DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
are happiness and redemption what people seek in a horror movie?
I'd say no, they want something else from horror movies
The Mist - A Poor Offering - Spoilers
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are happiness and redemption what people seek in a horror movie?
I'd say no, they want something else from horror movies
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
This is a have your cake and eat it movie - people want some cheap thrills and then be able to go on about how profound it is.
I think my point covers lots of films - people think just because the image gets burned into their heads with violence that it is more 'true'.
Its no more true than beauty.
I've made no such assumption. If I'm going to watch a horror movie, which I rarely do as I am not a fan, then I hope to be challenged and scared by the content thats all I'm after.
When I was kid I loved the genre but now being old enough to know that in the movies the fuckers usually get away coupled with this decades offerings being fairly terrible, I just don't get what I want out of it anymore.
Now the mist I agree wasn't profound at all, it was however a well done bit of b-movie horror with a shock ending that worked well to effect a bit of much missed emotion. Simple as, surely
Disjecta Membra
cashing reality checks but cant even pay atention.
I thought it was gonna be seen as phophetic when the LHC was turned on and seen as a classic, oh well !!!
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Aye, but a good horror movie can have you care about the characters. As with Romero's zombie films, the threat here was as much fellow human beings as the monsters. I thought The Mist showed pretty well how humans can react under fear and pressure. It's been a while since I was so happy to see a film character get their comeuppance.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
It's a typical Hollywood B Movie really.
It didn't have the tension of the short story... but then few film adaptations actually manage to successfully convey the suspense to be found within the written original
It didn't have the tension of the short story... but then few film adaptations actually manage to successfully convey the suspense to be found within the written original
Except for the gut-wrenchingly dark ending...
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
actually, I don't know why he didn't use the ending from the book
that finishes off with just him and his boy driving off alone... (you have to read it to appreciate it - it's a good open ending anyway)
Weird, you'd think from the shawshank redemption that this director would have preferred that too. I guess he just wanted to do something opposite to what people expected. Because of shawshank I thought this would have an uplifting fluffy ending and instead I just went 'argh'.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
King himself says he prefers the film ending and wishes he'd thought of it!
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Its that you call a more positive ending 'fluffy'.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
You're just a soppy old romantic! Brutal endings are ace.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Indeed. But I did feel like I'd been punched in the gut and I had a lump in my throat.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Shawshank would have been much better if Red had got to the field at the end and found nothing.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Indeed. But I did feel like I'd been punched in the gut and I had a lump in my throat.
That's a good thing
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Soppy is getting your emotional workout through bug films.
I've got no problem with brutal endings - I wouldn't change the end of 'Lilya4ever', 'The Vanishing' (Dutch version natch), or even ET and those three really upset me. If it calls for it then so be it.
This one didn't.
Iguana
Well-Known Member
I actually thought The Mist would have worked better in this format. As the movie went on too long and was really boring in parts. I'd also guessed the end about 20 minutes before it happened, which I blame on how drawn out it was.
If it had been done as an episode of Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits it would have been a classic.
