The Mist
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- Ramanisky20
I believe upon seeing that big one walk by .... it was a wrap ...
It seemed hopeless to them ... I loved the grim ending
- trooper0
yeah... what an ending... would have been better to not have the army show up and him just walk off into the mist (cue sequel)
- 'The mist 2 no guns no glory'chossy
- true... that would have been betterOnesandZeros
- theredmasque0
I just saw this. I loved the dark ending as well.
- chossy0
You chase a mouse it shites it and fucking sprints aways and if you trap it, it tries and tries to get away at every opportunity it doesn't even acknowledge that you could fuck it up at any point, this is how humans should be but we have no idea as we have all turned into pussies. I remember watching some video of a monkey escaping and runnign around a zoo and people were petrified there was about thirty people all crammed into a room through irational fear all they neede to do was band together and corral it back and or band together and tear it apart and then eat it's flesh in a tribal ritual that just happend naturally I call the tribe 'the goomcranthu people of zoomonia'.
- 5timuli0
Good movie, LOVED the ending. The only thing I didn't like was the main character's acting. He cried like he was severely constipated.
- antares0
that whole ending sequence with the dead can dance song worked quite well. i'm not sure how i feel about the ending or what else they could've done. i liked that they tried something dark and perhaps somewhat unexpected.
- Apparently it was how the short story King wrote ended and they were adamant about keeping it true to that.dopepope
- Which track is it by DeadCanDance anyway? Know the title?dopepope
- That's not how the short story ended.blaw
- http://www.qbn.com/t…blaw
- antares0
the song is called The Host of Seraphim. i really like it. it was the perfect haunting requiem.
http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?p…
- 52kilo0
I watched it. It is good!
- Ramanisky20
Dead can Dance - The Host of the Seraphim
http://duke.ru/mp3/dead_can_danc…Paul Oakenfold Trance Remix - pullout your glow sticks
http://www.net.krasnik.pl/fma/do…
- antares0
they should've used the trance version in the movie. they all go a rave and do acid. then shoot themselves.
- harlequino0
Just saw this last night. Was really digging the nifty spin on monster movies (and fast fuckin forwarded through that spider sequence, GAGHH!!!), up until the real build up of evengelicals vs. normals. A little overdrawn on dialogue and "guess what, audience - i DO have something to say as a filmmaker" exposition.
Was digging the ending too, with the DCD music and all, and that kickass Cthulhu creature you get to see. Ok but then, pop pop pop, they're dead. And the army rolls up. And you have the "gotcha" grim ending. It's been bugging me. And I got to say I hated that, and agree with the other thoughts here that it would have been better to end with him alone in the mist. And I think here's why:
In horror movies, and especially monster movies, people get what they deserve. That's part of the subtext and purpose of the genre. That is, unless you're talking about something like "Funny Games" where nihilism and self-aware violence is the point. When a main character gets the grim ending, they've usually done something or have some flaw to warrant their fate. I just didn't feel that with this guy. He really was trying everything he could to save his kid and help these people get out. Had he walked off into the mist or been faced by the big monster, and bang that's it, I get that. It's iconic, he's an Omega man, and a sad martyr in a way.
If he DID deserve that fate, then WTF?! Why?? What is the filmmaker saying, that he should have been on his knees praying like those loons back the store? Aside from maybe waiting another hour before everyone puts a bullet in their head, where did this guy go wrong? They rejected fanaticism and mob mentality. He tried to protect people while the lunatics screamed for the blood. He was honest and kept his shit together through the whole thing. And he gets screwed with that ending? With the army showing after he shoots his own son and everyone's looking at him like "what? we've had this under control for a couple hours now."
Anyway, way better horror film than most of the trash out there. I liked it a lot actually, and it gave me some nightmares, but I call bullshit on the ending.
Ok, ridiculously long blog entry over. :/