I haven't seen it, though I plan to. I will say the trailer gave me pause with its apparent back story of suburban dysfunction. To me, the point of the book was that sometimes you want to get away for no particularly good reason.

Ugh, I meant to see it over the weekend. I'm DYING to ... but with Halloween coming up, I'm afraid I may not get to till after the holiday. Bah.

I finally saw Bolt. It was cute. It was a bit much getting through the first 10 minutes or so, but after you got through the story set up and things started moving forward, it improved greatly. I actually really loved the uber-geek hamster character.

I saw The Mist last night. It was okay. Not the best. Not what I was expecting.

The Mist? Never heard of it.


Are you sure you didn't mean The Fist? Just asking cause, well, it's you. ;)

I loved The Mist. I avoided it in the theater, because the commercials made me think it was a crappy knock off of The Fog. Then I heard that the director's preferred version was the one in black & white, so when the blu-ray came out, that's the one I watched first. Granted, I watched it alone, but it frightened me in the same way that Quatermass and the Pit did when I first saw that. If anyone is interested in watching it with me ... the projector will be up by Sunday... just sayin'

(and try to avoid spoilers)

I especially liked the way The Mist was shot. Almost documentary like. I also liked the way they used a lot of actors from other King movies.

Heh. The back story of suburban dysfunction isn't particularly long. What might surprise you is the considerable presence of jungle dysfunction.

I have seen it twice - once for work, and once with Tom. I like it. It's not the book, and it's not for children with small attention spans. But it's a beautiful depiction of childhood, and its myriad struggles and confusions. It made me feel quite sad (but I'm easily swayed to sadness right now, so your mileage may vary.)

I was very impressed with The Mist (though I had one severe reservation about it - but it's spoiler-city, so see below.) I watched it in color before I found out that the director preferred black and white - and indeed, it's much creepier that way. If anyone is curious, take up Mousepod on his offer and go watch it. It's one of the better Stephen King adaptations out there recently.



For more Halloween fun, I really liked the recently released 2007 movie Trick R' Treat, which has a fun 80s horror vibe and struck me as one of the more entertaining anthology movies I'd seen in a long time. It's stylish, funny, spooky, not terribly gory, and little cloth-hooded Sam Hain is just adorable.

Sayyy. I call shenanigans.
I could have sworn that I saw the Wind and the Willows short that comes with the Sleepy Hollow short on DVD. But I didn't. So I watched it for the first time today. I gotta say: huh?
There's no wild ride in it, at least none that we see. There's no running down people and going to hell and all that. Weird. I guess the attraction at DL was its own thing. And even outside the fact that the events in the ride and the movie differ, the story itself is kinda meh.