Stephen King's The Mist

[Johnbarrowmansbitch]

This is such an AMAZING film! It stars Thomas Jane (The Punnisher) the film is about a thick mist that envelopes the small town of castle rock, and a large group of people trapped inside a supermarket haunted by otherworld creatures. Its based on King's novella 'The Mist' from the 80s.

 

[Willie Boy]

I wasn't impressed with the movie. It just didn't seem quite up to Stephen King's usual par. But maybe that was because of the translation to film.

 

[MystikWizard]

This is such an AMAZING film! It stars Thomas Jane (The Punnisher) the film is about a thick mist that envelopes the small town of castle rock, and a large group of people trapped inside a supermarket haunted by otherworld creatures. Its based on King's novella 'The Mist' from the 80s.

I agree that this was a phenomenal film. The ending absolutely shocked the Hell out of me, but I will defend it to the very end ... because it was just so draw-dropping, I have to give them credit where it's due. Some films shouldn't always get happy endings, and I think they made the right decision with this one. Very tragic, depressing film ... but in a very good way, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[FirmaFan]

Very good movie. MGH gives a show stopping performance.

Definitely agree about MGH's performance. Anyone that can convince me that I want nothing more than to shoot her head off (as did everyone in the audience want, based upon the unanimous applause induced when she meets such a fate) deserves praise for her performance.

I loved the creatures, and the violence and gore was spot on. It was a rare film in these times...a good horror movie.

 

[LatinoSTAR]

i thought it was a very good movie, it was more of a well written movie than i originally thought, i thought it was gonna be the usual horror movie we see so often in the theatres these past few years, cliched story and unoriginality, but it def. surpassed my expectations a lot..

What A mind fuck of an ending tho..

 

[LatinoSTAR]

Definitely agree about MGH's performance. Anyone that can convince me that I want nothing more than to shoot her head off (as did everyone in the audience want, based upon the unanimous applause induced when she meets such a fate) deserves praise for her performance.

I loved the creatures, and the violence and gore was spot on. It was a rare film in these times...a good horror movie.

yeah i was s happy when they shot that bitch, marcia gay harden gave an amazing performance i think.

 

[HOT4MEN]

Yeah, memorable movie because I had a 106.5 degree temperature while watching it in the theater.........

 

[MisterMajestic]

It was overlooked because it was WEAK...I'm a Lover of Sci-Fi and Stephen King is the undisputed KING of twisted Horror-plots..

I would have paid ANY amount of money to see the CREEPY "IT" had it gone to the theatres.."The Mist" does NOT even come CLOSE to keeping the Movie-goer on the edge of his seat like "IT" did when it aired on TV."The Mist" was a waste since 90% of the shit was shot in the Grocery Store...

The Director worked with what he had and brought the film to Life his way. The film should have been a Made-for-TV release and nothing more..

 

[MisterMajestic]

Sdrival...Interesting that a Silver-Screen remake is in the works for "It"...It's gonna be hard to TOP the TV version...

 

[LatinoSTAR]

one thing i wish they would of explored in the movie is where the mst and the creatures came from...they didnt tell much about it..

 

[Rimmer]

Anyone notice how much the creatures looked like something out of an H.P. Lovecraft story? I don't think that was an accident.

I read the original King short story and it held form... until the end (which King approved).

For those that loved the movie (me being one), if you buy the double DVD set, they include a black and white version of the movie. Spectacular.

As for IT... not for me. They don't make many King stories into great movies, and IT, IMO, was terrible.

 

[aijalon18]

I thought the ending of the mist was kind of dumb and predictable that the military would eventually save the day. The only surprise which I thought was completely ludicrous was that they agreed to kill themselves. Why? The "i dont want the monsters to get me" excuse is kinda weak. They were all fighters then all of sudden they give up? It seemed unbelievable that any parent, especially Drayton, would kill their child before themselves. Just stupid. Save the ending, I thought it was good. I dont need a fairytale ending but at least make it good.

 

[aijalon18]

He killed his child because they genuinely didn't believe there was any hope. The whole world seemed to be blanketed in the mist, and man eating creatures the size of dinosaurs were walking the earth devouring everything and everyone in their paths. I think in real life people would off themselves in that situation, even if they were fighters. If they had any sense about them anyway. They thought they had nothing to look forward to except eventually being killed and eaten by one of the monsters, and Thomas Jane's character promised his son that he wouldn't let the monsters get him. Well he thought there was only one way to keep that promise in the end.

And you really just can't say the ending of this movie was "predictable", lol. I think that's why so many people hated it. It threw them for a loop and while people claim to hate predictability they generally do tend to prefer an ending that doesn't leave you saying "what the fuck?", which this movie did. Like it or not this movie is probably one of the few movies in the last several years that had an ending that I thought was at least somewhat unexpected.

I would have agreed that offing the son made sense if there was some impending danger. If they saw monsters approaching or banging on the window. but there was still hope to me. The game was constantly changing and some of the monsters were attacking each other.

And for me it was predictable. I didnt think they would kill themselves. But I always knew the military would show up in the end. I totally called it. The last Stephen King movie that was a WTF ending was Dream Catcher, which I thought was awesome and totally underrated. It was kinda similar to this movie actually. There was no way you could predict that shit.

 

[aijalon18]

Aijalon, don't argue with me damn it!! Just put my cock in your mouth and go with it. Also, Dreamcatcher sucked and everybody knows it.

NO! Who knew you were so sexually aggressive and violent? Takin cues from Chris Brown I see. I refuse to be sexually degraded for my opinion. lol

Dreamcatcher was good! maybe because I didnt read the book. But I loved it. Donnie Wahlberg is completely unrecognizable. he completely transformed w/o cgi (Brad Pitt take notice).