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The plot was interesting enough. Really I liked watching the peoples reactions more then watching for the plot value itself. It makes me think that Mr. King wrote it for the value of the people more then the plot. And how about that ending, how did that make you feel?

I know it is a book, but I never read it. I want to now just to see how close this movie was to the book.
 
I never read the book either, but I heard that many people didn't like the book, but loved the movie.

This was one of those movies I just wanted to keep watching to see what happens. I did think some parts where drawn out a little and boring, but it was suspense building.

I love the ending most of all, something I would never expect which is why I think I love the ending so much.
 
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I just now saw it and quite frankly, I have mixed feelings about this movie. I honestly don't know whether I like it or not. Granted, the plot was indeed interesting and thickened quite a bit as the story progressed.

I think it was interesting how Ollie implied that if you take away people's ability to call 911, put them in a situation where everything's based on survival, and implant fear in them, people would lose rationale and act primitively despite what kind of character they have. They would be capable of doing almost anything given of the situation. So true...it happens alright.

As for the ending, I'm still a little shaken up by it, actually. But as soon as David did what he did, I just knew...
that the situation would eventually get solved. It was so damn predictable. >.>
Hmm, notice that people were given opportunities to actually survive the situation. A lot of "what ifs". I'll give a few examples.

Major spoilers.

First was in the beginning when that lady asked everyone to come with her and walk her home to her kids. Now, obviously people were too scared to go out in the mist and didn't go with her. Towards the end, we see her alive and well, reunited with her kids.

Second one was also towards the end when David wanted to reach for that gun in the hood of his SUV. Everyone kept telling him "No, no!". Now, what if he didn't reach for that gun...? You follow me?

I won't elaborate as I'm sure those who've seen this would know exactly what I'm talking about.

There were more surviving opportunities in the movie, but I'll have to watch it again to pinpoint each and every one of them. Although they were questionable, I do wonder if Steven King was trying to convey a message or something. They definitely made it noticeable, alright.

Anyway, it was a good movie through and through. The ending just disturbed me greatly and was definitely one of the highlights of the movie. The other highlight was the behavior of the people and the social psychological aspects of the situation. That certainly ticked me off quite a bit.
I wonder if the people in the store survived...
Again, there is that possibility as well.

...Damn possibilities.
 
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I liked this movie up until the end -__-;

It had a nice B-flick charm to it, and I liked how the story revolved more around how the humans reacted differently to the situation they were in. The hicks were funny, Ollie kicked ass, and that psycho preacher lady....urgh. Well, her role as a "villain" was very effective, I definitely hated her. And the monster design in the movie is pretty cool too, especially the massive land whale.

But the ending, oh god, the ending made me so angry. I can just see the director going "HEHE I'LL THROW SUM IRONY IN I SO CLEVAR!" In the book, it ends with
Drayton and the few refugees from the store driving off into the mist, and left it with a note of hopefulness.
But the director had to go and ruin that by having his "ironic" ending where
Drayton and co. drive off, eventually run out of gas, and instead of getting outside the car and taking a chance on foot, they decide to kill themselves. So Drayton kills everyone, including his son, doesn't have a bullet left, gets outside and screams for monsters to come, then a military convoy comes.
It was so predictable and just such a lame way to end an otherwise enjoyable movie.
 
Lol I found it hilarious when
David said that there were only four bullets left, and the woman (forgot her name) stated, "But there's five of us."

Yeah...state the obvious. >.> There were actually quite a lot of funny moments in the movie, which I found so cool because you don't really get that in a horror movie.
I also like the reference to Jim Jones. Suits the whole theme of the people's behavior.

 
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I have yet to see this but I've always wanted to read his books jsut because I'm that kinda guy who loves mysterious/suspenseful situations and reading about them and all. The trailer for the movie looked good, so I'm hoping the movie lives up to expectations on my part for it.
 
The movie was ok I thought it was weird
when David was about to shoot his son and the son just opened his eyes really wide, then all of a sudden it only shows the car and 4 shots from the gun blurted out. Then David comes out and David says come on! Then the army people come...
So I liked the movie until the end, it sucked. So I don't really think it was really that scary, a rating out of 10 on how scary it was I would say about 4.
 
Karoleena said:
someone should've killed mrs.carmody a lot sooner...
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I...seriously...hated her. But you gotta admit, keeping her alive for so long made it all the more satisfying when
Ollie shot her.
I was all "ZOMG AWESUM HAHAHA PWNT!"

They shoulda done more with the creatures though, that was the best part. The land whale was just epic...although it was shrunk down alot from what it was in the book.
 
I loved it, the movie was amazing, the reson why no one has really read the book is because it came out after the movie just like one of his earlier movies "Storm of the century". King is best known for writing books but sometimes he writes just the movie and his company translates it into a book after the movie is released. ( The stand, pet cemetery and IT were some exceptions.)

I really enjoyed the movie, as i read in an earlier post, the value of the characters is what really counted, that and the themes. Although they are movies they are written as a story and still hold literary elements. The theme of the ending situation was Irony. It is my personal opinion that many people don't enjoy irony as they do not understand it right away. Many people know the definition, but if you really saw it right away you would respect it. All too many times in my language arts courses have I heard someone say "Thats stupid" or " wow, thats really anti-climactic" for the endings of Shakespeares "Romeo and Juliet" and M. Night Shamylan's "The village", but only because they don't recognize it as Irony right away, they see it as theings not going along with the mainstream.

Forgive me, I'm Rambling.
 
Raldois said:
I loved it, the movie was amazing, the reson why no one has really read the book is because it came out after the movie just like one of his earlier movies "Storm of the century".
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Um.....wrong. It came out in 1980 as a short story in Skeleton Crew. After the movie it was published by itself.

I really enjoyed the movie, as i read in an earlier post, the value of the characters is what really counted, that and the themes. Although they are movies they are written as a story and still hold literary elements. The theme of the ending situation was Irony. It is my personal opinion that many people don't enjoy irony as they do not understand it right away. Many people know the definition, but if you really saw it right away you would respect it. All too many times in my language arts courses have I heard someone say "Thats stupid" or " wow, thats really anti-climactic" for the endings of Shakespeares "Romeo and Juliet" and M. Night Shamylan's "The village", but only because they don't recognize it as Irony right away, they see it as theings not going along with the mainstream.
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Riiiiiight. See, I recognized it as irony, not to mention it was predictable. I saw it coming soon as the Jeep ran out of gas. Irony is the cheap way out in endings these days. HEEHEE LOOKIT ME I SO CLEVAR IMMA MAKE A BIG D'OH ENDING! It was cheap, predictable, and it did the characters and ending of the book an injustice. To be honest, I hate endings like that. It's not satisfying at all. If a villain dies by his favorite torture method or something, then irony is acceptable and delicious. If the director wanted to be ironic, he should have done so with Mrs. Carmody.

The thing about Shakespearian irony is that, while it may have worked 500 years ago in Romeo and Juliet, it's become stale. That's why it's almost always predictable and why it's cheap. It takes far less creativity to slap in an ironic ending while trying to pass it off as some bullshit like "well I'mma tryin to get mai audience to think" than it does to make an original ending...or in the case of the movie, end it with King's idea, which actually would have made the audience think and speculate.
 
First, The entire story itself wasn't published as a full length book until after the movie came out.

Second, you may have recognized it as irony right away, but not everyone enjoys and is well versed in literary elements as you are.

Third, given your disposition towards the ending, how would you go about ending it?
 
Raldois said:
First, The entire story itself wasn't published as a full length book until after the movie came out.
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Orly nao? This says otherwise.

Second, you may have recognized it as irony right away, but not everyone enjoys and is well versed in literary elements as you are.
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You missed what I said about irony being overused. People can generally spot it a mile away, whether or not they have alot of literary experience.

Third, given your disposition towards the ending, how would you go about ending it?
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I thought the answer to that was made obvious in my last post. I liked the book's ending, just leave off with
Drayton and co. driving off into the mist with a slight sense of hope.
And going back to the cheapness of the ending...not only was it a cheap shot at irony, but it was also just unrealistic. Granted, monsters spewing out of another dimension is unrealistic, but the main focus of the film was on how people reacted differently. You would think that
when they run out of gas, they'd try to go it on foot and see if they can survive.
After all, one would assume that if they all had the courage to run through the parking lot in the first place, they would have the courage for that as well. But no,
they run out of gas and Drayton decides they must kill themselves.
It was just plain stupid.
 
Okay, while I do know that the movie's theme has to do with irony, my question is, what is the message and reason behind the irony?

Now, I stated earlier that I did not like the ending. After much thought of the matter, I will still say that I still don't like the ending, but I have a renewed view of the ending, to a point where I think that the ending is actually just fine as it is and not done differently. Typically, we are used to seeing happy endings in movies, or something that is inconclusive (unless the implication is very strong, but still inconclusive all the same). The Mist is not a happy ending, nor was it inconclusive...and I believe that is the reason why many people like the movie (albeit the dislike for the ending part): it was appealing and definitely out of the norm. People can't seem to forget about this particular movie because it stands out to them.

If this movie was something inconclusive in a way (much like the book's ending), people would be like, "Huh? That's it?". It doesn't leave much satisfaction, and can then turn to slight irritation. (The book is viewed quite differently than what you would expect in a movie, so while I believe that the book could have satisfied many readers, the same conclusion for a movie would be received quite differently). So I still love the movie, but always dreaded that ending as I still hated it...however, I am quite satisfied with it now because I'd rather see a conclusion to something that suspense of a plot.

If that makes any sense...?

Anyway, something that I also noticed...
David killed everyone in the car in a certain order. It's kind of hard to describe the order...but it's almost as if he killed those who were not ready to face death first (his son, the woman, the older lady, and the older man). It's not really that big of a deal, but something that I just noticed after studying the shots in the car. Of course, it would only make sense to kill his son first since he doesn't want him to open his eyes and see him killing the others...but I think he killed them in order of which whom is more vulnerable in a way.

On to Mrs. Carmody. Gah, I hated that bitch!
Why wasn't she attacked and killed when that flying creature landed on her chest? Really ticked me off as I really wanted to see her demise then and there, but yeah...Ollie ending her life was much fulfilling.
 
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the mist

right i watch the Mist today and i actually have to say it caught me off guard
I was expecting it to be one of those s**** films but i have to say the way they kept it mysterious into like 30 mins into it i thoughht tthe film was good
all im saying who else thats watched it did they like it or not
:mrgreen: :D
 
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This movie scared me. >.<

It was really sad in the end as well. I totally didn't see it coming and it I really felt bad for the guy. =/

I hated those freakish leg things that came through under the roller doors and took that kid though. Oh and that freaky religious lady was a bitch. <_<

Can't remember if she died or not now.

Won't ever watch it again. Too sad at the end.
 
I watched it with an ex and was so damn pissed with the ending. Such a bigh FUCK YOU, it really did upset me. Just afew more minutes and they would have been saved. Oh the irony seeing the woman who left alone wot get her kids, alive and well!!
 
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