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The Mist
Sam
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Is kinda bad. I was shocked to find out it was directed by the same guy that did Shawshank and Green Mile.
It had its moments, but it's built on a house of cliche cards. Doesn't really make a point with its rather bold yet bland plotting.
It's basically FundiesLoL with CGI creepy crawlies straight out of a 70's B movie. The kind of creepy crawlies they are negates any kind of fear we're supposed to feel. There's no depth to the premise.
I don't know I'm starting to think I ant my money back. That was almost as badly written as an episode of Heroes.
It had its moments, but it's built on a house of cliche cards. Doesn't really make a point with its rather bold yet bland plotting.
It's basically FundiesLoL with CGI creepy crawlies straight out of a 70's B movie. The kind of creepy crawlies they are negates any kind of fear we're supposed to feel. There's no depth to the premise.
I don't know I'm starting to think I ant my money back. That was almost as badly written as an episode of Heroes.
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Can't speak for the book.
The LoLFundies was pretty bad in particular. Yes, the character was entertaining. No, none of it was convincing, there was no depth to it.
Now when you do absurd LoLFundies in a comedy, you have more room to work with, but this film seems to want to strive towards addressing human nature, and you can't do that with caricatures.
She's crazy. She's religious. Crazy + religious = Crazy religious.
I don't know what you wanted from her character...she was put in the story to drive home the fact that it wasn't safe out in the Mist, but it turns out that the supermarket isn't safe due to people.
When you introduce a character in a book or movie any more, there is a "caricature" or archetype that that that character is going to be patterned after.
King could have put a gun-crazy guy who controls the market inhabitants with his weapon.
It's all been done.
You need to look past those generalities that you press on characters. You tell me a character froma certain movie and I could give you a handful of stories or movies that that archetype has been used in before.
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I would just like to say that I don't believe that there is no originality left out there, it's just used to alter existing storytelling methods and such.
So...you had a problem with Mrs. Carmody.
What kind of depth were you talking about wanting? The movie tells you who she is and why she is doing what she is doing.
Weather she is a religious zealot (as seen here), she is just deeply religious and prays the entire movie, or believes that God will protect her and the people she wanders into the mist with (only to be slaughtered and have the people whom she "converted" into believing her die as well) you would say the same thing, "Oh man, I am tired of these played out characters!"
Accept the characters as they are. Sure they have been done before, but what hasn't?
Also, she is a great actress and makes the part entirely believable. Religion helps some people, but other are driven to madness because of it. (See: Suicide bombers)
On the other side, you have a problem with the movie being "preachy".
I don't know what you are trying to say, other than King's "We will cause our own demise" plot devices that he uses in a lot of his stories.
Mist plot details (spoilers):
This is a commonplace theme in many horror stories and it isn't preachy in the least. =/ If King didn't attack the military, he would have to attack something else, or create some bogus idea for how the Mist came to be.
Maybe you are talking about Mrs Carmody and her religious zealotness?
King isn't attacking religion by way of his fanatical character, he is showing how panic and hysteria can cause rifts in any type of society, generally leading to bad outcomes. A good amount of the market people are swayed by Mrs. Carmody's faith and how hard she attests to its truth. People look for leaders during tough times, so it is only normal for people to cling to someone who tells them that they can save them, without a shadow of a doubt. Mob mentality has been around since the dawn of time and King justs uses it to show that in the end, man is just as monsterous as the beasts in the Mist.
I don't see how King and Darabont explore panic, paranoia, and mob mentality can come off a preachy....he's just showing how things could easily result.
Edit: I would also like to point out that the OP sucks and should be redone, not because of the negativity, but because it lacks cast, crew, trailer links, interview links, a one sheet, and a plot synopsis.
In my day our movie monsters wore rubber suits to walk to school, uphill, both ways (in the snow)
I host a podcast about movies.
I edited in an @Sam to help with confusion.
I responded to you under that one. :P
It worked out well.
I'd feel better about this if King's endings didn't tend to drag on and sort of suck.
I do want to see it though.
Everything I expected to see was shown to me in full detail. Never read the book so I have no opinions to the "real" subject matter but all I know is after seeing this movie, when King has an idea he just runs with it no matter if it can end or not.
Worst OP ever. And you didn't seem to pay attention to the movie at all. There is a most definite point about the nature of humanity, and its hard to call it cliched when its by the guy who did it in the first place.
Stephen fucking King.
Dude, it sucked it was just like this book I read ten years ago! Not creative at all!
Also I didn't go in expecting some uber-serious horror/psychological film. I knew it was going to be campy b-movie stuff with obligatory themes/morals. Thus my low expectations made it more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I thought the ironic ending was different from the usual stuff too.
Not as epic/serious as the guy's previous work, but considering what's been out in theaters recently you could do worse.
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I just find it disrespectful of people in general that all those characters jumped ship/got into the whole fundie grind that fast. The whole thing with them (BTW Marcia Gay Harden was great in the part, she was the one thing that got people in the theater clapping) seems to be trying to illustrate how fundamentalism works, but you know what, I would bet that anyone in that crowd joining her would have to know something about Jebus to begin with. Also, many evangelical communities teach their followers to spread their faith through their moral/ethical/interersonal decisions more than they tell them to round up the bullhorns and clinic bombers.
It just lacked nuance. Then there were the monsters, who weren't scary because they've been in Jurassic Park, Alien, The Phantom,I could go on, etc.
And it's not just that these monsters bear such a similarity to those in other movies- it's that they're not used to much different effect.
I just find it disrespectful of people in general that all those characters jumped ship/got into the whole fundie grind that fast. The whole thing with them (BTW Marcia Gay Harden was great in the part, she was the one thing that got people in the theater clapping) seems to be trying to illustrate how fundamentalism works, but you know what, I would bet that anyone in that crowd joining her would have to know something about Jebus to begin with. Also, many evangelical communities teach their followers to spread their faith through their moral/ethical/interersonal decisions more than they tell them to round up the bullhorns and clinic bombers.
It just lacked nuance. Then there were the monsters, who weren't scary because they've been in Jurassic Park, Alien, The Phantom,I could go on, etc.
And it's not just that these monsters bear such a similarity to those in other movies- it's that they're not used to much different effect.