The Mist

[JimBeam]

Anybody interested in seeing this ?

I think it looks good.

Fairly well known cast for a horror movie.

I had listened to the book on tape years ago and remembered it being pretty interesting.

[patsopinion]

ugh
i fucking loathe thomas jane

for some reason every movie hes ever been in they couldnt capture the audio correctly the first time through and he cant get his mouth to match up to he audio in the movie when hes going back through

hes awful and his words dont match up with his mouth and he sucks

[cougarjake13]

i liked this movie last year when it was called the fog

[ChrisTheCop]

I'll like it better next year when its called The Spritz.

[Furtherman]

I'll waiting for The Dew.

[buzzard]

I was looking forward to it,not so much now!

[DonInNC]

I was looking forward to it,not so much now!

Don't let this thread cloud your anticipation.

[Chigworthy]

Yeah, don't let it vaporize your desire to see the flick.

[thepaulo]

Stephen King said the director rewrote the ending and made it better....and if anyone reveals the twist they should be hung by the neck until dead.

[JimBeam]

Did anybody go see this ?

I had just read about the ending being different and better than the one in the short story.

The supposedly changed another aspect of the lead character played by Thomas Jane.

In the original story he was going to the supermarket where they get trapped in order to have sex with a woman w/ whom he was having an affair.

They decided to cut that part out of the movie because obvioulsy it makes the character less sympathetic.

May do a twin bill of this and No Country For Old men tomorrow.

[TheMojoPin]

Stephen King said the director rewrote the ending and made it better....and if anyone reveals the twist they should be hung by the neck until dead.

Stephen King also thinks that the TV version of The Shining is better than Kubrick's.

Stephen King also thought that the musical stage adaptation of Carrie was pretty good.

I tend to take King's opinions about adaptations of his books with a grain of salt.

[JimBeam]

Yeah but I tend to think that the guy who wrote a story and created the characters should have a valid opinion on the subject.

I'm unaware of the Carrie musical but my brother was telling me about an interview with the director of The Mist that I thought was on either R&F or O&A and he agreed that Kubrick missed the point w/ his version of The Shinning.

I also believe that any movie/song/book can have different interpretations for each person but when the original author has no vested interest in the success or failure of the project I think his opinion holds water.

[TheMojoPin]

Yeah but I tend to think that the guy who wrote a story and created the characters should have a valid opinion on the subject.

I'm unaware of the Carrie musical but my brother was telling me about an interview with the director of The Mist that I thought was on either R&F or O&A and he agreed that Kubrick missed the point w/ his version of The Shinning.

I also believe that any movie/song/book can have different interpretations for each person but when the original author has no vested interest in the success or failure of the project I think his opinion holds water.

I do too, though King's criticsm of The Shining really sounds like he just doesn't think it's very good.

I think creators/fans in oned medium get too caught it with certain things when that work is then translated to a different medium. For better or for worse, i's in someone else's hands at that point. Besides, if an adaptation is meant to be exactly like the source materia, why even make the adaptation in the first place? That's what drives me nuts about other comic book fans...they obsess over everything ad reject anything that isn't just like the source comic. Then why bother going to see the movie? Why bother wishing for a movie adaptation? Just be happy with the original source that apparently got everything right. Obviously King's opinion shouldn't just be brushed off, hence why I said I take it wih a grain of salt...doesn't the guy sell off the rights to adapt his works for like a buck each? It's obvious that he wants these adaptations made...I just think that like any artistic creator, what he made is what he holds closest and it'll be difficult to concede that maybe someone else came up with a better idea using the basics or framework of his creation. Call it "George Lucas syndrome."

[thepaulo]

I still think Stephen King's comment of hanging critics until they were dead was a good idea.

[Tall_James]

Stephen King also thinks that the TV version of The Shining is better than Kubrick's.



While not better than Kubrick's, I thought the TV adaptation of The Shining was pretty good and remained closer to the original source material.

[Ay Kay Forty2]

I asked my mom to get the Stephen King book that he co-wrote about the 2004 Red Sox at our local library and the librarian was asking if i was a red sox fan (which i'm not really a baseball fan in general but thought i'd be interesting to read) but my mom said I was a King fan and a woman overheard and said that she got married at the Stanley Hotel which is the hotel King stayed at and got the influence for the Shining plus the TV miniseries was filmed there.

Also, it was cool watching the video on O&A interviewer the director of Mist and also talking about the Shining.

Saw the Mist over the weekend, I'd give it a solid B in my opinion. the Ending? Kinda felt like a bully punching you in the balls. (i've read half of the novella and read the last couple of sentence, kinda seems like it was up for interpretatation.) Kinda felt anger after see the movie.

[fezident]

Saw it.
Loved it.
Everybody in the theater (obviously) loved it.
Good times.




I've been hating (and walking out of!) a lot of movies lately. But I dug NO COUNTRY.... and THE MIST so, maybe things are turning around.

[JimBeam]

So I watched this on DVD the other day and have to say I enjoyed it for the most part but some things bothered me.

NOT USING SPOILER TAGS SO MOVE ON IF YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR WHAT HAPPENS.

While I think the ending is good in that it's dramatic and not what you'd expect I didn't like the motivation.

Here you have these people that for the last 2 days fought to stay alive and then there car runs out of gas and they decide to commit suicide ??

How about waiting in the car for awhile to see what happens ?
How about trying to start any one of the dozens of cars you passed on your trip ?
How about trying to go out on foot and get as far as you can ?

Sure if you venture out you may get eaten and die horribly but you also may make it to safety. I can't see just giving it all up like that.

In the same manner I don't get the soldiers' motivation for suicide either because they had no idea about what was going on at the base.
It's not like they were directly involved in the research so why would they have this guilt ?
They were privates for Pete's sake.

I also would've liked some idea of what happened to Andre Braugher's ( spelling ?? ) character.
Did he make it out like the mother who went to help her kids ?

Outside of those few small problems I liked the characters, the pace and the creatures.

I'd like to know more about what was casuing the problems but I guess that's to each reader/viewers own opinion/imagination.

Some of the comments the director makes on the DVD give you more of an idea on why he went w/ his ending. He hints that in a way maybe the religious lady was right.

Good flick and worth seeing if you haven't.

[fezident]

So I watched this on DVD the other day and have to say I enjoyed it for the most part but some things bothered me.

NOT USING SPOILER TAGS SO MOVE ON IF YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR WHAT HAPPENS.

While I think the ending is good in that it's dramatic and not what you'd expect I didn't like the motivation.

Here you have these people that for the last 2 days fought to stay alive and then there car runs out of gas and they decide to commit suicide ??

How about waiting in the car for awhile to see what happens ?
How about trying to start any one of the dozens of cars you passed on your trip ?
How about trying to go out on foot and get as far as you can ?

Sure if you venture out you may get eaten and die horribly but you also may make it to safety. I can't see just giving it all up like that.

In the same manner I don't get the soldiers' motivation for suicide either because they had no idea about what was going on at the base.
It's not like they were directly involved in the research so why would they have this guilt ?
They were privates for Pete's sake.

I also would've liked some idea of what happened to Andre Braugher's ( spelling ?? ) character.
Did he make it out like the mother who went to help her kids ?

Outside of those few small problems I liked the characters, the pace and the creatures.

I'd like to know more about what was casuing the problems but I guess that's to each reader/viewers own opinion/imagination.

Some of the comments the director makes on the DVD give you more of an idea on why he went w/ his ending. He hints that in a way maybe the religious lady was right.

Good flick and worth seeing if you haven't.

You make some good points but, I agree with (and truly loved!) the depressing ending.
Why?
Because your logic is only somewhat hindsighted. They would much rather have called their own shots (no pun intended) than be ripped to pieces by the bugs or... worse... slowly digested in a caccoon for god knows how long.
They weren't "giving up" as much as they were choosing the lesser of two evils.

I am anxious to listen to Darabonts commentary. I loved the overall tone of this movie.

[Mike Teacher]

Stephen King said the director rewrote the ending and made it better....and if anyone reveals the twist they should be hung by the neck until dead.

Utterly ruined what was an awesome novella. The original ending was far better, it just obviously wasnt Hollywood enough; Hollywood seems to think movies that end with a bang trump movies that end with a whimper [or gasp... unresolved ?!?!?!"]

Loved it, until they fucked the end. Bummer that, with Darabont and all.

The new ending, well someone already listed the shittiness of it...

Hack. Ending by committee.

[JimBeam]

In the commentary the director mentions that King actually forshadows the film ending in a part where the main character says something to the effect of " well we still have 4 bullets left so if anything goes wrong ... ".

So the director is saying that while the book leaves an open ending that most people want some finality to their stories and that he just developed what King had already put out as an option.

It just bothered me that they wouldn't try for another car or anything like that.

More of " Oh well we got as far as a tank of gas would take us now let's all die ".

The point Darabont makes in that maybe the religious lady was right is how the " problem " ends after the main character " sacrafices " his son. Giving the viewer the chance to think that maybe if they had done that earlier it would've ended earlier.

He doesn't say that this was his intention but that some people could view it that way.

On the commentary the director also notes that the creature that kills the soldier that gets thrown outside is the " boss " from Monsters Inc.

You don't see it that closely and I can only picture the 2 main monsters in that movie so I wouldn't have gotten it if he didn't say something.

I never read the story but did listen to it on a book on tape years ago but now I wanna go back and read it.

Apparently the giant monster that walks by towards the end is in the story and Darabont made sure it was in the movie because people he consulted with wanted to see that.

I personally didn't think it was a big deal and don't know that it added much to the atmosphere or story.

[fezident]

Hey Mike,
I never read the novella. How does it end?
Also... how is having the dad shoot his son and other survivors in the head a "hollywood" ending?? IMO, it's the most atypical (un-typical??) ending they could've possibly released.


I prob won't read the novella so feel free to spoil that ending for me. (or PM me).

Thanks Budday.