The Mist - An interesting TEOTWAWKI movie

Joezilla said:
Did anyone ever read "the raft" in that book too? Another great Stephen King short story.
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The Raft was an excellent read.A great collection of short stories,Nightshift? i think,long time ago now..Quite a few that would make great movies,and a few that did.
 
They had the raft in one of the creepshow movies. I tihnk it was creepshow 2. Neat, but again not nearly as good as the story.
 
This was the first Stephen King adaptation that was well done. Most of them (most notably IT) cannot come close to the book; it requires quite an imagination to really get into his books, and movies cannot substitute for what we can imagine. The only thing I did not like was the ending, I did not like it at all. The book leaves open a window of hope in an ambiguous ending, but the movie only ended in despair.

The human dynamics in the movie were completely believable. I can easily imagine people behaving like that in stressful situations, and this could be used to train people to deal with true survival situations. A lot of survival depends on your mental state.

Now, if they could only do a miniseries of the Dark Tower books, along with all the others that tie into them in one way or another (it's amazing how many of his books have links to the Dark Tower series, in significant ways or just minor references - Talisman, Black House, Rose Madder, Hearts in Atlantis, etc). Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.
 
lambertiana said:
Now, if they could only do a miniseries of the Dark Tower books, along with all the others that tie into them in one way or another (it's amazing how many of his books have links to the Dark Tower series, in significant ways or just minor references - Talisman, Black House, Rose Madder, Hearts in Atlantis, etc). Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.
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I heard a movie or miniseries is already in the works for the Dark Tower (I love the opening scene with the painting of Roland in The Mist). I might not see it for fear of having my mental images corrupted :) I regret, to this day, watching The Stand miniseries.

I think nearly all his works (at least under the Stephen King name) tie in one way or another to the Dark Tower; it's awesome. He crowned it his masterpiece with good reason. Recently I've been rereading his anthologies and shorts; I was much younger when I first read many of them, and reading them again now that I'm older is like reading them for the first time. I've come to like his short stories and novellas just as much if not more than some of his longer works.

Did you read Duma Key yet Lambertiana? I have it sitting on my desk here, just been too busy to get sucked into it....

Added Wikipedia entry:
"IGN Movies has reported that a film adaptation is in the works; whether it is for a movie or a television series is unknown. J. J. Abrams, who has been behind shows such as Lost and Alias, is supposedly attached to produce and direct.[5] Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, also affiliated with Lost and J. J. Abrams, have optioned the Dark Tower series from King for a reported nineteen dollars, which of course, is the infamous number from the Dark Tower series of novels.[6] According to issue #923 of Entertainment Weekly, King "is an ardent supporter of the desert-island show and trusts Abrams to translate his vision" into a film franchise with Lindelof being "the leading candidate to write the screenplay for the first installment."[7]"
 
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huh... i might have to check it out.... :o

it definately sounds more intersteing hearing it from you folks, as aposed to just reading about it online, especially when you all talk about it from a preparedness point of view.......you guys have now peeked my curiosity...
 
This movie was great until the end. Could have had better special effects but otherwise good movie. It had potential for a sequel. I got so pumped at the end with those HUGE walking things and then the worst ending in movie history.
 
Anyone seen Cloverfield? I thought that was a GREAT movie along similar lines (maybe not the best acting, but still a good). I thought it did a good job of portraying some of the psychological responses of people under stress...some of the characters even displayed tunnel vision in response to an unexpected stressful situation.
 
You know what I liked about the Mist?

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I thought it might have been written with the idea that every decision the guy makes, no matter how reasonable it seems, goes wrong. He delays the fixing of the window because he has more pressing concerns - his wife dies. He doesn't leave with the first woman - she is rescued and look what he goes through. And then at the end...

It's like at every stage he makes what OUGHT to be the right decision, and they're all wrong anyway.

I don't generally like Stephen King all that much but I enjoyed that movie a lot, thought about it for a long time after.

I would have done things differently than Tom Jane though! Starting with shanking that psycho in the store...I am big on shanking the psychos.
 
love all the books From KING. Pet cemetary is my all time favorite though, the vivid nightmares it gave me a child still sit in the back of my mind. i still get a very queasy scared helpless feeling when i walk thru the woods thru deadfall piles and the wind blows.

The Mist was good too, but i always prefer the book to movie the
 
misanthropist said:
You know what I liked about the Mist?

POTENTIAL SPOILER SO WATCH OUT!

I thought it might have been written with the idea that every decision the guy makes, no matter how reasonable it seems, goes wrong. He delays the fixing of the window because he has more pressing concerns - his wife dies. He doesn't leave with the first woman - she is rescued and look what he goes through. And then at the end...

It's like at every stage he makes what OUGHT to be the right decision, and they're all wrong anyway.

I don't generally like Stephen King all that much but I enjoyed that movie a lot, thought about it for a long time after.

I would have done things differently than Tom Jane though! Starting with shanking that psycho in the store...I am big on shanking the psychos.
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Yeah, I would have just killed the B#@ch! That would have calmed em down.
 
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Joezilla said:
Did anyone ever read "the raft" in that book too? Another great Stephen King short story.
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There is a movie version of that as well.
I remember seeing a review and a trailer.
I have never seen it around on video though.
 
Ya, you can tell it wasnt Missouri. Only one person in the store with a gun? Shoot, we wouldve had an armed standoff if it was here!
 
That was one more story that solidified my #1 Action on the to-do list in a EOTWSHTF situation... Kill the crazy religious person first! The last thing you need in a survival situation is some radical loud crazy person upsetting the herd. As far as I'm concerned, the crazy bitch that starts shouting sacrificial ideas at scared impressionable people is a liability.
 
Dylside said:
That was one more story that solidified my #1 Action on the to-do list in a EOTWSHTF situation... Kill the crazy religious person first! The last thing you need in a survival situation is some radical loud crazy person upsetting the herd. As far as I'm concerned, the crazy bitch that starts shouting sacrificial ideas at scared impressionable people is a liability.
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Theres a crazy religious nut in a brief section of King's "The Cell" as well.
"The Cell" might make a good TEOTWAWKI movie as well.
 
j williams said:
Ya, you can tell it wasnt Missouri. Only one person in the store with a gun? Shoot, we wouldve had an armed standoff if it was here!
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I'm moving to Missouri.

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Dylside said:
The last thing you need in a survival situation is some radical loud crazy person upsetting the herd. As far as I'm concerned, the crazy bitch that starts shouting sacrificial ideas at scared impressionable people is a liability.
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So true :D
 
I loved the ending. IMO it was the single best part of the film. Bleak and uncompromising. The moral to the story is never give up!
 
Soulrack223 said:
I loved the ending. IMO it was the single best part of the film. Bleak and uncompromising. The moral to the story is never give up!
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Yeah I actually thought the ending for the movie wasn't too bad, slightly dues ex machina-esque as far as the whole situation goes, but pretty "good" for Tom's story. I remember reading somewhere that King liked the ending of the movie as well, and thought it was pretty good.
 
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