The Mist....

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One of the worst 'big budget' films I've ever seen. Okay, it's by no means a blockbuster but it cost just under $20 million to make, and it has an unbelievable rating of 7.4.

Nearly every character in there was retarded, apart from Toby Jones, who appeared to give out the best acting performance of all time, in comparison to his colleagues.

Honestly, it's a case of where to even begin? His neighbour, prime retard number one, is trapped inside a shopping market, completely engulfed in a strange mist, after a man you knew ran out of it, with blood all over him, telling people that the mist is killing people. 5 people later approach you about a supernatural occurence, your first thought is that these 5 people were convinced by David to play a prank on his neighbour, during a potential crisis, with rubber tentacles. So, David pre-planned meeting these 5 people, having the store closed and a mist descend on this mall, just to scare his retarded neighbour...Or he improvised to his situation, making him a fecking genius. Further still, why would you not want to see the proof, or even entertain it? Something like 30 odd people were in risk of dying...You wouldn't even be curious? Then when he's telling the whole store, it's still part of some elaborate attempt to catch him out? fecking hell.

The crazy woman - Okay, you have crazy people, but then you also just have people. Fair enough, some people will turn hysterical when faced with something as horrific as giant insects and monsters, but you are telling me all these people saw her get slapped, and didn't pay her any attention then, but give it another day, and the entire mall is turned into one huge moralless mob who want to perform a blood sacrifice on a young child? Is this really likely, that people would lose their entire perspective and sense of morality? And then substitute their past beliefs from their entire lives, for murder in gods name?

The father - What a shit father. Left his son in the care of other people for about three quarters of the film. Rarely seemed to do the right thing by protecting him, generally made the wrong moves by failing to warn people in a proper way, and or leading them to their deaths.

The people as a whole - Retarded. There are refrigirators and freezers that could be unplugged, and provide shelter, or the loading docks which are sealed with metal doors and quite clearly a better shelter compared to a giant supermarket with glass windows.....

The pharmacy - Faced with a cacoon wrapped man, clearly dying, try and save him at all costs. When he starts to explode because of internal spiders, don't take that as a sign of potential danger, just state, blank at the dying man. When confronted with giant spiders, do not think, feck, run for your lives. Instead, decide to take them all on, despite having hardly any weapons. Also avoid burning jets of spider web by ducking and weaving, rather then turning around and walking off.

The ending - 5 people in a car, 4 people if we discount the kid. It's stupid enough that the fathers first choice is to kill himself and child anyway. You're in some form of shelter, nothing immediately looks dangerous, no more so then the situations you were in throughout the movie before, but of course, the only action should be immediate suicide. Stupid yes, but I can accept that. But what about the other three? All four adults had given up on life? If he had petrol, or just got into another car, they would have happily carried on living, but no, when the gas runs out, so does time apparently.

An awful film, with terrible acting and was more laughable then scary. Can't quite grasp how the film has earnt that rating, it's a shambles really and made me wish they all died.
 
Wow...I can't believe so many think the acting his good, or realistic.

It was laughably bad, one of those movies where you just sit there, enraged at the idiotic actions these people take. It felt like I was watching some kind of advance Asylum productions film.
 
Wow...I can't believe so many think the acting his good, or realistic.

It was laughably bad, one of those movies where you just sit there, enraged at the idiotic actions these people take. It felt like I was watching some kind of advance Asylum productions film.

I must admit, I thought it was pretty good. The effects were terrible but I don't remember being annoyed by the acting.
 
I didn't have a problem with the acting, but I did find a lot of the decision making ridiculously annoying and the ending completely ruined it for me (whereas I know a lot of people who think the ending made the film). But I liked Get Smart so I'm no judge of a good film.
 
I liked the short story a lot, so I didn't think it was that bad. It was nice to see it on the screen.
 
I liked it...It was a B movie trying to be a B movie, unlike Shutter Island which was a B Movie trying to be a really amazing Scorsese film.
 
I thought it was an ok movie and the ending made it twice as good.

Hectic you are incorrect
 
I liked Splinter, now there was a B movie.
 
I didn't have a problem with the acting, but I did find a lot of the decision making ridiculously annoying and the ending completely ruined it for me (whereas I know a lot of people who think the ending made the film). But I liked Get Smart so I'm no judge of a good film.

Yeah, maybe I was a bit harsh on the acting, although his neighbour was awful, and a few others, but you're right it was more the decision making, which was absolutely ridiculous. That pharmacy scene was absolutely retarded.
 
How was The Mist or Shutter Island B movies? The latter surely can not be described as one.

In what sense is it a B movie? One of the prime features of a B movie is it's low budget, the technical definition is a second film on a double bill, the first being an arthouse production.

In it's more modern, wider sense it refers to a low budget film, but can includeo some high budget films with exploitation-styled content.

I can't see how a film like Shutter Island, with a budget of $80 million really identified with the definition of 'B' movies.
 
It was a disapointing watch in which the ending was very poor

The woman preaching about God was too much for me to bear
 
How was The Mist or Shutter Island B movies? The latter surely can not be described as one.

In what sense is it a B movie? One of the prime features of a B movie is it's low budget, the technical definition is a second film on a double bill, the first being an arthouse production.

In it's more modern, wider sense it refers to a low budget film, but can includeo some high budget films with exploitation-styled content.

I can't see how a film like Shutter Island, with a budget of $80 million really identified with the definition of 'B' movies.

Cos it looked like a low budget B Movie, and had the plot of one...It was a run of the mill B movie film noir that they happened to spend a lot of money on Di Caprio and Scorsese and then some pointless burning dream sequence CGI.

It's a completely average film that people went gaga for because it had stars in it and a had a silly twist....Whereas the Mist was always intended to be a silly creature feature/horror movie.

The Mist is certainly not the greatest film ever, but it's not really trying to be either...(plus I deliberately chose Shutter Island cos it's a film I know you loved that I thought was pretty cak)
 
It didn't really look like a low budget B movie though, not at all. In fact none of it did. It was neither shot or edited like one.

Overrated, overhyped, maybe, I loved it but I can see why the argument has been made.

But it's not realistic to call Shutter Island a B movie, as none of it's features are typical of a B movie, nor was it filmed as one. It doesn't identify with the original or modern definition of a B movie in any sense whatsoever.

- Yeah I thought you did, as I'm fairly certain the argument for Shutter Island being a B movies has never been made before. I love shit movies and B movies, but wouldn't lump The Mist in with that. It took itself a shit load more seriously then any B movie I've seen before, the music is testament to that. Obviously it includes some ridiculous sensionalist characters for cheap thrills, but I didn't get the impression it was all an inside joke here.

I would agree though, it didn't take itself as the most serious film ever, but also isn't representative of B movies. Similar to The Happening I find, in the sense that it's another big budget film that fell on itself somewhere along the lines, but really it's nowhere near as bad as The Happening.
 
Rented it out on DVD a couple of years back because there wasn't much there and I'd not seen a decent horror in a while.

I've still not seen a decent horror in a while. This being one of the worst.

I'm surprised so many enjoyed it, I thought it was just a poor choice that very few would've watched never mind enjoyed.
 
I would agree though, it didn't take itself as the most serious film ever, but also isn't representative of B movies. Similar to The Happening I find, in the sense that it's another big budget film that fell on itself somewhere along the lines, but really it's nowhere near as bad as The Happening.

There are people who argue the Happening is just one big deliberately ironic B movie homage that's actually brilliant.....I think hungrywing's one.

Uber Asgard Beams

I actually thought SI was alright...just not that amazing. I'm just being a difficult bastard.
 
This is the film based on a Stephen King book, right? Has there ever been a decent film made from one of his books? Has there ever been a decent Stephen King book, for that matter?

I dunno. I know I used to like reading his books when I was like 16 or something but I can't remember a single on that has resulted in a great film (although Pet Semetary had its moments).
 
This is the film based on a Stephen King book, right? Has there ever been a decent film made from one of his books? Has there ever been a decent Stephen King book, for that matter?

I dunno. I know I used to like reading his books when I was like 16 or something but I can't remember a single on that has resulted in a great film (although Pet Semetary had its moments).

The Shining, Stand by Me
 
This is the film based on a Stephen King book, right? Has there ever been a decent film made from one of his books?

Yes.

Misery
Stand By Me
The Shinning
The Dead Zone
IT
The Shawshank Redemption

...oh yeah and The Mist.
 
This is the film based on a Stephen King book, right? Has there ever been a decent film made from one of his books? Has there ever been a decent Stephen King book, for that matter?

I dunno. I know I used to like reading his books when I was like 16 or something but I can't remember a single on that has resulted in a great film (although Pet Semetary had its moments).

The Running Man.
 
The original 'Salem's Lot was a bloody good effort for a TV movie of a King book. Those of us that saw it in the early 1980's still remember how scary it was.
 
The original 'Salem's Lot was a bloody good effort for a TV movie of a King book. Those of us that saw it in the early 1980's still remember how scary it was.

This film utterly terrified me as a child. A real classic of that era.
 
The original 'Salem's Lot was a bloody good effort for a TV movie of a King book. Those of us that saw it in the early 1980's still remember how scary it was.

I just ordered this on DVD today actually! Scared the bejeebies out of me as a kid. I'm pretty sure it won't be as scary these days but I'll see what my lads make of it - only cost £4 or something.
 
There are people who argue the Happening is just one big deliberately ironic B movie homage that's actually brilliant.....I think hungrywing's one.

Uber Asgard Beams

I actually thought SI was alright...just not that amazing. I'm just being a difficult bastard.

I would prefer it if that was the case, then at least they sort of achieved something, but it wasn't, it just was one of the worst films ever. The shotgun scene....that was hilarious and I'm pretty sure it shouldn't have been!

Three hataks

I really enjoyed it, more so the second time when you read more into some of the random things you wouldn't have paid much attention to first time round, it's well made. I can understand why others didn't like it so much though, which is sort of how I felt with Inception while some raved about it.
 
Finally saw the film after being recommended and after seeing the rating.

Anyways wtf was that at the end?:lol:

After all shit he/they have been through and survived, they decide to end it as soon as the fuel finishes?:wenger: without even waiting for a while or maybe actually check if the monsters actually coming to kill them?

Also the monster with tentacles comes inside through the shutter in the generator room but is supposed to be 200 meters away from the main entrance? Why?
 
I love The Happening, if only for Wahlberg



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Never actually seen the film, but this stuff cracks me up.
 
This is the film based on a Stephen King book, right? Has there ever been a decent film made from one of his books? Has there ever been a decent Stephen King book, for that matter?

I dunno. I know I used to like reading his books when I was like 16 or something but I can't remember a single on that has resulted in a great film (although Pet Semetary had its moments).

He's written a tonne of good books. He's written some stinkers too mind, mostly when he was an alcoholic coke addict. The stuff he's written sober is generally good and some of it is fantastic. He's quite honest about the fact that he's written some shit.
 
Finally saw the film after being recommended and after seeing the rating.

Anyways wtf was that at the end?:lol:

After all shit he/they have been through and survived, they decide to end it as soon as the fuel finishes?:wenger: without even waiting for a while or maybe actually check if the monsters actually coming to kill them?

Also the monster with tentacles comes inside through the shutter in the generator room but is supposed to be 200 meters away from the main entrance? Why?

At what point did you decide you'd really better spoiler that last paragraph as opposed to, say, the one just before it?