| Posted by: Dragula at June 25, 2008, 5:16 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by auge_28 Drayton, Billy, Amanda, and elderly school teacher Hilda Reppler reach the car and leave Bridgton, driving south for hours through a mist-shrouded New England. After finding a refuge for the night, Drayton listens to a radio, and through the overwhelming static possibly hears a single word: "Hartford". With that one reed of hope, he prepares to drive on into an uncertain future. Woah! Might wanna put up a spoiler alert above. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: auge_28 at June 25, 2008, 4:35 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by xseanymacx What is the King ending? Drayton, Billy, Amanda, and elderly school teacher Hilda Reppler reach the car and leave Bridgton, driving south for hours through a mist-shrouded New England. After finding a refuge for the night, Drayton listens to a radio, and through the overwhelming static possibly hears a single word: "Hartford". With that one reed of hope, he prepares to drive on into an uncertain future. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: LordSimen at June 25, 2008, 4:34 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by God of War Ya know what the first thing that sprung inot my mind was when I saw that mega-huge beastie? War of the Worlds. It lumbered along almost like a martian tripod. But with six legs. It even had the tentacles, heh. Did you notice all of teh flying creatures around its body? Were they the same winged bat-like beasties that got into the supermarket after those nasty bugs? I think they were. I thought of the Cthulhu. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ZMoney08 at June 25, 2008, 4:10 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by chinton Spoilers!!!!!!!!!!!! The movie I think about this ending the less it makes sense and the more I relize how badly its staged. It doesntmake any sense that the character would shoot everyone immediately after the car stoped. They barely even wait. Once the tank comes and the mist opens up it becomes apparent that Jane immediately offing everyone was simply contrived so we could get this "heartbreaking" moment that everything was for naut. The tank and the mist coming was also terrible staged. There is no sound of the approaching tanks. They are just suddenly there and the way the Mist just suddenly opens up one wonders why they didnt notice it beforehand. The ending is shocking but lacks all kind of coherency. Spoilers Agree with you there. After hearing about how awesome and shocking the ending was I just thought it was kind of stupid how the moment they ran out of gas they just gave up and then like 15 seconds later the mist cleared. I would rather they just run ... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: auge_28 at June 25, 2008, 4:04 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by chinton The movie I think about this ending the less it makes sense and the more I relize how badly its staged. It doesntmake any sense that the character would shoot everyone immediately after the car stoped. They barely even wait. Once the tank comes and the mist opens up it becomes apparent that Jane immediately offing everyone was simply contrived so we could get this "heartbreaking" moment that everything was for naut. The tank and the mist coming was also terrible staged. There is no sound of the approaching tanks. They are just suddenly there and the way the Mist just suddenly opens up one wonders why they didnt notice it beforehand. The ending is shocking but lacks all kind of coherency. They should have stuck with Kings ending. Far more disturbing. I totally agree, Kings ending had a wonderful ambiguity about it . . . made it a lot more effective and chilling . . . because we do not know if it is a local event or if the mist is permanent and growing. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: chinton at June 25, 2008, 3:56 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Spoilers!!!!!!!!!!!! The movie I think about this ending the less it makes sense and the more I relize how badly its staged. It doesntmake any sense that the character would shoot everyone immediately after the car stoped. They barely even wait. Once the tank comes and the mist opens up it becomes apparent that Jane immediately offing everyone was simply contrived so we could get this "heartbreaking" moment that everything was for naut. The tank and the mist coming was also terrible staged. There is no sound of the approaching tanks. They are just suddenly there and the way the Mist just suddenly opens up one wonders why they didnt notice it beforehand. The ending is shocking but lacks all kind of coherency. They should have stuck with Kings ending. Far more disturbing. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: God of War at February 12, 2008, 10:37 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Sonny488 Leavin the mist...I cant remember the last time I left a theater feelin that depressed...but I remember one of my favorite experiences in a theater during a certain scene of the mist I can't spoil it but I remember the whole theater breaking into applause...loved it. Spoiler below [swipe to read] When the preacher woman got shot in tha head, right? | | Static Link |
| Posted by: God of War at February 9, 2008, 8:47 am | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by echo_bravo The only scene I thought was laughable was the squid/tenecal (spell?) scene. I thought the CGI was pretty bad in that scene. Ya know what the first thing that sprung inot my mind was when I saw that mega-huge beastie? War of the Worlds. It lumbered along almost like a martian tripod. But with six legs. It even had the tentacles, heh. Did you notice all of teh flying creatures around its body? Were they the same winged bat-like beasties that got into the supermarket after those nasty bugs? I think they were. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Bourne101 at February 7, 2008, 10:25 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | I agree GodOfWar. I saw this back in November and I'm still shaking. I don't think there's ever been a film that has affected me like The Mist. Just completely shocking and emotional. I also don't see it as just a B horror film. I consider this one of the best films of 2007 and just because it is gory and violent doesn't mean it can't be one of the best of 2007, which is what some people seem to be on the fence about. The Mist is a classic that will be talked about for years, especially once it hits DVD and everyone sees it. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Hannibal21 at February 7, 2008, 8:12 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | I hope this one gains a larger following over the next couple of years - saddened that it wasn't a box office success and received pretty mixed reviews amongst the critics & public - and becomes a cult genre classic like The Thing or Night of the Living Dead; it's the best horror movie (in the purest sense) of the past 10 years (surpassing the overrated The Others and The Sixth Sense, and all the latter-day splatter flicks that pass themselves off as "horror" nowadays), and one of the very few in recent memory (the other is the spooky and poignant The Orphanage) to drain me emotionally after it ends. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Le_Big_Mac at February 7, 2008, 4:24 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | I didn't really get into the characters enough (although I was waiting for Marcia Gay Harden's character to die the whole movie) to feel anything other than temporary shock at the ending. And I also thought it killed the apocalyptic, depressing-in-a-bigger-sense thing that the movie had going for it. But it was still overall a good movie, and one of the more respectable of the recent "monsters invade a small town" B-horror movies. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Kikabi at February 7, 2008, 2:03 pm | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | Yeah, Thomas Jane is amazing. The ending was a blow to gut that took me a while to get over, too. I was slack-jawed. And neither did I see it coming. I usually behind the curve, too, since I can rarely go to the theater to see movies during their run. So, I'm like you about the forums, not being about to participate very often in current movie discussions. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: God of War at February 7, 2008, 6:58 am | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | I know, his performance was amazing to say the least. I'm so glad that someone else thought so. Yes, I see the tragedy in that bit. Spoilers Below [swipe to read] I really thought that his shouting was gouing to be heard by the creatures. He was begging for death. But then the army rolled in. Imagine doing that? SHIT! But he wasn't to know. This movie opend today in my city. I know that the US folks got it last year. We're a bit behind in our movies, I know. That's what makes it very hard fro me on this forum alot of the time. Because movies and stuff that you have all either seen and now have on dvd, we haven't even seen yet here. Spoilers Below [swipe to read] With Jane's boy. I was glad that he wasn't awake when they stopped at their house near the end. I was thinking I hope he doesn't see his mother dead and cocooned on the wall. That was sad as well. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: ilovemovies at February 7, 2008, 5:32 am | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | MAJOR SPOILERS! Yeah, Jane's performance is what makes the ending of the movie so powerful and haunting. He was really excellent in the movie. Probably his best performance ever and a really underrated piece of acting. The ending was so sad and chilling yet I have to admit that I kinda laughed only because of the irony and because I pretty much saw it coming. As soon as the others all shoot themselves and he gets out of the car I thought, I bet help/rescue is going to come out of the fog/mist. And indeed that did happen. So it was kind of predictable but still very powerful. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: God of War at February 7, 2008, 5:14 am | | Topic: It's Been Less Than 4 Hours Since I Saw "The Mist" & I'm Still Shaking! Forum: JoBlo | | It's been only a few hours since I saw "The Mist." And I can think of nothing else but that movie and it's ending. My God, I never expected that to happen. The entire movie I really enjoyed. I haven't seen a movie based on a Stephen King novel since "Desperation." The Mist was scary, gory and genuinely frightening at times. It was a long movie, but that didn't bother me. It was the last 20 minutes or so that really got to me and shook me up emotionally. Daymn! Did the movie affect anyone else like this? And what did you all think of the movie as a whole and the ending? Spoilers Below [swipe to read] Those creatures from the other dimension were all terrifying and so relentless in their attack on those trapped people. I mean they were everywhere. The last huge monster was intimidating and so freaky. After that, all seemed lost when they eventually ran out of gas and decided to end it all. Then when Thomas Jane killed the occupants of his car, including his only son. That got to me really b... | | Read Entire Entry |
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