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Post by Werewolf on Jun 30, 2008 15:28:00 GMT -5
I've just read a couple of really good reviews for this. I just can't make my mind up whether to just buy it from the states or see it at the cinema. Going to the cinema's just not the same anymore. To many people pay to see a movie just so they can sit there and talk the whole way through!
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Post by Marcus on Jul 1, 2008 3:50:26 GMT -5
I don't go to the cinema anymore personally. I always get the films on DVD instead.
All I can suggest is do the one that will let you enjoy watching the film the most. If the noise is too annoying, watch it on DVD, if you prefer seeing films on the big screen and the noise won't be too big a problem watch it at the cinema.
Not very helpful I know.
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Post by ArcLight on Jul 1, 2008 12:38:59 GMT -5
Thanks to my schedule, it's easy for me to hit the first show of the day. Between that and being in a relatively small town, even the really popular movies rarely have more than 10-15 people in the theater when I go. Works for me.
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Post by keywolf on Jul 1, 2008 12:59:02 GMT -5
Despite owning it on dvd I might drag a mate to the cinema to see it just to show my support for a great horror movie that isn't a remake.
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Post by Werewolf on Dec 14, 2008 8:37:45 GMT -5
I finally saw this last night and i have a say it's been a long time since i last saw a movie that made me in turn, so angry and then so depressed........... I wanted to rip that bloody reglious nut bitches head off!!!!!!!!!! How dare she! And then the ending. What a punch in the stomach that was! I felt totally deflated and depressed.
The dvd i saw it on doesn't have the alternative ending on it. Could someone please tell me what happens in the alternative ending?
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Post by Marcus on Dec 15, 2008 5:24:51 GMT -5
I thought it hilarious when the old woman threw the can of peas at her  The ending didn't deflate me, though it did provoke an emotional response which is unsual for a film to do to me. Don't rememeber an alternative ending to the film, though I do know the ending in the film is different to the one in the book. I'll check my dvd when I get home. |
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Post by keywolf on Dec 15, 2008 5:50:31 GMT -5
I have a 2-disc edition of the movie and never heard anything about an alternate ending... unless, like Marcus says, you're referring to the different ending in the novella?
Let me grab my copy of Skeleton Crew to remind myself and I can help you out there.....
Written in Invisi-Text (tm):
After leaving the supermarket with his son and a small handful of survivors, Main Guy finds a car and goes on the run through the seemingly never-ending mist. With the radio tuned in to constant static, he thinks he hears the single word 'Hartford'... so with no other plan left, they head for Hartford...
It's one of the very few cases where I prefer the movie ending to the book. Thanks again to Marcus for explaining to me the wonders of invisible writing!
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Post by Werewolf on Dec 17, 2008 3:35:31 GMT -5
Perhaps i've misheard or read. I seemed to think there was an alternate ending but if you guys have the DVD and it's not one then i guess i'm wrong. I just felt so sorry for the guy...... I think had i been him i would have been throwing myself at the soldiers begging them to shot me..............
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Post by Marcus on Dec 17, 2008 8:22:58 GMT -5
I know that in an interview, the author said he prefered the film ending too, and wished he'd come up with it himself.
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Post by Werewolf on Dec 17, 2008 15:26:29 GMT -5
Strange that Stephen King couldn't think up a ending like that really?
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Post by keywolf on Dec 17, 2008 16:52:11 GMT -5
Much as I love the writings of Mr KIng, I think he has a serious problem with endings (eg The Stand, The Dark Tower) - the exception being his short stories, which I think are his best work, and which usually have excellent endings.
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Post by dedwyre on Dec 17, 2008 20:57:15 GMT -5
Are you kidding? I loved the ending of "The Dark Tower." That's the only way you can end a story that went on as long as that one.
Still haven't seen "The Mist" (or finished reading it, but as I said before, I've listened to an audio performance). I probably should, since Tom Jane's in it.
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Post by Werewolf on Dec 18, 2008 3:42:57 GMT -5
I've not read the Dark Tower.
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Post by Marcus on Dec 18, 2008 5:04:37 GMT -5
I had the first book in the dark tower series bought for me as an audio book read by steven king. Never tried reading the actual books in the series. Mind you, I've not read any steven king book.
Cannot remember if it was the director or the producer that said they'd made The Mist to be a black and white film (on the special edition they've included the film in black and white as well as colour) Just wondering if anyone has watched it in B&W yet?
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Post by Werewolf on Dec 18, 2008 10:05:53 GMT -5
Read IT. It's always been my favourite.
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