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> On Mar 27, 11:15 pm, "Comm" <N...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Hold on. I saw The Mist - and it was in color. It was not
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> I suppose it was too much to ask that you actually read the thread.
Ha-ha.
Well. within about 24 hours I went through the 2 discs of the
Collector's Edition of THE MIST. I watch and listen to about
everything on them, except for watching it in French.
I like it a lot. I think I will like in more when I watch it again in
a few months. With something that you've read, read several times,
and read recently, I go in knowing the movie will never be what *I*
want it to be -- because I didn't make it.
So once seen, I've found that a while after if I watch it again, I
can better enjoy and judge it on its own.
I was somewhat disappointed with the ending, which was very different
from the ending of the novella.
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SPOILERS!
Okay, I was fine with the deaths of almost all the main characters at
the very end of the movie. As the director said in his commentary,
that ending *was* a possibility that was mentioned in the story
itself. And it was an ending that *was* reasonable and logical,
though emotional devastating.
What I did not like it the fact that the Mist was suddenly dissolving
for no apparent reason. The director went further than King did in
his writing in giving the exact reason the Mist had appeared.
But then, to have an ending that gives no reason why it is going
away? Was the Army suppose to be doing it? That seems silly, as
nothing was shown about how this was happening.
So what bothered me about this is that it totally took away
The-End-Of-The-World aspect (and even likelihood) that existed in
Stephen King's story. That made it very *less* Lovecraftian for me
and I had high hopes that THE MIST would remain as Lovecraftian as
the novella was.
Also, why is the military bring back in *civilians* at the same time
they are still destroying the Mist's monsters? That is just absurd.
Also one of the woman on the carriers was the woman who first walked
out into the Mist to get home to her two young children. The fact she
survived I found stupid. Anyone who was going out into the Mist was
being killed within minutes if not seconds.
I can come up with some side-story of her and her children's
survival, but it would be fairly illogical, because of not only their
survival but *how* did she manage to get SO far South.
So I found the ending weak because of the lack of logic or reason in
what happened -- and because it lessened the Lovecraftianess of the
film.
-- Franklin Hummel in Boston, Massachusetts
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