The Mist (spoilers)

[mrbakasan]

So I went and saw the Mist on Wednesday and I have seriously mixed feelings about it.  I enjoyed the story a great deal and I felt that the film was an almost perfect adaptation of the story...almost.  The movie goes on about 5 minutes after the story ends and I absolutely hated the direction that Frank Darabont took it.  I typically don't care if movies follow the source material, hell I enjoy a great number of Stephen King movies even though they are almost all crap.  So here was my problem with the ending...WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS

Okay so after David and a few people leave the grocery store and are driving through the mist and see a huge monster.  Very cool and well done....and that is where the originial story ended.  The movie goes on to show David shooting everybody in the car after he runs out of gas.  I don't have a problem with that part of the ending too much, but it continues.  He gets out of the car and the mist clears.  What I hated about this was first that part of what I personally enjoyed about the book was not knowing whether or not the mist had consumed the entire world.  Also, the messege of the movie becomes entirely unclear.  I personally feel this was a terrible choice for a decent movie...up until that point.

[GregMcduck]

What spoilers? I don't see anything.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I think the trailer gives to much away. I personally would have stopped things at the "THUMP THUMP THUMP" noises. Much more suspenseful and intriguing. I mean, the whole point of having rollin ominous mist is to prey upon fear of the unknown.

[mrbakasan]

What spoilers? I don't see anything.

Click on the word spoilers in blue.

[mrbakasan]

I think the trailer gives to much away. I personally would have stopped things at the "THUMP THUMP THUMP" noises. Much more suspenseful and intriguing. I mean, the whole point of having rollin ominous mist is to prey upon fear of the unknown.

I agree that would have made for a movie that I enjoyed...rather than I movie I came out of slightly irritated.

[GregMcduck]

What spoilers? I don't see anything.

Click on the word spoilers in blue.

There aren't any blue words.

[Junkyard]

I thought the film was pretty bad. It seemed too realistic and unrealistic in all the ways that make for bad film. It has all the normal problems of a Stephen King film- Bad story to film time compression/decompression, the frustration inability to see inside a charicter's head, where most of his stories take place anyway, and cheezy special effects. And yeah, the ending was a cross between Twilight Zone, Depression, and Stupidity.

It's watchable, but not particularily enjoyable.

[Dim of the Yard]

I thought, all things considered, that it was a decent movie.  I always thought that Stephen King's novellas were more film-worthy than his full-length novels, and this was no exception, in my opinion.*  The movie isn't in the "enjoyable" category, but it was engaging, it evoked the right emotions (most of the time, anyway), and I could feasibly see myself watching this movie again, without the intentions of mocking it the whole way through.

It helped that I sat in with a receptive crowd.  There were a few buttheads who talked during the movie at some points, sure, but I fit into that category, as well, so I'm not allowed to complain.  There was one woman who visibly cried, "Oh my GOD!" after a long, loud gasp during one of the more action-packed parts of the movie, and the entire audience burst into applause at one part towards the end of the film.  That really enhanced the movie-going experience for me, and made me glad that I went out to see it.

*Not to take away from the good films that are based on his longer works, like The Shining or Misery.

[Junkyard]

Also, the film mixed Laurie Holden's cleavage with a dead menopausal woman. Pretty unforgivable.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Okay so after David and a few people leave the grocery store and are driving through the mist and see a huge monster.  Very cool and well done....and that is where the originial story ended.  The movie goes on to show David shooting everybody in the car after he runs out of gas.  I don't have a problem with that part of the ending too much, but it continues.  He gets out of the car and the mist clears.  What I hated about this was first that part of what I personally enjoyed about the book was not knowing whether or not the mist had consumed the entire world.  Also, the messege of the movie becomes entirely unclear.  I personally feel this was a terrible choice for a decent movie...up until that point.

Warning...question about major spoilers (because you can't ruin it for me, I never intended on seeing it)

He shoots everyone in the car....to save them from something worse (the monster) I take it.  So, then does he start to shoot himself?  Or did he just suddenly turn into an asshole?  And since he's killed the last people left just in time for the mist to go away, is that meant to be like the "ultimate horror"?  That if he'd just waited a few minutes it would have all been fine?  Because this is making the remake of The Fog look better by the second.

[Junkyard]

Only 4 bullets, 5 people.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Only 4 bullets, 5 people.

Ah....I see.

And then he went on to star in I Am Legend.....

[GregMcduck]

Wha.... Why can't I see what you people are saying?

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Because they've all got spoiler tags. Click on the word "spoiler" and you'll be able to see.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Because they've all got spoiler tags. Click on the word "spoiler" and you'll be able to see.

A Beta Tester who can't figure out the Spoiler feature?