The Mist.

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Tiewas

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Anyone seen this piece of crap? I was digging it until the end. What a way to screw up a good movie.
 
Tiewas said:
Anyone seen this piece of crap? I was digging it until the end. What a way to screw up a good movie.
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Well considering who the author was, I'm completely unsurprised, although the stories in the Bachman Books were some of his best work, IMO.
 
I too thought the movie was pretty well done, and followed King's story well until the end.

In the story, the ending is ambiguous. The escapees encounter the super-large critter, stare at it wonderingly, and then drive off into the mist. Their fate is left to your imagination.
Not so in the film, of course. I thought it was a rather poor ending, though certainly high on the "tragedy" scale.
Supposedly, King said in an interview that he liked the movie's ending better...
 
Yeah, I read the novella back when I was in high school. Its still one of my favorite short stories. I was so very excited to see the film adaptation, and was completely surprised by the ending. Surprised and dismayed.

It was basically a bitch slap to the face of anyone who read the story.
 
Tiewas said:
Yeah, I read the novella back when I was in high school. Its still one of my favorite short stories. I was so very excited to see the film adaptation, and was completely surprised by the ending. Surprised and dismayed.

It was basically a bitch slap to the face of anyone who read the story.
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Really? Lame. I thought the short story was classic. It was one of his shorts that were just campy enough to not be obnoxious, while still being strange enough to keep your attention.

If they ever turn The Gunslinger books into movies, that's another series they could potentially mess up, badly, on film.
 
raindog101 said:
I'm curious, 45. What was the alt ending? I saw the movie at a friends house, but we didn't watch any of the special features.
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The alternate ending is Will Smith determines that the Dark Seekers really needed a fashion coach so he got Clinton and Kelly to do make overs for many of the dark seekers and started a show for metrosexuals on TLC and it became a hit and he learned to hate guns ...love democrats....a true horror story ending..:D
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
The alternate ending is Will Smith determines that the Dark Seekers really needed a fashion coach so he got Clinton and Kelly to do make overs for many of the dark seekers and started a show for metrosexuals on TLC and it became a hit and he learned to hate guns ...love democrats....a true horror story ending..:D
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I think I've seen that movie before somewhere. You're right, a truly horrifying ending! Glad I didn't watch it!
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
The ending was different from the short story...Hollywood ruined the ending Good movie up till then...
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Per the usual. The Silent Hill movie could've been fantastic, but instead of keeping to the storyline of a single game and getting a few movies out of it, they changed events, paired up characters that had nothing to do with each other, invented characters, and threw in a graphic Hentai barbed-wire scene where they unnecessarily killed off some main characters instead of resolving anything.
 
I guess I'm the minority here, but I actually like The Mist. I expect think much from it because up until that point, I didn't like any of the Stephen King movies.
 
The best Stephen King movie was "Christine." The rest sucked although "Maximum Overdrive" isn't a bad popcorn flick for watching when you're bored.
 
one45auto said:
The best Stephen King movie was "Christine." The rest sucked although "Maximum Overdrive" isn't a bad popcorn flick for watching when you're bored.
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Oh, I don't know. "Christine" was a good one, but I thought "Carrie" wasn't too bad. Both pale in comparison to my favorite S. King adaptation: The Shining.
 
I liked The Mist but I also did NOT like the movie's ending. I know things don't always turn out rosey, but for me, it destroyed most of what came before in the film, which up 'til then was pretty good.

My favorite of the Stephen King adaptations remains Carrie (1976), with Christine in second place. I also thought the old 1979(?) TV adaptation of Salem's Lot was a good one, too.
Jim
 
Speaking of King books tuned into movies with off-in-left-field endings, check out Dreamcatcher. Pretty good as a book, but I suppose that depends on how biased you are against sci-fi.

I thought The Stand's miniseries version wasn't bad, but it would be difficult to do real just ice to that book anyway.
 
I actually didn't mind the ending, up until the tanks come rolling along. I found that disappointing and ridiculous.

I was disappointed that the "mist" was simply a bunch of monsters. I think the movie would've had more suspense had the mist, itself, been the enemy. Kinda like how the Angel of Death was portrayed in "Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston.

As for best Stephen King movie, I'm definitely going with "The Shawshank Redemption" :thumbup:
 
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