This adaptation of The Mist… does not look very much like Stephen King’s original short story.
I mean, the original story had a mist. One that was full of dinosaurs by way of HR Giger. I’m not seeing much in the way of scary wild monsters in this one, sorry.
Moe Lane
PS: Look, I’m not a purist. At least, I try not to be. But the original story was written to be evocative of the 1950s Creature Feature monster flicks. Why not, you know, go with that? I’d watch a good Atomic Horror revival movie or twelve.
Hated the movie. Was actually angry by the end
**HATED** the movie.
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I mean, I get the anti-religious segment, I get the terror, I can *sorta* see the hopelessness. Sorta.
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Thing is … the jerk in the role of protagonist *didn’t have a clear reason* to *be* hopeless.
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Had he fought at Ypres? Was he in Dresden for the firebombing? Nagasaki?
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There was no reason given – in the film – for him to go so hopeless so fast.. and there’s no follow-up in the denouement to explain it.
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Very frustrating film. Zero stars, will not watch again.
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Mew
Strangely the movie’s ending was more bleak than then book’s ending. That’s got to be a first for a King adaptation.
I liked the film. Sure the main character is a Bastard who will burn in hell, but the ending was startlingly different from the book and it didn’t try and explain, rationalize, normalize or apologize; it just ended – a trust in the audience all to rare these days.
See .. your “trust in the audience” is my “pissing on the audiences’ leg and claiming it’s raining”.
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If I want “stories that just ended”, I’ll read a damn newspaper.
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Mew