The Mist[views:16070][posts:90]_______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 10:44am - thuringwethil ""] http://www.imdb.com/video/trailer/me60516092/ I just re-read the novella, it's been a while since I was really into Stephen King but this shit IS GRUESOME. Total HP Lovecraft worship. Utter Carnage in the novella. I wonder how it will translate, it looks like it's in good hands (director of Shawshank Redemption) |
| ______________________________ [Nov 6,2007 10:45am - Yeti ""] hopefully this will be what The Fog wanted to be. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 10:49am - thuringwethil ""] no comparison. The Fog had ghosts from a ship. *shudder* The Mist has giant spiders with webs of acid and hunger for human flesh. And they're the NICE part. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 10:51am - thuringwethil ""] Mrs. Carmody (the Jesus freak) is worse than any of the monsters outside. |
| ________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 10:52am - rilly ""] Should I spoil the ending for you guys? Creepy House on Haunted Hill scared me very badly. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:05am - thuringwethil ""] well at any rate I'm wondering who else has read the book |
| ___________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:08am - narkybark ""] I have, but so long ago I don't remember too much. I do remember that it was a great story. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:22am - thuringwethil ""] worth revisiting. and I do mean HUMAN CARNAGE. Poor Ollie has the worst death of all, and he saved the fuckin' little kid. No good deed goes unpunished. |
| ________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:24am - lbpvd ""] the last couple steven king movies sucked (1408, desperation) i have high hopes for this one. |
| ___________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:29am - demondave ""] I loved the story the Mist when I was a kid. I read it a few times, and I remember it pretty well. I think I'll read it again, but after the movie. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:33am - punk potenza ""] they should make a movie out of that book cell it was pretty good |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 11:41am - thuringwethil ""] Eli Roth (Hostel) is gonna direct Cell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775440/ |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 12:41pm - y_ddraig_goch ""] thuringwethil said:Eli Roth (Hostel) is gonna direct Cell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775440/ Didn't they just make "the pulse" which is exactly the same? |
| ______________________________ [Nov 6,2007 12:44pm - Yeti ""] i'll have to read this. i'm right in the middle of "It". |
| ______________________________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 1:19pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] it's a great story of how people either band together or turn on one another when under great stress, in a catastrophe with no precedent think 9/11 |
| _____________________________ [Nov 6,2007 1:27pm - Yeti ""] The Thing |
| ______________________________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 1:39pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] Yeti said:The Thing yes, indeed :doublehorns: |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 1:49pm - aaron_michael ""] definitely one of my favorite short stories by King. unfortunately, I'm sure the movie is going to blow. |
| _____________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 2:13pm - deadlikemurf ""] the mist is one of my favorites as well... if the trailer is any indication of the movie then it's gonna fucking rule. cell was good too.. i'm interested to see how closely roth follows the book... |
| __________________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 2:19pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] thuringwethil said:Eli Roth (Hostel) is gonna direct Cell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775440/ fuck yes...that book was amazing. i still feel uncomfortable having a cellphone because of it. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 4:06pm - punk potenza ""] yea i liked the cell totaly when i got into the middle of the book how the crazy phone peopel start to change kinda threw me off but by the end of the book i was all bout it def a nice twist on a zombie type book. has anyone read any jack ketchum book he is a fuckin amazing author |
| __________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 5:37pm - MikePile ""] FuckIsMySignature said: fuck yes...that book was amazing. i still feel uncomfortable having a cellphone because of it.>> hahaha, i'll never be able to stop laughing at this |
| _________________________________ [Nov 6,2007 7:26pm - Dankill ""] I read the mist years ago. I don't remember much. |
| ________________________________________ [Nov 14,2007 11:57pm - thuringwethil ""] http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/11/09/exclusive-clips-the-mist/ booyah! man, am I psyched for this. fuck your god. |
| _________________________________ [Nov 15,2007 12:06am - NIGGER ""] MASS WHITEY DEATH FWAP FWAP FWAP PROBLEM: MIST IS WHITE, OR MAYBE GREY, LIKE INDIANS BLACK POWER! |
| ________________________________________ [Nov 15,2007 12:07am - thuringwethil ""] holy shit, there's some crazy-ass debate over the ending to this film over at IMDB SPOILER ALERT! It sounds like a cool ending though. I don't like happy ones. I like when the bad guys win, like in "Arlington Road" |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 19,2007 2:25pm - thuringwethil ""] Noice. B+ in Entertainment Weekly. you guys REALLY gotta read the book though. GREAT horror story. |
| ___________________________________________ [Nov 19,2007 2:27pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] thuringwethil said: It sounds like a cool ending though. I don't like happy ones. I like when the bad guys win, like in "Arlington Road" you could not be more right. i think i need to go watch that now. |
| ___________________________________ [Nov 19,2007 3:25pm - ariavette ""] lbpvd said:the last couple steven king movies sucked (1408, desperation) i have high hopes for this one. yeah 1408 was dissapointing, i was expecting alot more terror |
| __________________________________ [Nov 19,2007 9:23pm - Dankill ""] I re-read the story last week. I had forgetten how SOLID this was. Classic King also giving huge props to Lovecraft at the same time. Based on the trailers, I looks like they stayed very faithful to the story while expanding on it enough to make a 200+ page novella cover an hour 1/2 to two hour movie. Seriously, this really looks good. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 2:55am - y_ddraig_goch ""] It was my first and last stephen king book, awesome story (because it was Lovecraftian) but man can this guy not write. So many times I stopped and was lik e"I can't believe he said it like that" like Dan Miller introduces himself like this "And then he came up to us 'hi, I'm dan Miller I'm from Lynn, MA, i live there but summer here!'" like anyone introduces themselves like that. Anyways, I love the ending the book and hope they keep it that way. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 8:36am - thuringwethil ""] they don't have the same ending SPOILER! it's a downer apparently cool with me, I like endings where everyone's pretty much fucked, like in Clive Barker's short story "Pig Blood Blues" |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 9:32am - aaron_michael ""] thuringwethil said:they don't have the same ending SPOILER! it's a downer apparently cool with me, I like endings where everyone's pretty much fucked, like in Clive Barker's short story "Pig Blood Blues" The ending is kind of a downer anyways with them taking off to CT. STORY SPOILER: I'm hoping they show the scene after the market, where they're driving down the street and have to stop because of the giant creature walking over their car. I'd be really impressed if they made the dino-like monster the way I've invisioned it since I was 12 |
| ________________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 11:08am - thuringwethil ""] they have the big dino in there, definitely It would've been silly to exclude the coolest monster from the movie I wonder about Ollie's death though. In the book he meets a pretty bad end. |
| _______________________________ [Nov 20,2007 12:51pm - Yeti ""] y_ddraig_goch said:but man can this guy not write. Apu friend me good. |
| ________________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 12:59pm - aaron_michael ""] thuringwethil said:they have the big dino in there, definitely It would've been silly to exclude the coolest monster from the movie I wonder about Ollie's death though. In the book he meets a pretty bad end. I'm just assuming you've seen it, so, the ultimate question: how's the acting? |
| _______________________________________________________ [Nov 20,2007 1:08pm - thuringwethil at the library ""] I actually haven't seen it, just a few clips but I was impressed so far. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 2:58am - y_ddraig_goch ""] I'm actually going to see this in the closet movie theater not in Lynn. AKA Revere, to see if all the Lynn folk get up and go "woo" like stereotypical black people when Dan Miller introduces himself. That is if he uses the same intro he does in the book.. There's no way they can exclude his character, he was pretty important. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 7:54am - thuringwethil ""] yes, especially for spider munchies! I'm going tonight after work, haven't been this psyched for a horror movie in a while |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 8:03am - Hungtableed ""] eeeeeuugghgh, the book is better than the eeeeeuugghuh movie. the jesus freak is eeeeeuugghgh the worst eeeeuugghgh charater in the novella...Christians to eeeeeuugghgh lions eeeeeuugghgh. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 8:04am - thuringwethil ""] I dunno if there were any lions in the mist. But there was a pterodactyl or two. |
| __________________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 8:20am - DaveFromTheGrave ""] any torrents up for this movie yet? |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 9:43pm - thuringwethil ""] THAT WAS BIGGEST DOWNER ENDING I'VE SEEN IN LIKE TEN YEARS the audience was clearly pissed off at the ending but I thought it ruled, appropriate for a horror movie. The soundtrack rules too, I'm gonna seek. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 21,2007 9:46pm - thuringwethil ""] also I noticed a lot of the death scenes were adapted pretty faithfully from the book (he even made up some good new ones) |
| ____________________________________________ [Nov 22,2007 12:00am - aaron michaelNLI ""] I saw this tonight, and I have to say I wasn't totally let down! The acting was actually really good, and the lack of background music through 70 percent of it was a nice touch. The CGI could kiss my asshole. I really don't think they'll perfect imagery like that within the next 5 years. The movie held true to the book for the most part, except for the ending, which is definitely the most grim turn I've seen in a movie in a long long time. I give The Mist a solid B- |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 22,2007 3:12am - y_ddraig_goch ""] It's been so misty lately, I've really been in the mood for this movie |
| ______________________________ [Nov 22,2007 3:24am - sean ""] punk potenza said:they should make a movie out of that book cell it was pretty good Wasn't Cell that crappy J-Lo movie where she goes into the mind of a serial killer? |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 22,2007 9:23am - thuringwethil ""] sean said:punk potenza said:they should make a movie out of that book cell it was pretty good Wasn't Cell that crappy J-Lo movie where she goes into the mind of a serial killer? That was THE Cell. But I liked the part with the intestines being unravelled ('naughty worm...') |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 22,2007 9:55am - thuringwethil ""] aaron michaelNLI said: The movie held true to the book for the most part, except for the ending, which is definitely the most grim turn I've seen in a movie in a long long time. what did you think of Mrs. Carmody's portrayal? the actress made her scarier than in the book even, she did a really good job. Especially that last scene with the showdown. She's just sitting there with a butcher's knife, like a queen on her throne, waiting for them to try an escape. I'd see this movie again. |
| ____________________________________________ [Nov 22,2007 12:37pm - aaron michaelNLI ""] I liked her role, but I always envisioned her being older. Like, MUCH older. The people in the audience actually clapped when she met her demise. The woman who played her usually does a good job wwith the roles she's offered, so I had no doubt it would have been convincing. |