{"id":15294,"date":"2022-10-13T21:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2022-10-13T21:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:32:55","slug":"the-mist-2007-frank-darabont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15294","title":{"rendered":"The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe unwise to watch two<\/a> Stephen King movies in a week, but what’s wise about SHOCKtober? This movie is famous for its incredibly bleak ending (survivors are mercy-killed before discovering army is defeating monsters), the main change from the book, which is incredibly bleak in a different way (humanity loses).<\/p>\n

Man vs. Tentacle:<\/em>
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Thomas Jane (lately of Shane Black’s Predator<\/em>) is a poster artist working on a Dark Tower<\/em> cover, going into town with his son and prickly neighbor Andre Braugher (of a Salem’s Lot<\/em> remake), becoming trapped in a grocery store by the mist and its monsters. But the thing with The Mist<\/em> isn’t the monsters, it’s everyone in town who hates each other suddenly getting trapped in a confined space and unloading their baggage. Got a real TV movie feeling despite all the pedigrees. Darabont’s still in gee-whiz period-piece mode in a modern setting, and all the theatrical on-the-nose dialogue doesn’t help. Performances are still a leg up on Langoliers<\/em> (as are the digital effects, but that’s a very low bar).<\/p>\n

Woman vs. Insect:<\/em>
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Little Billy followed this up with The Dark Knight<\/em>, then a starring role in Joe Dante’s The Hole<\/a><\/em>, not bad. Laurie Holden (Pyewacket<\/a><\/em>) is the teacher who takes care of the kid while TJ works on becoming the hero of the story. Store Manager Robert Treveiler (the Richard Chamberlain Night of the Hunter<\/em> remake) tries pulling rank, townie William Sadler (running the trifecta after Green Mile<\/em> and Shawshank Redemption<\/em>) tries to out-tough-guy TJ. Hard to keep track of every character as they quickly fall to bugs or suicide or murder, but the beardy hick dude who aggressively follows whatever’s the worst idea going around is veteran of terrible sci-fi\/westerns Buck Taylor (Cowboys & Aliens<\/em>, Wild Wild West<\/em>, Timestalkers<\/em>). There’s only one gun and Toby Jones claims to be a crack shot, so in a rare display of good sense, the group hands it over. He’ll eventually use it to kill Marcia Gay Harden, who starts raving about the apocalypse and demanding sacrifices. It’s cool that TJ recognizes early on that loud Christians are dangerous, though the movie’s overall theme seems to be having no faith in humanity.<\/p>\n

Wasn’t kidding about the Dark Tower cover:<\/em>
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Maybe unwise to watch two Stephen King movies in a week, but what’s wise about SHOCKtober? This movie is famous for its incredibly bleak ending (survivors are mercy-killed before discovering army is defeating monsters), the main change from the book, which is incredibly bleak in a different way (humanity loses). Man vs. Tentacle: Thomas Jane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,198,296,2358],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-apocalypse","tag-book-adaptation","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15314,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}