My thoughts on "The Mist"
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My thoughts on "The Mist"
I shall now assassinate Stephen King.
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After watching this movie, you will want to claw your own eyes out then light your brain on fire while hanging yourself with a live electrical line over a tank of rabid sharks.
It is THAT wretchedly depressing and miserable.
The only good thing I have to say about it is it has cool creatures. But for the love of Bast, leave the theatre five minutes before it ends. Because not only is the ending horrible, but you see it coming from a mile away.
It is THAT wretchedly depressing and miserable.
The only good thing I have to say about it is it has cool creatures. But for the love of Bast, leave the theatre five minutes before it ends. Because not only is the ending horrible, but you see it coming from a mile away.
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Dude, you didn't like Pan's Labyrinth?!PariahPoet wrote:I am cursed with picking bad movies.
It all started when I bought Wicker Man, and I have just made one awful decision after another-
Premonition, Pan's Labyrinth, Bridge to Terabithia, The Mist...
The only decent movie I have rented or gone to see in the past year was Ratatouille.
I thought it was great! Love the faun.
Which Wicker Man did you get? The crappy remake that was unintentially funny? Or the good 70s version?
(Did love Ratatouille and hated Premonition as well)
On-topic- I usually always wait for a movie to come on dvd before I watch it. I'll see it then. (I must watch all horror movies )
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The scary thing about this is that three of those movies are in my personal "have had them widely recommended to me and really must see them some time" list. Should I start being a bit more wary of what my friends recommend to me?PariahPoet wrote:It all started when I bought Wicker Man, and I have just made one awful decision after another-
Premonition, Pan's Labyrinth, Bridge to Terabithia, The Mist...
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Pan's Labyrinth was overrated. Some people dont like downer endings..i assume pariah didnt like it for that reason...but the Mist was actually entertaining. Hell, it was directed by frank darabont! He directed the green mile and Shawshank redemption ( which is on many movie lists as the #1 film of choice.
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My problem is there was no catharsis in the movie. You feel like crap through the whole thing and you continue feeling like crap as you walk out. I knew half an hour beforehand that they were one short. Had they had enough, it would have just been ironic and you'd think "Man, that sucks" and move on. But as it was, I walked out of the theatre wanting to kill myself out of sympathy....
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Heh, yeah, same in our theatre. ^^
That's another thing that annoyed me though, there were no decent religious people. I mean, I guess the rope guy kinda was, but it made it look like all religious people would be irrational and evil in a crisis.
I really liked the old lady and the nerdy grocery guy though.
That's another thing that annoyed me though, there were no decent religious people. I mean, I guess the rope guy kinda was, but it made it look like all religious people would be irrational and evil in a crisis.
I really liked the old lady and the nerdy grocery guy though.
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Stephen King is like Boring Manilow...he found a plot that worked and just kept using it. Again and again and again...PariahPoet wrote:After watching this movie, you will want to claw your own eyes out then light your brain on fire while hanging yourself with a live electrical line over a tank of rabid sharks.
I'll rent it. That way, I can:
>Sit in my comfy chair.
>Eat Pizza and drink Beer.
>Smoke my Pipe
>And make sarcastic comments about the picture all I want.
Really, Pariah-you should try my system. You miss all the fun stuff lilke the yelling kids, the wet baby one row down, the eardrum-busting volume, and the overpriced semi-stale popcorn; but we all must make sacrifices now and then.
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*ahem* maybe I need to present a bit perspective here, so long rant ahead... First of all, I haven't seen the movie yet, but read the novella that it is based on, and it was quite decent, in fact, probably one of the more interesting stories by SK. It was also first published in 1980, just at the point when he was publishing his best works (for example, The Stand 1978, Pet Sematary 1983, It 1986, go wikipedia!!!). Meaning, I do NOT think that any storyline crappiness is necessarily the fault of recent drop in SK's quality in writing (which there has been some, or quite a bit, I agree, I was quite a bit disappointed by the ending of the Dark Tower, for example). However, he has had a track record of crappy movie adaptations, with maybe only one or two counter-examples (The Shining and Green Mile?). I don't know how the ending of the movie was, but the book ended open, so please share behind some spoiler tag, if you don't mind Of course, this was a somewhat depressing story, with the open ending making it perhaps more so, so if being depressing is an all-around negative criteria for you (I dislike depressing movies myself, I loved Pan's Labyrinth, bought the DVD, but can't bring myself to watch it again ), then it might be true that it wasn't for you in the first place. All I am saying is, don't be too quick to blame Stephen King for the faults of the movie, which may or may not be his (but boy, didn't the ending of Dark Tower suck?).
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What Doruk said... Good thing I saw it, I was just about to say it myself.
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Creepshow (kind of... I liked The Crate)
The Dead Zone (the compression and changes were a little annoying, but it was excellent and it had Christopher Walken)
Stand By Me
Pet Sematary (I'm in the minority here, I know...)
Misery (one of the best... didn't capture the tone of the book completely, but was still very good)
The Shawshank Redemption (the best)
The Green Mile
Secret Window (it's not great, but it wasn't the worst thing ever)
1408 (I really like this one, I'm not sure what people's problem with it is)
Still not a good track record for adaptations, but really, no author has that. As for this movie... I hope I like it. So far I think I've heard mixed reviews.
I left out The Shining because I don't like it.
The majority do suck, yes... But I think that's putting the number a little low, isn't it? I mean I thought that these ones were good:Doruk Gulcu wrote:with maybe only one or two counter-examples (The Shining and Green Mile?)
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Creepshow (kind of... I liked The Crate)
The Dead Zone (the compression and changes were a little annoying, but it was excellent and it had Christopher Walken)
Stand By Me
Pet Sematary (I'm in the minority here, I know...)
Misery (one of the best... didn't capture the tone of the book completely, but was still very good)
The Shawshank Redemption (the best)
The Green Mile
Secret Window (it's not great, but it wasn't the worst thing ever)
1408 (I really like this one, I'm not sure what people's problem with it is)
Still not a good track record for adaptations, but really, no author has that. As for this movie... I hope I like it. So far I think I've heard mixed reviews.
I left out The Shining because I don't like it.
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