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09-29-2010, 10:19 AM
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The Mist (2007) - Review
Here I go again...
The Mist, directed by Frank Darabont starring the likes of Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden is nothing but absolute crap from the fifteen minute mark! The Film starts off with a very nice idea as David Drayton is at home painting film posters and a storm just rolls in. Typically, it gets worse from this point. The Storm smashes the place up a bit and causes a bit of a mess outside. The storm seems to have threw up some mist rising up over the lake near David Draytons home, even though it's never happened before, this is okay to him... David and His son take a trip to the grocery store with his angry neighbour. Now from here, this is the setting for pretty much the rest of the movie. The Mist was pretty much mis-spelt. I feel it should be called The Store. The Movie focuses primarily on David and his son surviving with a couple of other terrified customers and employees. A good thing about this film is its ability to maintain a sense of the usual Human stupidness that kicks in when something bad happens. Although, it's really intensified by Mrs. Carmody played by Marcia Gay Harden. She is a very stereotypical preacher that becomes confused and begins to believe she is a link to God. As you may have guessed it becomes a ramble of stupid acting and stereotypes. One group goes out and dies, another goes out and dies... It's the same repetetive stuff that sadly happens all the time with mainstream horrors now a days. After all the bad acting, the cgi... the cgi pretty much made the film what it is. The Reason they probably can pass The Mist for a Horror is of how bad the cgi was. But seriously... an eighteen million dollar budget seriously... that's the equivalent to over eleven million pounds! Programs nowadays can achive BETTER Cgi than this film from as little as no money what so ever. I'd reccomend this film to anyone who just wants a quick horror to watch just for the fun of it. But it's nothing new at all and I was dissapointed to what they did with such a good concept. Quote:
My Overall Rating: 7.1/10 My Horror Rating: 6.4/10 IMDB's Rating: 7.4/10 Last edited by Elliot Robertson; 09-30-2010 at 12:54 PM. 
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09-29-2010, 02:34 PM
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I'm gonna have to disagree with you there, my friend. I thought it was a very well done film in that it doesn't overdo the CGI monsters. It maintains sufficient mystery by concealing a lot of the antagonistic force in the thick mist and is unique compared to most monster movies because it deals with human drama. I loved the fact that it was about the people in the store's gradual descent into madness and trust me, it does happen in these situations were a group of strangers are thrust together in a stressful situation. Look up the Stanford Prison Experiment, it's quite spooky how people can become so heartless when they feel they have a position of power.
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09-29-2010, 08:26 PM
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I'd say I'm somewhere in the middle, I didn't mind parts of it, but I kinda agree with parts of the review. I could say its way overrated, but its not since so many people seem to like it. I thought it was pretty crude in pretty much every way possible though. Acting was hammed to the max, cgi looked average and the whole disintegration of a micro society concept, due to a religious nut job, was poorly executed.
Remove Mrs. Carmody, add some more explosions, and throw in some sort of shopping for weapons montage around the one hour mark and it would've been much better. Most people seemed to love the whole Mrs. Carmody storyline though, but honestly, I thought the execution of that storyline was pretty pathetic. I also heard it looks and feels alot better when watched in black and white, which is the way the director intended it to be seen....I might've just made that up though.:confused:
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09-30-2010, 06:50 AM
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I do give the film a bit of greif in the review. I personally hated the Mrs. Carmody character and just wanted her out of it from her very first line. With all that money, they could and should have done alot better with the concept they had... Tentacle Monsters in the Mist isn't very scary either. Maybe they could've added in some hooded floating psycos or something... Or something we DON'T SEE... because the imagination is the scariest thing on planet earth.
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09-30-2010, 07:34 AM
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I loved this movie. It's campy and over the top with a very serious feel of taking you back to the 50s, acute paranoia of the unknown monster movies. The character of Mrs. Carmody was great. Yes I hated her with a passion, but wasn't that the whole point of that character? If she wasn't there, the movie would have just dragged on. She gave the whole situation life beyond just dealing with monsters trying to kill them. There was a serious threat within as well that had to be dealt with. By including that storyline, it meant that there wasn't a need to have a silly bridge/filler scene. Like the scene in the Dawn of the Dead remake where they all fool around, riding bikes, having sex, etc. What a retarded scene. It just gave the filmmakers an easy out to make the ending seem that much more climactic. The Mist didn't do that. Mrs. Carmody kept the tension level high and just didn't let the movie slow down for an artificially inflated tension for the ending.
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09-30-2010, 10:44 AM
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I loved The Mist as well. It's one of my favorite Stephen King short stories, and I thought they did a great job bringing it to the big screen.
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09-30-2010, 12:54 PM
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09-30-2010, 01:18 PM
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Read the story, then review the movie. Other than the ending of the film it was very faithful to the story.
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09-30-2010, 02:59 PM
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