Sometimes it's better not to know! If you like witnessing religious extremism launch itself to heights with a soft, hazy backdrop then you'll love this full movie reaction to Stephen King's The Mist!
@@nocrot1 the novella ends with everyone bunkering down at a Howard Johnson's for the night. There was no definite ending, but there also wasn't any mercy killings.
@@nocrot1 Sometimes they make a film adaptation that tells the movie version of a story and that might be what you’re referring to. In the original story they’re driving on after the behemoth, unsure of what they’ll find. The radio’s on in case they pick something up and they start to think that they are.
Yup! I just sat there too. I think I might still be sitting in that theater in 2007...be preferable to 2021's The Mist real life reenactment, anyway. 😂
The ending is so devastating as he thought he was saving his child from a fate worse than death. Nothing in the movie gave him any reason to think he was about to get saved by the Military. He sacrificed himself for love and the Universe said 'nope'. 10/10 ending would cry again. Stay safe and cosy ya'll, love from Scotland.
It also may or may not also confirm the religious woman’s theory about the boy. She wanted to kill him as she said it would end the mist, and then... it does.
@@dedman13 that to me is the biggest point of the movie, they build up the audiences hatred for her every time she’s on screen. I think she’s even killed at one point. She calls him that Antichrist and has the entire store try to kill him. And then after allllllll that, after hating her and applauding when she dies and disagreeing with her stance the WHOLE movie, the film ends with everything she said possibly being true. Makes you wonder who the bad and good guys actually were of this story. Amazing storytelling
My dad and I went to see this in theaters in a full auditorium. Usually there's always those few people that are immediately out of their seats once the credits start but there was a good 15-20 second still silence in the room. Like, you could feel people processing it. Lines leaving was similar to a funeral procession, wasn't much chatting from people, just everyone leaving quietly. Didn't expect such a powerful ending going to a movie about a town swarmed by monsters.
Same when we went. I'm so happy I saw it on theaters. I remember saying "thank you!" really loud when they killed the religious cuckoo. She had my blood boiling. Such a great film!
This movie perfectly blends tangible and psychological horror. Sure, monsters are scary, but the *monsters inside of all of us* make it extra spooky. The depths of human compassion/depravity during a crisis is frightening to watch, because it's *realistic...* 😱😨
The whole time I was like, "Oh... you are not gonna like the ending!" A lot of people hated the ending, but I appreciated it for not being that typical "Hollywood" happy ending. Darabont had to fight the studio for that ending too.
I liked that the conclusion was a deconstruction of usual endings in disaster movies. The scenario is completely Lovecraftian and hellish, so a happy ending wouldn't fit at all I think.
In King's novella, they drive out into the mist in search of a safe haven that may or may not exist. The director changed it, and Stephen King himself, a vocal fan of Darabont's revised ending, described it as "the most shocking ending ever," and said, "there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead."
King has some dubious opinions about his work's adaptions, though. Like thr shining, hahaha. I personally like the book's ending better. The movie plays it cheap.
How do you manage to crack me up during one of the grimmest, darkest films ever made??? Every death scene here is devastating, but I think Pvt. Jessup's was the one that really effed me sideways. It wasn't the most graphic or heartbreaking, but the realisation that the main cast was no safer inside the store than out...the purest nightmare fuel. Stephen King is known for his secondary antagonists, but with Mrs. Carmody, he REALLY outdid himself.
And another thing, Landie, I think it's clear to everyone who stumbles upon this channel that you're the greatest of all time when it comes to the reaction game. Thanks again for being the funniest, smartest, and loveliest part of any given day you decide to upload.
The whole time you were going on about “Frank, you better not kill that little boy!” I’m trying to stifle laughter. I was all, “oh Alanda, you are definitely going to need one of those margarita drinks your friend made for you after this one!”
I feel your pain at that ending, believe me! LOL! It's a real gut punch. This is such an underrated film. It's nice to see more people discovering it. Interesting tidbit: Darabont credits Jeffrey DeMunn for the reappearance of Melissa McBride's character at the end (along with her two children), showing she'd made it back to them and they'd all survived. Originally, she was supposed to disappear into the mist, with her fate left unknown. But McBride's performance in the grocery store scene so impressed the cast and crew that they gave her a standing ovation. Darabont said DeMunn later came to him and said he couldn't stop thinking about her performance and wondering what happened to her character, so he suggested bringing her back at the end. Also, when they were casting the role of Carol in TWD, they called and offered it to her without requiring an audition, due to her performance in The Mist.
@@bootsierosenweig9495 Yes, I hadn't heard it either until Darabont told the story in an interview that was published a few years ago. I thought it was so cool, and his account of it has stuck with me ever since. Her presence there at the end is like a double gut punch when he sees her alive with her children. You know he can't help but wonder if his son would also be alive if they'd gone with her to begin with. (Of course, it's perfectly understandable why they didn't, but it's still a terrific twist upon a twist.)
It seems to me that I had also seen in an article that we were to see her dead at the end, when the group was driving the car, but this scene was cut and then replaced.
The ending of this movie is one of the most shocking and bold in cinema history. I saw it when it first came out opening weekend and the audience reaction (as well as my own) was nothing I've ever experienced. Crying, gasping, and yelling. Nobody left the theater unchanged.
I think this ending showed how important it is to never lose hope. Everything you’ve been hoping for could be just a minute away if you don’t lose hope or give up too soon.
@@bombomos Darabont wanted it. What a dumb f'n blunder not giving it to him. He should have the green light to whatever SK material he's interested in doing. Pretty obvious IMO.
The director wants sure about having the ending but in the film screening, Stephen King was sitting next to him, saw the ending and leaned over to express how powerful it was and that he loves it and it needed to stay in the movie.
So glad you got to watch it. The Mist was actually shot where I live in Shreveport, LA. My husband was an extra in it and we got to go to wrap party. We got to meet Thomas Jane (a complete sweetheart), Laurie Holden, Toby Jones and William Sadler.
Thomas Jane was originally supposed to be Rick Grimes he was even attached to the character as well. He did not get to play Rick though because HBO was offered the walking dead first and they turned it down. By the time the show got a green light Jane was no longer available. I'm sorry to say but I think he would have been incredible! This film truly shows how truly great he can be he brings a lot of emotion to the screen.
TWD on HBO would've been even better too. I never knew they'd turned it down. In all the years I complained they should've taken the show to pay cable, no one ever told me they'd tried.
@@DonnaCPunk According to Greg Nicotero, HBO surprisingly wanted them to tone down the violence so they went to AMC instead who let them do what they wanted
literally one of the most devastating endings ever! I was in shock when I first watched it, its pretty shattering. I also think that this movie highlights how humans are as monstrous as any creatures that lurk in the mist. Marcia Gay Harden to me was exceptional, and I'd rank her right at the top of any movie villian list
"I forgive you for founding HYDRA!" I could not stop laughing for 30 seconds and now my ribs are in pain from soreness, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for that, Alanda, you are too hilarious!
this movie is definitely about despair. Despair leading to people clinging onto any shred of hope, even at the cost of other peoples' lives, and then that despair is taken to its logical conclusion with the suicide pact. I saw this on premier night in cinema and the whole crowd, myself included, just sat back in our seats in silence at the end. And yeah, we all basically agreed if we were that dad we would attack the soldiers until they killed us...there's just no way to live past that.
Honestly...I first watched this movie when I was 10. Parents wouldn't let me watch the ending but I heard gun shots and Thomas Jane screaming in pain and agony...that made me shutter. I watched it again and found this movie one of the hardest and saddest Stephen King movies to watch.
I love how the movie proves it's point about humans by how the audience reacts. Everyone cheers when Carmody dies but it's still murder. Humans have it in them.
Honestly the only thing that makes that ending just a tiny bit okay for me is the thought that theyre probably better off dead after everything they saw/experienced especially the child - talk about childhood trauma 😳 but yeah we're all about ready to fight someone for that ending too
The movie was very good - and the ending was simply brilliant and in a way unprecedented. As another commenter said, King was jealous, but loved it. I may watch occasional reaction videos to this, but I will never again watch the full movie - the ending is too gut wrenching, particularly since I'm the father of a son.
i feel like it’s one of the three saddest endings to a horror movie, along with (although these movies have been out for a long time, i’ll include some SPOILERS space just in case)...... the original Night of the Living Dead. The Mist might be slightly bleaker, but that one is the same punch to the gut. And lastly Eden Lake.
It is a horrible ending, but I think it's fitting for cosmic horror. There is never a good ending with cosmic horror. It's like the universe doesn't care what happens to you.
Before I watch this I'd just like to say thank you for uploading. I've been having a bad night of chronic pain where I can't even get out of bed and this video came at the perfect time to try and take my mind off things but generally I also always enjoy your uploads. To you it is just watching a film but we never know what others are going through and how we touch others lives even in a small way so thought I'd let u know. Ty
I know that many consider Kubrick’s, The Shining as the best King adaptation. But for me, The Mist is my second favorite…after Misery. It’s a vastly under appreciated film but gaining in popularity over time. The theme of human nature in crisis is devastatingly honest…and terrifying. And Darabont’s adaptation actually improved on King’s original novella.
I told you this movie made me want to slap somebody. But your reaction was great. This wasn't Stephen King's original ending, but he said he likes this ending better.
Alanda, as a hardcore Frank Darabont fan you NEED to watch the remake of The Blob from 1988! It's written by Frank and directed by Chuck Russell, the director of Nightmare on Elm Street 3. Trust me, you absolutely must watch it!!
Yes the take away is have Faith and keep going like the lady leaving and not staying with the masses with false beliefs or even the faithless like the suicide pack. When I first showed this to my friend Annie at her friend Alessandra house the two of them asked me to pick a movie so I asked them have they seen The Mist cause it was the recommendation on her streaming service, they were amazed and alessandra said wow very good choice Johnny. We had the lights off and nice size flat screen with rain outside perfect conditions to watch. During the big monster scene Annie was lost in gaze at the movie and the first thing she said when seeing the colossal creature was emphatically "someone needs to close that dimension window" so yeah watching it with someone's first time viewing is great
This movie broke me, but the best thing is watching it break other people watching it for the first time. The ending is never not shocking or devastating
Great reaction as always. The ending is so hard to process but as a book reader, I do like this one better. I died at "Ew, it's staying at the barrier.....it's like....Passover.' ,lol. Also, fashion compliment for this vid: that snake ring is FIRE!
I absolutely love this movie. The acting, pacing and dialogue are excellent and the ending is an incredible gut punch that will rank among the darkest ever.👍
"Yay, it's the military, we're saved... Oh" You always depose the zealot immediately, it's enough to deal with deadly danger outside without someone riling up scared people making them dangerous to each other.
I hadn't seen this since it came out, I didn't realize both Andrea and Carol were in this too! And frankly, "too realistic" yeah I agree, stories about raw, unprocessed human nature are nothing new, King added this spin on it back in 1980, and it's unsettling to continue recognizing all of this behavior so clearly. A different fun fact: King admitted that Darabont scared him with his own story, he got the creeps a few times and that hand on the window made him jump in his seat 😄 I LOVED Marcia Gay Harden in this, I thought she devoured that part and left no crumbs, and for me, Mrs. Carmody is hands down the scariest monster. I've known people just like her, they'll take every advantage to convince people to believe their twisted perspective. One of my favorite roles of hers was in _A Gaudi Afternoon,_ she's still devious but WAY more fun.
The director had the TWD actors in his previous work, too; he actually met the actress who plays Carol when she came in for this movie and she made an impression on him.
Almost everything in this movie is the same as the book...except the ending. The book ends with them still driving from town to town, scavenging supplies, and coming to the realization that this is just the world they have to survive in now. Very hopeless. They created this new Tragic ending for the movie and Stephen King loved it. He was basically like, why didn't I think of that? lol. Great reaction.
As many others have probably already said, this was not King's ending - although he said he preferred this ending to his in the book. The ending of this movie completely destroyed me. I'm a father of a 4 year old daughter and cannot imagine how this must feel. All I know is that I wouldn't want to go on if something happened to her - more so if I did it to her myself. An absolutely brutal ending that always turns me into a wreck.
OMG Alanda! I just finished watching the video and all I gotta say is I knew you'd give GLORIOUS React Tea when you saw the end! And boy you did not disappoint. Laughed so hard, but also got little chills remembering when I saw this for the first time. Just sat in the theater for minutes afterwards emotionally wrecked, hoping for a post credit scene with Iron Man snapping all the victims back to life. 😂
When you said "two of them are going to have to put their heads close together" I spit out my Yoohoo 😅. This is probably the best reaction to The Mist on the web.
I love this movie, but the ending always gets me! So SAD!! When I seen that you were watching this, I was like.. she’s about to call some characters by their Walking Dead names! GREAT REACTION!
I'm extremely split on the ending, but one thing I liked was that it focused on some people who did NOT get a happy ending. It was like a deconstruction of typical Roland Emmerich disaster movies.
I know you’re a fan of Laurie Holden. She also plays a big role in the 2006 horror movie Silent Hill. Highly recommended watching and reacting to that movie. It’s based off a super famous video game series and has been named the best video game adaption movie up to that time 2006. Edit: I read a few articles after I posted this comment. Turns out Silent Hill had been considered the best video game adaption movie until 2019 when Detective Pikachu/Sonic came out (even then it’s close). So that’s pretty neat to find out, as I love Silent Hill. I really hope you get to react to it and give us ALL the commentary that we live for!!!!
For those who loved the ending, I could have been way worst. Darabont wanted to have a second military transport pass and show some of the supermarket's survivors aboard. Darabont didn't shoot the scene because of scheduling.
Its interesting. I'm a Czech guy living in Prague in Czech Republic. A half world away from New York. Yet we bot know the same references about Walking Dead cast, Stephen King, Marvel etc. We are both millennilas I presume and I find it fascinating to see the similarities. Our time 2021 is very tumultuous, but its also wonderful. To see other people enjoying the same things we do and also get their honest opinion is a gift. As a filmmaker I appreciate it very much. Thank you for this reaction Alanda, because you made me think
Let me preface this by saying I'm a middle-aged gay man with no sexual interest in women. But this lady is so beautiful and intelligent!! Love watching her reactions.
I wouldnt have went the murder suicide route. Especially killing my own kid. Ive would have died protecting my baby but the ending had me distraught as hell
I’m only 13 mins in so far but I feel like you don’t waste a single word with your reaction like every thing you say is impactful and I love your voice I never know which tone you’re gonna use or what sound effect you’re going to make 😂
Watching all things Andre Braugher That one hit hard ....he's been one of my favorite actors and human beings since seeing him in homicide life on the street. Rip Andre Braugher
Interesting fact (as a TWD fan): the actor who portrayed the unfortunate soldier who was "sacrificed" *murdered* played another soldier - he was the dead soldier in the tank with Rick in Season One's premiere episode. Frank Darabont had originally planned to have a whole back story featuring the soldier, but it was scrapped. As always, thanks for yet another wonderful reaction video. Take care, and stay safe. Huggz, dd
Funny story, Frank Darabont came up with that ending. The original Stephen King short story ended more ambiguous, and he went on to say he wished he had come up with that ending himself.
