The Mist - Page 2

AsOneDead · 05-14-2009, 10:13 PM

Darabont's ending was far better than the original imo. The original ending is such a cliche.

armitage · 05-14-2009, 10:22 PM

It was a damn good movie.
I thought the ending was perfect, although sad.

Ginchy · 05-14-2009, 10:36 PM

The ending was a total downer but I was glad they had the stones to go there. Harsh.

patrickwm68 · 05-14-2009, 10:50 PM

When some of you have kids of your own then you'll understand why the movie ending might bum some of us out. Up until that point I loved it, then I was like WTF?

Alex655321 · 05-14-2009, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by AsOneDead

The ending was great.

I agree !

I was like...WTF !?....then I said, now that was cool !

AsOneDead · 05-14-2009, 11:30 PM

Exactly. Totally unexpected. I was thinking that someone would come rescue them in typical hollywood fashion but nope, he actually killed all of them. Then to make it even better, he was actually running away from saviour.

TNovak · 05-14-2009, 11:35 PM

I liked both endings. I had read the book years ago and knew the ending so was actually happy that I was surprised with a new ending. Something different.

Trilogy · 05-15-2009, 04:33 AM

The ending made the movie.

Sledge Hammer! · 05-15-2009, 06:47 AM

The worst thing about the film's ending is just how horribly telegraphed it was, I saw exactly what was coming a mile off. During the car park escape I knew exactly what was coming next as if signposts were everywhere pointing in neon lights at every lumbering step towards the inevitable non-shock ending. I have no problem at all with a downbeat ending, Hell my favourite films of all time include The Thing, Videodrome, The Terminator and The Fly, none of which exactly end in happiness and light, but I do have a problem with an ending that not only did I manage to see coming a mile away, but which is also the most cliched ("...BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO IT, OH NOES!") 'shock twist' in popular fiction short of "and then he woke up to find that it had all been only a dream...when suddenly, OH NO, IT WASN'T A DREAM AFTER ALL! AAAARRRGGHH! etc.". Yawn.

Personally I expected better out of Darabont.

nexus · 05-15-2009, 08:22 AM

Never read the book, but man the ending was a downer. That said, it still worked for me. I would have liked to have seen an alternative ending faithful to the spoiler posted above. If it wasn't shot, that was just a clear miss by the director, but it's possible that they also ran out of money. Some of the effects and creature designs were a little pedestrian though, which at times gave it a sci-fi movie feel. Like in the back storeroom with the tentacles, and the flying mosquito dino creatures. I can't even remember the main female character, only the bible quoting woman, which also didn't quite work for me, but it's very much a Steven King staple--put a bunch of different types of people into an enclosed and desperate situation and watch them turn on one another like a pack of rabid dogs. I did like the randomness of some of the deaths though.