The Mist

[tonz0phun]

My wife and I just got home from seeing The Mist. First off, every PLEASE go see this movie!

Usually I am very boisterous when I come out of the cinema. I LOVE talking about the movie once the credits roll, discussing my favorite scenes, the best lines, etc. At the end of the Mist, when the last scene fades to black and the credits crawl upwards I had my hand over my mouth, a tear on my cheek, eyes wide and nearly shaking. Very rarely do I leave a theater shocked, stunned and silent.

The movie started rather shaky, however, this was the theaters problem and not the filmmakers. The movie started 15 minutes earlier than the box office said and the film kept going out to the pre-movie commercials. Once I talked to the manager (she gave back the $17.50 my wife and I payed for the tickets on account the movie reel was messed up and they started 30 minutes AFTER the box office time) the technical problems were sorted out and all was fine. Once the film FINALLY started we enjoyed a TERRIFIC suspense filled thriller. You'll be surprised at how quickly the shit hits the fan and pleased when certain people get what they deserve. The cinematography of the Mist was some of the most wonderful I've seen in recent memory. It doesn't come off as over done or too pretty as some films do, instead it captures a sort of claustrophobia that makes everything extra creepy. I'm going to go out on a limb and and just say that the last 30 minutes of The Mist is filled with some of the most suspenseful and emotional footage I have seen to date!

I'm still blown away by this movie and I've been home for awhile now. I want to go back and watch it again! Please, please, please... Go see The Mist!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

Here's the trailer in case some of you missed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP-MHO_M6ik

[CreatiVideoFilms]

Wow, I REALLY wanna see this movie now. Before it came off to me as kind of a weird plot, but reading this has changed my mind, i'm gonna go see it as soon as possible.

[zombiejoel]

I felt the same way leaving the theater. I was silent. And I always usually talk to my friends while leaving about what I thought about the movie. But not this one. I was silent all the way to the car. What a shocking ending.

[Anthony573]

Yeah, I really enjoyed the movie. It was one of the best films I've seen in awhile.

[Alasdair]

I enjoyed it, although sometimes I was thrown off by the stupidity of the survivors, such as when they nipped next door for supplies.

As they go through the mist they have flashlights and are moving slowly, even though flashlights attract the bugs, lights don't help you in fog (it just reflects in your face), and they should be FUCKING RUNNING. Then when they get attacked in the store, instead of getting out of there they just sort of panic and run around in circles.

Stuff like this really helps break suspension of disbelief, so in the end which should have been a gut punch, ended up being hilarious. You almost expect the benny hill music to come on as the tank comes through the fog.

[GhostOfAllie]

I couldn't agree more. This movie was one of the best horrors to come out lately. I was a bit worried to see this at first because it reminded me of the awful film that is THE FOG. I hated that garbage. But this film was great. I agree with Alasdair, there were a few things that bothered me with the survivors. But this ending was great. It was funny when you think about it, but it was also pretty sad at the time it was played.

[Brainstrained]

The ending was rubbish. Honestly, they would have been better off keeping the ambiguous one they had in the novella. There were a lot of great parts, like when the dude goes into the mist and only his legs come back, but there was also way to many cheesy parts. I felt like crying at the end. Not because of how dramatic it was. Because of how shitty it was. Like, wow.

The best part was when Carmody got shot in the face. Everybody clapped.

[WesScog]

Just watched this on DVD, wow, amazing movie.

The ending was a total shocker, people kept on telling me about it, and just, wow, still didn't expect that.

[CB2001]

The ending was rubbish. Honestly, they would have been better off keeping the ambiguous one they had in the novella.

About the ending, I disagree with you. I've read the novella and I love the ending of this film because it is even more Stephen King-like than any other Stephen King adaptation. Plus, the ending was hinted at in the actual novella. All Darabont did was take the one detail from the novella and made the ending as that. Plus, Mr. King agrees with the ending of the film (he has stated that he liked the ending and wished he had thought of it for the novella).

[Marc-OS]

The special edition has the movie in black and white, and I think it makes the movie about 10x better. I highly recommend watching it again in B&W for those of you who have already seen it.

[CB2001]

The special edition has the movie in black and white, and I think it makes the movie about 10x better. I highly recommend watching it again in B&W for those of you who have already seen it.

King, in an interview for "Fangoria" magazine back in the late 90s, actually said that he pictured the story being as a black and white 50s monster movie. So, I guess he told Darabont that detail and Darabont decided to include it with the special edition.

[ctvfilms]

everyone liked this movie?! really?!!? i personally thought this movie had horrible acting, and the dragon things were kind of strange... like, out of harry potter. however, the end was great!

[CB2001]

everyone liked this movie?! really?!!? i personally thought this movie had horrible acting, and the dragon things were kind of strange... like, out of harry potter. however, the end was great!

They're not dragons. They're pterodactyl-like creatures, similar to creatures that exist or have existed in our world, but somehow are different, much like the spiders with the human-like faces in the pharmacy, the big crab-like creature, the tenticles and the bugs.

[WesScog]

I thought the acting was FANTASTIC, very realistic.

Who do you think didn't do a good job? I thought they were interacting very realistically.

[ctvfilms]

I just felt that it was too fantasy like, almost Harry Potter meets Eight Legged Freaks. But I will say that Marcia Gay Harden's acting was very good because her character made me soooo angry throughout the movie and when she gets killed i was like YESS! FINALLY! and that really never happens when I watch movies. I guess that I didn't like the Sci Fi in the movie, I'm more of an Action, Horror, Comedy type of guy. Unless it's Star Wars.

[HunnyBunchFilms]

I really enjoyed this movie too, but everyone I know hated it.

[WesScog]

Too fantasy like? Nothing in the film struck me as fantastical.

I mean, a government program is unlikely to create a doorway to another world, but rather than the Mist coming from an Indian Burial ground, or something supernatural, it came from a Research Facility, which I think is a far more realistic explanation.

As for Harry Potter, or Eight Legged Freaks, when I watched this movie, the feeling I got watching Harry Potter or Eight Legged Freaks were about as far away as I could get from the feeling I got watching this film. The comparison doesn't fit for me.

And they kept the Sci-Fi to a minimum, I mean they didn't focus on the program, and they aren't even sure the military project caused it, they just THINK it did.

They didn't focus in on it's intricacies, they didn't explain it, or explore it, I mean, in Sci-Fi, there usually tends to be this kind of focus on really enjoying thinking about the "What if?"'s of the future, and of technology, and oftentimes really explores the technology deeply, and creates what we'd need for the technology to work.

With this one, the technology is completely left out of the equation, it creates this realistic background for the story to occur in, that lets everything else happen.

As for the giant creatures, I mean, for the film, they were obviously, trying to create a semi-realistic ecosystem, an alien world that looks like it fits together, and to basically allow the audience to understand that all of these creatures come from that same plane of existence, because they see how they interact.

The bugs, in of themselves are harmless, but they attract larger predators, things higher up on the food chain.

It's to give a sense that this is a real ecosystem, a real world, real creatures who have come flooding into our world. One little touch that I really liked, when you saw the (SPOILERS!) Impossibly Tall Creature at the end of the film, you can see the Dragon-like creature flapping around it, and they look like flies compared to how large the I.T.C. is. I thought that was a really interesting little thing to add, because it showed how these creatures fit together, it's like Oxpeckers and a Hippo, these are fluttering around, organized in a relationship with the I.T.C., and that is never really explored, it just showed off this little detail, and showed how realistically they were thinking about these creatures and how they fit together.

[mopman]

I liked it, and I think the black and white made it very intense and creepy.

[happyhands man]

i liked it alot except for the part about the end
who would do that??

[WesScog]

I would. Spoiler ahead.

If I had a choice between shooting my Son, or letting them get eaten and torn apart by Spider Monsters, where they would STILL BE ALIVE when the spiders buried their eggs in them, and still be alive when the baby spiders tore out of their body and ate them alive.

Then yes, I would shoot them rather than let the spiders eat them alive, one is quick and relatively painless, the other is horrific.

[sanftner2003]

I heard that it's better when you watcht he black and white version.
they say it give it a hitchcock-esque feeling.

[CB2001]

I mean, a government program is unlikely to create a doorway to another world, but rather than the Mist coming from an Indian Burial ground, or something supernatural, it came from a Research Facility, which I think is a far more realistic explanation.


Actually, you have to look at "The Mist" (either the film or the novella, but more so the novella) and how it ties into Stephen King's magna opus, "The Dark Tower". There are several creatures that match those described in a short prose story that was published with "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born" (a comic book series that is approved and supervised by King himself). In fact, with the "Dark Tower" universe, there is a mist that is described as a "thinny", which is a thin spot between two worlds. Some of the hardcore fans of "The Dark Tower" believe the Arrowhead Project may have been funded by Sombra Corporation, a corporated created by the Crimson King, one of the series' major villians, to weaken the Tower so that it can be destroyed.

Only by looking at it as it connects with King's "Dark Tower" does it appear as fantasy. If you look at it by itself as an individual work, then it comes off more as something that is possible with this day and age.

[WesScog]

I know that it could be tied into Dark Tower, nearly all of his work can be tied together, I just mean that a military program is more realistic than something purely supernatural.

[CB2001]

I know that it could be tied into Dark Tower, nearly all of his work can be tied together, I just mean that a military program is more realistic than something purely supernatural.

Oh, sorry about that. Yeah, it's more realsitic. I mean, there has been plenty of secret projects the government that are known and some that have been rumored that seem quite fantastic. I mean, one of the most popular secret projects, yet quite fantastic, is the Philadelphia Experiment. Yes, it's way out there with the myth about it. However, there have been weirder, yet true projects too.

Plus, the idea of alternate realities/worlds and opening a doorway in between them has always there. But I think that if you break one boundry, you'll end up breaking all of them and as a result, chaos ensues. One of the story ideas I came up with (which I decided to assign to a "story-within-a-story") involves a device that is able to break all boundies, including time, space, alternate realities and the boundry that seperates fiction and reality from one another (though the sequel ideas deal more with fiction and reality colliding). But sometimes, it's not just the government we have to worry about when it comes to such projects. What if a major corporation working on a couple of secret projects similar to the Arrowhead Project? It's also possible that way too. When it comes to people and organizations with a lot of power, joe average never really knows.

Man, I hate being a creative writer sometimes, I come up with a lot more than what I can do.

[ctvfilms]

i liked it alot except for the part about the end
who would do that??

i wouldnt becuase i would just fast forward and then see that the army eventually cleans up their mess.

[walidb123]

Great Movie.

More cinematic genius from Darabont.

[lowbudgetblockbuster22]

I loved it!

THE ENDINGGGGG AHHHHHH!