Stephen King's The Mist

[Brazoo]

>Thomas Jane was good and all, but there was never a moment where I felt his character was written as anything more than a prop.

That's kind of a universal horror movie problem though; the characters really are just there as targets. No matter how well you set them up you're gonna be seeing them a their worst, as their world is turned upside down.... so there's not too much room for development. (Especially in two hours.)

Don C.

You're totally right of course, memorable horror 'everyman' heroes like Chief Brody in "Jaws" or even Ben Hanser in "Night of the Living Dead" are hard to come by - I guess I had just expected little more from Darabont. He usually does effective things with archetypal characters.

At the end I was surprised the film went that far, but I wasn't emotionally affected like some of you guys were because I didn't feel any particular way about the character - not to sound too cold about it, but it's true.

[ctc]

>memorable horror 'everyman' heroes like Chief Brody in "Jaws" or even Ben Hanser in "Night of the Living Dead" are hard to come by

Horror movies usually work backwards: you're not showing the development of a characterm you start with them being whoever they're gonna be, but you use the horror to demonstrate who they are. So the guy in "The Mist" was a really average kind of guy, and in the end he didn't have the strength to hang on. That's who he was. (Maybe that's why so many people can't accept the end: it makes us wonder if WE'D give up like he did. Maybe THAT'S the real horror of the film....)

Don C.

[jwyblejr]

It would have worked better for me if they had the critters approach the vehicle first,then had that happen,then the Army shows up at the last second.

[ctc]

>It would have worked better for me if they had the critters approach the vehicle first,then had that happen,then the Army shows up at the last second.

I can see the advantage of NOT doing it that way though. It's a very bleak ending, and I think that's why it works for me. The hero fails; and he fails of his own weakness. (And maybe as punishment for not having stepped up in the beginning.)

Don C.

[Mikey]

I just seen it tonight.
I liked it.

Back in the 80's I had the mist as a cassette audio story.
Man, that was bad --- and funny.
The product placement adds were so blatent.
The was dialog was like ---- "Hurry and block the windows with those bags of Purina Cat Chow"

Glad to see the movie didn't stoop to that.

It was nice to see Buck Taylor (Newley from Gunsmoke) still acting.

I read on Wiki Lee Majors had a cameo as "plumber#1" ... I must have missed that part.

All in all, a decent movie with a great Twilight Zonie ending