The Mist

The above point is worthy of a discussion in its own right. Where do we draw the line regarding spoilers? It has been out on DVD for some time now and the film is actually two years old. Is it our fault if someone has not taken the time to watch it yet?

Should I not mention who or what Rosebud refers to in case someone hasn't seen the film in question yet?
 
Good film - but the ending was too depressing. I don't mind depressing endings, but this one seemed unnecessary. I wouldn't have liked a "they all lived happily ever after ending" either.... but I hated it this way.

Still, yes - the situation with the religious b*** was deeply satisfying!!
 
Like linkinpark875 I watched The Mist on the Sky Movies free weekend, I had avoided it as the short story is one of my favourite ever horror tales by any author (I read The Skeleton Crew when I was about 15) and didn't want my vision from the book spoiled, but 12pm on a Sat night, free Sky Movies and The Mist is on, so I gave it a chance.

I really enjoyed the film, one of the better adaptations of a King Story and bar the ending quite close to my vision of the tale, well acted, the effects were reasonable, I now have it on my DVD wish list.

I plan to have a monster movie trilogy; The Mist, followed by Deep Rising, followed by Cloverfield.
 
I thought the ending was quite good actually.

They drove because they didn't know the extent of the mist and they were trying to escape. When they saw the huge monster and ran out of fuel with nowhere else to go it must have really seemed like the monsters were everywhere and there was no chance of survival.

In such circumstances I would have thought that something like group suicide would be a possibility, rather than being gruesomely killed by the monsters they assumed had taken over the planet.

The ending wasn't 'satisfying' but in a way that was a good thing. It challenged your assumptions. You assumed that most of them would get out alive or, if not, at least the father and the child would live, because that's hollywood cliche. To have the kid die came as a shock because there's not many movies that are 'brave' enough to portray the death of children.

But maybe I'm just a pessimist. ;)
 
Well yes it is, but at what age do we decide that a film has been out long enough to be "spoiled"?

Can I say, Dil is actually a man? Is it ok to come out with the fact that Dr Malcolm Crowe is dead or that water hurts the invading aliens? Oops!!!
 
The film wasn't the best film that I have ever seen, however, it was quite good to watch for a few hours. I thought the ending fitted the film well.

It struck me that the whole situation was really about group hysteria and peer pressure. The characters had some hope to begin with (they thought they would get help/thought they could escape) but were gradually worn down by negative individuals in the group - particularly Mrs Carmody, who even managed to turn some of the group to her way of thinking. At the start none of the group would have been prepared to sacrifice anyone, yet by the end many had changed their views.

At the end, the characters had no hope left. They thought it was inevitable that they would be killed and they had no fight left in them. David killed them because he thought it was a quick, clean death rather than a horrific death as he was expecting. He did not take pleasure in killing his son, he did it to protect his son from a horrible, violent death. He had been worn down so much and thought it was the only way, he lost the will to fight.

The mother of the two children was not affected by the group hysteria, she left early on while she still had hope and thought she would able to save her children. She did not give up and was reunited with them.
 
I don't know what it feels like to think
the world is ending and your death might be at the hanRAB of horrible creatures instead of a quick death via a gun
...

He might have been thinking
about it all the while he was driving as an option if things didn't work out
 
Thats why I asked do you think its beliveable of the characters not yourself (from what you see of them in the entire movie beforehand)

I agree with you he might have been thinking that, but he leaves it FIVE MINUTES! after all that effort, sorry the ending was forced and not credible, maybe we will just have to agree to disagree :)
 
Just watched this and wow was the ending depressing!

I kinda saw it coming, but I thought perhaps somehow they would all die, and then we'd see the mist lift and it all turn out to be ok.

I was so glad the woman from near the beginning had made it home to her kiRAB and they were safe but why did Billy have to die!?!?

Mrs Carmondy I thought was brilliant and just seemed like exactly the type of middle-American you expect to hear preaching as the end of the world looms nearer.

Great film though, just so gutted by the ending!
 
Agreed, the one in the novella was better even though King himself disagrees.
It was completely out of character and a cheap shot
I still enjoyed the rest of it though.
 
I'm really in two minRAB about it. I loved how I was scared while actually caring about the characters. I was genuinely affected by a lot of the movie- I had to pause it after
they killed the soldier
because I knew that could really happen in such a situation. I felt physically sick and was shaking for a while afterwarRAB, which has never happened to me before during a horror movie, or probably any movie for that matter. I guess I just realised the scariest things in the whole story were the people, not the monsters.

But then there was that ending.
Seriously, I'm all for a sad ending and I think it could have worked if they'd at least shown some lapse of time. The father shoots everyone in the car, including his son, then two seconRAB later OH LOOK IT'S OKAY NOW! Sure sucks to be him right now! That along with seeing the mother on the back of a truck implied that the people who stayed behind would have been saved, and who in their right mind would have wanted that to happen? It also suggested they were right, that it was a punishment from god, which I didn't like at all. Not because of any anti-religious beliefs I may have in real life, but because I just didn't want those people to be right. After all they'd done, it just didn't make sense for it to end up that way.

I feel I've rambled on quite a bit but I'm always upset thinking about that movie! It would definitely be high up in my favourites if only they'd kept the ambiguous, hopeful ending of the novella or at least tweaked their ending a bit!
 
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