It is still an excellent film, but if you have read anjd enjoyed the story leave before the end at the point I mention above which is the ending of the story and still an excellent ending. But if you stay to the end of the film itself be aware that the ending is quite negative and left a nasty taste in my mouth, for no other reason I can determine except that Frank Darabont needed to add some sort of closure to the film. I think that I will buy it on dvd and get someone to edit out the last couple of minutes for me.
Wow, don't hear that kind of vehemence out of you very often... That ending must have really gotten to you eh? Seriously though hon, don't blame you. tis one reason why i see few movies from books i like. Just in case they Screw them royally...
I feel strongly I think because I had a very clear picture in my head of the story, and the fact that it was tweaked in such a manner to go from hope for the future, to everyone's dead and I feel like shit, in less than 5 minutes. It does I think requere some vehemence, and the fact that Mr King has not had anything to do with it (beyond writing the original story) speaks volumes.
Re: VehemenceasdriscollFebruary 25 2008, 05:00:45 UTC
I include here the final paragraph of the review in the Village Voice.
"All this would be disappointing, but not infuriating, if the film's ending weren't so unforgivably bad. Darabont abruptly abandons his master's text in the movie's final minutes, sending Drayton and his little boy a plot twist that wouldn't be fair to reveal, but which is so distasteful and untrue to all that's come before it as to be a slap in the face to characters and audience alike. The last word in King's story was "hope," and while Darabont certainly has the right to head in the opposite direction-in our own monster-filled world, happy endings are harder than ever to buy-he does so in a manner that's both pretentious and cruel. The Mist made me want to scream, but for all the wrong reasons. "
Re: VehemencefeyblesFebruary 25 2008, 05:46:54 UTC
Indeed. well that says a lot too.
I was simply commenting that i don't see that reaction out of you often. Even less given your tolerance for things in movies compared to many of the rest of us.
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"All this would be disappointing, but not infuriating, if the film's ending weren't so unforgivably bad. Darabont abruptly abandons his master's text in the movie's final minutes, sending Drayton and his little boy a plot twist that wouldn't be fair to reveal, but which is so distasteful and untrue to all that's come before it as to be a slap in the face to characters and audience alike. The last word in King's story was "hope," and while Darabont certainly has the right to head in the opposite direction-in our own monster-filled world, happy endings are harder than ever to buy-he does so in a manner that's both pretentious and cruel. The Mist made me want to scream, but for all the wrong reasons. "
Glad to see it wasn't just me.
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I was simply commenting that i don't see that reaction out of you often. Even less given your tolerance for things in movies compared to many of the rest of us.
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