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kloraferm
11-07-2007, 05:04 PM
Just wondering what opinions on this were. I'm thinking about checking it out but I haven't decided yet.
LilJimmyRbinson
11-07-2007, 05:05 PM
I never heard of the book. Was it a short story from one of his collections? How is it different then The Fog? Also, how good could it be if its a scary movie coming out after Halloween?
Stormrider666
11-07-2007, 05:11 PM
I never heard of the book. Was it a short story from one of his collections? How is it different then The Fog? Also, how good could it be if its a scary movie coming out after Halloween?
I was thinking about this other day. Scary movies can and should be released from the middle of October to the day of Thanksgiving. This way we could darken the spirits of those who want to jump start the holiday season, after Halloween. As for the movie itself, I think they ruined it by showing what is in the mist in the first commerical I saw.
kloraferm
11-07-2007, 05:39 PM
I was thinking about this other day. Scary movies can and should be released from the middle of October to the day of Thanksgiving. This way we could darken the spirits of those who want to jump start the holiday season, after Halloween. As for the movie itself, I think they ruined it by showing what is in the mist in the first commerical I saw.
I agree with you for the most part, but primarily I agree with your thoughts about the best time for "scary movies" to be released, totally.
MrBogey
11-07-2007, 06:35 PM
FWIW... it's a pretty good short story by King(same as 1408). It's made by the same guy who translated prior King books ("Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile").
The plot differs from the Fog in that there's no greater reason for the fog setting in. There's no backstory about angry ghosts seeking revenge. Nope. A dimensional rift has opened and the equivilant to Shogoth and Cthulhu type creatures begin tearing into a town.
Stalker2
11-07-2007, 06:41 PM
Looks like a bomb.
George Costanza
11-07-2007, 06:45 PM
The original short story was quite good around 250 pages in a King collection called Skeleton Crew or Night Shift I believe. King has a much better record on the big screen than the small one. The Director so far has been good with King's film adaptations and the Punisher is in it.
SlimeyGoatFuckr
11-08-2007, 04:47 AM
The original short story was quite good around 250 pages in a King collection called Skeleton Crew or Night Shift I believe. King has a much better record on the big screen than the small one. The Director so far has been good with King's film adaptations and the Punisher is in it.
Yes, it is a very good story on paper. From the previews though it looks like it may not carry over too well. The fog in the parking lot scenes looks too fake and the acting in some of those scenes looks fake as well. The acting however could be intentional to try and make it look as real as possible.
Hudson
11-08-2007, 05:20 AM
The story was creepy fun...hope the movie is close......and the story was first in Dark Forces and re-edited and put into Skeleton Crew
Glenn Dandy
11-08-2007, 07:06 AM
watch "the fog" first from the 70's then vomit and go see something good.
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WhiteHonkyDevil
11-12-2007, 06:31 PM
The Mist is probably my favorite King short story, and I actually think this movie looks great....a little hokey, yeah, but they'd better not fuck with the ending.
weakside
11-12-2007, 06:59 PM
Looks like a bomb.
x2
It's not necessarily King's fault but his work doesn’t always translate well to film.
distortion9
11-12-2007, 07:12 PM
Big fan of King but I don't remember this story.
The part where they're all holed up in the supermarket (or whatever it is) reminds me of "Maximum Overdrive", which equals very really not good and bad.
Mindslayer
11-12-2007, 08:37 PM
I liked the short story when I read it and initially I had reservations of a film adaptation, but it may just be pretty good considering that Darabont is directing.
PCLoadLetter
11-20-2007, 02:29 AM
This is one of the Stephen King short stories that I've been praying they'd make into a good film... Ever since I was a relatively wee fella in the early-80's. I hope they don't Eff it up.
I'll have to drag my girl into the theater in the next coupla days to see this one...
wes mantooth
11-20-2007, 09:28 AM
I like the short story but chances are it's a bomb. It having an R rating does give me hope though. Nothing worse than a PG rated horror movie.
WhiskeyWhispers
11-20-2007, 10:17 AM
I read a favorable review in Entertainment Weekly, they gave it a B+. The highlight of the review: they called the film "shockingly pessimistic", which to me is a good sign for a horror flick.
I never read The Mist, but the flick looks like solid B-movie fun.
I read a favorable review in Entertainment Weekly, they gave it a B+. The highlight of the review: they called the film "shockingly pessimistic", which to me is a good sign for a horror flick.
I never read The Mist, but the flick looks like solid B-movie fun.
Being a lover of King's work, (I really would like to see this movie), and not wanting to bash him by this statement, but I'm sure EW won't bash a movie based on a short story he wrote, considering he writes for the magazine. But, I'm sure this movie will still be great.
UrsusHorribilis
11-26-2007, 04:59 PM
Saw it over the weekend.
Scared the b'jesus outta me. Disturbing ending...
Budyzir
11-26-2007, 05:04 PM
Saw it over the weekend.
Scared the b'jesus outta me. Disturbing ending...
I was reading the reviews on Rotten.com and everyone is talking about the ending; "disturbing", "shocking", and the like. Good, I hope it's dark and evil and the ending fucks with you. Not every movie has to have a touchy-feely happy ending.
ruckstande
11-26-2007, 05:23 PM
Saw it on Friday with the girl. It was a last minute decision. All I can say is that it was absolutely brilliant and it was spent 90% in a supermarket. It was probably my favorite Stephen King film next to The Stand. My gf laughed at me because I jumped and yes, the ending is fucked up.
ShooterMcGavin
11-26-2007, 05:41 PM
x2
It's not necessarily King's fault but his work doesn’t always translate well to film.
I had to watch the Shining twice to understand it.
Then again, I have a hard time following old movies for some reason.
Still, I did like it as soon as I understood it.
distortion9
11-26-2007, 06:11 PM
Big fan of King but I don't remember this story.
The part where they're all holed up in the supermarket (or whatever it is) reminds me of "Maximum Overdrive", which equals very really not good and bad.
I WAS WRONG...
Movie was great!
PCLoadLetter
11-28-2007, 10:52 AM
I read a favorable review in Entertainment Weekly, they gave it a B+.
And if you go to Rottentomatoes, you'll see that it's got a 69% fresh rating.
I did go see it on monday and I was pretty happy with it. Well, I don't know if "happy" is the right way to describe it, but it was about as good as hoped for. Let's just say that the ending left me bewildered as it was WAY different from the original story, though if you're like me and you read the story 20yrs ago, you sit there thinking "hhhhrrrmmmm.... did the book end that way and I simply forgot??"
Any movie ending that angers this many audience members is worth seeing, and this movie has absolutely ENRAGED people.
Highly recommended.
mascan42
11-28-2007, 02:31 PM
Between this and No Country For Old Men, this is turning out to be the year for bleak endings.
coolyellowbus
11-29-2007, 04:13 AM
Just finished watching it. I didn't go into it with high expectations but it actually was pretty good. Felt a little rushed but then again is was a short story.
As for the ending: Boy if you couldn't see that coming from a mile away.
Squat Toilet
12-04-2007, 03:09 AM
I thought it was pretty good. Deff. worth seeing.
Yeah... I did sort of guess the ending, but I was shocked that they did it. That was a complete head fuck, and I only wish they would do that with more movies.
PCLoadLetter
12-31-2007, 01:04 PM
As for the ending: Boy if you couldn't see that coming from a mile away.
Uh-huh... Actually the ending wasn't telegraphed AT ALL (and if you read the book, you absolutely didn't see the ending coming because the book didn't end that way). The only thing that was obvious was the very LAST thing that happened, which (no spoiler so go with me here) became obvious only after the event that immediately preceded it... events separated by about a minute, not a mile.
sniper
01-08-2008, 03:03 AM
Finally got around to seeing this.
An absolute great flick. I originally threw it on as background noise while working on the computer, but after 10 minutes I was fully enthralled in it. I realized half-way through that the monsters really play a second fiddle to everything else going on. It's funny, i was really less interested in the actual horror of the monsters in the mist as the horror of the characters involved. And the ending? Sure, you can see it coming, but man is that ballsy, and just truly fucked up. But it worked.
8.5/10
Sack of Chisels
03-05-2008, 06:30 PM
Finally saw this. HOLY SHIT. One of the greatest 'horror' movies ever, easily.
The dvd is out on the 25th by the way. (http://www.toxicshock.tv/news/2008/02/21/stephen-kings-the-mist-dvd-release-details-and-art/)
dolemyte
03-05-2008, 06:41 PM
Really under rated. Dark, bleak and a good study of people in stressful situations.
Me and my chick walked out almost silent after watching it, in shock at the ending.
Been waiting for the dvd to drop. Gonna surprise the old lady with it.
FattyPneumonia
03-06-2008, 01:14 AM
I checked it out on my lovely hotel PPV tonight and I liked it for sure. I am sure I will have some fucked up dreams tonight about it.
By the way I fucking hate spiders!
Deftera
03-06-2008, 02:26 AM
Liking the reviews, look forward to checking this one out.
EarthCrisis
04-21-2008, 12:24 AM
Read the book like 10 years ago, wasn't expecting that ending, thought they'd end up in Hartford! Very cool movie.
SOCK TITS
04-23-2008, 11:17 PM
Saw it over the weekend.
Scared the b'jesus outta me. Disturbing ending...
You can say that again holy fucking mother of Christ! Bad acting in the beginning and really throughout the movie. Some bad special effects that left me wondering how good the movie after the hour and half it good suspenseful! I don't want to give out the ending
Finally watched it and I thought it was very good. The ending was kind of predictable, but even so, I didn't think it would actually happen. I told my gf that that ending would have been cool, but no way it happens and to my surprise it did. Its just one of those wtf moments that even though you know its coming still surprises you.
Very nicely done and makes you wonder how primitive humans actually are.
jagsfans
04-24-2008, 10:56 AM
The ending is only really predictable if you have been hearing people talk about the shocking ending for months. That was my experience but the movie told a deeper story about fear controlling us. I think Marcia Gay Harden was fantastic.
silentbob8201
04-24-2008, 11:42 PM
Watching this almost made me wish he was making Cell as opposed to Hack horror Fanboy director instead of not wanting it filmed at all.
JordanSRT10
08-31-2008, 10:48 PM
Watching this almost made me wish he was making Cell as opposed to Hack horror Fanboy director instead of not wanting it filmed at all.
Cell would be some crazy shit.
I thought that was mind blowing in mist, how those creatures were so fucking creepy.
You remember that giant motherfucker walking around when they were driving? Like 100 feet tall.
Then he Jimmy Conway'd everybody
MilkmanDan
09-01-2008, 01:51 AM
Those that saw it should read the novella. Its great.
Frank Darabont making his neighbor black , spin from the original story.
Ending is also different in the story and leaves alot open to the imagination.
Watching this almost made me wish he was making Cell as opposed to Hack horror Fanboy director instead of not wanting it filmed at all.
Off topic, but I was really underwhelmed by Cell as a novel. I thought it was a really interesting concept - Stephen King does his very own zombie apocalypse story - but then he bogged it down with the usual weird King shit. It's like, Stephen, in this case, it's really just okay to stick with the standard zombie-theme, you don't have to add all of this weird other shit. I was bored by the end of it.
Man, King really has just gone from a fucking GREAT horror novelist to being inconsistent at best. I blame it on the accident.
WhiskeyWhispers
09-01-2008, 12:00 PM
Off topic, but I was really underwhelmed by Cell as a novel. I thought it was a really interesting concept - Stephen King does his very own zombie apocalypse story - but then he bogged it down with the usual weird King shit. It's like, Stephen, in this case, it's really just okay to stick with the standard zombie-theme, you don't have to add all of this weird other shit. I was bored by the end of it.
Man, King really has just gone from a fucking GREAT horror novelist to being inconsistent at best. I blame it on the accident.
Cell was like The Stand Lite and it got sillier as it went on. Not his best but not his worst either. I read Duma Key recently and while nothing much happens in the first 3/4 of it, I was into the character he created and was enjoying it ....... then it turned into what may be the silliest shit I have ever read, I mean a ten year old would laugh at it. His biggest pile of shit is From A Buick 8, just awful nonsense (that was supposed to be his last novel, thank God he didn't quit, it would have been a travesty to have that abortion be his final work). The only King novel from the last ten years or so I enjoyed cover to cover was Lisey's Story, and that was a very different novel from his other stuff.
Maybe he should go back to snorting coke and drinking 2 cases of beer a day, he wrote his best stuff during those days.
mascan42
09-01-2008, 01:06 PM
His biggest pile of shit is From A Buick 8, just awful nonsense (that was supposed to be his last novel, thank God he didn't quit, it would have been a travesty to have that abortion be his final work).
I kept reading expecting the story to go somewhere, but it just didn't. It was all setup and no payoff.
JordanSRT10
09-01-2008, 02:53 PM
I think the end of cell was definatly rushed. Seemed like he decided the book was long enough and just stopped.
CougarHunter
09-02-2008, 11:00 AM
Love Andre Braugher. No homo
George Costanza
09-02-2008, 07:30 PM
Off topic, but I was really underwhelmed by Cell as a novel. I thought it was a really interesting concept - Stephen King does his very own zombie apocalypse story - but then he bogged it down with the usual weird King shit. It's like, Stephen, in this case, it's really just okay to stick with the standard zombie-theme, you don't have to add all of this weird other shit. I was bored by the end of it.
Man, King really has just gone from a fucking GREAT horror novelist to being inconsistent at best. I blame it on the accident.
I too was underwhelmed by Cell. However since the accident he wrote the conclusion of the gunslinger, which brought together many of the characters and events from his earlier books. I started reading king in middle school and the journey from beginning to end in the Gunslinger spanned nearly twenty years of my life. The last three books in the dark tower are often viewed as one book in 3 parts similiar to the lord of the rings. I feel they are neither better or worse than the previous gunslinger books. Wizards and Glass is my favorite. Though his style has changed since the accident, you gotta love how he injected so many of his characters into the gunslinger story.
King rules
Long Days and Pleasant Nights
wes mantooth
09-07-2008, 12:15 AM
I too was underwhelmed by Cell. However since the accident he wrote the conclusion of the gunslinger, which brought together many of the characters and events from his earlier books. I started reading king in middle school and the journey from beginning to end in the Gunslinger spanned nearly twenty years of my life. The last three books in the dark tower are often viewed as one book in 3 parts similiar to the lord of the rings. I feel they are neither better or worse than the previous gunslinger books. Wizards and Glass is my favorite. Though his style has changed since the accident, you gotta love how he injected so many of his characters into the gunslinger story.
King rules
Long Days and Pleasant Nights
I also think Wizards and Glass is the last good book he published. I also think he incorporated his later characters into the Gunslinger world because it was very open-ended and allowed him to emcompass his entire body of work with a nice bow tie after the fact. That's great and all but I feel like he's trying to leave shit open enough to tie it back in again. Fuck that, it's done and he needs to start anew.
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