The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Frank Darabont

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Actor: Jeffrey DeMunn, Michaela Morgan (II), Thomas Jane, Toby Jones, Travis Fontenot
Director: Frank Darabont
Brand: MIST, THE: 2-DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION (DVD MO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Collector's Edition, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)

DVD Reviews of The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

DVD Review: Spoiler Alert!
Summary: 4 Stars

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's chucklesome special effects and one dimensional characterisation never get in the way of a good monster flick. The original short story is one of the most gripping Stephen King has done and no director could really go wrong with the source material, however, I'm not as totally convinced as others who seem to want to rate this as a modern day 'Birds'. It isn't. There are too many 'Wait a minute...' moments. And that ending! Forgive me, but i love to be surprised and I'm as much for a downbeat end to a horror film as anyone but this was laughable. Talk about twisting the knife one to many times!

Spoiler alert, the ending is nigh... Skip to the last paragraph now to avoid disappointment...

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The first thing that jars for me is the tentacles. Our hero hacks one off the monster and when he subsequently explains, to the whole store only a couple of people go back to see the limb. Excuse me? Flying tentacled monster stole the bag-boy? I wanna look!! Then the thing conveniently goes and dissolves. Why? Cause it's a dumb movie...

Then is the rapid conversion of some three quarters of the store to 'fire and brimstone' Christianity. I'm not above turning to religion in a crisis but this happens within 24 hours! The sacrifice of a soldier is thus, unrealistic. Considering we find out, in a cool bug skirmish, that 'the army done it' it would have been far easier and more dramatic to have the crowd turn on the soldier as some means of releasing their frustration at the scientists and the military and to then turn to religion as absolution for their murder. It would have been very easy to script that into the movie and to even make the religious nut a more rounded, sympathetic character. It would also have provided ample evidence of the fraying of these peoples lives and significantly increased the tension. But no...

Third is when the monsters break in. The smaller ones are attracted to the light. The bigger ones swoop to feast on them and then come through the glass. Does anyone turn the lights down, even a little? Even after the attack? No. They revert back to candlelight, for sure but, even though I'm no entomologist, in my experience moths are as equally drawn to a glowing candle as to an arc light. Not these beasties. The store dwellers sleep happily and soundly all night.

The fourth is the ending. Look away now folks cause I'm a-revealing all...

It's just too hilarious. The hero escapes with his son and possible love interest and an old couple. They drive away unpursued by anything. Anything. Across State lines... Nothing. Passed pile ups and carnage... Nothing (The War Of The Worlds is another victim of the miraculously clear highways scenario after a super, mega disaster...) Ridiculous!

And then the petrol runs out. The car stalls. The film could end here and it would be fine; an awesome creature feature. But no... The hero counts the bullets. Five people, four bullets. It could end here and be viewed as compelling, with a cliff-hanger of 'Italian Job' proportions. But no... He makes the choice and shoots the others including his son (Hey, no complaining, I warned you about the spoilers!) He screams his rage, leaves the car and heads out into the mist challenging the monsters 'Come on! Come on!' The film could end here and it would have been wonderfully downbeat. Certainly close to the classic status some have given it.

But no...

The mist clears and the Army come trundling along in their tanks and then, SECONDS later, refugee wagons roll passed full of survivors. Barely meters from the outskirts of a deadly, other-world disaster? Nonsense. So, the Monsters are defeated. Oh, if only our hero had waited 60 seconds... His tears flow. His rage and desperation! Oh no!! It's the egg that over eggs the pudding, the extra cook that spoils the broth, the straw that breaks the camels back. It turns the whole movie into a joke. Something you won't want to watch to the end ever again. Darabont blows it.

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So, final advice: The Mist is a great, scary, tense movie with convincing CGI (if a little rubber in the prosthetics), frightening set-ups and just a little wrenching on the heart-strings and if you skip the last minute or even the last 30 seconds you'll love it for a long, long time. Just try not to smirk, laugh, guffaw, chortle or split your sides if you stay to the end because this is one movie that doesn't need a directors cut it needs a studio cut!

DVD Review: ONE OF THE BEST MONSTER MOVIES IN A LONG TIME!
Summary: 4 Stars

I have to say I've grown tired of monster films in recent years as they all seem to have one thing in common.....they suck! 'The Mist' is a great example of taking the best from the old and the best from the new and blending them together for a damn good thriller! The FX are very good, the atmosphere is creepy and the tension is high in this well acted deliberately paced horror/sci-fi throwback to the days of drive-ins! I couldn't help but think of my old PS2 game 'Silent Hill' a little watching this film, with it's thick mist and sirens hauntingly sounding in the background. The two disc is especially nice with a cool black and white version on the film, plus enough extras to keep any monster fan happy for a while!

DVD Review: Monsters, Inside And Out...
Summary: 5 Stars

THE MIST was a terrific short story (ok, a "novella") that seemed impossible to make into a movie at the time it was written (the early '80s). Due to King's various creatures slithering, buzzing, or towering above like walking skyscrapers, I figured a movie would never materialize. Thank God for Frank Darabont! He uses just enough cgi to keep things interesting. After all, the hideous monsters in the mist are only as frightening as the human monsters that emerge during the invasion. The folks trapped in the grocery store become their own worst enemies, nearly dooming themselves without much help from any titanic terrors! Marcia Gay Harden (The Dead Girl) is perfectly twisted as the bible-waving Mrs. Carmody. Mr. Drayton (Thomas Jane) tries logic, common sense, and other such useless tools in a hopeless attempt to reason w/ the unbalanced prophet, who soon gathers a group of mindless followers! So, while an army of creatures lumber about outside, the humans fight an epic battle of wills inside. Very well done. Yes, the ending is different from the book. It's also a dark, merciless final? to this tale of building dread. So, if you can only handle happy endings, you might want to watch YOU'VE GOT MAIL again instead... P.S.- I liked all the characters in this. Laurie Holden (Silent Hill, tvs X-Files) is especially good...

DVD Review: awesome
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent blue ray movie transfer along with a great movie itself. I would recommend this movie to all horror buffs.

DVD Review: Stupid Characters doing stupid things
Summary: 1 Stars

It seems the writer intended this movie to be a sort of morality tale about the frailty of humanity and the depths to which people will sink in the face of fear and the unknown. He failed miserably. The characters are unrealistic archetype caricatures, all of which are unbelievably stupid and slow to act in the diferent situations that arise in the movie. Apparently the only archetype not represented is that of rational humane man. Everyone's first instinct is to either kill someone else or start offing themselves like lemmings. This was a terrible movie. Do not waste your time.

Description of The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

A mysterious mist, thick with blood-thirsty creatures, descends on a small town, where a group of people holes up in a grocery store to fight for their lives.

Writer-director Frank Darabont, who showcased the softer side of Stephen King in his film adaptations of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, turns to darker material for The Mist, his latest King adaptation about a group of ordinary townspeople trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious fogbank. Thomas Jane is top-billed as a Maine illustrator who attempts to calm the frightened shoppers, but his job is cut out for him from the get-go, first by the discovery of malevolent creatures lurking in the mist, and then by the mad mutterings of Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a local eccentric who calls for Old Testament-style sacrifices to appease the supernatural forces. Darabont delivers monster movie thrills and understated social commentary with equal skill, and he's well supported by his cast (which includes Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler and Jeffrey DeMunn) and the vivid special effects by KNB EFX, which effectively mix CGI with models and stop-motion animation (the terrific monsters were designed by legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson). And for those curious about how the novella's downbeat ending has translated to film, suffice it to say that Darabont's conclusion is at once different and more unsettling than King's. --Paul Gaita

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