The Mist

[thanoson]

Hmm... decent flick. Just saw it. It was suspenseful enough to have me and my special lady gripping each other. I loved the creature concepts and the fact that it was never the same thing attacking them twice. Ending is slighty different than what I saw in the book. Kinda jacked up IMO. Anyone else see it?

[steamteck]

The rest of the film was pretty good but we really hated the ending. The audience in the theater we saw it had  lots of complaining folks afterwards to. At least a few loudly complaining ones.)

[UnkoMan]

I actually thought the ending was the best part. The worst being the awful CGI'd creatures.

[spoiler]It's just so bleak and terrible, you know? I'm sick of horror movies with happy endings. I've seen that already. This ending is pretty much the worst thing that could happen to the fella, and that's what makes it a real horror, to me.[/spoiler]

Everybody I saw it with thought the entire thing was stupid, however. But, hey, these sorts of tales have always been my favourites. The ones where people are trapped somewhere by a malicious and somewhat unknown entity, and the real mosters turn out to be the other people.

[House Quake]

Great movie.  Unexpected ending.  The creatures inside were scarier than the creatures outside.
I loved... my lady friend loved it.
[spoiler]Yes the ending was the best part... tragic as all heck.  I my lady friend was in tears. I thought the creatures were scary enough[/spoiler]

[thanoson]

I was truly in awe of that huge creature. Egads!

[zuludelta]

Didn't see the movie (I'll probably wait for the inevitable DVD), but the extended short story/novella is one of my top 5 favourite Stephen King pieces (along with the short stories "Gramma", "The Body", "Nona", and "The Monkey"). I could never get into his longer fiction... "The Stand", "The Eyes of the Dragon", "The Tommyknockers", and "Hearts in Atlantis" came close to being good for me, but everything else he's written that I've read (and I was a fan as a kid, borrowed from the library everything he had written up til "The Drawing Of The Three") seems too drawn out a chapter or three before he's reached the dénouement.

Judging from people's reactions to the film version of The Mist, it looks like they stuck with the original ending from the short story [spoiler]In the book, the end has David Drayton, his son Billy, Amanda Dumfries, and Mrs. Reppler in a Howard Johnson, preparing to go to Boston (I think), in search for more survivors [/spoiler]

[BWPS]

This is the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life. EPIC FAIL.

[thanoson]

Ok, I'll shoot. Umm... why was it the worst movie ever BWPS?

[BWPS]

1. Acting was completely unconvincing from Thomas Jane and others.
2. Effects weren't very well done. If the creatures are animated while the people are not, it's hard to believe that they're really there.
3. Plot much? [spoiler]Aliens from another dimension. Ok, lets whisper behind this aisle.[/spoiler]
That didn't make the movie even close to the worst ever. However,
4. The ending
did
[spoiler]Ok, so they've made it this far because they're doing whatever it takes to stay alive. And now he just gives up and shoots his son in the face? I would think that they'd keep trying anyway and I think that guy is a jerk. And sure enough, LESS THAN 60 SECONDS after he kills his friends he's rescued. That just struck me as a stupid way to end a movie that I spent the whole time hoping they'd survive. He worked very hard to keep his crew alive and then just turned around and gave up. I don't always mind a sad ending but that was just ridiculous and I felt like I wasted money and my life on... THE WORST MOVIE EVER. And then he started yelling and I thought he should shut up because it was his fault.[/spoiler]

This was made by the same guy who made Shawshank? Are you for reals/>!

[thanoson]

Ok, good enough. I thought the acting was ok. Yes, the ending kinda threw me off too, however, the old guy gave the nod too. Think they were trying to do some kinda morality issue involving who was on that APC that passed him by. Eh, I thought it ok.

[UnkoMan]

Now I've gotta argue about the ending...

[spoiler]
They have lost most of their hope already. They have nothing to go back to. It seems that everybody they've ever known or loved is dead, and it doesn't looks like anywhere else in the entire world has more survivors. When they finally run out of gas in the middle of god knows where, they figure the only thing that will happen now is they will be torn apart and gruesomely eaten by these horrible monsters that have come forth. Now the fella did make a promise to his son. He said that he wouldn't let those monsters getthe boy. So he keeps that promise. He also decides that he will be the only one that will have to deal with being ripped asunder by the vile creatures. It's a noble act, since for all they know that is what would immediately happen to them all if they either got out of the vehicle or even stayed in one place for too long. Obviously, after he did it, he was remorseful. It wasn't a day in the park for him, but he did what he had to do.
[/spoiler]

Okay, so not the best acting? Sure, it could have been better. Awful CGI? Yes, that was a let down. I wish they would stop using computers for everything. (I Am Legend, I'm looking at you) I don't see anything wrong with the plot though. Stephen King rips Lovecraft to do what amounts to probably one of his best stories ever.

But I can't see how anybody can consider it one of the worst movies ever. Honestly.