the MIST !

constitutionus

its out in the UCI in tallaght now !

shows are at 1730 and 2040 and running a week at least. this thing has not only been out in the states months ago its been out there on DVD for ages and FINALLY some bright spark decides to let it get a , admitedly restricted, showing here.

i seen this ahem less than legally ages ago and while i wont say its perfect its a DAMN good little horror story in the clasical sense of the word i.e suspense NOT gore (though there that too ) . anyway i was going mad as i really wanted to see this on the big screen but its been so long thought i'd be stuck with DVD release instead.

i know a fair few people here have seen this and raved about it so wanted to give a heads up for the chance those who want to see it in the cinema.

have fun

Double C

Yeah I saw an ad for this saying it was opening in cinemas this week. 6 months late is better than never.

MooseJam

have booked for tomorrow in Dundrum, looking forward to it

Excellent film.

Basq

Fantastic film alright... can't recommend it enough!

Good film. Brilliant in fact.

And the ending.. unfh!

johnny_ultimate

Dying to see this after all the good feedback. Tomorrow is a packed day for cinema though (friends will only go see Kung Fu Panda, while the Visitor also looks like it will be well worth a watch) but will hopefully get to see it in the next few days!

BlitzKrieg

thought it started crap, but got good in the middle. the ending was ok enough.

Dont be at yourself

For me, it's an average, middle-of-the-road film with a very good ending. The CGI is dreadful, the characters are as flat as a pancake, and the acting is awful at times. It has a real student-workshop vibe to it, and that's not a compliment.

Not a particularly bad film, but certainly not a classic. I think people are too kind to it, just because it's another Darabont/King piece.

norrie rugger

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

For me, it's an average, middle-of-the-road film with a very good ending. The CGI is dreadful, the characters are as flat as a pancake, and the acting is awful at times. It has a real student-workshop vibe to it, and that's not a compliment.

Not a particularly bad film, but certainly not a classic. I think people are too kind to it, just because it's another Darabont/King piece.

TBH the short story was so good that I want to see it based on that alone

zAbbo

I quite liked it, apart from the terrible CGI, and the stop-start interaction between characters.

I think it was originally B&W, which might have added to the tension a little better.

Good film, flawed, but enjoyable.

Kashkai

Read the short story about 16 years ago and loved it. Even though the story is mostly based in the supermarket, the atmosphere and tension of the story was great. Hope the film does justice to the book

MooseJam

just back from watching it, enjoyed it a lot though

the ending where the military show up to save the day sucked ass, it's much better in the book if I remember it correctly - it just ended, it's supposed to be an end of the world story should have kept it that way

MooseJam

MooseJam wrote: »

just back from watching it, enjoyed it a lot though

the ending where the military show up to save the day sucked ass, it's much better in the book if I remember it correctly - it just ended, it's supposed to be an end of the world story should have kept it that way

Well, it is the end of the world for yer man. What with killing his son and everyone else when help was just a few minutes back the other direction.

Pigman II

Got this from "a cousin" a while back without knowing it's production history and actually thought it was a TV-movie! The acting is horrible, the general look of the film is particularily cheap and stagey and don't get me started on the CG that looks like something on a par in quality with an episode of Babylon 5 (ie might have been mildly impressive 15 years ago).

As for the ending

I had lost interest in Tom Janes plight by this point so it didn't really give me the shock that others have experienced. I'm only sorry he didn't turn the gun on himself before the credits rolled and at least then I could have left the movie with one highlight.

MooseJam

MooseJam wrote: »

just back from watching it, enjoyed it a lot though

the ending where the military show up to save the day sucked ass, it's much better in the book if I remember it correctly - it just ended, it's supposed to be an end of the world story should have kept it that way

But do they save they day? When they leave the supermarket and see the creature it's moving in the same direction as them. From that I assumed that the mist was moving and they were merely moving in the same direction as it.

As it stands The Mist is a damn near perfect film, the week I got the DVD I watched it several times and have returned to it at least a dozen times since. Here's a link to my thoughts on it.

Tar.Aldarion

The trailer told mea ll I needed to know about it. hmm dunno if I should see.

constitutionus

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

The trailer told mea ll I needed to know about it. hmm dunno if I should see.

actually i nearly didnt bother with it because of the add as my initial thought was "B movie "the fog" rippoff" which couldnt be further from the truth.

the real drama is what goes on IN the store, not whats happening outside it.

MisterAnarchy

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

For me, it's an average, middle-of-the-road film with a very good ending. The CGI is dreadful, the characters are as flat as a pancake, and the acting is awful at times. It has a real student-workshop vibe to it, and that's not a compliment.

Not a particularly bad film, but certainly not a classic. I think people are too kind to it, just because it's another Darabont/King piece.

My thoughts exactly.
Its way overrated.

niallon

Biased opinions overflow becuase of the love of the story but in general, this is one of the greatest recent releases seen. Old school horror witha bit of depth to it. You gotta see it in black and white to appreciate it, for further proof that Darabont wanted it to be seen in black and white from the off just look at the colour of the blood, way too pasyel for a colour film!

Loved it and can't wait to see it on the big screen!

Necronomicon

I really liked it, but it's not without its flaws as others have said.

At times I think it could have done with a little less exposure of the creatures, because the CGI was a bit ropey to say the least. In particular I'm talking about

when the winged creatures broke in the first time and Thomas Jane was chasing one around with a stick

. Although having said that, there were some fantastic set pieces -

the scene in the pharmacy probably being my favourite.

I'm not completely sure what to think of the ending.

Darabont deserves a lot of credit for sticking to his guns and giving us such an ending (apparently he signed up on condition that he could use it) but my only question mark is over the mist itself. Was order restored, or does the mist travel? I would've preferred if the army appeared but the world still appeared to be consumed by it.

Edit: The good thing about the wait we've had is that it's available on dvd. Just ordered it, can't wait to see the black and white version.

L31mr0d

MooseJam wrote: »

just back from watching it, enjoyed it a lot though

the ending where the military show up to save the day sucked ass, it's much better in the book if I remember it correctly - it just ended, it's supposed to be an end of the world story should have kept it that way

I thought the ending was perfect. We don't know that the military are saving the planet or that the humans will win, what we do know is that David Drayton, if he had only waited 5 minutes, didn't have to kill his son to fulfil his promise that he would not let him be killed by the monsters. If he had killed his son and then it had turned to a shot of the earth covered in mist we would of assumed David did the right thing and that there was no hope. I liked this blacker ending as it shows David to not be the archetypal hero but an imperfect human, also a human that, had he shown compassion for the woman who needed to go out into the mist to find her children, could of survived with his son and not had to of shot him

The ending works so well because the whole film is about never giving up which is exactly what David does. Something that a lot of people miss is that the woman who left the supermarket at the very beginning to get her kids is on the first troop carrier with them.

MooseJam

Deleted User wrote: »

The ending works so well because the whole film is about never giving up which is exactly what David does. Something that a lot of people miss is that the woman who left the supermarket at the very beginning to get her kids is on the first troop carrier with them.

Yeah I spotted the woman and I thought that was a bit daft, they had after all driven a couple of hundred miles, until their fuel runs out, how did yer one get that far, plus just the chances of seeing her are very very low

Vokes

MooseJam wrote: »

how did yer one get that far, plus just the chances of seeing her are very very low

Not sure what you mean? She caught up with him by getting a lift on the army truck.

niallon

Yer one on the truck was just too damn ridiculous, there's being blunt and then there's just being ridiculous! Abolsutely no need for that shot and the only time I questioned Darabont's sanity!

TerrorFirmer

A cracking film but I thought the ending was a bit poor. Not really because of the actual events, but the execution -

the army and a convoy of about a hundred vehicles, with helicopters overhead appearing magically half a minute after he kills everyone. Surely, if this relief/rescue convoy of such magnitude and military might existed, they'd have noticed it somewhere, or at least signs of it on their journey. Instead, it conveniently appears out of nowhere, complete with accompanying soldiers on foot, etc - are we supposed to believe that the entire time this massive convoy with thousands of people was shadowing them, but never crossing over, never manisfesting itself in picking up other survivors, roadblocks, outposts, etc? I feel, that even with that ending intact, it could have at least had him wandering around the mist for an hour or two and THEN, the convoy coming along - not 30 seconds after he kills everyone. The way it was was just a bit thin and I felt it a bit ridiculous - the two people I was with felt the same.

Though all in all, I prefer the stories ending, which more or less ends ambiguously with a 'we don't know what lies ahead tone' shortly after the gigantic monster walks over their car.

But the film went a new direction, a very effective one too.

Sanjuro

Deleted User wrote: »

As it stands The Mist is a damn near perfect film, the week I got the DVD I watched it several times and have returned to it at least a dozen times since. Here's a link to my thoughts on it.

I'm with Darko on this one. I haven't seen a horror movie (and I watch quite a few) I've enjoyed so much in a long time. While the monster bits are a staple of movies of it's type, the drama within the store is so meticulously fleshed out, that it pushes the film ahead of those of it's genre. Darabont's a brilliant filmmaker and his strength as a screenwriter, as well as a director is evident here. A fantastic film, and one of the best I've seen this year.

0ubliette

I hated, abhored, and despised the ending. It was ****ing ridiculous. They should have stuck to the books ending, it was a damn sight better.

So what, after driving hundreds of miles through this impenetrable fog filled with mosnters the size of houses, it dissipates 2 minutes after david kills everyone? And the army just casually strolls through? **** THAT. David didnt hear the tank/truck convoy approaching even though its deathly silent out and they appear about 2 minutes after david kills everyone?? Oh and some of the NOOOOOOOOs at the end were crine worthy.

All in all i thought it was a great film that was completely and utterly ruined by its ending

Sanjuro

Review

johnny_ultimate

Just back from this and thought it was a more intelligent than average "disaster" movie, but also stabbed itself in the foot with some very poorly judged moments.

It had a kind of modern Lord of the Flies vibe going on, which meant it wasn't nearly as shallow as it could have been. Some interesting characters (decent, if a little too in-your-face, take on relgious intolerance) and a couple of very tense moments (the rope bit). And there was some good black comedy in there too.

But there's also some very silly moments (most of the opening thirty minutes or so: "The Mist! There's things in the Mist!") and as many have pointed out the CGI is really, really awful.

The spiders in the pharmacy

especially look like something out of a PS2 game, and the most of the full on action setpieces are a little too incredible. This is a case of less would really be far more effective, and the too frequent glimpses of whats outside kind of destroys a lot of the mystery.

And the monologue about 'alternate dimensions' was very out of place and seemed like a cheap and forced explanation

.

And while the ending was refreshingly bleak, it was damaged by

all the screaming, which just didn't work. It was a melodramatic conclusion which was a good end to the story in terms of themes and character development, but wasn't pulled off quite as well as it could've been. The Mist just disappeared, which didn't feel right at all.

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But for the most part it is an enjoyable, competent watch that had an interesting take on mob mentality. Just a shame that some of the flaws are so pronounced.

Better than the Happening at least

Fol20

i thought it was unreal..although i do agree that acting was only ok at some stages in it...

Parrish_Crooks

Good story, good characters, Baaaaaaad CGI. Didn't do justice to a Stephen King novel as his portrayal of other worldly creatures is always unsettling and terrifying. Some may say the ending is a cop out but I liked the twist.

faceman

Havent seen it but looking forward to it.

JacksonHeightsOwn

its the worst film ive ever seen, simple as that

truly awful, in every sense of the word

niallon

chrisbonnie wrote: »

its the worst film ive ever seen, simple as that

truly awful, in every sense of the word

I never usually do this but I have to out and out refuse to believe those words were said. Nope, sorry, just won't do. No way, zip, nadda!

Ah no, everyone's entitled to an opinion!

Sanjuro

Parrish_Crooks wrote: »

Baaaaaaad CGI.

TBH, the CGI wasn't that bad. Darabont was offered double the budget of the film if he changed the ending to a more upbeat one. It's a testiment to art over money that he didn't cave, and it's a better film for it. I'm sick of flashy looking films with zero story (Transformers is a prime example... pun intended). I'd take story with dodgy effects over the former any day.

faceman

Finally saw it. film was ok although i loved the premise of the ending. I didnt like how quick the emotions of the groups swayed but i guess they had no choice from a script perspective given they would hardly be stuck in the supermarket for 6 months!

The ending was great.

although i felt the music made it seem a bit cheesey. I would have liked to have seen the shootings more emphasised particularly the shooting of his son. The drive in nothingness was really cool highlighting the isolation and hopelessness of their case. When the giant walking thing turned up, that was cool too.

Vic Vinegar

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Better than the Happening at least

What isn't?

Parrish_Crooks

chrisbonnie wrote: »

its the worst film ive ever seen, simple as that

truly awful, in every sense of the word

Bit harsh.. no?!

chin_grin

CG was a tad on the crap side. Acting was hammy as hell (the religious nuts), and it went on for far too long. So, erm, no I didn't enjoy this one at all.

Loomis

constitutionus wrote: »

its out in the UCI in tallaght now !

shows are at 1730 and 2040 and running a week at least. this thing has not only been out in the states months ago its been out there on DVD for ages and FINALLY some bright spark decides to let it get a , admitedly restricted, showing here.

i seen this ahem less than legally ages ago and while i wont say its perfect its a DAMN good little horror story in the clasical sense of the word i.e suspense NOT gore (though there that too ) . anyway i was going mad as i really wanted to see this on the big screen but its been so long thought i'd be stuck with DVD release instead.

i know a fair few people here have seen this and raved about it so wanted to give a heads up for the chance those who want to see it in the cinema.

have fun

Was in the states a couple of weeks ago and saw a trailer for it and looked good so picked up the dvd. Few days after I was back I saw trailer for it here saying coming to cinemas lol. I'll get round to watching it soon.

fish fingers

I really enjoyed it to be honest

Raekwon

Just got back from it and thought it was total cack

I only went because it got decent reviews on the likes of Rotten Tomatoes & Empire but for me there were too many bad moments and no real atmosphere that I had expected from this sort of movie. The acting was mostly terrible and all that bible bashing nonsense really sent waves of groans around the cinema, a good few people actually left way before the end (which was the highlight for me……………and not in a sarcastic way either ).

I really wish that I had mist this movie and seen something else instead (see what I did there? )

mbv

Weird that this is a love it or hate it. Saw it last night and half the audience walked out half way through.

I thought it was the best Stephen King film since the shining. Some of the CGI was a bit weak but I thought it was tense throughout and the acting and script were top notch. There was no big hollywood bollox about it.

And the ending...holy ****

Dirk_Diggler

How can anyone say the music at the end was cheesy? Possibly the best used piece in a film in a long long time. DCD are amazing so I was glad that it was included in this.

faceman

Dirk_Diggler wrote: »

How can anyone say the music at the end was cheesy? Possibly the best used piece in a film in a long long time. DCD are amazing so I was glad that it was included in this.

Let me elaborate.

its not that the music made it seem cheesy, it was the whole piece. Perhaps i should re-word ot say the music wasnt fitting. It was just a repeated shot of the car driving in slow motion through the mist.

There is nothing wrong with the music itself

Parrish_Crooks

Dirk_Diggler wrote: »

Possibly the best used piece in a film in a long long time.

+1

Most moving use of music since Babel.

Creature

I wanted to go and see this again tonight but I can't find any listings for it in Cineworld or The Savoy in Dublin city centre. Has it been dropped already?

Basq

From Entertainment.ie, it appears the only ones showing it are:

IMC Dun Laoghaire +353 1 230 1399
- The Mist Mon - Thu 3.20 6.10 8.55pm

Movie Times at Movies @ Dundrum
- The Mist 6.30pm

Movies @ Swords 1520 880 333
- The Mist 9.00pm

Savoy, Balbriggan +353 1 6905377
- The Mist Mon - Thu 8.00pm

Vue, Liffey Valley 1520 501 000
- The Mist 9.45pm

It's only been released last week so I'd be suprised if it was dropped already from places that were showing it.

Creature

basquille wrote: »

It's only been released last week so I'd be suprised if it was dropped already from places that were showing it.

Yeah thats what I was thinking but I really can't find anything.