The Mist (Fear in Bridgton, Maine) EXPLORED 

Yeah she was a total psycho

Agree. She thought she was a messiah because of her faith. How foolish of her.

She's this movie King Joffrey, even their deaths were equally satisfing

Absolutely. Harden did such a good job that I wanted to commit murder. Other amazing performances include Kathy Bates in Misery, Glen Close in Fatal Attraction, Jason Isaacs in The Patriot, and Robert Patrick in T2.

Those are some of the best ones

His head look like a fish bowl

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I really liked his character. You could see there were layers to him after the tentacle encounter. Before he was quiet and un-assuming. Eeking out a living as a lowly Assistant Manager at a grocery store. Youd probably assume he didnt get up to much after he clocks out and goes home. But after things get terrifyingly real he cracks open a drink, tells his boss who is still disillusioned to "shut the fuck up" and starts spouting some dark philosophical views on humanity. Plus hes an expert Marksman which was something he kept secret from the people around him.

Here’s to Ollie !

fr ollie was the goat

Don't fear the unknown. If you're afraid of what you don't understand, you'll never get any better. "Run and hide in a hole if you like, you won't live an instant longer. Fear profits man nothing."

@@JackSilver1410 I've said this often to my tragically alcoholic big sister, and she has yet to understand it: "You can't run from yourself."

EXACTLY right!!! so many people die needlessly, because those who CAN help them are simply stupid cowards!

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@@terellboyd This is gibberish. You mentally ill? Please speak to a mental health professional, asap. Best of luck.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he lost his mind. I personally would not give up hope unless the inter dimensional monsters are right in front of me, guaranteeing my death.

LMAO!!! Pretty much what happened.

Adrian Naranjo vote for trump

Haha thats f×

What?

**Father Kills Everyone in the car** The Army: Allow me to introduce ourselves

No they gave up as they ran out of gas, no creatures were visible when they ran out. Hence why it feels lazy, they just give up, and while I agree all hope can be worn down, we didn't get this far through history with no trials have we? So I find it the weakest point in the whole movie

Mr Frost FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE RECOGNIZES HOW HALF-ASSED IT WAS! It genuinely felt like they didn’t know how to end it and decided “...and then everyone died. The end.” Holy shit, talk about anti-climactic. The only thing more insulting was how contrived it was down to the last detail. The writers pulled off an amazing troll, I’ll give them that. But that’s all there is to give.

@@purpleemerald5299 you're immature and missed the entire point just so you could be a contrarian. Everyone else understood it.

JazuX You’re...you’re just screwing with me, right? I’m being contrarian? Many people have already explicitly stated that they like this ending because it wasn’t a cliche “happy ending” and shocked them by being different. THAT’S contrarian. And of course they feel that way. This ending feels like an active attempt to be contrarian for the sake of subverting the audiences expectations. And what WAS the point, exactly? What was better about the characters’ journeys and the nature of the world with the addition of this ending? Because if you removed the characters suicides, it would be considered the laziest and most bullshit dues ex machina. But I guess because they die in an almost comically timed fashion, it’s suddenly well conceived...? Please explain why this ending was so ingenious and fitting, because apparently, I just can’t understand it.

@@purpleemerald5299 the suicides WAS the point and you're intentionally overlooking it to say it was bad. Of course it would be a stupid ending if the day was saved but it wasn't. The entire impact is that they could have been saved but he just killed everyone believing he was sparing them. How is this hard for you to comprehend?

Yeah, the series wasn't even at the same level

@No Name and there's death almost for everyone, kind of uncertainty in the whole movie ! I really like it

The series was quite poor and I soon gave up on it. As I recall, they kill off the crucial character of Mrs Carmody at the outset, which basically junks the whole original story and just keeps the premise. What's the point of that? Either portray the original story or another one that doesn't violate the original.

No Name I thought it was just some sort of thing that was mutating bugs? Making them all freaky or something and That Ms Carmody mistook a moth for an “angel” ?

No Name There aren’t any monsters in the series. It’s just slugs or leeches or something and several kinds of bug. But they’re all mutanty and show weird behavior. Like, a moth flies down a guys throat, and then mutates and it’s wings sprout out the guys back, or leechy-like things swarm in a hospital area and eat people. I think, if it’s not a weird man-made mist, then it’s the mist making the bugs weird

Right, it is for this reason many read stories. To escape the tragedy that happens in life. I can see why many people get upset when a story subverts this expectation.

@@Mia-ln1zs I mean, tell that to Black Mirror, I think people love to see tragedy considering literally every movie and book seems like it has to have a happy ending.

Yoyoitsbenzo Gaming He wanted Thomas Jane to play Rick Grimes as well.

Morales is one of the soldiers as well

Jeffery DeMunn (TWD's Dale) was also the prosecutor in Andy's trial at the beginning of "Shawshank Redemption."

Yep and then after season 1 AMC fired him after all the work he put in

@@kieran6417 Which sucked because Dale was my favorite character. He was in the comic too, but for different reasons

i agree. I mean King himself loved this ending

David is a pretty consistent character. He's logical, but arrogant. He happens to be right when dealing with the emerging cult in the story (they are dangerous), but he is never really shown as flexible. He doesn't argue with Mrs. Carmody because he can prove she's wrong, but because he believes she's wrong. Her religious explanation is a valid as his rational explanation, they're both wrong. However, she accurately predicts the general flow of events. David's logic serves him well until the end. Running out of gas and failing to find a safe haven are bad enough, but the giant "God" alien was the final straw. His logic failed him, he couldn't see a way out. As the Dan says, "No one can say we didn't try." The characters DID accept the Mist as their new reality, out didn't see a point in dragging out their own suffering.

Yes. It makes perfect narrative sense and is entirely consistent with David's character. He deals with the situation rationally throughout: while hope remains, he fights on, and when they finally are stranded with no means of escape, he keeps his promise to his son that he won't let the monsters get him.

@@Mauther That always led me to believe that she was "right" all along.

Agree. keeping with the logic, suicide to evade the a gruesome ending by those creature in a hopeless situation makes complete sense for the character.. Hell, they all agree.

that ending is what sets this movie apart from just about any other generic horror movie out there imo. cuz horror movies either have a cliché happy ending where one or two characters survive, or a cliché bad ending where everyone dies. this ending was special.

Wednesday Addams yea that was definitely a wtf moment. Did not see that coming

Fucked up ending.

@@biglordebunnyrabbit627 More like an "Oh snap!"

But we can assume that the people that stayed at the store survived in the end right?

That character is sort of a send up of Braugher's Homicide: Life on the Streets character, Frank Pembleton.

this comment makes me sad. I am sad. :l

You should check out the movie Duets- he sings beautifully

@@knightbane3752 i acknowledge your feelings

IDK that mist came in pretty fast, and anyone unaware, would not know what horror it entailed. Just seen as a bogus weather phenomina till, 1 of the Mother Fin blackwidowers jump out of the mist.. By then its almost too late. Unlike most americans This town and people are rally low on the guns.. Cept for Dude running the cash. Who happens to be 1 of the coolest people.

Jake T. Demon about the military part, I think it would be pretty damn hard to cover up any way and the military had an obligation to fix the mess so it makes sense they would try to save people

@@toadslaiz4119 well see from what I would assume would happen (taking the movie the cover up way) they would try and do some crazy (probably dumb) explanation like the entire town fell into a sink hole or a nuclear explosion from some factory etc. Given if we would get a sequel of sorts at a different location for project arrowhead to even see something like this

@@xXJHoCLANXx but you also have to remember, the most was growing. The military was destroying what they could, but the mist was still moving forward and growing, maybe slower than they could manage, maybe faster. Who knows? But the most most likely reached more than the one town in total and the aftermath would've been nigh impossible to cover up. Killing civilians AND explaining they caused it would've created more issues in the long run.

Yep, but the plot doesnt focus on the millitary, thats a sub-plot up for anybodys guess... the movie leaves off pretty clear the millitary is rescue people.

Jake T. Demon The ending felt like a comedy, honestly. It was like that dark British humour. He killed his family and friends only to get out of the car and *immediately,* at the exact moment he starts screaming into the mist, have it all disappear and reveal it was just the military all along. I could already hear the fucking Seinfeld music as he stared in disbelief. And then that mother who walked into the mist at the beginning? She’s there too! Alive and well with her kids with no explanation even though the film basically established such a feat was impossible on foot. It was the biggest universal middle finger to one guy I had ever seen. I didn’t even think the film was about spiting a single man. There was no indication before hand that it was, and yet at the last possible minute, all logic and probability is defied inexplicably for seemingly no reason other than the writers couldn’t be bothered to come up with anything better. And then, to top it all off, as the mist miraculously vanishes for no reason, our protagonist drops to his knees and cries to the heavens as the camera pans up, as if he’s literally screaming at the writers for being so lazy and taking such a senseless turn just out of their hatred for him. It was laughably terrible and it almost seemed as though the creators were bitter about the lack of a definitive ending in the original story, so they trolled the audience for fun.

@Lima 2 Actual My bad.

I don't really think it was very cliche. This movie was very concerned with perspective. What seems like one thing to some is a completely different thing to others (ie Carmody and her followers believing in the wrath of God versus the others not). The Mist, from their perspective, was an inescapable catastrophe, all the while being unaware that it really wasn't as wide spread as they thought. Also, if the problem originated at a military base it stands to reason that the military would be able to respond quite quickly. Sure, you see a lot of stories where the military "wins," but by that same token you see very few where the protagonist loses everything essentially for nothing. It's a very bittersweet ending to say the least.

Thomas Bergen Bittersweet implies there was still something sweet. The ending made the entire film pointless in the most blatantly comical fashion. The curb your enthusiasm meme is WAY too applicable to the ending for me to take it seriously. And I normally really enjoy bittersweet endings. But it just felt like a cheap attempt to shock me at the expense of cohesion with the rest of the film. “They all killed themselves! Bet you didn’t see that coming!” “Yeah, I didn’t. I was expecting a meaningful and worthwhile conclusion. Now I only have pointless character arcs and a long list of questions. Speaking of which, how did-“ “Fuck you, the movie is over.” *Roll credits.*

@@purpleemerald5299 I know what bittersweet means. It was bittersweet. The world didn't end, but his family was dead. I'll let you decide which part was bitter and which was sweet.

Especially when their delusions and desire for control (the completely unreasonable zealot type of fanatic) makes them completely contradict the very scriptures that they hold onto. For example, the rant in the movie. Yes, God is vengeful, but He is also merciful. A Mist-like (sans the Military portal stuff) scenario would not be a case of God's judgement, but more so of a Demonic assault. Equally Apocalyptic, but calling it God's righteous judgment would be insane to say the least.

@MrSpaz57 Yes, but at least that occurs very infrequently for most religions.

fanatics of any kind are dangerous

@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 The contradictions are what make it so annoying to watch, she talks about going to heaven but then goes and forces others to commit murder

@@amp4105 Indeed.

Vonstadt That just makes the ending even more confusing. Did the writers hold active contempt for their own story’s protagonist? Was that what the story was really about? One perfectly reasonably man getting the absolute worst possible luck in the history of the cosmos? It honestly feels like it was meant to be the ending of a completely different movie. Rewatching the film with that ending in mind made me realize how obvious it was that it wasn’t designed to end that way. It really does feel like an arbitrary last second decision to surprise the audience rather than doing anything meaningful.

@@purpleemerald5299 Liking your own comments huh?

This post is so hilariously brutal, I love it, it's not; "When he mercy killed his son" or "when he shot the other survivors" it's just a complete gut punch of "he shot his son in the face".

Thank you for pointing this out. When I saw this movie I noticed just as the kid was sacrificed the threat went way...that is dark.

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Daemon Blackfyre Fuck, bro, I just thought that was Clint Eastwood from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly lol

Trevor Rogers it’s alright you ain’t the only one lol 😂 thought the same thing...

Roland needs to hurry up.

😂😂

I liked the director cut "Karen the movie: Hunt for refund"

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Same here, I barely watched it and the ending really shocked me. And when I saw the lady,that left in the beginning, I was Surprise. But what really got me was the ending

Yeah they kind of assumed they where trapped kind of easy. One of them could have left the car and risked themselves to see if they where maybe five feet in front of shelter? they could even leave the gun so suicide is still an option.

I think it was well expected The sheer horror and loss of hope on their faces when they saw the 3 story high creature walk past them made me expect no ending but giving up

@@outerheaven155 As far as they knew, the entire world could've been covered by the mist and let's face it, who could expect that mankind would actually win?

@@nerobernardino88 I don't think the group was concerned with what was going to happen to humanity, just their survival finding people or a building like the one they left could save them for the short term, and since they only had ammunition for all but one of them, sending that one to vainly look for temporary hope is not an unreasonable thing to do. Especially since with one fewer person in the car they now had sufficient bullets to end all their lives if a suicide/mercy killing did become the best option. My point is either someone from the group finds a route to survival or one of them is left over to be torn apart. Those are the only two viable paths at this point, they just chose the one that left them the least options.

No

Yes

Nes

@@mrmonkeyman652 NO

Also Martinez. I think that was his name.

I love how Darabont brought back Jeffrey DeMunn & William Sadler from Green Mile & Shawshank Redemption

It wasn't rushed tho, they have been driving for a long time with no hope in sight so when the car finally ran out of gas they saw it as the end of the line. As getting out to look for new vehicles or refill the gas tank wasn't an option since they have seen people die in minutes after leaving shelter. The only other option would have been to sit their and wait to die as they didn't know anyone else was out there.

If they'd waited 45 freakin' seconds, they'd have been saved.

@Salman Khan books aren't for everyone

@Salman Khan They came from another dimension where life is hellishly carnivorous.

Well it explains in the film.

You should see the Netflix series it has a bit of an explanation

@Salman Khan books are a preference dude, doesn't make you stupid if you dont wanna read them and rather see it in motion picture. I personally dont like books because I always fall asleep without fail and watching a movie and tv show helps me understand the story more than a dead tree with ink on it.

Jay-Money94 😂😂😂😂😂

King’s as well, I heard he wished he put the movie’s ending into his book.

I knew that was Miller but shit I didn't realize that was Juliana Crain

Someone call Smith, we've found her

He took his shots, and missed some. Hell, I'd even say the Dark Tower is _average_ at best, excellent only for its use of Multiverse before _anyone_ else. Gunslingers? Junk. Bad guy? Junk. Though having the Crimson King be a crazy was nice.

The fat check Stephen King received wasn't.

bryan diaz varela So is yours

Can we all agree to say that the show was never made?

Dustin W sure

Dustin W why was it bad ? I watched it like a week ago

BIG CHEESE I’ve just been waiting for this.

Same here haha

Wow damn i remember people asking about this

Nikkity I have been asking

Jeremiah the Pisces and he was doomsday in smallville

@@ThatMouthyMerc forgot about that yea he was

Visual effects casual < good story

TWSTF 8 That’s extremely shallow. You sound like one of those people that will adore a movie with good special effects but a garbage storyline.

Did you watch it in color or black & white?

Mad Pariah dead meat!!!!

Went awol and became deacon st John... Sam Witmor is so recognizable.

Probably your mom.

"Nightmare City" is the ONE exception to that rule.

Once again I really love the last scene the fact that he gives up the moment before he could have saved everyone proves him human knowing he'll have to live with the fact the rest of his life is the real tragedy of the movie this movie got to me in a way none of Kings other movies have I guess because he held out to what he thought was the very end only to find he didn't have to end it it's I don't know it's one of his better works

I chuckled a bit the second time I watched The Mist since that actor's characters tends to die alot in very horrific situations.