The Mist
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[Nov 22,2007 6:11pm - thuringwethil ""]
yeah they clapped and totally cheered when she was shot in my audience too.
some black families had their little kids there, I was aghast, like WTF, why would you bring your KIDS to this film?!?
[Nov 23,2007 12:22am - sever ""]
Ive never been disturbed by a movie. Ever.
Now I am.
[Nov 23,2007 12:56am - Dankill ""]
Yes, there was much delight from the crowd when Mrs. Carmody got smoked.
Great movie.
The ending looked like it was gonna be a downer and then twisted you even MORE and became a depressing ending you did not see coming.
Damn
[Nov 23,2007 8:12am - thuringwethil ""]
hmm, I wondered how the critics would react, for the most part the reviews are favorable. Cool!
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By Tom Charity
Special to CNN
(CNN) -- It's the end of the world -- again!
Doomsday scenarios have become a familiar sight in the movies since the beginning of the Cold War, and for the most part, "Stephen King's The Mist," from a King novella, sticks closely to the archetype.
That's not a problem. If you've seen writer-director Frank Darabont's films (including two King adaptations, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile," that earned him Oscar nominations), you'll know he's an old-time Hollywood classicist at heart. It's his ability to reinvest these familiar strains with meaning that's impressive.
David Drayton (Thomas Jane, who holds the screen effortlessly here) is with his son at the grocery store when the fog rolls in, and with it a terrified and bleeding local, yelling how there's something nasty in the mist.
The market is busy -- people are restocking after a big storm -- and an alarm cuts through the building like a chill. It sounds like a bomb warning; the sound you might hear in the event of an attack. A man rushes out to his car, but no sooner has he been swallowed up by the mist than he lets rip a blood-curdling scream. Nobody's eager to follow in his footsteps.
As is traditional in this kind of story the phones are dead, so the good people of Castle Rock are on their own. Curiously, they're not much concerned that the mist itself might be toxic -- surely the most rational explanation. It's only when a giant, grasping tentacle slides into the loading bay that they begin to appreciate the true nature of the threat -- and even then, those shoppers who missed the show have a hard time buying it.
Never a filmmaker to run when he can walk, Darabont lets the horror build through unease, incredulity and mounting suggestion. Cannily, he keeps Mark Isham's score in his back pocket, and reaches for it sparingly. In one of his best bits, a volunteer ties a rope around his waist and ventures into the unknown. Darabont stays fixed in the store and lets the pull on the rope tell the story. Pure suspense.
When the monsters do reveal themselves, the CGI work is seamless and properly repellent, but don't worry yourself about where they come from or why. Darabont's focus is always squarely on the humans, who quickly splinter into competing factions reflecting their own racial, class and educational prejudices.
The mental mist that clouds everyone's judgment is the real theme of the story: denial, frustration, despair, and enough reckless courage to keep the body count going up. And when it comes to scary, Marcia Gay Harden's born-again proselytizer is fearsome enough to convince Drayton and his clique to take their chances with the beasties.
Pleasingly tight in scale (Darabont brought over the production team from TV's "The Shield"), "The Mist" shoots itself in the foot with a couple of clumsy episodes. I'll accept giant tentacles, but it's hard to believe that Drayton can't convince the townfolk to go take a peek at the evidence. Stalwart character actors Toby Jones, William Sadler and Frances Sternhagen make strong impressions, but Harden's religious rapture sucks all the air out of the room (it's always hard to make fundamentalists seem credible). A belated attempt to "humanize" a younger couple rings hollow and might have been cut.
"The Mist" is far from perfect, and it's woefully humorless. But such reservations have to be weighed against a mind-blowing ending, so bold I can hardly believe Darabont got away with it. Don't they test-screen movies any more?
"The Mist" may not be Oscar bait, but it's a horror movie of real conviction. It deserves to be a hit.
[Nov 23,2007 8:53am - aaron_michael ""]
Is there a link to this movie online yet? I kind of want to see it again.
[Nov 23,2007 9:19am - thuringwethil at the library ""]
I don't know, I'm in the Mac minority and have never seen a whole movie online
[Nov 23,2007 2:08pm - Hungtableed ""]
I'm surprised the critics didn't say "eeeeeeggghgh, the Jesus freak ruined the movie, eeeeegghgh, she was worse than the fucking spiders"
[Nov 23,2007 3:34pm - thuringwethil at the library ""]
a lot people on IMDB.com are split about the ending, but I liked it. It was way grim.
[Nov 23,2007 10:05pm - y_ddraig_goch ""]
the ending was the only part not true, oh and norton being black
[Nov 25,2007 3:14am - Jimmy Justice ""]
I've never been as satisfied walking out of the theaters as I was tonight. Easily, the best movie i've seen in theaters. A+ all the way. 2nd best ending to any movie I've ever seen.
[Nov 26,2007 11:09am - brandon... ""]
Just saw the movie last night, I thought it was great. My only two complaints are the acting in the begining was awful, and at the end where the fuck did the mist go??? And did anyone else find it funny when they were telling norton not to go they offered fried chicken???
[Nov 26,2007 9:30pm - thuringwethil ""]
Bummer, only 13 mil box office gross so far.
Guess I'd better go see it again...
[Nov 26,2007 9:52pm - Hungtableed ""]
My shlong smells.
[Nov 26,2007 10:06pm - thuringwethil ""]
I guess that creepy music at the end while they're driving away from the supermarket is Dead Can Dance
[Nov 26,2007 10:10pm - thuringwethil ""]
"The Host of Seraphim" off of Dead Can Dance's 'Wake' - a best of comp
mmm-kay, cool
[Nov 26,2007 10:20pm - NIGGER ""]
thuringwethil at the library said:I don't know, I'm in the Mac minority and have never seen a whole movie online
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[Nov 26,2007 10:29pm - thuringwethil ""]
interesting.
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