Anyone seen that? Found it amazing...
The Mist
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Peew971 4,548 posts
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ecureuil 74,045 posts
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Registered 8 years agoIt was reasonable, with a crap ending. -
neilka 11,922 posts
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Registered 8 years agoYeah, it was full of bloody gorillas.if you have nothing intresting to say then you might as well just throw your bags on the truck and drive away
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asphaltcowboy 5,099 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI saw it months ago in Amsterdam. I really enjoyed it, but it was spoiled massively by a cinema full of complete dickheads. And yes, the ending wasn't the best: I thought it was ok to have him kill everyone and then get rescued, but they should have made it feel like a few more days had passed before the rescue and not have it happen right after, otherwise it just feels like the writer taking a big crap on his main character. -
I actually liked it.
I feel no reason to justify that against the inevitable rampage of people going "BUT IT WAS AWFUL" with reasons that amount to "there's no way a giant monster would do THAT". -
The general consensus on this film in the 'Rate the last film you saw' thread was mostly, split, although the ones that hated it went on and on and on about how shit it was way louder than those that liked it, as is the norm.
I liked it a lot when I watched it a few months ago. Admittedly the effects were a bit ropey at times, but for the most part I thought it was an unexpectedly chilling delight, with a satisfyingly brave and bleak end..gif)
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ecureuil 74,045 posts
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Registered 8 years agoI do like sombre endings, but with this, they so obviously tried way to hard to make a "kick to the nuts" ending, it didn't work at all. -
Peew971 4,548 posts
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Registered 7 years agoecureuil wrote:
I thought it was reasonable with an awesome ending! Matter of tastes...
It was reasonable, with a crap ending. -
asphaltcowboy 5,099 posts
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Registered 9 years agoecureuil wrote:
Yep! That's exactly how I felt about the ending. Might go and see it again over here when it comes out and hope the audience are not complete dickheads like in Amsterdam!
I do like sombre endings, but with this, they so obviously tried way to hard to make a "kick to the nuts" ending, it didn't work at all. -
WrongShui 6,464 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWhy did it take so long to get here? -
asphaltcowboy 5,099 posts
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Registered 9 years agoDunno, been out in the US for 8 months or something! Crazy! -
ecureuil 74,045 posts
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Registered 8 years agoAlmost everyone here saw it 8 months ago, anyway. -
Yeah, America's had it on DVD for the past three months or so.
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ecureuil 74,045 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThree months ago, then. -
Heheh.
Well, there were a few telesyncs before that for the dedicated. -
Tonka 18,124 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI loved it.If you can read this you really need to fiddle with your forum settings.
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Kami 2,209 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThe Mist?
Oh wait, I'm thinking of The Fog...Master of Tekisuto No Kabe. *bows*
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MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI don't know what the fuck they were doing with that ending. The rest of it is quite close to the (long) short story it comes from, but that ending was just spun out of whole cloth from some other idiot's head. I can see why they wanted to shy away from the answerless ending of the original and I could have lived with the shooting scene if it had been handled better, but 'the army saves the day'? Pfft.
So it follows the rule of many horror movies, good watch, then spoils it all in the last five minutes.-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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Scimarad 8,281 posts
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Registered 10 years agoFor some reason Stephen King actually said he liked it! I thought the rest of the film was very faithfull to the original story but why they put that shitty ending on it I just can't begin to comprehend.
I've no issue with films differing from their source material for cinematic reasons but that ending is just shite. It turned some catastrophic inter-dimensional apocalypse into an environmental fuck up that can be cleared up with flame throwers... -
MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI've never trusted Stephen's taste in movies =D-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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Scimarad 8,281 posts
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IIRC wasn't the implication that the irritating as hell religious nutjob was in fact correct? she wanted to sacrifice his son to make the creatures leave. in the end he killed his son himself and was saved.
thoroughly depressing really, as it implies the films universe is basically overseen by a real fuckwit of a God. :-/
most of Stephen King's work is now forever spoiled, not only by himself, but by my inability to stop thinking of Garth Merenghi while reading or watching.gif)
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Scimarad 8,281 posts
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Registered 10 years agoYeah, the way the bug lands on her and doesn't kill her made that idea rather unavoidable... -
RedboX 2,431 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI didn't mind the ending, but I thought it was all over a bit quick, specially the "oh we've run out of gas... BANG BANG BANG BANG" part. Are you really saying that they would not at least risk sending one of them looking for more gas? I get that they where at a low point but the while there was a lot of stuff going on in the world, but I did not get the feeling of hopelessness that would lead them to such a quick decision.
I've never been in a real life or death suitation, but I've had some near scrapes and the one thing that's always in my mind is "someone will come to help me out". Of course In real life it very rarely happens, but literature has spend decades telling is that we are all the special one and that any moment now Morpheus will be along to save us from the Matrix.
I did like the bleak ending but I just found it was like the writer had seen the 20,000 word marker coming up and and thought "that will do".
The other instance of this was the way the spider things had helpfully stuck the guys wife to the outside of the house in full view, thus avoiding any more time wasting having to go into the house to look for her. -
MetalDog 23,448 posts
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Registered 11 years agoRedPanda wrote:
Uh, not in the book really. In the book it could be taken that way, but only if you were inclined to read that into it to begin with (as she was) - she just got lucky. In the book he doesn't kill his son and there is no 'saved' ending at all, they just drive on further into the mist hoping that they'll break out of it before they get eaten. Also, when he goes back to his house, his wife isn't stuck to the outside - they just assume she's dead since the whole house is broken into and drive away without the comforting certainty of seeing a body, rather than risk their lives confirming what seems to be obvious.
IIRC wasn't the implication that the irritating as hell religious nutjob was in fact correct? she wanted to sacrifice his son to make the creatures leave. in the end he killed his son himself and was saved.
thoroughly depressing really, as it implies the films universe is basically overseen by a real fuckwit of a God. :-/-- boobs do nothing for me, I want moustaches and chest hair.
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Machiavel 5,964 posts
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MetalDog wrote:
Yeah I've not read the book - that was just my impression from the film really. The books ending someone described earlier sounded better though.RedPanda wrote:
Uh, not in the book really. In the book it could be taken that way, but only if you were inclined to read that into it to begin with (as she was) - she just got lucky. In the book he doesn't kill his son and there is no 'saved' ending at all, they just drive on further into the mist hoping that they'll break out of it before they get eaten. Also, when he goes back to his house, his wife isn't stuck to the outside - they just assume she's dead since the whole house is broken into and drive away without the comforting certainty of seeing a body, rather than risk their lives confirming what seems to be obvious.
IIRC wasn't the implication that the irritating as hell religious nutjob was in fact correct? she wanted to sacrifice his son to make the creatures leave. in the end he killed his son himself and was saved.
thoroughly depressing really, as it implies the films universe is basically overseen by a real fuckwit of a God. :-/ -
MrWonderstuff 1,739 posts
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Registered 8 years agoYou can't beat having Dead Can Dance's tune at the end 'THe Host of Seraphim'. Amazing choice to make and really added to the ending.
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Peew971 4,548 posts
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Registered 7 years agoFrom various forums I notice that those who have read the book hate the ending. The book's ending is on Youtube but it's just to simple/convenient for my taste. Hope? What kind of shit ending is an ending with nothing happening but hope? With the film's ending (as I see it) you're given the opportunity to reflect on choices and consequences, right and wrong... For me it's not about the army saving the day (seriously, who cares?), it's all about the irony. The guy kills his son to spare him a terrible death and realises he's done it for nothing! The woman than nobody would help at the beginning ends up being alive... There's a lot to discuss there other than the army saving the day, that wasn't the point of that ending. -
It's Stephen King is it?
So is it aliens, monsters, or a Fire King? -
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