Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by mousepod

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 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.

Spoiler:

I read the novella and liked it a lot way back in the day. The book essentially has no ending, just a few characters venturing off into the unknown. The movie, on the other hand, has got an ending you won't forget - though one aspect of it didn't seem right with me.

Spoiler:

Given the level of dedication the main character shows to his son throughout, I thought he arrived at his difficult decision far too easily, and put it into action much more quickly than I thought likely or believable. It came off to me like an inorganic plot point in order to deliver the giant stinger of an ending. Apparently, Stephen King loved it and wished he had thought of it.

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.