Victor Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 One of the most Shocking Endings in Movie history See it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopcornAndDots Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Five minutes more. Just five minutes more!!! Holy Moly!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobitz Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 I'm afraid I haven't made it out to a theater in some time. Popcorn, you didn't mention another, lousy, adaptation of I Am Legend, The Omega Man (1971). Maybe Chuck Heston fans liked it. I'd been looking forward to it at that time because of the Matheson book. I've always put that film into the category of "98 minutes of my life I'll never get back." And what a waste of the lovely Rosalind Cash. Message was edited by: tobitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I read the short story "The Mist" years ago (it was in the collection of Shor Stories: Skeleton Crew), and then saw the film on the big screen opening day! It opened rather oddly on Thanksgiving Day 2007 LOL! For one the ending is not what is in the short-story...but the ending that Director Frank Darabont chose to use left me speechless! I think after my partner and I left the theater we were very silent all day long! I just bought my copy on DVD, and seeing it again I was still shocked! I really loved the fact that Director Frank Darabont went with a nontraditional happy Hollywood ending! Director Frank Darabont also directed other King works into film W./" The Shawshank Redemption" & "The Green Mile". "The Green Mile" was not a good film adaptation! BTW: If you buy: The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) You get: The Director's Vision: The Complete Feature Film in Black & White...which was awasome! I wish Director Frank Darabont had stuck to his guns and released the film this way!This is exactly the kind of option a DVD fan buyer hopes for, but very few studios and directors bother to offer: a feature length version of a modern film, without color. The contrast between this and the color version of "The Mist is stark", of course. But, one must admit, the B&W version is infinitely more gripping. In essence, it is an unabashed tribute by Darabont to Rod Serling, whose eerie and creepy storytelling in The Twilight Zone informed much of this film?especially its shocking, no-holds barred ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I'm a film buff, but I will not waste my time on a 4th version of "I Am Legend" W./Will Smith! 1) The Last Man on Earth W./, Vincent Price 2) The Omega Man W./starring Charlton Heston 3) I Am Omega (Which went direct to DVD) 4) I Am Legend W./Will Smith ONCE IS ENOUGH!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefilmone Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I saw this in the theater and HATED THE ENDING. I have no problems with downbeat ending but this really went a bit too far. The film is a very well done sci-fi/horror/monster movie. But like I said the ending was too dark for me- and most of the audience I saw it with did not like it either. As far as " I Am Legend' - Romero did the best version with the original " Night of the Living Dead" Message was edited by: joefilmone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 If you're a Pollyanna sort who wants sunshine and rainbows after 2 solid hours of gore and fright, you're gonna be both disappointed and traumatized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 It's only human nature to want things to end up happily...hopefully; I don't know that Pollyanna would be the best way to describe wanting the best outcome. But after two hours of blood, guts and horror...the expectation of a good turn-out might be expecting too much. The ending was downbeat...and I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I loved the ending of "The Mist" too!! It was shocking and thought-provoking which was a good thing! The thing is if you now somebody who hasn't seen "The Mist"...Shhhhhhh..don't even think about giving the end away...let them experience for themselves.."THEN" & only then talk about the film!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefilmone Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Yes I know the whole point of horror films is that everything does not turn out well at the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 I liked this movie, the ending was a shocker, but Ive seen other shocking endings that caught me more off guard. The monsters were cool , the actors were fantastic. I think if you are into monster movies, big bugs, Stephen King, Id suggest it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 H3...name another movie with a shocking ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Kingdom of the Spiders Witness for the Prosecution The Mad Executioners Charade ..just to name a few... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattHelm Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 *Another film that passed under the radar is I Am Legend .* Smith did do a fine job, and while the movie did let the book down, again, the CGI was really bad to the point of it looking like a SciFi channel original movie. The FX were like we stepped back almost ten years ago to the Brendan Fraser Mummy movie. A smaller movie like *30 Days of Night* showed that it wasn't necessary to go the CGI route and compromise the movie. But Smith did catch the spirit of the character's loneliness and the psychological affects it caused. Why they could never stay true to Matheson's original story, even if they changed the decade and modernized it, is a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I liked both I am Legend and The Mist This month I am interested in seeing AVPr at the privacy of my own home and the Water Horse about the Loch Ness Monster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchieLeech Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I'm a HUGE fan of this movie, and [this review of The Mist best sums up why...|http://www.deepfocusreview.com/Reviews/mist.asp]. I particularly love the B&W version, which is, for my money, one of the best horror movies ever made. That Darabont got away with that ending nowadays, with studio looking for almost solely commercial product... wow. What an anti-mainstream finale. It's too bad the film wasn't released theatrically in B&W, I'd love to see that version on the big screen. Message was edited by: ArchieLeech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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