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Ive just watched The Mist for the first time and I just thought Id share with the others of you that have watched it....I thought that a lot of the creatures reminded me of cretures from the half life games

Discuss please
 
The huge elephant-like Dali lookin' monster towards the end of the film was my favorite. The ending of that movie sucks though.
 
Make sense, first Half-Life was infuelnced by The Mist novel.
 
Yeah, it was no masterpiece, but I'll admit to being entertained for a good chunk of it, if only to be amused at how shallow / flat the characters are. The whole "religious crazies" debacle was funny too. Of course the book is a lot better (as in most cases).
 
What Ennui said, movie was alright but the ending was shit
 
I actually preferred the depressing ending to the ambiguous ending of the book.
 
I actually goddamn loved this film.

It was like BAM, right in the gut.
 
I quite enjoyed an hour and a half of people being sliced in half, dragged away and on the one occasion, set on fire.

Entertaining flick.
 
I actually would have loved the shoot everyone in the car ending if not for the military coming by right after. I didn't feel like it accomplished anything except making the main character look like a ****ing tool, whereas the entire previous scene showed total ****ing helplessness. It should have just ended with like, he shoots them all, and then walks out into the Mist in complete surrender.
 
Yeah, I hated the ending. And I agree with Yorick.
 
taviow said:
Yeah, I hated the ending. And I agree with Yorick.
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I don't agree

and that was exactly the point of the ending to make the main character look like an idiot for killing everyone in the car a minute away from rescue LOL.
 
How can he be an idiot of he didn't know the military was coming? Killing them quickly with a
bullet was the smartest and most merciful thing to do. Considering the alternative was to be
devoured alive.

The ending was stupid, I didn't expect it, because I seriously did not think they'd pull of something as dumb.
"Hey man, what if just after he kills them the rescue comes" is something that should remain
in the realm of a quick thought that passes your mind while you see him killing all of them.
As it in fact did to me and I imagine most people, but that's where it should remain. Seeing it
actually happen is not shocking, ironic, or sad. It's just worthy of a face palm.
 
Remus said:
I don't agree

and that was exactly the point of the ending to make the main character look like an idiot for killing everyone in the car a minute away from rescue LOL.
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The entire "military shows up and saves the day" bit is retarded. And it doesn't make the main character look like an idiot, it makes the people who worked on the movie look like idiots. "Hey I know, let's do this really ironic screw to the characters/audience at the end".

Like Gray Fox said, it was stupid.
 
Yorick said:
The entire "military shows up and saves the day" bit is retarded.
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On that I agree. If something like this happened in real life I doubt they would've been like : Hey guys lets send the infantry to fight giant monsters from another dimension!!11 They would've showered the entire area in napalm.
 
I quite enjoyed the film, but
the military showing up did really ruin the ending.
 
Ennui said:
The huge elephant-like Dali lookin' monster towards the end of the film was my favorite. The ending of that movie sucks though.
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Dalamari said:
What Ennui said, movie was alright but the ending was shit
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taviow said:
Yeah, I hated the ending. And I agree with Yorick.
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You're all wrong, the ending was awesome, and I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. It's the most interesting mainstream horror film to come out in a while.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
You're all wrong, the ending was awesome, and I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. It's the most interesting mainstream horror film to come out in a while.
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Someone that sees sense...I think that the whole moral of the film is...suicide sucks, dont give up etc...
but were getting off topic...

lets talk about how many similarities it has to Half Life
 
The only reason the ending sucked for me is just because they go "OH WELL NO GAS LET'S ALL DIE" instead of waiting it out and seeing what happens
 
Ending sucked. Spoilers ahead.

For a group of persevering heroes that had up to that point displayed a fighting spirit to survive and bravely ventured into the mist before for aid and safety, the final scene was a slap in the face. Especially considering they were under no immediate danger at the time. Did you see beasties clawing at their ****ing car windows while they decided to throw their spontaneous suicide party? As Dalamari said, the most sensible god damn thing to do would be to wait. Or, god forbid, some brave soul exits the car to see if there's a way to continue on. He can leave the gun behind if shit hits the fan.

I didn't like it, but I could have let it pass if it weren't for the stupid military showing up conveniently five seconds after the act. It seemed a piece apart from the rest of the film, coming off as a tacked-on kick in the jewels. It actually got me angry, and not reasons the film intended. I was pissed because it felt like the film was just trying to pull one over me with a cheap trick. it seemed tailored more to get people talking about the movie rather than because it fit with the story.
 
Absinthe said:
For a group of persevering heroes that had up to that point displayed a fighting spirit to survive and bravely ventured into the mist before for aid and safety, the final scene was a slap in the face. Especially considering they were under no immediate danger at the time. Did you see beasties clawing at their ****ing car windows while they decided to throw their spontaneous suicide party?
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This, exactly...

But then again the entire movie was meh. Almost all the movie taking place in a confined space respectively the shop, with religious nuts and the occasional monster assault... BORING and annoying.
The movie would've been 100 times more interesting if they ditched the stupid fog/mist/whatever and showed what was happening outside in the town.
 
Yea, why wouldn't they try walking atleast for a bit? Bunch of quitters, imo. Stupid ending.
 
You laughed too? I thought me and my brother were the only ones howlin throughout the movie.
 
I really tried not too, because the first few times I got lots of angry looks, some even from my friends. But god damn that ending was so silly and stupid, I couldnt contain myself.
 
Luckily we watched it when it appeared on the movie network at home.
 
I loved the movie, it was simple, good fun, and good eye candy.
 
Awesome movie, ending was ****ed up.
 
I really dont get how anyone could have thought that ending was good, or serious in any way. I mean, the only ending that could have been more ridiculous or silly would be if the Swamp Thing jumped out of the mist and cockslapped the guy after he killed everyone.
 
Anyone notice that the guy who plays Starkiller from Force Unleashed is in this movie?

Absinthe said:
For a group of persevering heroes that had up to that point displayed a fighting spirit to survive and bravely ventured into the mist before for aid and safety, the final scene was a slap in the face. Especially considering they were under no immediate danger at the time. Did you see beasties clawing at their ****ing car windows while they decided to throw their spontaneous suicide party? As Dalamari said, the most sensible god damn thing to do would be to wait. Or, god forbid, some brave soul exits the car to see if there's a way to continue on. He can leave the gun behind if shit hits the fan.
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I'd disagree, I'm sure you'd be a little shit scared after finding deserted school buses filled with hallowed out corpses, and driving past a creature of unfathomable, god-like size, covered in long tentacles.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
and driving past a creature of unfathomable, god-like size, covered in long tentacles.
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Which would've collapsed under it's own weight if it actually respected the laws of physics, but hey it's a movie right?
 
zombieturtle01 said:
I'd disagree, I'm sure you'd be a little shit scared after finding deserted school buses filled with hallowed out corpses, and driving past a creature of unfathomable, god-like size, covered in long tentacles.
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But not when you come across 30 foot long tentacles that rip flesh off people and creep in under the door? Or when you find your neighbors stringed to the walls and ceilings of a shop, filled with spider eggs? Or when you're attacked by the spiders after having seen all that? Would you not already be scared when huge mutant bugs bust through the windows and start killing people? What about when half the people you're with go crazy and start killing innocent people? What about if all this happened while you were taking care of your 8 year old son?


Absinthe is completely right. I would have preferred the Swamp Thing ending to the one in the movie.
 
Well they are two COMPLETELY different scenarios. One you are in a stronghold with other people with little idea as to what is going on, gradually they realized how chaotic it was and therefore when they were forced into a situation where they had to abandon the nutty religious people and go out into the great unknown with only the shelter of a car to protect them and a gun with only 3 bullets, they soon realized that EVERYWHERE was ****ed, they found NO ONE, cities and roads were covered in the mist and everything was abandon.

Their escape was their last attempt at survival, and once they did escape they realized their efforts were futile.
 
They didnt realize that EVERYWHERE was abandoned. They went until their car was out of gas and then just said "**** it" *bang bang bang*. It was out of character for them, and didnt follow the rest of the movie. THATS FINAL.
 
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