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Well there we go then I must be wrong, my opinion has now changed! THANKS |
The Mist • Page 3
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OllyJ 4,866 posts
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm with ecureuil on this. The ending they tacked on was cheap - diabolus ex machina. -
SirScratchalot 7,921 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI believed it, certainly better then a non-ending.
Definitley one of the only endings to one of these "major disaster strikes!" movies that gave some closure but didn't just break with the feel of the rest of the film.
Anyway, you got the feeling that the things in the mist were just pretty nasty animals, but in the end almost as ill equipped to deal with us as we were unprepared for them. -
Scimarad 9,964 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI think the creatures themselves were only part of the problem in the original story. The 'earthquake' was described somewhat differently...in fact why don't I just post what it said:-
"There was a thud. An odd, twisting thud that I felt mostly in my feet, as if the entire
building had suddenly dropped three feet."
Also, towards the end:-
"The earth had been through some terrible contortion; Miller had been right about that. in
places the road was merely cracked, but in others the ground itself seemed to have
caved in, tilting up great slabs of paving."
I think something a bit more major than someone leaving some sort of portal open had occured.gif)
Before anybody suggests I'm doing one of those "How dare they make the film different from the book" posts I'd just like to say I'm pointing out some differences and that it.
Although I prefer the way the book did it, I can see why some people like the ending of the film. From my own perspective I've been a big fan of the story since it first came out and was rather excited about the idea of Mr Darabont being the one to finally make it into a film. Unfortunately his ending rather soured it for me. But, as you say, I can always turn the film off a bit earlier -
SuperBas 1,675 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJust watched it, what a terrible movie. So many decisions and things a normal person would think up were completely ignored by the moronic characters.
"IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! WE MUST KILL THE GUILTY!! KILL! KILL! REPENT!!!"
"Why don't you say something constructive and help the others?"
"... KILL THE HERETIC!"
*a group binds her up and throws her in the bathroom stalls*
And why did they stay in front of the glass window when there was a HUGE FUCKING AREA OUT BACK where they could all stay?!!?!?!?! -
SuperBas 1,675 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe tentacle only comes in if they were so friendly as to open the gate. Besides, why couldn't they reinforce the gate?
And is it that hard to move all the food to the back? And the lamps looked movable. And if they were out back, no monsters could see them, and the monsters wouldn't have a reason to break down the glass anyway. -
Och suspend your fucking disbelief and enjoy a popcorny horror movie. It was full of plot holes, but nobody complains when Batman pops open his cape and sails across the Bangkok skyline and manages to swoop into exactly the right mirrored window in a goddamn skyscraper, do they? o_O -
J*C 767 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI still have the 3D sound story The Mist on a disk. the voice acting is awful though. it has similar effects as that Virtual Barber Shop recording. its worth a listen if your bored. -
Wow, all that detail deconstruction by Mr ED209 and he doesn't recognise Hong Kong, which name was also repeated ad infinitum before characters in the scenes before.
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BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAnd he's Scottish all of a sudden. -
absolutezero 7,952 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThings that made The Mist shit :
Python levels of silly religous shouting. BURN THE WITCH!
Thomas Jane being stuck in a good movie as a likable actor
The main antagonist (his neighbour and THE MAN OF SCIENCE) just fucking off half way through.
The woman that went to get her kids at the start looking smug and going back into The Mist. Why would the army take everyon back into it? It makes no sense.
Its not even a good horror movie. It tries to hard to be something like The Green Mile and fails horribly. Fucking Steven King bollocks. -
Scimarad 9,964 posts
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Registered 18 years ago*ahem* Fucking Frank Darabont bollocks I think you'll find... -
deem 31,667 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJust watched this.
Fucking awful film, with a surprisingly fresh ending.
Started to get a little dark and unusual when the god squad lost it, but that was all over too soon, and it quickly went back to MOR horror film tripe.
How anyone can say the ending was bad, in a see of obvious, predictable clichéd horrors is beyond me. The ending was the best thing about it - nearly almost not quite on a par with La Haine.
As with 99% of horrors, it started well, but soon drifted off into the usual cheese-fest shite. -
deem 31,667 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIt wasn't a twist as such.
Like La Haine, it was just something that happened unexpectedly - a nice, short, sharp shock.
If that had been dragged out as some have suggested, it would have lost any sense of shock or oomph that it had.
It wasn't a great ending, but it was certainly better than the rest of the film.
ANd to say it didn't 'make sense'? It was a horror film with giant flies, big spiders and large things with tentacles ffs! -
Scimarad 9,964 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah, I fucking hate the "It's fantasy FFS!" argument. Because the inclusion of fantastic elements means you should no longer be bothered any common sense whatsover, of course!
It would seem to me that the strength of this kind of horror/fantasy is in how convincing the 'normal' stuff is. That just makes the invevitable fantasy elements all the more convincing...
I think this one will be filed under "you can have the film, I'll keep the book." -
Thanks, because it's a great film. -
Scurrminator 9,045 posts
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Registered 16 years agothat film was awesome.
But i see there is no pleasing some people.
Had it been a happy ending people would have moaned they wanted something glum.
it was a glum ending, people are saying it's unrealistic*
had they done an ending open to interpretation people would complain at the lack of answers
*tell this 'fact' to the familes of people who chose to jump from the twin towers rather than wait around. -
Oh-Bollox 6,513 posts
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Registered 14 years agoIt wasn't that it was a sad ending. That would have been fine. Them getting eaten by the creatures, or everyone topping themselves? No problem.
But him killing everyone and THEN the US Army turning up just before he kills himself takes the fucking piss. -
I thought he didn't have enough bullets for himself, which is why he exits the car. -
Sorry I sounded retarded then. 
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absolutezero 7,952 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWhat got me the most was
1. Not hearing the tanks and flame-throwers and loud speakers and
2. The army leading a huge line of survivors back into The Fog. BACK INTO THE FOG. All for the stupid woman from the start to look fucking smug. Its really fucking shameless and bare-faced in its manipulations of what the viewer is meant to be feeling. Now you feel angry, look burn the witch BURN HER! Now you feel sad, awwwww sad. -
Spanky 15,037 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI enjoyed this, it was stupid with sfx, just the way i like it 
I'd give it 7/10 in context*
*context being silly scifi horror with tales from the crypt endings. -
HarryPalmer 6,357 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe film is awesome. Personally didn't see any problems with the plot, loved the ending, bought the religious freakery; it's a story, therefore not everyone will believe it. -
Spanky 15,037 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThe ending was so utterly stupid, "Look everybody we're in a nice secure car, we have food, we have a gun, we have each other, yeah i'll just shoot you all right now".... "Oh NOEEEEEEEEES!"
I want a sequel with more monster fun. -
HarryPalmer 6,357 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDon't really think it was that simple a decision - no food, no petrol, sit there are wait to be torn to pieces or end it - in the way you all decided days ago. -
chopsen 21,958 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe ending was the best bit. It turned a fairly average film into something memorable -
CaptainBinky 2,243 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI thought the ending was about about the best bit of the film. Needed more mist and less OMG! MONSTERZ!1!11! The reveal at the end (which wasn't a reveal because we'd already had monsters shoved down our throats) was brill - these great hulking things looming out of the mist. I'd have been happy to have never seen more of the monsters than this and just had it left up to my imagination. -
HarryPalmer wrote:
Yeah but there was plenty of things going on, they could've waited it out and when they were starving they could defer to the gun.
Don't really think it was that simple a decision - no food, no petrol, sit there are wait to be torn to pieces or end it - in the way you all decided days ago.
Without the monsters there was no point, i want The Mist 2: Monsta Pron.
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