Stephen King's 'The Mist' was recommended to me by many friends and when i read the reviews on the net about it, my husband and i were persuaded to get it and watch it.
As it's an adaptation of King's novel, i was sure it would be over the top, awesome and fantastic! A movie worth owning ... but at the end of the movie i was utterly disappointed!
The beginning of the movie is great; a family, a house on the lake and a town getting engulfed by a dense mist ... definitely creepy!
But then as the creatures from within the mist start appearing ... what the heck is this? I get a strange feeling that it's going to turn cheesy!
Ok, mist, unworldly creatures, people getting killed in the mist and people trying to survive ... what's new? What's so fantastic about this?
To say the truth, i watched the movie in bed, and i tried not to doze off while i was watching ... so, i didn't miss anything important ... but when i saw how the movie ended ... i really wished I'd slept through the whole thing! I hated myself! I hated the TV screen and i hated my husband for nudging me all the time to finish the movie! I hated Stephen King! AAAHHH!!!
Sounds a bit cheesy if you ask me. I haven't enjoyed anyone of his latest movies. The old stephen King is gone and I don't think we can get him back.
This movie ranks as one of the dumbest, annoying movies ever produced. I'm glad didn't pay to see it at the theatre, I would have demanded my money back.
How can you review a film you slept part of the way through? Do you think there might be chance you missed something? If its the ending that made you hate it, you didn't get it. This movie is really about normal people just trying to get through the day. But, the crazies on both sides, liberal and conservative just won't leave them alone. Its about how "normal" middle of road people can't survive anymore. The world we're in forces you to join sides and won't let you just be! In the end, it sometimes gets the best of you.
mistlover,
I fully watched the movie but the idea you are talking about is not clear as on the novel itself when reading the book ... i give this movie 5/10 and i don't really recommend it for anyone to watch unless you have lots of time to waste!
the Mist is a thinker for sure, except a lot of the character conflict was really predictable...
is it me, or did those insect-like aliens have human teeth?
SAME HERE THE BEGINNING WAS STARTING OFF GREAT BUT THAT ENDING WAS HORRIBLE IT ACTUALLY MADE ME AND BOYFRIEND SICK TO OUR STOMACH THAT HOW BAD THE ENDING WAS .. I WISH WITH STEPHEN KING MOVIES HAVE A ENDING THAT MADE SENSE AND GOES ALONG THE MOVIE INSTEAD KILLING THE SON AND THREE OTHER PEOPLE FROM THE CAR AND REALIZED AFTER KILLING IT WAS OVER AND HE SHOULD OF WAITIED A LITTLE LONGER IT WOULD BEEN A NICER ENDING.
First off, you're not a real Stephen King fan if you didn't enjoy The Mist. Look at 1408, it was pretty good. If you know anything about Stephen King, then you know his books and the movies are going to be downright strange. Don't expect more. As for the ending, it's Stephen King, what did you expect? A happy ending? Not the kind of stuff he writes about. I don't think I've ever come across anything by Stephen King that had a happy ending. It wouldn't be Stephen King if it did.
you probably hated the movie because of the ending which was probably a sudden stop which is expected if you have ever read the book if you really want to read the book before the movie because then you would understand it better and dont hate stephen king for a shitty producers view of it so yea read the book and its one of those endings in which you get to decides what happens and thats what the director wanted to happen
I thought the whole movie was good ....except for the fact that peole where getting killed every 5 seconds ... and of course THE ENDING!!!!!!! It makes no sense at all to me! I thought he wanted to save his son .... NOT KILL HIM! If a movie is great and the ending is bad it makes the whole movie crappy. Sorry but im going to have to give it a 3 out of 10.
**SPOILER ALERT**
I just got done watching The Mist, and I have to say that I didn't understand the ending. I mean, I did, but I didn't. For all of you who say that Stephen King does not do "Happy Endings", that's not necessarily true. For his books he always had GOOD endings, maybe not happy, but they are good ones. Meaning, they make you think, or they give you resolution. Take The Green Mile, for instance, or The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, or Dreamcatcher. All good endings. The movies are different, though. Sometimes they're happy, sometimes they're sad, or confusing. Sometimes not good. As for the ending of this movie, I understand why the main character did what he did. He killed the three adults and his little boy for a reason. Yes he wanted to save them, but it seemed to me he was trying to save them from a violent, horrible death from the insect-oid creatures running around in the mist. However, I think I'm missing the big picture of the movie. This is one of the books of his that I hadn't read, so I don't know how it was truly intended to be viewed. I have a feeling that the ending had something to do with faith and following God, as the fanatical woman in the store kept preaching about earlier in the movie... but I'm missing it. When the military comes rolling through at the end, and the mist is clearing, there's a truck that has survivors; were any of these people from the store? I couldn't tell or remember the faces. If so, I think it might help me put together the meaning behind the plot. Hmm... It made me think. Not a horrible movie, in my opinion, but I don't think it's one I'd purchase.
Oh...gosh...hate it...hate it...hate it...grrrr....
I feel awful after i watched the movie...what i don't like the most in a movie is when they don't have happy endings....they just make me feel so disappointed that i can't really eat.....uh... AWFUL MOVIE....pls don't watch it!!!
The ending made me sad.
how could he do that to his own child
i could write for days on why this film should be avoided like incest but im going to being nice...
However i will say that the Monsters were terrible, not in creation but in their actions. Now im no malevolent tentacled beastly from the realm on the other side, but if i was i would be horribly frustrated to find that what with all my massively long and toothy tentacles i could only man handle one human being [and not even a fully grown and physically active one]
best stick to dead rising.
This movie had an ending which conflicted the entire story before it. Nobody could believe that they just gave up hope for running out of gas. They did see lot of other vehicles on the road. The ending was completely stupid. I dont know about Stephen King's book, but I am glad that the book did not have this ending. Having said this, other than the ending, it was a very nice screen play for all 2 hours except the scene where people stabbing an army soldier
I thought the movie was great, but the ending (my sister and cousins who had seen it the night before warned me about it) made me just plain depressed. My dad even told me that my sister had bombarded him with complaints and questions like "How could they put this in a movie?!" or "This is a low for Steven King and the guy who made this horrible movie." So I was prepared for a disapointment... Anyways, the movie is really tense and gorey and I kept asking my sister what's gonna happen next, because it's a thriller and I need to know what happens before the suspense kills me. And at the end she wouldn't drop a clue as to how the end would end. All she told me is that I'm gonna wanna kill myself. The ending came, worse than the Sopranos ending. Worse than I Am Legend's ending. I kinda wanted to hang myself. To me, The Mist was an 8 out of 10 stars.... before I saw the ending.
I wouldn't have been surprised if the intercom came on in the theaters after each "The Mist" showing saying "If you haven't already killed yourself, please exit to your left or right." Yup, it's thatttt bad.
I hate to read, but I love watching movies and love to watch Stephen King movies. One thing I do know about Stephen King is that his movies are indeed strange, his vision in his books take you into the unreal / the unimaginable, so with that said. Why would the movies about his books be any different. I love the whole movie... The movie really gets you thinking about the "WHAT IFs". What if a military base was experimenting on some sort of transportation device and it went all wrong. What if you were suck in a similar situation were you saw no hope for survival and you knew that even attempting to save you and loved ones means putting them in the line of fire. I know that I couldn't bare to see my loved ones go through something like that. At the end of the movie their truck runs out of gas and they see this huge monster passing right in front of them and who knows how many more horrifying creatures they will encounter if they step outside the truck. The only option they saw fit was to kill them selfs then to be eaten. After the guy kill all his loved ones he steps outside the truck offering himself to the monsters only to realize the military shows up and is killing all the mosters. That movie was mind blowing, a true Stephen King masterpiece. I LOVED IT...
Stephen King is cheesy. All he does is make evil fear in the world. So what if people like it. He juts knows all he has to write is some gross thing and people eat it up. :P It's all crap to make money. They don't care about people.