The Mist

[NoID10ts]

Has anyone seen "The Mist"? I just watched this movie and Holy Shit.

I read the Stephen King short story when I was in high school and loved it, but I never got around to seeing the movie, mainly because my parents said what an awful, horrible, terrible, no good, piece of shit movie it was.

But I read some interesting reviews about it and decided to watch it today and was stunned by the themes and the ending especially. The ending was a love it or hate it affair, that was either incredibly thought provoking or a mean spirited kick in the teeth for a two hour investment of your time.

The theme of the story was actually less about the monsters in the mist and more about humanity and the complete breakdown of society in the face of fear. It even touched on the theme of religious extremism. But it almost came down on the side of nihilism.

Just wondering if anyone else saw it, and what your take on it was.

[Agent Intellect]

haven't seen it yet, maybe i'll check it out. from your description it reminds me a lot of the movie Blindness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_%28movie%29). it was a very dark movie, pun intended.

[Artifice Orisit]

The ending fits nicely into the Nightmare genre, some people just can't appreciate these sorts of stories.
Stephan King's book Cell also gets pretty bad near the end, in fact many of his books are either in the horror or nightmare genre, there's even a book he wrote about the theory of horror, "Danse Macabre" I think it was.

[juturna]

I never read the short story but I watched the movie and it was actually really thought provoking. The little group in the grocery was a good sized down representation of humanity and well...actually I don't think I could explain it any better than you did. When I watched it with my family all they could say was how sucky the movie was. I was embarrassed.

[Fedayeen]

haven't seen it yet, maybe i'll check it out. from your description it reminds me a lot of the movie Blindness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_%28movie%29). it was a very dark movie, pun intended.

also sounds like the village

[Vegard Pompey]

It was a good movie, nothing spectacular. The ending was brilliant.

[Citizen X]

I swear I've tried again and again to get into Stephen King but I just can't. I've tried to read many of his books, but I just have to stop. He's way too descriptive. I've found that only a few people can go through long winged descriptions of objects, moods and useless information and actually get away with it, like William Gibson.

I've been told that where King does shine is in his short fiction. Anyone knows?

I've been told about a short story of his about some doctor who is stranded in an island so he starts to anesthetize his own body parts and eats them for survival. Anyone knows the name of that story?

[Decaf]

I swear I've tried again and again to get into Stephen King but I just can't. I've tried to read many of his books, but I just have to stop. He's way too descriptive.

What you just wrote aptly describes the hell I went through trying to read Hemingway... I'm not sure how to describe the difference between interesting and uninteresting expository, but suffice to say, the former is rare.

Oh, and as for the movie? Nightmare movies were ruined for me at an early age, though I admit that the ending (yes I read the spoilers) sounds spectacular in its emotional content.