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LTTP - The Mist
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MoGamesXNA
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Brilliant. I didn't need a lot lf convincing as I've been reading a few King novels lately but you've sealed the deal. Cheers
I love this film, but do find it hard to watch, particularly if I'm already down in my mood for some reason. However, what I love about it is that . . .
Dark Tower Spoilers:
One needn't know anything about the Dark Tower to enjoy the movie, but it makes for some cool overarching mythos if you know about the stuff I suppose.
Dark Tower Spoilers:
I picture the area in the movie is what the desolate areas look like that the Ka-tet travel ABOVE while they're riding in Blaine. I may be remembering it wrong, but I could have sworn they weren't just traveling above wasteland areas, but also in areas that apparently are ripe with thinnie activity and escaped monsters from Todash Space.
One needn't know anything about the Dark Tower to enjoy the movie, but it makes for some cool overarching mythos if you know about the stuff I suppose.
The Silver
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I consider Mrs. Carmody to be one of the best movie villains ever.
I've never felt such hatred toward a character before.
I've never felt such hatred toward a character before.
CharminUltra
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Man, this thread is making me want to watch it again, probably in B&W since I didn't know that was a thing.
Such ending. So guilty pleasure. Wow.
Such ending. So guilty pleasure. Wow.
King Kong 2005
TOM f'N CRUISE
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i need to see this movie again
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It burns through everything that's not them.
Same with how Xenomorph blood can eat through like 6 decks of a hull but doesn't melt the insides of an Alien.
One of the most fucked up sequences in the book is reading about the webbing wrapping around a guy's leg, he tries to get it off ,and the skin from his calf down just sloughs off like a oversized sock.
At least I'm pretty sure that happens in the novella.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Wouldn't Pacific Rim be a bit closer?
why? there are no mechs in The Mist
I recommend King Kong because it's a complete monster horror movie that has giant bugs, penis monsters, dinosaurs and a huge ape, but if it's just kaiju movies he's after then yeh Pacific Rim, Super 8 or the Korean movie The Host
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Well, considering the Kaiju's origins are similar to The Mist and that they actually rampage through urban and suburban areas makes it a bit of similarity. King Kong had earthbound dinosaurs and giant versions of animals that already exist in the real world on a remote island.
For that reason, I would personally say Pacific Rim is more like The Mist than King Kong is.
Deified Data
Banned
The best Stephen King film adaptation, IMO. The Shining is technically a superior film but as an adaptation of its source material it's pretty shit. The Mist is totally uncompromising. If anything it's more brutal than the novella.
Edit: Or you have the best of both worlds with Green Mile and Shawshank.
Edit: Or you have the best of both worlds with Green Mile and Shawshank.
Nice film, sad ending.
There is a alternate ending right?
Don't know what ending is more fucked up I mean is feaking depressing thinking about both.
There is a alternate ending right?
The one where they survive and reach a building or house can't remember and in a scene you can see the entire world consumed by Mist.
Don't know what ending is more fucked up I mean is feaking depressing thinking about both.
Captain Knutsman
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Caught the hype in the thread, watched it on blu and I must say that I do not recognize the party you are talking about!
I didn't empathize with the characters, the acting didn't help either, the production value was really low (did I catch the same clip of soldiers passing by being recycled in the beginning of the movie?) and the're was never really any sense of danger. If not for this thread I would have shut off the movie after 30 minutes, but I assumed at least the ending would be worth sticking around for. What a pile of horseshit, thank you gaf
I didn't empathize with the characters, the acting didn't help either, the production value was really low (did I catch the same clip of soldiers passing by being recycled in the beginning of the movie?) and the're was never really any sense of danger. If not for this thread I would have shut off the movie after 30 minutes, but I assumed at least the ending would be worth sticking around for. What a pile of horseshit, thank you gaf
This is actually a far better movie than it should have been. It gets a lot of crap for the ending because of it being such a downer, but people have to realize that there's a difference between a movie having a bad ending and a movie having a BAD ending. Yes, it's a downer, but it's not the type of ending that you condemn a movie over.
If they did it right they upped the contrast to remove the grey. Doesn't it look sharper due to using smaller pixels? Or was that SD TVs?
Bobby Roberts
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Yes. In fact, they specifically went through and graded the image so it wouldn't look like you just turned the color down on your TV.
BaronLundi
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Caught the hype in the thread, watched it on blu and I must say that I do not recognize the party you are talking about!
I didn't empathize with the characters, the acting didn't help either, the production value was really low (did I catch the same clip of soldiers passing by being recycled in the beginning of the movie?) and the're was never really any sense of danger. If not for this thread I would have shut off the movie after 30 minutes, but I assumed at least the ending would be worth sticking around for. What a pile of horseshit, thank you gaf
Yeah. Awful acting, even worse child acting, ugly, nonsensical, moralistic.
Best thing about the ending was knowing this utter waste of time was finally over.
I grabbed the bluray today and I unscientifically proven there really is no difference between the B&W version and just turning the color setting on your TV to 0.
The book is cited as an influence of Silent Hill..
The book is cited as an influence of Silent Hill..
I know this is an older thread. But this is the ONE thing I hated about the ending.
Like, what was the moral being told here? That the guy shouldn't have been a jerk and helped this lady out? Who by the way, was being completely irrational and crazy (given that, people couldn't walk more then 10 feet outside with being eaten). But yeah, shame on all of them for not helping her out (especially when she left her kids home alone, being a terrible parent in the first place).
Bleh. Fuck that aspect of the ending. Felt like a contrived "salt in the wound", given that it seemed pretty impossible she made it all the way back home, and was able to survive.
Bleh. Fuck that aspect of the ending. Felt like a contrived "salt in the wound", given that it seemed pretty impossible she made it all the way back home, and was able to survive.
Really? I had no clue there were connections between almost any of his stuff (outside direct sequels like Dr. Sleep). Now I wanna read those two...
It's a lot more than that. Silent Hill was initially meant to be an adaptation of the book. But Toyama was having trouble with some elements of the plot and asked his superior if it couldn't be turned into an original story instead.
childplease
Banned
My god I loved the mist.
Are there any more king adaptations in the works?
Are there any more king adaptations in the works?
The Stand was going to be reworked into a multiple movie run but latest word is they are now going to try and shoe horn The Stand into 1 movie which will be a clusterfuck
Dice
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I don't get how you could try to draw any "lessons" from the particular stories of any person. They all do different things and all get wildly different results for no defined reasons. It seems to me like the movie as a whole is an analysis of how humanity responds to dire situations where we don't know anything and can't find any reliable results from testing.
If you don't know and can't see, how do you choose action? How do you choose inaction? If either one, what form? Perhaps investigative or aggressive for action? Perhaps communal-subsistence or isolationist-defensive for inaction? How can you be sure in moral choices not knowing what their outcomes will be? How do you know if something is heroic/noble or foolish/reckless?
To me it is most suitable as a commentary on public opinions (re: votes) about things that can affect people that they are too far removed from in power/knowledge/relationships to truly know what call to make, like foreign policy with difficult nations. I think this especially in view of how in the movie the government paradoxically brings the problem and solves it in secrecy yet visibly before everyone.
If you don't know and can't see, how do you choose action? How do you choose inaction? If either one, what form? Perhaps investigative or aggressive for action? Perhaps communal-subsistence or isolationist-defensive for inaction? How can you be sure in moral choices not knowing what their outcomes will be? How do you know if something is heroic/noble or foolish/reckless?
To me it is most suitable as a commentary on public opinions (re: votes) about things that can affect people that they are too far removed from in power/knowledge/relationships to truly know what call to make, like foreign policy with difficult nations. I think this especially in view of how in the movie the government paradoxically brings the problem and solves it in secrecy yet visibly before everyone.
Every King book is better after reading them and so are many of the movies.
I liked this adaption. It's a great movie.
This might interest fans of the movie. Interview with the Weinstein Brothers from just last November
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/business/media/the-weinstein-company-seeking-hits-shift-to-tv.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/business/media/the-weinstein-company-seeking-hits-shift-to-tv.html
MarkMclovin
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What other books are connected with The Mist? Aren't they all connected some way?
I agree with everything you've said about the intent of the film. I just felt the ending with the mom and her children felt contrived. Just felt like forced salt in the wound.
It annoyed me from a logical stand point, because no one was able to walk more then 10 min outside of the store without being devoured. So we are supposed to believe she not only walked all the way out there, but was able to make it back home and get her children? And even if you argue there was no message for the main protagonist to learn by having that scene at the end (where the mother is safe and sound, and looking at him with disdain, as she lives with her children), it still bugged me. Especially after she gave everyone a "you will burn in hell for this" speech in the store, since no one was willing to help her.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Most of King's books have something in them related to the Dark Tower series.
BotoxAgent
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God damn those fuckin spiders!!
Capital NOPE!!!
Capital NOPE!!!
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
You guys make me want to watch this again. Sad thing is, I have it on Blu-ray but no more Blu-ray player.
afternoon delight
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Eeeeeeuaaagh
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Fuck, man.
Why'd you do that?
Why'd you do that?
Bumb, because i just watched it last night
HOW COULD YOU PEOPLE NEVER RECOMEND THIS MOVIE TO ME???
I saw the cover a lot on netflix. You know why i decided to watch it? Because in the "awsome movie secrets" thread somebody pointed that in the first few minutes theres a nod to other stephen king novels or something. Nobody said the movie was good or anything. Just that it exist...
...and this movie was GREAT!
- I went in expecting nothing.
- Judging by the
i was under the impression that
- The walking dead actors felt like a fun nod, killed the movie a bit at the beggining. But soon became more bizarre watching those actores in an unpredictable scenario
- I knew it was some "stephen king novel" and when somebody say "movie based on stephen king novel" for each Green Mile and Stand by Me we have a Dream Catcher or that bizarre cut of It that was turned into a movie
- There´s some fade out fade in between the movie that sometimes feel like is for comercial breaks on tv. It made the movie even more strange
- The ending was amazing. There´s only one way for it to be worse, if
HOW COULD YOU PEOPLE NEVER RECOMEND THIS MOVIE TO ME???
I saw the cover a lot on netflix. You know why i decided to watch it? Because in the "awsome movie secrets" thread somebody pointed that in the first few minutes theres a nod to other stephen king novels or something. Nobody said the movie was good or anything. Just that it exist...
...and this movie was GREAT!
- I went in expecting nothing.
- Judging by the
tentacles scene
the myst had one monster only, the tentacle monster. Watching it really unfold into several creatures was amazing
- The walking dead actors felt like a fun nod, killed the movie a bit at the beggining. But soon became more bizarre watching those actores in an unpredictable scenario
- I knew it was some "stephen king novel" and when somebody say "movie based on stephen king novel" for each Green Mile and Stand by Me we have a Dream Catcher or that bizarre cut of It that was turned into a movie
- There´s some fade out fade in between the movie that sometimes feel like is for comercial breaks on tv. It made the movie even more strange
- The ending was amazing. There´s only one way for it to be worse, if
the truck with the survivors from the supermarket passed by. From what i read on IMDB, it was planned, but the extras had already gone home. That would be the supreme humiliation, more than "Carol" in the truck with her kids
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