The Mist (Stephen King's)

[AlphaQ GehaD]

I seen The Mist not to long ago and man what a Stephen King Movie, it was awesome. Lots of users on Yahoo said the Ending sucked but damn that was Dramatic, i think what they meant was it sucked to be him. I recommend this movie to most people, especially if you like Kings work and you know how he thinks. Some people from Storm of the Century was in this movie and it has parts that make you yell out in the Theater "WTF ARE YOU WAITING FOR", or "DAMNIT, KILL THEM!"

It shows how easily a mind can be twisted and over run or weakened by someone elses words or ways of thinking. people turning against each other in harsh delimas its pretty sweet.

anyone else see this movie?

[Peench]

I haven't seen any of Stephen King's movies, but I love his books.

[Serren]

Originally Posted by Peench

I haven't seen any of Stephen King's movies, but I love his books.

Any of them ever? Come on now! He has 106 movies credited to him per the IMDB. Here are, in order of appearance and more popular titles:

1408
Secret Window
Dreamcatcher
The Green Mile
Apt Pupil
Shawshank Redemption
The Stand
Sleepwalkers
Misery
It
Pet Cematary
The Running Man
Stand By Me
Silver Bullet
Cat's Eye
Firestarter
Children of the Corn
Christine
The Dead Zone
Cujo
Creepshow
The Shining
Salems Lot
Carrie

You must have seen half of these growing up right?

[BiffCo]

I had high expectations with The Mist but in the end it was a dissapointment. The acting was horrendous with only Marcia Gay Harden holding up the rest of the cast. The reason I say that is that she made you hate her character, I know I did. Other than that I just didn't buy. Not suspensful and that's probably due to the horrible camera work/script. I don't think I've seen so many camera zooms in a major motion picture before. It was horrible.

I would only recommend it to the die hard King fan, but even they may have trouble getting through this one.

-Brad

[Peench]

Serren - dang, color me wrong, I have seen the following that I can recall:

The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
The Running Man
Stand By Me
The Shining

I didn't connect the two in my mind b/c some of those movies aren't typically what I consider to be normal Stephen King stuff.

[AlphaQ GehaD]

did you like "ROOM 1408" better than this?

Peench come on dude, your how old?

1408
Secret Window
Dreamcatcher
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Misery
It
Silver Bullet
Christine
Cujo
The Shining
Salems Lot
Carrie
Rose Red
The Storm of the Century

Ive seen all these and believe ive seen APT Pupil and Children of the Corn , One is about some Nazi i believe the other is Possessed children.

Carrie - evil Nerd
Salems Lot - Nosferatu bald headed Vampire (i have this movie)
Christine - Possessed car
Misery - Obsessed Book Fan
Cujo - Rabid Dog
Silver Bullet - WheelChair kid and werewolf
IT - Evil child eating clown
Dreamcatcher - Retarded kid is actually an alien giving powers

you never seen these, if not than you must have been a hustler too busy to see these

[Wood Ghost]

Peench has interns watch movies for him. Then he cross examines them.

[Peench]

Now that is an awesome idea Wood. Now if I could just find some around here who haven't gone home... slackers!!

[BiffCo]

Originally Posted by Nolimit4show

did you like "ROOM 1408" better than this?

I loved 1408! I thought it was very well done. Acting, lighting, cinematography... Everything had high production value. I'm a big Cusack fan and I thought he was brilliant in 1408. Jackson not so much, but the only movie Sammy impressed me in was Black Snake Moan.

The Mist just seemed like a bunch of Hollywood people got together and said, "Hey, lets do another King movie. Who wants to finance it?" The workmanship of people involved really wasn't all that great. Not all crews in Hollywood are created equal I suppose. It still kills me that they zoom during steadicam shots. Steadicams were made so you can get smooth motion while walking/running with camera. Why not move the camera forward instead of zooming.

By the way, if anyone thinks I'm bitching about the use of the zoom function while the camera is rolling, I'm not. It can be used to great effect when done properly, but it wasn't in The Mist. Zooms used out of place often look amateurish, and that's what they were here. The zoom function is always used sparingly in major motion pictures. It's most common use now is to do a zolly shot.

[Keezied]Remember that scene in LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring when Frodo is standing in the road and senses that something bad is about to show up. THAT'S a zolly shot. It's done by zooming the camera in (when it's not rolling), dollying/moving the camera forward and zooming out at the same time. It only really works effectively when the zoom out/dolly forward are done at the same speed.

Example (Around the :53 mark):

+ YouTube Video

It's used in many horror movies now.[/Keezied]

What kills me about The Mist though is that I've enjoyed all of Frank Darabont's (Director, writer and Producer of The Mist) works. The Majestic, The Green Mile and Shawshank are a few of my faves that he directed. Maybe I'm just too picky anymore.

-Brad

[NuclearCujo]

I like his older flicks, like Cujo(obviously) and the Shining. Personally I think the newer titles are kind of lame ONLY because I am a book worm and I read the books way before the film, the books are so much better then what they can cram into 2 hours of video. So in my case, the films don't live up to my demented metal pictures of what they should be.

[Quo]

Originally Posted by NuclearCujo

...I think the newer titles are kind of lame ONLY because I am a book worm and I read the books way before the film, the books are so much better then what they can cram into 2 hours of video. So in my case, the films don't live up to my demented metal pictures of what they should be.

I agree, it's almost ALWAYS that way for me. If I read the book first, I'm almost always disappointed in the film.

[Wondermonkey]

Stephen King had nothing to do with the Shining film. In fact, he hated it with a passion. He thought Kubrick ruined the book's name. That, my friends, is why Stephen King is a dickbag.

He's also a terrible writer and a no-talent assclown. The Mist can bite me.

Oh yeah, and I haven't seen it.

[Serren]

Originally Posted by Wondermonkey

Stephen King had nothing to do with the Shining film.

Except for writing the "terrible" story that Kubrick "reinvisioned" slightly in the first place. So besides for writing the story instead of telling people where to stand and such, King did do nothing with the first Shining movie.

I guess you can tell that I fully disagree with Wonder on King's talent. He is one of the best story tellers I have ever read. Sure, some of his work seems like it was just contractually obligated stuff and pulp fiction, but there are many masterpieces in his writings. The Stand, Salems Lot, It, The Long Walk, most of the Gunslinger novels, and a few others. These are books that each could easily be included in lists of the top modern american fiction novels.

I would recommend that if your not a King fan, try one I mentioned above. Each is truly great.

[Wondermonkey]

His book is nothing like Kubrick's movie though. BUT, his book is just like his 1997 made for TV movie starring the guy from Wings. I sat through all 436 hours of that too.

Everything in The Shining film is Kubrick, comparing the two is like comparing the story of Peter Pan to Hook (even though I think Hook was supposed to be a sequel... I think.)

I think King is an Airport Seller, and that's fine, but when you think Jack Nicholson is "all wrong" in the lead role, you lose any shred of intelligence in my book. I did enjoy Desperation on some level, and It, both up until the end of the book.

[Serren]

I agree that Kubrick's screenplay was a great twist on the original novel, but credit still must be given to King for the original story.

And Stephen King was wrong about Jack Nicholson as well. But hey, if we were to create something, and then see it twisted around from we thought it would be, that might make us mad. Its not right or wrong. The remake was ok, but yeah, long. Plus I dislike that Wings guy as well. It did have the animal hedges coming to life though!