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ROTTENWATCH: The Mist
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TheJollyCorner
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Gig said:Just saw it, another Steven King movie, another black man bites the dust.
Other than that it was a pretty good movie.
considering he wasn't even black in the book, just be happy the brotha was represented at all.
Escape Goat
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So we have a free Showtime preview and I watched this. I thought it was a good way to waste an hour and a half but I'm glad i watched it for free. But wtf @ that ending! Sometimes its good to not give the audience what they want or expect but this movie seriously bummed me out. the movie ending borders on obscene. Its just...damn...
viciouskillersquirrel
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Loved this movie. Watched it with my girlfriend... who hated it and had nightmares afterwards.
The different creatures and how they lived, ate and reproduced were utterly fascinating. I'd love to see follow-up stories set in a post-Mist world, too.
The different creatures and how they lived, ate and reproduced were utterly fascinating. I'd love to see follow-up stories set in a post-Mist world, too.
samus i am
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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Definitely. A sequel that shows what happens next would be awesome.
Also, WTF at the bump. The movie is old enough to make a LTTP.
Escape Goat
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samus i am said:
whats the difference?
This was a total 80s style, John Carpenter type throwback, fucking loved it, and the end was fan-facking-tastic.
The religious stuff kinda grates, they handle it too much in a contemporary atheist revolution kind of way from what I recall. Mind that religion in horror is another 80s thing they've gotten away from with the new vogue of torture porn, so a tag back to those themes is wicked.
I hope they don't mangle the new Nightmare on Elm Street flick they did with Halloween. Never liked Halloween anyway, too plodding -Carpenter upped his game with Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. If Rob Zombie can be said to have failed, it's not that he refused to pull a 70s film into the 2000s, but that he failed to pull a 70s film into the 80s.
Went on a bit of a ramble there...
The religious stuff kinda grates, they handle it too much in a contemporary atheist revolution kind of way from what I recall. Mind that religion in horror is another 80s thing they've gotten away from with the new vogue of torture porn, so a tag back to those themes is wicked.
I hope they don't mangle the new Nightmare on Elm Street flick they did with Halloween. Never liked Halloween anyway, too plodding -Carpenter upped his game with Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. If Rob Zombie can be said to have failed, it's not that he refused to pull a 70s film into the 2000s, but that he failed to pull a 70s film into the 80s.
Went on a bit of a ramble there...
It seems like the entire biological structure of Dimension X would collapse on itself since you have spiders which seem to enjoy blanketing everything in deathweb, tentacled megabeasts that walk on power lines, pterodactyls, and poisonous mosquitoes.
How does everything not indiscriminately kill everything else?
That is a movie I'd like to see.
How does everything not indiscriminately kill everything else?
That is a movie I'd like to see.
TOM f'N CRUISE
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same hereLQX said:
its an awesome movie to show to people that dont know its coming
. had abunch of people at my house once and whe where all drinking (some smoking) and i asked them if they ever seen or herd of this movie...only one seen it and half didnt even know what it was. At the end some girl even had tears running down her face it was priceless :lol. all and all everybody loved the movieYou got a sense of it in the film. The bugs were eaten by the big flying pterodactyl things, which implied a pecking order. The tentacled creature likely dined on the spiders. The spiders seemed to be the dominant small to medium sized creature on land. The giant colossus at the end was so big, it looked like its own walking ecosystem. The book described bugs clinging to it, and the film shows the flying creatures moving around with it, as if they nested on it.Speevy said:
Because it was unnecessary. Though I grant my opinion of it is tainted by the book, which had what I think is a superior ending. Like the film, it ended in despair, but with glimmer of hope. The film just inverts the sources of the same. (In the book the mist never dissipates, but the characters live.) I like the idea of there not being an end to the mist. The world is forever changed, and it's an open question as to whether they'll survive in it. In the film, by both punishing the characters and showing an end to the mist, it was the worst of both worlds.LQX said:
close to the edge
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Yeah, agreed. I really liked the visual style and atmosphere of the movie, very well done.omg rite said:
AdventureRacing
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I enjoyed this movie but like so many movies it left me wanting more. There were somegreat moments (the giant monster crossing the road was one of the best moments i have seen in a movie for a long time) but overall it was a bit of a let down.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Wow way old bump, movie was tops though, ending was oh so good.
Foliorum Viridum
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There's wrong, and then there's this.omg rite said:
The ending basically makes the film. I'm so sick of horror movies ending on a high. The end of this film was dark, depressing and bleak. The rest of the film is full of fantastic atmosphere and tension, but it's the end five minutes that really makes it. I wish more films were as gutsy with their endings as this one was.
Mango Positive
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I love the scene at the very end when they show
the woman who wanted someone to help her find her children and ran out into the mist alone, all safe and sound in the bus, her children located, giving him that "you had your chance to do the right thing" look. It was a good ending, but I think the uncertainty of the book's end may trump it a bit.
Escape Goat
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Mango Positive said:
But going out into the mist in the bginning WASN'T the best thing to do. Noble? Sure. But if you wanted to stay alive walking out into the unknown with no way to defend yourself against it wasn't prudent.
This was one of my most hated movies of all time. I remember leaving the cinema thinking it was the worst film I've ever spent money in a cinema to see (has since been trumped by 'The invention of lying').
I do remember laughing a lot during it though. Especially the ending, which got me a few looks in the cinema.
I do remember laughing a lot during it though. Especially the ending, which got me a few looks in the cinema.
Houston3000
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I really enjoyed this movie back when I saw it in the theater... I might of even posted in this thread already. The ending really sealed the deal - I to wish more films took such bold steps instead of setting themselves up for sequels all the time. Even still, I would love to see some sort of sequel to this, though I can't imagine
Thomas Jane's character being in it at this point. I imagine he went to an insane asylum or something, poor guy
Skiptastic
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Mango Positive said:
See, I loved the ending and how it was handled until you saw that lady. That really ruined it for me. It's bad enough he lost his wife and just shot four people he really cared about, including his own son. Seeing him try to unload bullets that aren't there into his own mouth was just so hard to take.
We don't need that lady's presence there. It just makes it kind of stupid. Why did she survive when everyone else who walked through that mist got eaten in some terribly gruesome fashion? Did she have some sort of ninja skills? Just kinda fucks it all up.
We don't need that lady's presence there. It just makes it kind of stupid. Why did she survive when everyone else who walked through that mist got eaten in some terribly gruesome fashion? Did she have some sort of ninja skills? Just kinda fucks it all up.
To be honest, from all the "crazy ending" hype I had heard,
when that bug could have stabbed that religious lady and didn't,
viciouskillersquirrel said:
In the followup, Thomas Jane is so distraught by everything he's done that he runs around silently, smashing everything he sees with a crowbar. Eventually he gets a new girlfriend that doesn't seem at all offput by his creepy silence or his violent tendencies.
Escape Goat
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Skiptastic said:
Only thing i can see is that the writer was saying "She didn't give into fear and survived."
huge stephen king fan here.
this is going to sound really weird: i watched the movie in the theater and everyone in the theater and including my friends hated the movie (they were laughing at the acting mostly), however, my other friends that saw it on dvd really liked it.
i personally wasnt too crazy about it, loved the novella though, but not so much the movie, under budget, actors werent that good. i would still watch it again just because i really like the story.
this is going to sound really weird: i watched the movie in the theater and everyone in the theater and including my friends hated the movie (they were laughing at the acting mostly), however, my other friends that saw it on dvd really liked it.
i personally wasnt too crazy about it, loved the novella though, but not so much the movie, under budget, actors werent that good. i would still watch it again just because i really like the story.
Foliorum Viridum
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That's what makes the ending so good.
It was a horror movie. Why does the good guy always have to come out on top, and the bad guy get the deserved fate, especially in that genre? The fact he was such a nice guy only added to the heartbreak and horror of his fate. If he had been a jackass it wouldn't have had such a strong impact.
Escape Goat
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Foliorum Viridum said:
As an art piece its fine. I can accept some people might find that refreshing.
But that doesn't make it a satisfying ending for a lot of people. There really wasn't a payoff for going along on the journey with these characters. Okay, they die but for what? I mean his one purpose in the movie was to protect his son and then at the end he has to mercy kill him for nothing?
Now this is an interesting idea. Instead of opening a portal to some random dimension with fucked up creatures, they actually open a portal to hell. Like Doom.The Wispy Scoundrel said:All that is moot if you realise the creatures came from hell. Which is how I interpreted it.
Vigilant Walrus
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Teh Hamburglar said:
It's Satisfying because we want him to succed. You don't see it coming, which means it's a great ending.
The movie is about a father trying to protect his son. In the end, the only one he couldn't protect his son from, was himself. It's incredible bitter, and a horrible way to end a film. You feel so bad. But that's why it's so great. It's a powerful experience. It means it works all the more.
The pay off about the kid dying. It's about how he dies. If a Spider just killed him, that in itself wouldn't be very interesting. What the father would do as a result of that, might be though.
The movie is about a father trying to protect his son. In the end, the only one he couldn't protect his son from, was himself. It's incredible bitter, and a horrible way to end a film. You feel so bad. But that's why it's so great. It's a powerful experience. It means it works all the more.
The pay off about the kid dying. It's about how he dies. If a Spider just killed him, that in itself wouldn't be very interesting. What the father would do as a result of that, might be though.
Foliorum Viridum said:
Foliorum Viridum said:
No need to get defensive over an opinion with the "there's wrong and then there's this" crap and assuming what the reasoning is.
The ending sucked because it was not necessary. It was done purely for shock value and to really beat home the idea of "wow, sucks for him". I would have liked the ending more if the mist didn't start to lift and if he wasn't saved. If he had killed everyone in the car and then just stepped outside into the mist to meet his obvious doom.
The fact that he was saved right after killing everyone was far more predictable than that. You say you wish films were more gutsy like this but I don't see how it was. Shock value is fine if it's within the context of logic. But why in the hell wouldn't you wait until the last minute before deciding to resort to what he "had" to do? Okay, so the car stopped. So? Wait until there's some evil shit surrounding the protective car you're in and then do it. I wanted to yell at the screen because it didn't make sense.
And honestly, anyone who didn't like it because it was depressing? That's okay. There's nothing wrong with someone thinking that. Perhaps their idea of a good ending isn't that of a dad pointlessly murdering his own son. Did it bother me? Sure, but it's not why I thought the ending sucked. But it's okay for that to be a reason too as it was purely based on pushing a "gutsy" ending in our faces. The crazy woman surviving at the end was part of this. That was eye-roll worthy. It was just beating it over the heads of the audience.
2 Minutes Turkish
Banned
Amazing movie.
The ending makes it, and Darabont was right to adjust it. It just gives you an awesome kick to the teeth that most movies don't have the balls to give you.
Ending made it a memorable movie. A happy sappy ending would have just made it forgettable in the long run.
It's a depressing movie, but that's why I love it and remember it. Obviously a lot of you havent seen Very Bad Things.
The ending makes it, and Darabont was right to adjust it. It just gives you an awesome kick to the teeth that most movies don't have the balls to give you.
Ending made it a memorable movie. A happy sappy ending would have just made it forgettable in the long run.
It's a depressing movie, but that's why I love it and remember it. Obviously a lot of you havent seen Very Bad Things.
2 Minutes Turkish
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The Wispy Scoundrel said:All that is moot if you realise the creatures came from hell. Which is how I interpreted it.
Totally makes sense now that I think about it.
This seems like one of those endings where, if the studio had cut it (which I'm kind of surprised they didn't), and we heard about it in some interview - "so I had this ending where everything fucking sucked for nice guy Thom Jane (Ijustwantmykidsback)" - we would be livid; furious that we were refused this kind of risky mainstream filmmaking.
And when we do get it, it's "too sad" or brutal, etc. I thought it was refreshing. A nice reminder that not everything goes all rainbows and win. I want more shit like this, I want to feel effected, man. Emotionally. Even if it is some B-Horrer movie. It's like (and here come the videogames) Prince of Persia 2008 where
I was pissed, but understand that it was a decision of the character that I've gotten to know over the last 9 hours. It made sense, just like the ending to the mist. Like somebody said, all this guy wanted to do was protect his son. This was the only way he thought possible.
It sucks, but its awesome
And when we do get it, it's "too sad" or brutal, etc. I thought it was refreshing. A nice reminder that not everything goes all rainbows and win. I want more shit like this, I want to feel effected, man. Emotionally. Even if it is some B-Horrer movie. It's like (and here come the videogames) Prince of Persia 2008 where
The prince goes and fucks up everything you've accomplished for a girl
It sucks, but its awesome
brandonh83
Banned
Preacher lady was intentionally annoying and extremely well performed.
You loved the ending.
"Problems" solved. Glad to be of service.
You loved the ending.
"Problems" solved. Glad to be of service.
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