Comments on: Movie Review: The Mist

By: erttoday009

erttoday009 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:57:41 +0000

[...] Frank Darabont directs the big-screen adaptation of the Stephen King novel starring Thomas Jane and [...]

By: WordSlinger

WordSlinger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:08:24 +0000

@ Brandon:

As of right now, JJ Abrams is supposed to direct the Dark Tower movie, which might just be amazing.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:35:00 +0000

Truly, a classic King piece with all his favorite architype characters in place. It came alive for me. The protagonist: a capable and pragmatic yet deeply vulnerable leader. Misses Carmody and the terrorized market goers were a perfect echo of Sylvia Pitston as she wipped up the people of Tull into their psycotic killing frenzy. All they needed to do was make Misses Carmody a fat women.
And how awesome was it to see Drayton working on the Dark Tower poster at the beginning of the movie. Am I the only one who’s absolutely excited about this…what, tease? After 24 years are we all finally going to be able to experience The Dark Tower- Motion Picture? Just a hint.
God help us all. I pray it doesn’t suck. (Maybe Peter Jackson will direct)

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:01:15 +0000

I hope to check this one out soon.

By: Asleep in the Back Row

Asleep in the Back Row — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:08:57 +0000

I loved the novella when I first read it 15 years ago, and I love the film as much as I did that initial reading. This is a great review, but to dismiss the most jaw-dropping ending to a movie in years as “disappointing” is to do a great disservice to the film. The ending is one of the strongest movie endings I’ve ever seen, and to quibble about whether it “weakened” the story seems a moot point to me. Is it depressing? Yes. It is VERY depressing. Will it ruin your day? Quite possibly. I definitely didn’t feel like celebrating afterward. But it made a definitive statement about human-kind in the face of fear. A theme that the bold ending upholds strongly. I think this was another feather in Darabont’s cap. A bold adaptation that many felt was impossible.

By: C lab Cpn

C lab Cpn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:04:56 +0000

Great movie, and great review! I really wish they would have let King’s original ending intact, but las Hollywood will be Hollywood. Asides from that small (but quite disastrous) hickup, everything else was spot-on. The horrors of the Mist translated perfectly into the screen, and actually seeing all the monsters for the first time made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

All the characters were done really well, except for Dave’s son who made me cringe a little (I forget his name, he kind of annoyed me in the book too).

By: NeverWanderer

NeverWanderer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:22:52 +0000

Just saw this tonight.

Holy shit, that ending…

It’s funny because, as you say, Stephen King’s ending is much more open-ended and, I’d even go so far as to say, hopeful. Which is funny, cuz the ending Darabont gives the flick is something someone would EXPECT from King! Just… wow. I’m still not certain if it was a “good” ending or not, but I definitely prefer the book’s ending.

As for the rest of the flick, it never really fell apart for me. I actually think it improved on the original story for the extra stuff Darabont added in. Plus, in the book, I was always kinda lukewarm on Mrs. Carmody, but in the movie, Harden sells me on her the instant she opens her mouth. She took one of those almost charicature-like Evil characters King loves to write and made her completely believable and engrossing.

Really, really good flick. And a really, really good review! I’m glad this got covered.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:42:13 +0000

I never read the novella, but I really liked this film a lot.
I really want to read it because I want to know the original ending. Although, I was really shattered by the film’s ending. I had to go for a long walk. The first half is perfect, but I can’t say I have much problems with the film. Excellent review.

By: dargre

dargre — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:21:13 +0000

[...] Darbont has one massive feather in his cap. He adapted a Stephen King novella into one of the greatest films of all time — The Shawshank Redemption. A [...]