve as lambs to the slaughterhouse.

[Needle]

When the bugs appeared on the window I just thought "turn off the lights, right now"
So did several characters in the movie. But others didn't. Those weren't your standard space marines/special forces guys. Just regular people.

[Marty]

i was flipping through a Rollingstones mag today where they were giving their best and worst of 2007 mentions. their worst "scary movie" was The Mist. im confused, i thought it was a pretty good movie and im surprised they picked that over all the other horrendous shite that was pumped out.
im no film expert but i saw some other crappy reviews for it and i cant help think it deserved better. especially seeing rave reviews for I Am Legend.

[MeatWagon]

I just saw this a few days ago, I loved it, especially the ending, although the cg looked a little cheap for my tastes. Also enjoyed the little nod to "The Dark Tower" at the start.