I know

[silverthorne]

That a lot of people don't like the ending of the movie version of The Mist, and I can understand why--there really just isn't a happy ending. Just a cessation of the horror.

For me though, that's what I like about it. It's brutal. But it's honest. And quite frankly, it lets the audience feel the full horror and pain that kind of horror would put the people through, rather than aim for a trite 'everything is okay after all in the end' or the cheap 'bwahahah!' of one last 'unexpected' kill and cheap scare at the end of the movie to indicate 'it really isn't over yet' (Final Destination sequels, I'm looking at you).

So yeah, it's horrible, and heart breaking, and just downright sucks for the main character.

But...it's true to the genre. I'm actually grateful for the chance to feel truly, truly awful about the fate of the people in the movie, and not just in that 'OMG! Did you see when his head exploded all over the place?! GROSS!!!' way.

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[showyourguns.livejournal.com]

hahah yeah, fair enough. And really, what a lot of it comes down to is that I was pretty attached to the original ending; it struck me as basically perfect for all the assorted reasons I've gone into here. When the rest of the movie was so faithful (for the most part), that just left me going ".....what. No, really. WHAT."

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And see, since I haven't read the novella, I don't have that bias and/or expecatation to go off of. So what I'm comparing it to is...other films. So we're not even starting from the same reference point.

That being said, I'm pretty sure I would have gone 'WTF?!' myself if I had read the story first. Kinda like I did when Dudditts (I can never spell that right) turned into an alien in the movie version of Dreamcatcher. That was a serious 'OMGWTFBBQ??!' moment for me right there (although I loved the rest of the film.).

[showyourguns.livejournal.com]

>_> Iiiii will not get into how I felt about Dreamcatcher, although I did love the first 20 minutes!

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

I will say this. It was junk food, and I tended to divorce myself from going 'this is a Stephen King flick' in order to enjoy it (Kinda like I do with the first two RE movies, before Alice just becomes an exercise in 'why did you even bother to put the RE label on this?').

Unfortunately, the whole Dudditts thing jolted me right out of that mindset.

I think one of my fav parts had to do with FX rather than the movie itself--the part when the kid (I can't remember which one it was) did his little finger trick. That I liked.)

Also, the shit weasels were even more gross 'in person'. Ugh.