Comments on: Review: The Mist http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/ HorrorsNotDead.com -- The next big Horror movie blog for twenty-two years running. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: John http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14591 John Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:19:01 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14591 Heh, I finally saw this one, re-read this review, and I managed to disagree with all of you. This movie was lousy all the way through. Overacting, an eye-rolling script, lousy looking monsters, cheap telegraphed jump scares and an ending that punches holes straight through the character of the only guy worth investing any time into. ***Spoiler Warning*** "Hello, I'm David Drayton. I wrestled a bladed tentacle while others stood helpless. I faced-off with a nutso religious mob who wanted to use my son as a sacrifice to a vengeful god. I ran selflessly for medicine and faced off with acid shooting spiders. I persevered, and I escaped. But now that *my car ran out of gas*, I guess it's time to shoot my kid in the face!" Heh, I finally saw this one, re-read this review, and I managed to disagree with all of you.

This movie was lousy all the way through. Overacting, an eye-rolling script, lousy looking monsters, cheap telegraphed jump scares and an ending that punches holes straight through the character of the only guy worth investing any time into.

***Spoiler Warning***

“Hello, I’m David Drayton. I wrestled a bladed tentacle while others stood helpless. I faced-off with a nutso religious mob who wanted to use my son as a sacrifice to a vengeful god. I ran selflessly for medicine and faced off with acid shooting spiders. I persevered, and I escaped. But now that *my car ran out of gas*, I guess it’s time to shoot my kid in the face!”

]]> By: HorrorsNotDead.com -- The next big Horror blog for twenty-two years running. http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14583 HorrorsNotDead.com -- The next big Horror blog for twenty-two years running. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:50 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14583 [...] even if you want to bury your head in the sand, it could hardly be considered the best.  Not when THE MIST, [REC], or THE ORPHANAGE are playing in the big [...] [...] even if you want to bury your head in the sand, it could hardly be considered the best.  Not when THE MIST, [REC], or THE ORPHANAGE are playing in the big [...]

]]> By: R.J. Sayer http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14575 R.J. Sayer Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:36:21 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14575 you lousy motherfuckers (R.I.P. George Carlin). you've blown my goddamn cover? shit. time to run further. you lousy motherfuckers (R.I.P. George Carlin).

you’ve blown my goddamn cover?

shit.

time to run further.

]]> By: Peter http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14570 Peter Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:34:41 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14570 Aye Brian, you've cracked the code. Mr. Sell was on the run, R.J. Sayer was the identity he took. Aye Brian, you’ve cracked the code. Mr. Sell was on the run, R.J. Sayer was the identity he took.

]]> By: Brian http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14566 Brian Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:25:41 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14566 My comment here makes me wonder...R.J. = Sell? If not, who the hell is "Mr. Sell"? My comment here makes me wonder…R.J. = Sell? If not, who the hell is “Mr. Sell”?

]]> By: R.J. Sayer http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14562 R.J. Sayer Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:13:39 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14562 oh man, my Mist-Darabont-Ending-Hating Army is growing in number and weaponry! soon, we shall be too large a force to contain. we will swell and spill into the streets and FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. we will slaughter and pillage and blow shit up until Darabont changes that fucking ending back to the way it goddamn should be!!! THERE WILL BE NO SURRENDER! WE SHALL BE VICTORIOUS! oh man, my Mist-Darabont-Ending-Hating Army is growing in number and weaponry!

soon, we shall be too large a force to contain.

we will swell and spill into the streets and FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.

we will slaughter and pillage and blow shit up until Darabont changes that fucking ending back to the way it goddamn should be!!!

THERE WILL BE NO SURRENDER! WE SHALL BE VICTORIOUS!

]]> By: Sean http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14559 Sean Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:33:46 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14559 I think your comments screwed up, Peter. R.J. is posting two different views, thar. I think your comments screwed up, Peter. R.J. is posting two different views, thar.

]]> By: Peter http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14558 Peter Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:19:22 +0000 http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2007/review-the-mist/#comment-14558 I can sympathize with both of you on your disappointment, but I still feel the ending compliments the rest of the film. I do think the editing shouldn't have been so hasty once the car runs out of gas, but I think the arc of it and what greets Drayton outside makes perfect sense as the final of the unseen horrors hidden by the Mist. I think the survivors are an equally welcome bit of cruelty. Just a further boot to the face; shit happens to the wrong and the right people with equal velocity. For all our domain, all our trying, fate just isn't fair. I think that last, all too true acknowledgment falls perfectly in step with the rest of the film's balanced (albeit depressing) life. I can sympathize with both of you on your disappointment, but I still feel the ending compliments the rest of the film. I do think the editing shouldn’t have been so hasty once the car runs out of gas, but I think the arc of it and what greets Drayton outside makes perfect sense as the final of the unseen horrors hidden by the Mist.

I think the survivors are an equally welcome bit of cruelty. Just a further boot to the face; shit happens to the wrong and the right people with equal velocity. For all our domain, all our trying, fate just isn’t fair. I think that last, all too true acknowledgment falls perfectly in step with the rest of the film’s balanced (albeit depressing) life.

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