http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809834165/video/3906309/


Based on one of his short stories from the book Skeleton Dreams (the one with the monkey on the cover). Fucking awesome, probably my favorites. Hope it's good.

9/2/2007 5:10:00 PM

looks pretty good

9/2/2007 5:41:51 PM

The movie will be good until towards the end, when we find out that whatever was behind whatever was going on was a giant spider, giant bats, or stupid aliens

9/3/2007 12:27:52 AM

It appears to be giant bats from the trailer

9/3/2007 1:32:05 AM

but he's already done giant bats once

9/3/2007 1:51:34 AM

From what I remember in the book, it was mostly tentacle rape, giant bugs, and a big crab dude that cut a guy in half.

9/3/2007 2:06:27 AM

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"but he's already done giant bats once"

yeah, and hes done killer cars like 78 times

9/3/2007 2:25:02 AM

the short story was so good! i hope the movie lives up to it. i read it forever ago, gonna have to dig it out again. in that same book, i really liked the one about the kids on the raft in the middle of a lake. creeeeeepy.

11/22/2007 2:57:28 AM

aka "the fog"

11/22/2007 3:03:45 AM

I watched it last night, it was pretty close to the story. btw the book is Skeleton Crew, not Skeleton Dreams

I was very surprised by the ending.

11/22/2007 8:52:16 AM

do spoil

11/22/2007 9:51:42 AM

didnt know the movie was based off that story, it was my favorite one. looking forward to it!

11/22/2007 10:30:14 AM

Turns out it's man




*I haven't actually seen this, I just wanted to post that

11/22/2007 10:45:31 AM

it looks retarded

11/22/2007 11:25:05 AM

what a fucked up ending...

I feel like cutting my wrists.

11/23/2007 9:31:42 AM

I thought that the movie was going to attempt to build suspense around what the mist was all about and what it could possibly mean... then they showed everything on the TV commercials.

I guess they went for a different angle in the actual movie, or are they counting on people not having seen the commercials?

11/23/2007 10:27:25 AM

SPOILER .....
















I was a little disappointed by the ending, because it meant that the people at the grocery store did the right thing by staying put. I like the story's ending (they are able to get gas for the car, hear the word "Hartford" on the radio and are heading there in hopes it'll be better) because it shows they did the right thing by setting out on the road.












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11/23/2007 12:04:54 PM

a) extremely solid movie... A MUST SEE

b) you can be as disappointed as you want, it was a nearly perfect ending

11/23/2007 1:33:22 PM

A) pretty awful movie
B) the very ending being "fucked up" doesn't excuse the main plots ending of sucking ass
c) no suspense or scary moments

******spoilerish******

d) Simpsons, South Park, .....Stargate did it...



******end spoiler*****


I thought this movie was a big let down. Even the special effects looked cheap. The only interesting /creepy parts had to do with the overly religious whore

11/23/2007 6:05:41 PM

^completely fucking agree

A) pretty awful movie
B) the very ending being "fucked up" doesn't excuse the main plots ending of sucking ass
c) no suspense or scary moments

The special effects were horrible as well. Only scary parts were cheap jump stuff.


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the best part was where the religious "mrs. gary" was shot. i was hoping that someone in the crowd would've gotten into a religious debate with her like kids around NCSU do





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[Edited on November 23, 2007 at 6:16 PM. Reason : my parents and grandmother hate it too]

11/23/2007 6:16:07 PM

sincei have no intent of seeing this, will someone write a synopsis complete with spoilers

11/23/2007 10:20:26 PM

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"since i have no intent of seeing this, will someone write a synopsis complete with spoilers "

11/23/2007 10:22:59 PM

^here it is


*********SPOILERS********












http://www.google.com
















**************SPOILER**********************

11/23/2007 10:33:59 PM

just a huge conglomeration of the cynical and mundane

11/23/2007 11:17:07 PM

I enjoyed it.

11/24/2007 12:50:11 AM

here you go *spoilers*
























interdimensional monsters


typical black person getting killed


religious nut gets shot


people leave safe haven like retards


retards get attacked by monsters


lead retard shoots the other 4 to spare them the torture of being killed by monsters but doesnt have a 5th bullet to kill self


government comes and saves the day




AND THATS FUCKING IT

11/24/2007 12:59:44 AM

Um

You went and saw a movie called "The Mist"

Taking its place among classics such as:

"The Fog"
"The Thing"
"The Blob:

etc

11/24/2007 3:30:32 AM

"The Shining"

The Thing was bad?

news to me

[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 4:56 AM. Reason : hk]

11/24/2007 4:54:33 AM

I enjoyed the movie. I would have like to see more information about this second dimension though.

[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 9:05 PM. Reason : p.s. sounds like a great plot for a videogame]

11/24/2007 9:05:20 PM

the blob was fucking awesome, btw

11/24/2007 9:16:41 PM

attn: "spoiler" flags do not work for people like me who read threads backwards

11/24/2007 9:17:47 PM

yeah I don't remember the blob at all, i saw it when i was mad young.

11/24/2007 9:24:48 PM

did anybody notice the Stephen King references

one of David's posters is from the Dark Tower and Mrs Carmady saying "My life for you," I think is a reference to The Stand

11/25/2007 12:27:22 AM

the painting he was working on at the beginning was the gunslinger.

11/25/2007 12:51:09 AM

also I think one of the posters was from The Thing???

11/25/2007 12:55:34 AM

yes

[Edited on November 25, 2007 at 2:20 AM. Reason : they were all paintings, not posters]

11/25/2007 2:20:44 AM

^^^its The Tower or Dark Tower series, comic book version

11/25/2007 3:25:56 AM

uh yeah, and the guy is the gunslinger

11/25/2007 12:18:58 PM

exactly

11/25/2007 2:40:47 PM

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"The movie will be good until towards the end, when we find out that whatever was behind whatever was going on was a giant spider, giant bats, or stupid aliens"

Good call, except you find about the giant spiders, giant bugs, giant octupusses, etc. in the middle instead of the end.

I actually thought it was a good movie until the end. When he did what he did and then the tank showed up I was just like "too easy" and I rolled my eyes. King could have thought of a better ending to such a good movie.

I can see how it would be a bad movie if you wanted to see a monster movie. For me it was more about the character interactions. I could really see the situation playing out in real life as it did on the screen.

11/27/2007 12:41:47 PM

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"I actually thought it was a good movie until the end. When he did what he did and then the tank showed up I was just like "too easy" and I rolled my eyes. King could have thought of a better ending to such a good movie."

god, you just need to stop having opinions

11/27/2007 1:13:58 PM

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"King could have thought of a better ending to such a good movie."

King wrote the short story "The Mist." For the most part, King really isn't too involved when a studio wants to make a movie out of one of his stories. Just pointing it out so he's not the one to blame for the studio ending.

11/27/2007 1:14:44 PM

^ Thx Krista

^^ STFU.

11/27/2007 1:33:41 PM

you should be a part of a hollywood focus group

you would fit right in

11/27/2007 1:42:12 PM

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"b) you can be as disappointed as you want, it was a nearly perfect ending"

Oh lols. Now I see why you're so pissed. That ending was terrible. I saw it coming a mile away. It was like something Jerry Bruckheimer would think up. You probably eat his shit up too.

11/27/2007 1:56:12 PM

whatever, man

i don't know what kind of ending would make you happy

and I bet you don't either

my guess is that you're just a chronic complainer

a typical cynic

11/27/2007 2:58:00 PM

hold up

just because, i used to love King short stories

so not to waste my time

is the movie true to the short story?

11/27/2007 3:01:15 PM

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"King could have thought of a better ending to such a good movie."

Actually, Stephen King said he loved the modified ending and that he would've used it if he'd thought of it while writing the story.

^ the movie matches the story very well except for the ending

11/27/2007 3:44:15 PM

^ i hadn't read the short story in a real long time so I forgot how it ended

but while watching it, I KNEW it felt like a stephen king kind of ending

i'm glad he liked it

11/27/2007 3:48:51 PM

yeah i did not really dig it... i think the phrase "too easy" really sums up the ending for me. I just feel like I've seen it before... And that kind of shock value just didn't get to me. I can see why some peope like it... but I would say it is worth the 1.50 theatre and thats it. I would of liked a much more in depth explanation and view of the "mist" dimension.

[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 4:44 PM. Reason : c]

11/27/2007 4:38:59 PM