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Topic: Umm, yeah... I saw "The Mist" last night...
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Motherkonfessor
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Registered: Oct 2003
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posted November 22, 2007 06:07 PM
 
Sorry to be so obsessive about this...
but I know this story so well that in the theater I was mumbling, "hey, wait a minute she is supposed to be wearing red pants and a green sweater..."I was actually in civilization last night and went to see "The Mist" on opening night. I am going to avoid any spoilers, and I am hardly a movie guru... It was perfect, absolutely perfect... The monsters in the mist looked just like they always have in my mind's eye... Good character development (a little heavy handed, but that's a given, its only a 2 hour movie) And-oh holy wonders- it followed the book. Finally, someone knows how to write an SK screenplay!! YAY!! Until the end. I was NOT happy. I don't want to spoil it, but lets just say its NO WHERE near the story. I wish they would have left it alone. Can you say over the top? Anyone, if you have seen it.. what do you think? (Or am I the lone SK freak out here???)  MK Oh yeah- happy turkey day! IP: Logged |
Dervish
Knowflake Posts: 328
From: California
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted November 22, 2007 11:26 PM
I'm seeing it this weekend, so I'll try to remember to respond. IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted November 22, 2007 11:31 PM
Hey MK I adore SK and most definitely am not a movie guru... but, the movies I have seen stink and won`t watch another one.Bool! The End.  ------------------
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Dervish
Knowflake Posts: 328
From: California
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted November 25, 2007 09:58 PM
I liked it, until the end. I'm glad I saw it, but had I known how it ended, I'd have seriously considered not going.That ending would've been better as an "alternative end" on the DVD, IMO. In the movie itself, it just came off as stupid. They had done it well up until that point so that the impossible seemed believable, but that was so over the top that I was instantly transported out of the story back into the movie theater where it was all fake. Horror is stronger with hope, too, and that hope was--in an ironic way--destroyed, thus horror became meaningless and was simply madness. Though in the unlikely event should he recover to become functional after that, he should be a most interesting artist. Someone told me that Hitchcock was like that with his endings. If so, I'm glad I missed out on his stuff. IP: Logged |
Motherkonfessor
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posted November 25, 2007 10:51 PM
Most movie reviewers are so pleased with the ending, it makes me a little nauseous. They rave about it, comparing it to Hitchcock.I agree with you, Dervish. I found the last 15 minutes of the movie lame, and it rather ruined it for me. Can't Hollywood just leave well enough alone? MK IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted November 25, 2007 11:43 PM
hmmmm, good newer book out & could take your mind off the movie flop.Lisey`s Story
 It`s good to see SK back in the saddle! Xtra good to see you MK !
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Motherkonfessor
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posted November 26, 2007 01:39 AM
Oh, juni, its so nice to see you too!!!I remember just joining LL, and it seemed like you had been here for ever and ever!! Even if you think most of the SK adaptations are horrible (yes, they mostly are) and regardless of how much I have trashed the ending... you should see this one. Its amazing how true its stays to the novella, until the wretched end... 
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