Ok, I have several things I want to post about (one of them, a meme from Bad Mom just waiting to be completed), but I don’t feel so hot, the network card in my laptop isn’t functioning properly, and I’m a little short on time. So for this post, I will just focus on my feelings and confusion about the movie “The Mist”… and I’ll even try to hold back on the spoilers, no matter how much I’d like to warn you.
Saturday night, my bother, Paul, my sis, Sam, and I hit the late showing of “The Mist”. I had previously posted about how I’d read the book (about 17 or 18 years ago, while away from home, camping in the pitch black woods of girls’ camp) and how it was great and scary, blah blah blah, and yay! movie.
All I can say is wow, folks. Maybe I only dreamed that I read the story. I mean, sure there was a mist. Huge, creepy spiders: check. Unstable religious zealot: check. Lots of blood and gore, including torn torsos: check. But where. the. crap. did the ending come from? When the screen went black and the credits rolled, my brother and sister looked over at me and said, “Why didn’t you tell us that was coming?”, and their faces looked like they might like to dismember me for making them sit through the entirety of the movie. All I could say was, “That WAS NOT how the story ended.” But then I tried to think, and I seriously couldn’t remember how the book ended… only that it wasn’t same as the movie ending. We then left the theater – by then it was well after midnight — to look for something cheery to do before we went home to hang ourselves. Disneyland was out, because it closes at 10pm and it’s 800 miles away. Vegas was out, because it was every bit as loathsome and depressing the last time I went. So we reluctantly drove home slowly, making jokes about the movie… whatever shred of hilarity we could find.
See the movie if you like — which was creepy and alright — but wow… don’t say I didn’t warn you about the depressing alternate ending.
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It was really bad? I’d had some hope when I heard Stephen King say that he loved the new ending at some press conference for the movie. I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews. I just might have to see it.
Comment by Leslie — November 26, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
To Leslie. Be warned!!! I am with my sister, this movie will utterly depress you!
Comment by Sam — November 29, 2007 @ 7:30 am