Gig said:Just saw it, another Steven King movie, another black man bites the dust.
Other than that it was a pretty good movie.
viciouskillersquirrel said: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.
samus i am said:Also, WTF at the bump. The movie is old enough to make a LTTP.
same hereLQX said:Many say this movie had a terrible ending but why? Because it was not a happy ending? For me that's one of the reasons I love it.
You 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: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.
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:Many say this movie had a terrible ending but why? Because it was not a happy ending? For me that's one of the reasons I love it.
Watch the Black and White version. The CGI fits in better.SpacLock said:I loved almost everything about this movie. The premise, the pacing and yes, even the ending. But man, I could not get over the poor CG. I just couldn't. It's the only big flaw.
Yeah, agreed. I really liked the visual style and atmosphere of the movie, very well done.omg rite said:Great movie but as I said before, terrible ending.
There's wrong, and then there's this.omg rite said:Great movie but as I said before, terrible ending.
Mango Positive said:I love the scene at the very end when they showthe 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.
Mango Positive said:I love the scene at the very end when they showthe 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.
viciouskillersquirrel said: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.
Skiptastic said: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.
Foliorum Viridum said: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.
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.
Teh Hamburglar 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?
Foliorum Viridum said:There's wrong, and then there's this.
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.
Foliorum Viridum said: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.
The Wispy Scoundrel said:All that is moot if you realise the creatures came from hell. Which is how I interpreted it.
:lol :lol so true.mYm|17| said:Some of these creatures made me think of Starcraft :lol