The Mist...

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by Toxick

If I remember correctly, there are a couple of very small references to It in The Dark Tower, although it's not connected in the same manner as The Stand, Rose Madder, and Insomnia are.

How was The Stand as a film?

I've always been intrigued from what I've heard and seen but I didn't want to waste the time watching it if it was horrible. I think it's 6+ hours long or something.

[Bronwyn (Premo)]

Originally Posted by BuddyLee

How was The Stand as a film?

I've always been intrigued from what I've heard and seen but I didn't want to waste the time watching it if it was horrible. I think it's 6+ hours long or something.

It was alright. I watch it when it comes on TV, when you have a day to kill.

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by Bronwyn

when you have a day to kill.

What's that?

[Bronwyn (Premo)]

Originally Posted by BuddyLee

What's that?

something us old folks have

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by Bronwyn

something us old folks have

Rocking chair time.

[donbarzini]

Originally Posted by Toxick

If I remember correctly, there are a couple of very small references to It in The Dark Tower, although it's not connected in the same manner as The Stand, Rose Madder, and Insomnia are.

Yeah. The "spider" was one of the guardians of "the beams". There were 8(?)
Half good(The turtle....etc). Half bad(The bear, spider...etc). Finally saw "The Mist" last night On Demand. Stayed pretty true to the novella. You had to be a "constant reader" to catch that Darabont linked it to the Dark Tower series by saying they opened "doors" to other dimensions("The Drawing of the Three"). And MAN that ending? God Bless him for not succumbing to Hollywood's insistence on "happy". 8 out of 10.

[desertrat (Premo)]

Originally Posted by donbarzini

Yeah. The "spider" was one of the guardians of "the beams". There were 8(?)
Half good(The turtle....etc). Half bad(The bear, spider...etc). Finally saw "The Mist" last night On Demand. Stayed pretty true to the novella. You had to be a "constant reader" to catch that Darabont linked it to the Dark Tower series by saying they opened "doors" to other dimensions("The Drawing of the Three"). And MAN that ending? God Bless him for not succumbing to Hollywood's insistence on "happy". 8 out of 10.

Good ending, but what bothered me is why, if they were looking for others, were they on a dirt road? Did the mist eat the interstate?

[donbarzini]

I didn't catch that dirt road. I was blown away by the double whammy of what he felt he "had" to do, and then seeing the woman that left the supermarket safe and sound with her kids on the back of the truck.

[sommpd]

Originally Posted by donbarzini

Yeah. The "spider" was one of the guardians of "the beams". There were 8(?)
Half good(The turtle....etc). Half bad(The bear, spider...etc). Finally saw "The Mist" last night On Demand. Stayed pretty true to the novella. You had to be a "constant reader" to catch that Darabont linked it to the Dark Tower series by saying they opened "doors" to other dimensions("The Drawing of the Three"). And MAN that ending? God Bless him for not succumbing to Hollywood's insistence on "happy". 8 out of 10.

Um...shouldn't you be in the thread defending gay people?

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by desertrat

Good ending, but what bothered me is why, if they were looking for others, were they on a dirt road? Did the mist eat the interstate?

They were looking for others but found no one...not one soul. Of course, the gas runs dry and they hear big thuds on the ground. The impending doom is near. They don't want to succumb to the horrible death that has threatened them throughout the film. Instead they decide a quick death, bullet to the head.

They were on an interstate at first but after the main character kills his companions he steps out into a dirt road. To me, I got a sense of a new beginning for the world. Thus, a dirt road and wilderness and nothing industrial and built up. However, we're left with that 'worse than death' feeling for Thomas Jane. Yes, it is a new beginning for him, however, not the one he imagined.

I like films such as these. They leave you hanging and make you think up your own possible endings. Thomas Jane is left with nothing in a world of nothingness; what does do? Interesting.