The Mist

Not The Real Scarecrow

would really urge people to see this.It is far more than a monster pic, the acting and directing are superb and the ending will surely be an ending that will go down in movie history.

Kess73

Meatwad wrote: »

would really urge people to see this.It is far more than a monster pic, the acting and directing are superb and the ending will surely be an ending that will go down in movie history.

I was so impressed with the ending, after seeing far too many books have their endings changed and/or ruined in film format (Looking at you I Am Legend), this was a pleasant change for a film to have an even better ending than it's paper counterpart.

Thomas Jane was really good in the lead role, and brought an awful lot of realism to his performance, as did many of the cast.

rejkin

whens it out?

Kess73

rejkin wrote: »

whens it out?

Think it is out in March in Irish cinemas, but could be wrong there. Ironically the region one dvd version goes on sale in March too.


The trailer can be seen on the official site.


http://www.themist-movie.com/

rejkin

just searched it up on wikipedia.....that ending is ****ed up!!! good ending but I think the books one is better

Not The Real Scarecrow

not sure of relese date in Ireland its been out over in america since early november as faras I can remember.
Tom Jane was brilliant in it too, but I couldn't get his character in arrested development out of my head and was waitin for him to just say " I just want my kids back".
Apparently the director really had to fight for the ending and said that if he couldn't do the ending he wanted he'd walk, so a comprimise was reached and the budget was cut down.Although I have to say the effects are excellent in it and I really hope that its gonna be a big hit, but reckon it could go unnoticed for a while, like the shawshank redemption, and then become a massive hit on dvd.

Kess73

rejkin wrote: »

just searched it up on wikipedia.....that ending is ****ed up!!! good ending but I think the books one is better

It plays out far better onscreen than it reads on wiki. It has real emotional weight onscreen.

qwertplaywert

Hopefully it gets released here, getting very good reviews for a horror film.

tread_softly

is this the movie based on the stephen king story? that was the first bit of king i ever read and it was so messed up but brilliant! i didn't think they were going to go through with the movie

constitutionus

ok i got around to watching this last night

MAGNIFICENT !

I have to admit i was looking at this as a knock off of "the fog" and wasnt expecting much from it beyond a high budget twilight zone episode. how wrong i was.

that ending was one of the BEST ive seen in ages. i can see whey darabont threatened to walk if he wasnt allowed do it because to me it illustrates the full horror of the out come and it alone will secure this films place as a classic in the making. people will be talking about that for years to come . i wont ruin it but it was very brave and in this age of test audience altered films i know for a FACT the yanks wouldnt have allowed it.

its a very powerfull character piece about fear and isolation in the human conditions and i guess the sneakiest way i could refer to the film is its not the monsters on the outside you have to worry about

must give a nod to the direction as well. theres some jawdroppingly awsome scenes where we actually get to look at the gigantic monster. very well done

all in all a brilliant horror film that really illustrates genuine horror as opposed to blood and guts. and i say this as a guy who's not a horror fan. i approached this as a sci fi disaster film. and most importantly is probably the most accurate representation of what most of us would do in such a situation which is no mean feat

i honestly cant endorce this enough. its a mystery the buzz hasnt built up already on it.

I cannot wait to see this. I can't seem to find any mention of a UK/Ireland release date though.

Snake Plisken

WOW saw this tonight and I was blown away by it, Frank Darabont is the only Director who can do Stephen King justice, up until now There will be blood was my film of the year, but this takes the number one spot, I was worried when I saw the trailers with the flying giant insects that it had the potential to be crap, but boy was I wrong, this is great storytelling, and the ending just messed my head up,

I take it anyone who is a parent who sees it will really be upset by it having shot your son and a short time later the tanks roll by I know what I would do if I was in Drayton's shoes, I would kill myself, also quite ironic that on the rescue lorry the woman who left her eight year old alone was rescued with her kids, which was a clever ploy by the director as I was judging her straight away when she said she had left her kids alone

Nice to see all the posters in the house at the beginning he was working on, a little homage to The Thing and also the main poster for The Dark Tower made me happy I hope to God that they give it to Frank Darabont, as when it comes to Stephen King he can do no wrong!

Brilliant!

s8n

Excellent movie. Saw it last night and really enjoyed it. The ending was a complete mindf**k.

Very Halflife-ish in places.....

The R1 DVD is out at the end of the month. The 2 Disc edition contains a black and white version of the film which is rumoured to be even scarier than the normal. It's just a shame that the film has taken so long to reach our shores.

vibe666

excellent movie, enjoyed it very much. I thought the

monsters were very well thought up, and aside from a couple of ropey CGI scenes came off very convincingly on screen. those tentacles were just plain NASTY! and that huge great big mofo that crosses the road in front of them was awesome. the cloverfield monster better watch his back!

2 severed thumbs up from me.

MisterAnarchy

I watched it last night and frankly I was disappointed.
It just seemed like a standard B movie type film ,made for tv movie ,something you would see late at night on Sci Fi or similar.
It was very cheap looking ,the CGI was very dodgy in parts.
The scipt itself was predictable and very cliched with huge plot holes .
I was laughing alot at the idiotic behaviour of the townspeople,their decisions and logic were ludicrous.
Some of the creatures were creepy and the ending was quite good but overall it just dragged ,the characters felt one dimensional.

Snake Plisken

Deleted User wrote: »

The R1 DVD is out at the end of the month. The 2 Disc edition contains a black and white version of the film which is rumoured to be even scarier than the normal. It's just a shame that the film has taken so long to reach our shores.

Was hoping for a high def release but as its Miramax I'll be waiting awhile, might just go for the R1 DVD to get the black and white version. It looks like it got alot of mixed reviews in the US, which is a pity, and thats what probably delayed the release over here.

constitutionus

for the life of me i dont understand why it didnt get a cinema release here. ok its not the greatest film in the world but its solid stuff and christ knows its been a dull period lately. the suits had noting to lose.

if P.S i love you can get a relesas so should this

ah well.

Sangre

One of my favourite short stories ever. I was riveted and awe struck by the story telling and its ending.

have I missed it in the cinemas?

edit - was it not released at all? Gah!

Beanstalk

Lots a lot like Carpenter's 'the fog' to me but i'll definitely go and see it, I love those type of disaster films....

Not The Real Scarecrow

For anyone interested its available for download on plenty of share community sites.Reckon its ok to download as am gonna buy the dvd when it comes out any way.Have seen it twice now, feels so much shorter the second time.Just leaves you crying out for an extended cut.It doesn't loose any of its impact either.Noticed a bit more going on too.With out going into it too much, noticed that nearly every traumatic event in the film happens because of the maintinance man character doing stupid ****.
Am amazed though that there hasn't been too much talk about the movie in movie mags or such.Hope it goes the way of Shawshank and builds up a good following on dvd release and the movie gets the critical recognition it fully deserves.I'mone of these ****s that always guesses twists in movies but I never ,ever saw the ending in this movie coming.

sunzz

House mate guessed the ending but was more like imagine if he and imagine if then....sorta thing. I just thought what most of you thought when only the 4 bullets was left.

Very very good entertaining horror this and cloverfield really setting some nice new standards!

spacecoyote

:mad:

I know you don't say enough to give away what happens but that last post really should have been spoilered. I haven't seen this, and don't want to know any scenarios, or even a hint of them.

anyone any idea if it is getting a cinema release here, and if so, a release date?

Auditor #9

The Novella of this was brilliant - really made an impression when I read it way back in my teens. 'Project Arrowhead' and the huuge creature at the end... Is it sci-fi, religious moral or horror? It's only about 100 pages long. Looks like the trailer does a lot of justice to King's story who is still way too underated a writer.

The guy is a genius. Long like the 'B' movie!!

L31mr0d

seen this movie last night, it was good but I went into it expecting a horror which it isn't, it's Sci-Fi, and old school sci-fi at that. Luckily I also happen to love sci-fi It reminded me of all the old B-movie sci-fi flicks I used to watch in my teens, and was reminiscent of a few of them. There's obviously the homage to "The Thing" at the start but it also reminded me of other movies such as "Tremors", "Screamers" or "Pitch black". But this is a format that never really gets old in Sci-Fi flicks. It's also used to an extent in "Alien" and "Predator" (notice I left out the "versus")

The format is simple, introduce some charaters and give them no back story, put them in a disaster situation and trap them together, let the human dynamic unfold whilst always building the tension from the unknown aggressor which in turn causes the tension amongst the humans to grow, end in a big crescendo.

This movie follows that format to a tee, and coupled with the excellent human dynamic throughout

single best moment for me was when that loon of a zealot got shot between the eyes

its definitely one to watch if you are in any way a fan of b-movie sci-fi

Vic Vinegar

spacecoyote wrote: »

:mad:

I know you don't say enough to give away what happens but that last post really should have been spoilered. I haven't seen this, and don't want to know any scenarios, or even a hint of them.

anyone any idea if it is getting a cinema release here, and if so, a release date?

Agreed on that, it's so annoying that people feel the need to do that!

vibe666

use the freaking spoiler tags people!!!

it's very easy, when you post a comment that includes anything that might give away the plot of the movie to someone who hasn't seen it for you to put spoiler tags either side of that comment in the format of (spoiler)your revealing comment here(/spoiler) except you substitute the (round brackets) for [square ones] and then your text will be 'greyed out' like this:

your secret plot giving away nonsense

and will remain hidden from people who want to keep all the surprises until they actually watch the movie but can still get a general feel for it from reading non-revealing comments.

L31mr0d

can I ask, all the people that are moaning about spoiler tags... when you entered this thread what exactly did you expect to be reading?

Vic Vinegar

L31mr0d wrote: »

can I ask, all the people that are moaning about spoiler tags... when you entered this thread what exactly did you expect to be reading?

info from fellow boardsies on whether it's worth watching, not details on climactic scenes/huge spoilers..... especially as the thread didn't contain spoiler warnings.

vibe666

L31mr0d wrote: »

can I ask, all the people that are moaning about spoiler tags... when you entered this thread what exactly did you expect to be reading?

threads containing spoilers are supposed to be labelled as such. if there's no spoiler warning, any potential spoilers should be tagged as such. it's common netiquette (god I hate that word!) and it's quite likely in the charter. if it's not then it probably should be.

muppetkiller

Watched it myself last night and really enjoyed it...It wasn't an amazing movie by any means but i love most Stephen King movies anyway...
I enjoyed the ending too..
Tonight I think I'll watch 'REC' as that looks like it's going to scare the bejesus out of me lol.

Galvasean

Looking forwars to it. When are we getting it?

pixelburp

I enjoyed it. The vibe I took from this was "old fashioned".

You can tell Darabont is an old-school, geek filmmaker; the movie screams 80s Carpenter & the days when horror movies were about trying to make you feel fear, not being vehicles for SFX wizards & gorehounds. In fact, this was underpinned within the first 30 seconds when we find the main character painting movie posters (with the classic "The Thing" poster in the background).

The human interaction in the store was well done; with some notable characters and personalities coming through as the situation deteriorated. I like to think this is roughly how people would behave in a similar circumstance. Again, like these kind of siege/horror movies of yesteryear, it was refreshing to watch a group of adult human beings, rather than the vacuous group of teens we must endure in our horror flicks.

It was no classic, far from it, but a very tidily made horror movie, which is rare enough in this day and age. Idiots responsible for carwrecks like AvP:Requim should take note.

Snake Plisken

Can the OP or Karl, maybe Stick "Possible Spoilers" in the title and that should keep people happy it's very hard to discuss the movie without going wow what an ending which even that makes people suspect that something unexpected is going to happen.

Thanks

Creature

I really enjoyed this film. The tension was solid and the violence was excellently done without going OTT (

especially the guy who got devoured by the tentacles

). I found the character of the religious woman a bit too unrealistic though. Also I was pleased that it moved along at a decent pace, which was refreshing as films featuring these kind of seige situations tend to slow down too much.
Just a pity it didn't get a cinema release over here.

It's was due to recieve a cinema release over here at the end of the month, but now it appears to have been pulled from release schedules.

AckwelFoley

Yea.. seen this in The US in November.. Its the Stephen King film set in Maine?


Great Movie...


Really really SICK SICK SICK Ending!!


I was like OMFG!!

Original ending to say the least!!

sunzz

I didn't give away anything stop your whine please!

Kur4mA

Hmm, I'm rather confused by this one. I really loved this movie right up until the ending... which I found a bit pompous and generally MEH because of what I spoilered below. I understand people loving the twist but I saw it coming a mile away and found two things quite strange.

1. He was rather quick to point out to the others that he had a gun and then did the whole silent "shall I kill you all then?" thing. I just found it very odd that they had decided to kill themselves in under 2 minutes after the petrol ran out while he would "FIGURE SOMETHIN OUT".

2. He kills them, steps out of the car and screams for a minute. Then suddenly we see the tank looming in The Mist and it's supposed to be all OMG NO WAAAAI.... and then The Mist is GONE. WTF? Did the army have some sort of anti-MIST weaponry along with their Flame Throwers?

It seems to me because of these two things that the Director just wanted this wrapped up fairly quickly because he didn't know where else to go with it and thought it was somehow clever. I found it ridiculous and this essentially turned it from a brilliant movie into a good movie with a fairly mediocre ending for me.

Vic Vinegar

sunzz wrote: »

I didn't give away anything stop your whine please!

If you actually believe that then you have problems man!

pixelburp

kyub wrote: »

1. He was rather quick to point out to the others that he had a gun and then did the whole silent "shall I kill you all then?" thing. I just found it very odd that they had decided to kill themselves in under 2 minutes after the petrol ran out while he would "FIGURE SOMETHIN OUT".

To be fair, the implication was that they were driving for a long time until they ran out of petrol. For all intents and purposes, the mist had spread across the country and there seemed to be no hope (after all, wandering the mist was ostensibly a death wish). They had gambled on finding help, leaving the store, and the gamble had failed. No food, no petrol, no means of contact. What else could they do?

I grant you, the mist cleared up a bit quickly, but what I took from the ending was that they were driving away from the help (the direction the army were moving in) all this time.

vibe666

pixelburp wrote: »

To be fair, the implication was that they were driving for a long time until they ran out of petrol. For all intents and purposes, the mist had spread across the country and there seemed to be no hope (after all, wandering the mist was ostensibly a death wish). They had gambled on finding help, leaving the store, and the gamble had failed. No food, no petrol, no means of contact. What else could they do?

I grant you, the mist cleared up a bit quickly, but what I took from the ending was that they were driving away from the help (the direction the army were moving in) all this time.

i did kinda feel like that at the end. I think they could have put more emphasis on how long they were travelling for, although at 10-20mph in an old land cruiser, even if it was full of fuel to start with, they couldn't have gone more than a couple of hundred miles over the course of a day at best, and that's being very optimistic on fuel consumption and their speed in thick fog/mist (there's another thing, it was far too thick to be classed as 'mist', but I guess they were outta luck on the name:)). I had the same feeling with "30 days of night", there was no feeling of the amount of time passing in that either.

if I'm being picky, I wasn't convinced by his screaming at the end either. okay, so I'm not an expert on the sort of noises a person would make after all that, but they just didn't seem to fit the situation to my mind.

pixelburp

vibe666 wrote: »

if I'm being picky, I wasn't convinced by his screaming at the end either. okay, so I'm not an expert on the sort of noises a person would make after all that, but they just didn't seem to fit the situation to my mind.

Actually, I laughed at that point - his cries of despair were a bit forced and sounded more than a bit rubbish. Which was a shame, cos Thomas Jane is a good enough actor and did a fine job up until that point.

Maximilian

I really was not expecting much from this at all but I thought it was great.

The ending in particular was excellent. I thought

the gigantic monster thing crossing the road at the end was particularly impressive. Very HP Lovecraft

constitutionus

vibe666 wrote: »

i did kinda feel like that at the end. I think they could have put more emphasis on how long they were travelling for, although at 10-20mph in an old land cruiser, even if it was full of fuel to start with, they couldn't have gone more than a couple of hundred miles over the course of a day at best, and that's being very optimistic on fuel consumption and their speed in thick fog/mist (there's another thing, it was far too thick to be classed as 'mist', but I guess they were outta luck on the name:)). I had the same feeling with "30 days of night", there was no feeling of the amount of time passing in that either.

if I'm being picky, I wasn't convinced by his screaming at the end either. okay, so I'm not an expert on the sort of noises a person would make after all that, but they just didn't seem to fit the situation to my mind.

i was thinking along those lines too

(in regards to how quick the mist disapated at the end ) a guy on another site basically thought they we're driving along with the mist and if they hadve stopped theydve been fine. in regards to the scream at the end i took it to be in two parts. one: basically attempting sucide by monster and then two: the revelation that he murdered them all for nothing and basically being a mental breakdown. havent seen anyone do that but it looked convincing to me

i thought they did a good job portraying how long they were on the road and it seemed to me the mist covered the whole country, prehaps the world by this stage. in that light i can see alot of people doing what he did. not a million mile away from the end of "downfall" in that respect.

by the way, anyone know why its cinema release was pulled? theres sod all else out there at the moment

constitutionus

Maximilian wrote: »

I really was not expecting much from this at all but I thought it was great.

The ending in particular was excellent. I thought

the gigantic monster thing crossing the road at the end was particularly impressive. Very HP Lovecraft

thats one of the things i wanted to go see it in the cinema for as it played very well. now its not looking likely. im going nuts about that as ive been talking this film up to my mates and was looking forward to going to see it with the gang. besides the pirate copys quality is crap. it does the job but i wanted to suport this in the cinema

CCCP^

Best horror film of 2007. I read the short story about 2 years back and thought it would make an awesome film. Lo and behold, the same guy who directed Shawshank (his name escapes me right now) stepped up to the plate. I really enjoyed the film, Tom Jane was excellent. Some very good casting. Very atmospheric film. Monsters were pretty good too.

I remeber sitting in that cinema when the film ended feeling absolutely devastated. I couldn't understand it. It wasn't like the story. Still, the world isn't always a happy ending. But I was trying to make sense of it all and couldn't.

I saw that the woman who walked out of the store at the start of the film (she had very short hair) survived with her kids, they pass Tom in the back of an Truck. I would have thought an ending along the lines of - he has to kill everybody, steps out and waits for the Monsters to get him, a Soldier hears him screaming and rushes out of the Mist and knocks him out with the butt of his Rifle in a quick scene so your left in suspense, and then he wakes up in a Refugee camp and meets that short-haired woman and they talk. Well....thats my idea anyway.

pixelburp

CCCP^ wrote: »

Lo and behold, the same guy who directed Shawshank (his name escapes me right now) stepped up to the plate.

Frank Darabont

Vokes

Excellent film. Highly recommended. Esp that final bit.

I also got the impression that

the Army was walking along with the Mist as it retreated back.

L31mr0d wrote: »

It reminded me of all the old B-movie sci-fi flicks I used to watch in my teens, and was reminiscent of a few of them. There's obviously the homage to "The Thing" at the start but it also reminded me of other movies such as "Tremors", "Screamers" or "Pitch black". But this is a format that never really gets old in Sci-Fi flicks. It's also used to an extent in "Alien" and "Predator" (notice I left out the "versus")

Also a shout out to Arachnaphopia there with the flamethrower-in-a-can bit

Basq

Ballsy ballsy film. Watched it this evening and really enjoyed it.

Unlike most modern days horror films, it actually was very intelligent and some of the religious connotations were very well handled and put forward. Though I absolutely loathe religious nuts like Mrs Carmody.

I don't know if it was intentional... but the effects did look particularly horrific. I suppose many of the creatures weren't exactly the easiest things to render in CGI but they looked particularly cartoonish. Not that it bothered me to be honest.

But Frank Darabont proves once again that he is an extremely credible director.. and not a director that is recognised by most film fans. Unless you mention 'The Shawshank Redemption' or 'The Green Mile'.

The ending was particularly ballsy.. and I could be wrong but i'm betting the studio execs had a real problem with that ending. I recall a similar situation with another film adapted from a book with a dreary ending and the ending was changed to suit the execs and after it showed that test audiences really don't like endings like this. I'd imagine the film community, in general, do (due to it being extremely out of left field) but your common film-goer will not know what to think of it. But that's just my opinion. I'm betting Frank Darabont really pushed for this ending, but could be wrong on all accounts.

Anyways, stupendous movie. This is the way horror movies SHOULD be made.

Karl Hungus

Spoiler tags should be used.