The Mist • Non-Gaming • Film • Eurogamer.net

Peew971 3 Jul 2008 00:21:13 7,268 posts
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Anyone seen that? Found it amazing...

neilka 3 Jul 2008 00:22:11 24,021 posts
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Yeah, it was full of bloody gorillas.

asphaltcowboy 3 Jul 2008 00:24:06 5,157 posts
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I 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.

Deleted user 3 July 2008 00:26:31

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".

Deleted user 3 July 2008 00:27:23

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.

Peew971 3 Jul 2008 00:30:08 7,268 posts
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ecureuil wrote:
It was reasonable, with a crap ending.

I thought it was reasonable with an awesome ending! Matter of tastes...

asphaltcowboy 3 Jul 2008 00:31:33 5,157 posts
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ecureuil wrote:
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.

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!

WrongShui 3 Jul 2008 00:33:39 6,858 posts
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Why did it take so long to get here?

asphaltcowboy 3 Jul 2008 00:37:30 5,157 posts
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Dunno, been out in the US for 8 months or something! Crazy!

Deleted user 3 July 2008 00:39:30

Yeah, America's had it on DVD for the past three months or so.

Deleted user 3 July 2008 00:41:36

Heheh.

Well, there were a few telesyncs before that for the dedicated.

Tonka 3 Jul 2008 02:46:55 31,979 posts
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I loved it.

Kami 3 Jul 2008 03:07:17 2,711 posts
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The Mist?

Oh wait, I'm thinking of The Fog...

MetalDog 3 Jul 2008 06:31:37 24,076 posts
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I 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.

Scimarad 3 Jul 2008 07:19:19 9,964 posts
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For 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 3 Jul 2008 07:21:59 24,076 posts
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I've never trusted Stephen's taste in movies =D

Scimarad 3 Jul 2008 07:33:11 9,964 posts
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lol, you aren't wrong!

Deleted user 3 July 2008 08:47:59

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 :-)

Scimarad 3 Jul 2008 09:09:50 9,964 posts
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Yeah, the way the bug lands on her and doesn't kill her made that idea rather unavoidable...

RedboX 3 Jul 2008 09:12:56 2,427 posts
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I 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 3 Jul 2008 09:49:08 24,076 posts
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RedPanda wrote:
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. :-/

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.

Machiavel 3 Jul 2008 10:01:45 5,964 posts
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Would quite like to see this.

Deleted user 3 July 2008 10:03:32

MetalDog wrote:

RedPanda wrote:
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. :-/

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.

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.

MrWonderstuff 3 Jul 2008 10:25:58 3,617 posts
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You 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.

Oh and I loved the film.

Peew971 3 Jul 2008 11:17:56 7,268 posts
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From 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.

CaptainBinky 3 Jul 2008 11:22:23 2,243 posts
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It's Stephen King is it?

So is it aliens, monsters, or a Fire King?