| Posted by: Morzongo at April 30, 2008, 12:51 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Although the end was dissappointing, I think it's one of the greatest horro movies of the 2000s. Darabont is a great director and the one who has better adapted Stephen King. Really great movie, great moments, great jokes and great characters (the one performed by Marcia Gay Harden was awesome). | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Danger^Cart at April 21, 2008, 8:47 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | I know I'd rather eat a bullet than be painfully ripped apart and devoured by A) Giant lobster thing B) Giant tentacle thing C) Giant...walking thing D) Giant pterodactyl thing, etc, etc... Seeing things from their perspective (Curses to Durabont for assuming the audience could accomplish this much) the options were pretty slim, and hope was in even shorter supply, so all things considered I really don't see any course of action being more realistic than the one in the film. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: DaMovieMan at April 21, 2008, 2:08 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Good film but overhyped, i was expecting something more.....realistic? I couldn't buy those creatures at all because the CGI was pretty awful. I admit that the idea is interesting and if i was forced to come up with an explanation that is down-to-earth about unbelievable creatures i would come up with something like in the movie, military fucking up basically. There were moments when the characters annoyed me coz they did nothing but scream and stay in place, paralyzed from fear was what i told my friend who didn't like it either, but it still looks awkward on film. The whole religious subplot with the crazy lady was gold, very well done. The ending was pretty shocking but i had the misfortune of already knowing what's gonna happen before watching the film. I think the ending is what makes people go apeshit for the film. Still, good stuff over all and Thomas Jane was solid as the lead. Always nice to Pembelton on film as well 7/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: adamjohnson at April 21, 2008, 2:02 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | If you think it would be a good idea to go out into the Mist at the end, then you haven't been paying attention for the past 2 hours. Seriously. Mist=bad. There are things worse than death out there, and anytime someone takes more than five teps into it they're eaten alive, or made host to thousands of baby spiders. And the giant behemoth just proved to them that they havent even seen the worst of it. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: DME at April 21, 2008, 1:58 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Rukas It's like Rocky Balboa training for his comeback fight and then just giving up before he faced off against whats his name, and knocked himself out. Except that Rocky wasn't facing a life-or-death situation. I suppose it'd be more like Rocky training, then fighting through to the 15th round and his doctor telling him "One more good punch to the head could very well kill you, or you could chance that it won't and maybe win on points," and then him having to decide whether to go out and maybe get punched in the head, or go throw in the towel and never find out how the round would've turned out. Still a lousy analogy, but that's what we're working with, so there it is... Quote: Those of you that accept the ending as the right thing to do obviously wouldnt survive a situation like this. Those of us on the other hand who think it was just giving up would wait it out and survive; thats really all the proof or justification I need. Now that's just silly. It's a movie for ... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Rukas at April 20, 2008, 4:08 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by psudoazn **SPOILERS*** You make an interesting point, but I ultimately disagree. 1) As people have mentioned, the dad made a promise to his kid to not let the monsters hurt him. The act his father committed was undeniably disturbing. But he made a rational choice. At the time of the decision, they felt that they were all going to die excruciating, torturous deaths. Jane decided to give his son a quick, painless death and to take the torcher like a man. If he was, indeed, a coward, he'd shoot himself and leave his son for the monsters. I disagree, for reasons Ive stated in previous points. He promised his son he wouldnt let the monsters get him, so he decided to murder him himself? Stupid choice. Quote: 2) There's no shame in retreating when the odds are stacked against you. It's called strategy. In Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima", Eastwood asserted that the Koreans' main tactical error was their pride and their insistence on fighting to the death. My point is t... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: psudoazn at April 19, 2008, 12:23 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | **SPOILERS*** Quote: Originally Posted by Rukas The point is to never give up and keep on fighting. Personally Id have rather gone out swinging than died in the car. Everybody in that car took the cowards way out. The saddest thing is that the son was never given a choice and was murdered. You make an interesting point, but I ultimately disagree. 1) As people have mentioned, the dad made a promise to his kid to not let the monsters hurt him. The act his father committed was undeniably disturbing. But he made a rational choice. At the time of the decision, they felt that they were all going to die excruciating, torturous deaths. Jane decided to give his son a quick, painless death and to take the torcher like a man. If he was, indeed, a coward, he'd shoot himself and leave his son for the monsters. 2) There's no shame in retreating when the odds are stacked against you. It's called strategy. In Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima", Eastwood asserted that the Koreans' main tactical error was thei... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: fabxxx at April 18, 2008, 3:45 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | I swear to God this is what happened yesterday night when me and my boyfriend were watching the movie for the first time. I've not read the book or ANY spoilers up till today: *******SPOILERS******* Scene1: People are going crazy trying to reach the boy and the woman to be sacrificed by the crazy church lady... Me: "Someone needs to shoot that bitch".... *BAM!! Glass milk blows, church lady got shot in the stomach... Camera pans to Ollie* Me: "Now in the head!!" *BAM!! Ollie shoots crazy church lady in the head* Boyfriend annoyed: "Have you seen this movie??" Scene2: Thomas character shoots gun 4 times in the car, tries to shoot himself... click click click... Steps out side the car screaming and hear a big noise... Me: "Wouldn't be funny if it was not a monster and instead the army with jets or something?"... *BAM... The Army Tank shows up from the Mist* LOL!!! I was on fire yesterday!!! LOL!!!... Maybe I should buy some lottery tickets!! Nice film - 8/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MadsenOMC at April 16, 2008, 10:02 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | SPOILERS!!! Finally, someone who knows how to make a really good horror movie. This was definitely worth the wait even though I still wish I had seen it in theaters. Strong writing and characters, solid acting, great setting and atmosphere, excellent direction, tension to spare and a few genuine scares. The Mist has all of that, and it results in one of the best horror movies in years (at the very least). I'm sure I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said about this one. The James Wan's and Darren Lynn Bousman's and Eli Roth's and Rob Zombie's of the world wish they knew how to make a horror movie like Frank Darabont. Darabont doesn't get overly fancy with the camera. He doesn't resort to boo scares and quick-cutting and oppressive sound. He doesn't throw gore at the screen for a cheap shock or rub our faces in it. It enhances the story and is meant to horrify, which it does. Just an all-around excellent horror flick with a serious gut-punch of an ending. I'll be feeling that one for a while. Talk ... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Danger^Cart at April 15, 2008, 6:57 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | This movie kicked my fucking ass. 9/10 I'm gonna have to double dip and get the B&W version now. Godamnit. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: the saw is family at March 20, 2008, 3:06 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Skittle_boy15 Where did you find this B&W version? Is it in the 2 disc collector's edition that I saw was coming out? If so, are there any deleted scenes and/or alternative endings available? I can't get enough Mist! yeah it's the 2 disc version. if you have a borders books around you you can pick it up, for some reason they put it out this week instead of next. no alternative ending, there are deleted scenes, not sure what they are as i havent had the chance to watch them yet. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Skittle_boy15 at March 20, 2008, 1:58 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by the saw is family watched the black and white version last night. really enjoyed it much more that way. the black and white also does a good job of covering up some of the flaws in the cgi. i didn't have huge qualms with the cgi in the color version though. it's really nice to be able to see the film as darabont intended it to be. the black and white is very crisp and looks great. it was my first time seeing it since the theatre and damn that ending still packs a wallop. also watched darabont's commentary on the end scene and he has some interesting insights into why he chose that ending, definitely worth listening to. Where did you find this B&W version? Is it in the 2 disc collector's edition that I saw was coming out? If so, are there any deleted scenes and/or alternative endings available? I can't get enough Mist! | | Static Link |
| Posted by: the saw is family at March 20, 2008, 8:15 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | watched the black and white version last night. really enjoyed it much more that way. the black and white also does a good job of covering up some of the flaws in the cgi. i didn't have huge qualms with the cgi in the color version though. it's really nice to be able to see the film as darabont intended it to be. the black and white is very crisp and looks great. it was my first time seeing it since the theatre and damn that ending still packs a wallop. also watched darabont's commentary on the end scene and he has some interesting insights into why he chose that ending, definitely worth listening to. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: truth_be_told at March 19, 2008, 8:32 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Another little nitpick I have is how the theme of human nature is being presented, and how, if you will let me get a little corny, "we are the monsters afterall" - a very decent viewpoint, and the film didn't necessarily fail at putting this across at all. That being said, the characters (while enjoyable) were very extreme. You have the crazy religious woman and her band of born-again sheep on one side who the audience is automaticaaly supposed to root against, and then you have the extremely good guys on the other side. All of them were fairly typical, and I understand that it's totally normal to have a protagonist and an antagonist - it's just that I wanted to see the ugly side to more of them. If that makes sense. Maybe it doesn't. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Tyler Durden4 at March 19, 2008, 6:36 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | I enjoyed this. But some of the dialouge was a bit bad and the theatre can't allign a projector so the top of everybody's head was basically cut off, but that's how it goes. Any way, I think this'll be a lot better in B and W. The effects might blend better and set a tone | | Static Link |
| Posted by: SteeleDude at March 19, 2008, 6:31 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Skittle_boy15 I hope you aren't hating the neighbor just because he's black...horribly racist thing to do. Now you even said the effects were really fakey in the dock area. Maybe it wasn't that the effects were fakey, the monster itself was just fakey. Then when they brought the guy back he was like WTF this shit is so fake. And they're all like "Nah man it just really looks fakey but its REAL!" Neighbor's last words "Aww shit man, that spider looked totally fake how was I supposed to know?" True Story What??? Anyway. Yeah the reasons the neighbor didn't go look weren't valid at all and took away from the story. A few things didn't fit within the context of the movie and jarred me out of it. The neighbor, the religious lady was way too over the top to be believable, and some of the events that happen in the attacks. Spoilers The ending wasn't so hot. It was just a shock ending that didn't work for me. Honestly they drove for hours in the mist without much incid... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: paul calf at March 16, 2008, 6:14 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | i found this movie suprisingly enjoyable ,ok so the special effects were ropey but the story and the way it played out was good,thought the ending was excellent . 7/10 | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Skittle_boy15 at March 13, 2008, 3:41 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by truth_be_told Excellent horror movie. I only have a few minor complaints (spoiler warning): 1. That first scene in the loading dock with the tendril attack. Horrific special effects. It honestly sucked out most of the tension in what was the first scene where the monsters are confirmed to be real. 2. That dumbass neighbour. I generally liked the characters in the film, and I could forgive certain characters for making the impulsive decisions that they sometimes made. But the neighbour? No. No way. His whole "No, I'm not going back to see the severed tentacle thing. You're tricking me." spiel was pathetic, and not even in a "things-horror-movie-characters-shouldn't-do" kind of way. It was just stupid. I hope you aren't hating the neighbor just because he's black...horribly racist thing to do. Now you even said the effects were really fakey in the dock area. Maybe it wasn't that the effects were fakey, the monster itself was just fakey. Then when they brought the... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: truth_be_told at March 13, 2008, 2:12 pm | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Excellent horror movie. I only have a few minor complaints (spoiler warning): 1. That first scene in the loading dock with the tendril attack. Horrific special effects. It honestly sucked out most of the tension in what was the first scene where the monsters are confirmed to be real. 2. That dumbass neighbour. I generally liked the characters in the film, and I could forgive certain characters for making the impulsive decisions that they sometimes made. But the neighbour? No. No way. His whole "No, I'm not going back to see the severed tentacle thing. You're tricking me." spiel was pathetic, and not even in a "things-horror-movie-characters-shouldn't-do" kind of way. It was just stupid. 3. I loved and hated the ending. Everything was working perfectly for it until the military arrived. Then it just made me angry. It seemed like astupid attempt to make the audience gasp - almost as bad as one of the typical "gotcha!" endings we see so often in horror films. The ending was appropr... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Worthystevens at March 13, 2008, 11:04 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by Rukas Exactly. The burned guy for example. David wont let him kill himself to ease his pain even though everybody knows he wont make it. Instead he risks his life, with people dying in the process, to get meds just so they didnt "give up." And then at the end he just gives up? It made no sense, and I cant help but feel it was just tacked on for the shock value. What do you mean they had no hope left? They could have waited and hoped somebody would rescue them or it would pass; perhaps dying of hunger, but still having hope and waiting it out to the very end. Or they could have walked on foot and HOPED that they'd make it, perhaps they would (we now know they would), the fact is they all gave up. And Jane's character took their lives into his own hands which is as wrong as what the crazy religious freak did. And like I said in my last posts, he murdered his son, the kid had no choice, and he SAW it coming. That drive WAS their last hope. The only reason they didn't give u... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Max Cady at March 13, 2008, 9:53 am | | Topic: The Mist Forum: JoBlo | | You guys are missing the main point with the ending. SPOLIERS His son made him promise that he wouldnt let the monsters get him, thats another reason why he killed everyone, including his son. after seeing that big creature added to everything that already happened, it seemed like it was all over. The giant monster was a sign of no hope | | Static Link |
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