Tell you thoughts on the movie "The Mist". I thought is was a interesting and good movie except for the ending I think it just flat out sucked. What do you think?
Also think the ending sucked. I hate forced, unbelievable happy endings in movies, but this was a case of tacked-on, forced, unbelievable bad ending created merely for shock value. C'mon, do you honestly believe the main character would kill his only son out of despair? Would you do it? And it didn't take even long for him to decide. I could maybe understand if they were stranded for days in the car and were really suffering from hunger etc. then maybe... But after all the efforts to survive and to protect his son, and just suddenly decide to kill him and the other survivors to spare them? C'mon, pull the other one.
Many of us are partial to interdimensional hi-jinks, brobdingnagian creatures with equally brobdingnagian tentacles, and scenes where religious extremists get shot in the forehead. "The Mist" undoubtedly ticks a lot of the right boxes. Furthermore, it was a sound casting decision to have Thomas Jane spearheading everything as the nominal hero. "Stander" was all the proof we needed of Jane's star wattage, and so it's a shame that "The Mist"'s ending inverts his heroic qualities and leaves him crying in his own son's blood in a manner that is contrived, miscalculated, and just not credible.
Darabont is prone to slack editing in his movies, leisurely at best, and once you've sat through 120 mins of foreplay you're entitled to hope for a winning finale. The divisive "Shawshank Redemption" had a lot of pay-off factor for many of the people that watched it (and a surprising number of IMDB users), and I expect the antipathy regarding "The Mist"'s climax will unite yet more viewers. It's dire, it's misguided, and it amounts to sabotage on behalf of the film's makers -they've tacked on a 15-min "Springtime For Hitler" at the end of an otherwise competent (if not very good) chiller.
And where's Thomas Jane now? "Mutant Chronicles" was the last time I saw him, and the only thing stopping me from throwing the DVD in the trash was the urge to pin the disc above my bed as a reminder of how low cinema can go. Cost me my membership at the video store.
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