Stephen King's The Mist Trailer.

Its a mix of things. Like a bunch of nightmarish creatures and what not. >_> But yeah, I dunno.
 
Its ridicolous how long Frank Darabont has had this in pre-production. Apparantly according to Stephen King, the ending has been changed and a lot better than the book. I'll only watch this because of Darabont.
 
It's motherf*cking Darabont doing Stephen King. The man did The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile for christ's sake. He can do no wrong.

Besides, Thomas Jane and Andre Braugher! Braugher is always awesome to watch, and I don't think Jane gets enough credit. Should make for an enjoyable ride.
 
They kind of ruined the movie already by showing the monsters, even if they're not the point of the movie.
 
You do know Half-life was directly inspired by Stepehen King's The Mist, right?
 
Jesus Christ this movie looks intense, although the creature effects from what little I saw, looked a little amateurish.
 
I don't see why people are flipping out over this. The actors look bored out of their minds, the camera work looks awkward, and they give away way too ****ing much for a teaser. Count me out.
 
dont look that great but better that the rest
 
CGI didn't look that impressive, hopefully it won't affect the movie too much.
 
Blah blah bump.

Saw this tonight, one of the most ****ed up and twisted movies I've seen in a long time.
 
Icarusintel said:
and I don't think Jane gets enough credit. Should make for an enjoyable ride.
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Yeah, I enjoy watching Thomas Jane, but that may be because I lol'd so hard during that fightscene in The Punisher, where his fighting that big ol' russian ;)
 
Ridge said:
In a good way or a bad way?
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I really enjoyed it.

It's good to see more of a "classic" horror movie made. In the theatre, they played trailers for Untraceable and some other rape/murder based movie, and, you know, those don't make a horror movie to me.

A lot of the "horror" movies from the past few years have either been Japanese movie ripoffs (Ring, Grudge, Messengers, etc), or films involving torture (Saw series, etc). Then you get the zombie movies, remakes of Dawn of the Dead, the new I Am Legend, and so on.

This is like a modern day "The Thing". It's mysterious and interesting and makes you think and feel for the characters. It has an amount of gore but isn't based entirely around it.

In short, it was more of an "adult" horror movie.
 
Its in my top 25 of all time. Masterpiece.
 
The Mist is one of my fave SK shorts awhich i've read several times over the years, there is no way the film can be better than the book from what i've seen in the trailer. It's so low budget and badly cast I can almost hear Darabont's career plummeting towards the jagged rocks.
 
CR0M said:
The Mist is one of my fave SK shorts awhich i've read several times over the years, there is no way the film can be better than the book from what i've seen in the trailer. It's so low budget and badly cast I can almost hear Darabont's career plummeting towards the jagged rocks.
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I'm pretty sure no one here has said that the film is better than the story. In terms of the casting, I thought it was pretty fantastic. So they didn't use a ton of big-name actors, who cares? I thought it was much better that way.

In terms of Darabont's career, given that people will forever love him for how awesome The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption were, I wouldn't count on his career "plummeting". He's a favorite director for some, including myself.

While a lot of the critics scores were low for the movie (reviews which made me wonder if they even actually saw the movie, or just talked out of their ass like you're doing), most of the users/viewers on sites I've seen have given it positive reviews.

Not to mention he's working on writing/directing a Fahrenheit 451 movie, which is one of the best books ever written.
 
I'm sorry for letting my ass speak out against mr. Darabont. He is indeed god of 2 (TWO!) whole successful films and a string of TV cliche. All hail etc etc.
 
Who said that every other director on the planet is mediocre compared to Darabont? it's the other way around in my opinion. I think Shawshank and Green Mile were flukes, nothing more, and it is a mistake for him to make yet another King film at the risk of screwing it up and losing his cred - and going by his filmography that risk is very high indeed.

I'm not anti-Frank, but I'm not going to put him on a pedestal like you just because I liked what he did with Shawshank. Apparently even King himself got somewhat pissed that he was making another one, he should just quit while he's ahead before he plunges the genre into another dark age of low budget, badly acted naff King adaptations like we had through the 80's and 90's (Stand by Me and The Shining being the only exceptions).
 
although im raising the thread from the grave, i thought the movie was excellent, and the ending was very ****ing twisted. CROM, dont judge a movie before you see it, **** off mate.
 
It was decent.

Only got interesting half way through in my opinion.
 
Has it been released in the UK yet? I've either completely missed it, or it hasn't even started advertising yet.

As for Frank Darabont, I love Shawshank, and are really rather fond of The Green Mile and The Majestic (the latter especially).

And I'm looking forward to his take on Fahrenheit 451.
 
Shite ending?

I thought it was one of the best endings around, simply because of the shock of what he did combined with the irony.
 
I thought the ending was pretty bad too. Just too improbable for me to think anything other than "LAME." Plus there was no real reason for them to decide to do that in the first place.


Also, I stand corrected about the lightning thing.

*faints*
 
ĐynastҰ said:
Shite ending?

I thought it was one of the best endings around, simply because of the shock of what he did combined with the irony.
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It was completely out of place and unnecessary IMO. The film never lead up to it sensibly. It's as if Darabont threw it in just because he knew it would throw off audiences, not because it was well-suited to the story.
 
Well I still think it WAS linked

Because they knew there was no way out and they all knew they were dead anyway?

Maybe a bit extreme yeah, but it certainly left me thinking 'oh my god' at the end.
 
There wasn't a sense of urgency though. It's not like they were under attack at the time, so would it have killed them to wait a few minutes? Or could they have demonstrated the same bravery and persistence they had exhibited up until that point?

For a guy who spent the whole movie fighting for and protecting his son as well as others, the main character was awfully quick to jump to the suicide option.
The military showing up right afterwards just added insult to injury. The film was reduced to some cynical punchline to a joke with no setup. If the undertones of irony and despair had been more present, it could have been fitting. But it's just dark for no reason.

So while it did leave a big impact on me, it also left a bad taste. One that kind of ruined the rest of the movie for me.
 
Hmm, yeah I can see what you mean. But would the ending have been better if they waited do you think?

If not then it was doomed to have a crap one anyway, heh.
 
Well, I never personally read the story, but I imagine I would have preferred its ending to the one Darabont wrote up. And I know some people wouldn't have liked that either. =\

Meh.
 
I watched this film after reading this thread, oddly enough I haven't heard anything at all about it in the UK..

I thought it was great, something refreshing from all the usual modern crap based on how much gore & tits they can fit into 90 minutes.

The ending was predictable after he shot them all but was still shocking, I loved it. The music really added to final scenes. I can understand why they would do that...they'd seen that huge monster with the tenticles while driving off. I think a father would rather his son be shot quickly than ripped apart and eaten by those creatures.

One criticism would be that it did take a while for the film to kick off, bit of a slow start but it was worth it.

Great film! Highly recommended.
 
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