Stephen King's - The Mist

[Evanescence]

Just saw the movie...came out last year...anyone else see it?

Thoughts?

[Teresa79]

All I have to say is: the ending fricken sucked. If I ever see Stephen King, I'm beating the crap out of him.

[Tracey]

I hated it. In the begining i hated the 'preachy woman' she got on my fricken nerves...bad to say but i was glad to see her killed. The end really fricken sucked BIG time. It was just horrible.

[Teresa79]

In the begining i hated the 'preachy woman' she got on my fricken nerves...

I know, I was like, "Lady, shut up!!" I loved it when the old woman threw a can of peas at her head. "The Lord says you can stone those that p*** you off." Or something like that.....anyway, it was pretty funny.

[Tracey]

hahahahahaha AMEN SISTA

[The Unknown Gomer]

Saw it back in May, I think. Fortunately I'd read the story a LONG time ago, so wasn't feeling the need to compare the two and rag on them about the differences.

I really liked the movie. But yeah, the ending was quite the downer, to say the least. But it was one that really makes you go :eek: and downer or not, I'm always all for NOT having the ending figured out halfway through the movie.

[RevZeek]

The ending seemed a little predictable I thought. I mean you knew as soon as he did what he did, that would happen (trying to prevent spoilers :D)

It was an OK movie. Wish I would have rented it instead of spending 8 bucks though.

[The Unknown Gomer]

...It was an OK movie. Wish I would have rented it instead of spending 8 bucks though.

Definitely worth the $1.25 (or less, probably closer to 80 cents, the way WE go through DVDs) to get it from Netflix. ;)

[Tony Trout]

Is this out on DVD yet?

[Evanescence]

Yeah, I had a few issues with it...

First off, it seemed a bit rushed at the beginning. Oddly, they called the FOG...MIST. Who does that?

Then, the main charatcer and his kid....are trapped in this supermarket with creatures outside. The man, NEVER mentions his wife who is at their house. BIG weak part there...

I thought the plot was GREAT....Govt screwing up again.....power outage causes their expieriments to get out, terrorizing. But there was NO real sub-plot. I mean, who was this guy....he had no real character arc.

The religious freak woman was GREAT.....they played that well. You wanted her stupid A$$ dead...and got it. Great emotional attachment with her. Anger and frustration.

The end? Still out to lunch about that. I was thinking they could ahve used it for one last tension builder. Could have had him on the verge of killing them...but the Army stops him just as you scruntch in your seat.

Could have also had that be part of his character arc....that he always gives up...never has hope...BUT learns to have hope and in the end, can't do it. Then the Army saves the day.

Then, it may not have been true to the book...

3 out of 5 stars

Good photgraphy and directing...just a few weak spots in the script...

[The Unknown Gomer]

Since at least May. :) Or was it March? I saw it in one of those "M" months, I think. :P

[Evanescence]

Was the end of the MOVIE consistent with the BOOK?

[The Unknown Gomer]

I'm almost positive that the ending in the book was different than the one in the movie, one would think I'd remember an ending like THAT, if the book ended the same way. :eek:

But it's been over 20 years since I read it as part of Skeleton Crew, so really don't remember all that much about it.

[Jason]

King has trouble with endings. For example, It and The Stand.

[The Unknown Gomer]

King has trouble with endings. For example, It and The Stand.

:confused:

I've read both of those several times, they're probably two of my favorite King books. Never really had a problem with the endings of either.

Of course, a lot of water - and books - under the proverbial bridge since I last read them; between that and watching the mini-serieseses for both several times, maybe I'm forgetting how the books themselves actually ENDED. :)

[Jason]

Great books but ...

SPOILERS AHEAD ...




























It is a giant alien spider. O-kay. The Stand ... fixed with a nuclear missile. O-kay.

[The Unknown Gomer]

Great books but ...

SPOILERS AHEAD ...

Oddly enough, neither one of those endings seemed out of place to me. :)

I mean, that was just the form that IT took while it was where they found IT; if IT can be all those other forms that it took during the earlier parts of the book, why not that? The way it translated into the miniseries was just hokey though. :rolleyes: I DO like IT the miniseries though, primarily for its cast. The grownups were really well cast, I though. When IT's on TV I usually watch at least part of it again (particularly the scene in the chinese restaurant with the fortune cookies :eek: :D ), but usually turn it off before the ending.

The Stand? I'm actually okay with THAT ending too, particularly the re-added epilogue piece from the unedited version (that part WAS missing from the earlier edited versions, wasn't it? I get the first version confused with the second version confused with the miniseries).

Now THAT miniseries. I really WANTED to like it, but I'm sorry, I liked Gary Sinise as Stu, but Molly Ringwald as Frannie? That was SO not how I pictured that character. It kept throwing me every time she was on screen.

Worst adaptation of a King work for TV though, IMHO? The Tommyknockers. I loved the book, but I think they really botched it up when they put it on TV. One thing DID stick though, to this day, I still call that color of green (like you see in copiers and scanners) "Tommyknocker Green". They should make it a crayola color. :cool: