Review of The Mist

[shadow_shimmer]

Saw The Mist last night and No Country for Old Men the night before. No Country is essentially Fargo in the desert. The Coen Brothers stripped the book of all of its deeper meaning and left the gratuitous violence and odd humor. Since Fargo is the only Coen Brothers movie that I like, No Country wasn't bad.

The Mist, though. Wow. I thought it

Comments

[thorne_scratch]

Didn't they end up in a Howard Johnson's in the original ending of the story? Surely ineffectual group suicide is better than being stuck at Howard Johnson's!

Eh, now I wonder if I should go see this.

[shadow_shimmer]

They did indeed end up at the Ho Joe's, and perhaps you're right.

I think the thing that really bothered me was that Drayton was rescued minutes after he shot everyone by mask wearing, flame-thrower wielding soldiers. Making the whole thing so clearly pointless and transparently manipulative on the movie makers' part.

Still, it's a decent horror movie up until that point. Worth seeing, I think.

[shadow_shimmer]

Actually, it wasn't horrible. I just had issues with the ending. :) If you have a hankering for a pretty decent horror movie, I don't think you can go wrong with it.