The Mist - Movie Review 

I never made the connection until seeing this review, but it is very much like an episode in The Twilight Zone called "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". Check it out if you are not familiar with it.

People watch movies and think "Pfft, it would NEVER happen that way. People would never....." Nah... people would most definitely act just like the movie.

My dad was in the military for a long time. He says people that go crazy like that are left behind or eliminated, depending how dangerous they and the situation are.

I thought that was a little silly and cartoonish. Then again, I’m not a sheltered, emotionally immature lunatic. Im from the south side of Chicago. I’ve been in life or death situations. I know plenty others that live most of their lives with the understanding that leaving your home is a deadly risk. While I fully understand people have a breaking point, and will cross it, people also rise to the situation just as frequently if not more so.

@@paulieprinceton4550 have a lot of religious extremist/zealots on the south side of chicago do ya?

Yeah he was disappointed that he didn’t think of it.

Yeah in the book it was kind of anti climactic.. they just drive off into an uncertain future - at least here you had a sense of closure here.

King has always had a problem with writing endings, and even said so himself in the prologue to The Mist that he couldn't figure out how to end the story.

I love the closure we actually get with the films ending. I honestly think this movie was a great adaptation. I don’t understand the hate this movie got when it came out

well considering the fact that he is well known for not making well endings it makes sense why it was changed here

The one on netflix is pretty good.

Chaos has arose in the past. And people have not acted like this, in fact the human side of people prevails in times of need more than the selfish parts of us.

@@thegame61923 I'm pretty sure giant monsters would gauge a differant reaction then whatever you're referencing as chaos.

@@thegame61923 We get it Gandalf 🤣

@@CompaDeArranke fly you fool

Ok thats a little dramatic

I sat in silence from the sheer amount of time I wasted watching this absolutely trash movie

@@kda7empest724 This is also pretty dramatic lmao

The ending was stupid because they would have waited until there was absolutely no option. It is like getting stranded and immediately killing yourself because oh, well.

@@isheetfromaswhole3657 I liked the concept Darabont was going for, but it was just so forced.

I didn't like the ending myself. I'm contemplating in going to the grocery store right now all because I want some alcohol in this stormy night.

@@isheetfromaswhole3657 the acting couldve been better but the concept hit hard still. The whole story is about them losing hope and in the last few minutes after they choose to give up is when help arrives. It's fucked up. I can clearly see it happen in real life.

@@isheetfromaswhole3657 That's the point. Fear of the unknown makes you do irrational things. You are armchair quarterbacking a situation that would drive anyone to the brink of sanity. And here you are, keyboard warrior, implying you would be all rational and calm. Check into reality sometime.

"Realistic." Protagonist doesn't stop for gas to avoid this situation, decides to kill his friends before it is necessary, mist randomly disappears when the military shows up. Realistic may be a stretch.

@@lerat6304 man your right he should have gotten gas at his local shell and get a snack too. Being in that situation witnessing murders , horrific experiences and the death of his wife, he would definitely be in the mental state to do that

@@Esteban_907 It's a life or death situation, and getting gas would have saved his life.

@@lerat6304 yeah I came here looking for this. That ending was odd and kinda didn't make sense

@@lerat6304 to be fair, they saw how horrible and brutal the deaths were by the monsters. They probably didn't want to risk it. Plus they can't see anything, how are they gonna find a gas station

Seen it three times already and even though the feeling of the first viewing is not the same, it still hits very strong. This movie is a masterpiece of horror and it shows what a great director frank darabont actually is.

Yeah I was getting wet-eyed but then Thomas Jane's "acting" took me out of the moment :/

Did not know that, I will try an find this version to watch thanks!

I never knew the movie was released in black and white o.o

Thanks for the tip. I need that Blu Ray.

Yup, the B&W version, for me, is far better.

@@erjino go visit a little pirate that lives in a bay. His friend vlc does b & w really well.

Actually, this theory got recently debunked. Watch the documentary The Raft.

The spiders scene i why i wont rewatch it. What Jeremy said. Literally the stuff of nightmares, which happen to be mine. Pretty good movie overall I'd say and I liked the ending. It's also the reason I haven't replayed bloodborne after beating it lol.

The ending is exactly why I keep coming back to this movie and rewatching it when it comes on TV. It was brilliant and something you rarely get to see done so well.

@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Its para-documentary there is HUGE difference, its like talking that I know all ppl are morons because I saw Big Brother (TV show).

@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 That's not "a theory" and it can't be "debunked". What the hell are you on?

If they are actually mad at you guys for the ending, then maybe they don't actually care about movies really. As an art form. Or art in general...

Well, you can't call them friends then.

That’s joke right? It’s God awful. Read the book. Its ending is so much better.

@@Jim87_36 you’re a joke

That's the ending where the dude kills everyone in the car then as he's waiting to die the military saves the day right?

@@Jim87_36 Stephen King greatly prefers the movie ending. I'm not here to say your opinion is wrong, but...you know.

@@popatsot1 yea, given how close they were to being rescued.

its so stephen king as well

I would have been happy with the movie if it ended like the book.

Something died inside me after watching this.

The best twisted ending ever!

I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna die at the time

awesome, i literally stared at the credits for 5 minutes cuz it traumitized me too XD... such a powerful ending

same in my cinema

I'm always surprised and thrilled when a movie does this. Not every movie needs to be a fantasy where the good guys win. If we can call movies art, then like other art, it can be sad or horrifying sometimes.

Same I was 14 when it came out now I'm almost 30

Chicken usually does the trick

@@TheBfutgreg 😂

@@TheBfutgreg what 🤣

The protein in chicken puts you in fight or flight mode

@@carlos.cr.7139 fowl != foul

Right?? It was so awesome that the protagonist doesn't walk smiling like all action movies. Makes even the viewer to question themselves

This is the first movie Ive seen how boy to be a shit hole dad.

Or just person in general.

No question, that ending had left me with my mouth wide-open. The shock was...honestly awesome!

Man that scene where they stab the soldier and throw him out still makes me feel nauseas to this day.. Sam Witwer should be in more movies 💯

@@firstlast9846 being human/ starkiller lol

true. Today producers wouldn't let you do it.

Had me shook for days after ✌🏾

Man....that's nuts

I watched it with my dad and we were shook for days XD

@@kinglydagon6035 oh yea..it’s rough.

@@apollo4657My dad actually likes the ending cause he normally can predict what's gonna happen in a movie from like the first 15 min but this movie........well it took a smooth left instead of the intended right XD

What are the ending from the book ? I didn't read the books

@@thecitizens4573 the original ending is the dad and son holed up in a hotel hoping to get to Hartford, CT.

@@thecitizens4573 I believe they hear a radio signal and follow it, driving off into the mist without any clue as to what happens to them.

@@pred6 awww... i can see that happening...crazy what they came up with tho my god

King did think of it, though. In the novella, when they escape the supermarket, the main character thinks: "I checked the gun and then put it into the glove compartment. Ollie had reloaded it after the expedition to the drugstore. The rest of the shells had disappeared with him, but that was all right. He had fired at Mrs. Carmody, he had fired once at the clawed thing, and the gun had discharged once when it hit the ground. There were four of us in the Scout, but if push came right down to shove, I'd find some other way out for myself."

Yes, those screams of pain, to that music was amazing

I..... Personally felt the screams were rather forced

@@Fitzgeralduh i dont think so. It might seem like overselling but thinm about what just transpired, that kind of reaction seems very justified. If you see people mourn in real life often there are definitely cases of people reacting exactly like that. The most striking part for me was when he puts the gun in his mouth but its out of ammo and you just here the empty clicks. So tragic.

How does it fit the theme? I'm honestly asking

@@loucifer9618 for me, not lose hope. They spent the movie with hope that things will be better, and that there's options to survive other than going full religious psycho, yet in the end, they got scared and gave hope right away, choosing the easy way out right away. They could at least wait until the monster were close to kill themselves, but hearing them was enough. Just 5 more minutes and they would all be save. Plus, it really hits home that they messed up in the end that they could all probably survive if they weren't so scared and more selfless if they had helped that lady right at the beginning - she survived and found her kids, and they also survived. But in reality, they were just as scared as the other people in the store, as much as we the audience didn't realise cause they were the main characters.

"Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you."

Koopang!

Hung was his best work. Loved that show.

Was it Thomas Jane's acting or was it the incredible plot and execution of a great show that made Thomas Jane stand out?

I can't wait to see S6 when Amazon dropped it on steams.

Darabont was going to direct The Long Walk, but the whole Walking Dead thing got him blacklisted in Hollywood

I was about to post this! I was shocked when I first saw it, but after a few moments I came to the same coclusion. If it wasn't for that lesson i probably wouldn't have liked it tbh.

Yeah, especially when you see that boss mom roll by on the truck with her kids. She just had this look on her face like "this is how's it's done."

Agreed.

@@SliderFury1 exactly that was always my takeaway from this movie! The contrast between the mom, who didn't give up hope, vs the "everyman/hero" who gave up/gave-in to despair.

Interesting you see a lesson here. I'd say you just want to believe that's a way to live your life thinking positive and wish to see it's confirmed in this film. There's no lesson. It was a crapshoot to think they would get rescued. It just as easily gone the other way given we saw early on a tough guy with a big knife come back in half. Some form of pain, none of us could conceive of, could be seconds away. A creature so grotesque our minds can't process the colors, the eyes, the teeth, smashes in like a freight train.

I think it was wonderfully executed myself. It might even be fair competition with Frank Darabont's earlier adaptation of "The Green Mile" IMHO. RIP John Coffey 😔

It's just so fucked that it feels like the creators were purposefully fucking with you. Especially for a movie like The Mist which is a sort of B-movie, where you're looking to have some good ole horror fun and not be emotionally wrecked for a fucking week. Definitely one of the best endings I've ever seen tho.

It's more nihilistic than trollish or tragic

@@niggardlylad2008 I don't think it is nihilistic at all. It is absolutely tragic. The man was operating with the information he had and made a decision that was reasonable in the face of overwhelming horror and it turns out that decision was completely unnecessary. He had no way of knowing that the Mist would just "pass on" and that the military would be able to easily dispose of the remnants left behind.

It was stupid. Welp. Fought all this way but we're out of gas now, so let's eat some bullets... Spend the night. Talk it over. Or, make me feel it's warranted and have a ton of bugs flying around, making the car rock, then decide to do it. Jane then come out of the truck and await for the swarm to take him but they don't, as they are flying past him to get away from the army that was forcing the bugs to flee. That to me would have been a tragic ending and better one, IMO.

i dont know why, but i love this comment lol

@@DeRockMedia You're dad is supposed to be the rock when everything goes wrong.

@@thebassconnection7226 what does dwayne johnson have to do with this? (jk)

But it's not real. If a killer outside cut your power, would you take yourself out before they got to you? It's that stupid.

@@artboymoy Not like that at all. It would be like 20 killers outside your home, you just watched all your neighbors get slaughtered, no one is coming to save you and you hear them slowly making their way inside to slaughter everyone including your kids. When there is no "perceived" hope what do you do.

@@artboymoy Bad take.

@@fanboyofeverything31 I rewatched the ending. You heard a roar in the distance and that's it. There was no immediate danger. If you lost that much hope, why even bother getting in the car? Seems like things were way more dire in the supermarket.

@@artboymoy no immediate danger? The entire mist was immediate danger you’re just being a contrarian

I don't really get depressed but I was dumbfounded. In a good writing but horrible way.

I think that's why I loved the movie so much, totally subverts your expectations. Maybe I'm crazy though

@@grantmcmahon8735 It doesn't subvert expectations. Do tell me what are your expectations from a mist that may or may not be connected to killing people. There are predictory creatures in your area which we don't see the source of how do we deal with the source? The Mist was scary because it had so much was unknown. The very very end some of the answers were given but by the point in the movie it could have changed. Look up ""Original Ending" to The Mist"

@@Stonegoal no I think you're right. But it does subvert expectations. Because in a world of Hollywood movies where the good guy wins and everyone lives happily ever after, the ending was so out of left field that it dumbfounded audiences.

100+ ppl?! wow... i would of loved to of been there.

@@DeRockMedia yeah it was a mix of 2 or three courses in a big screening room on campus. I think it was the week before we had to watch the first episode of Black Mirror, where this time within the first 2 minutes 100+ people had a pretty strong reaction to the plot 😂😂

I agree, the ending of the movie deviated from the book, but still I loved it, the plot twist I didn't see coming at the time 💯.

From what I heard in the commentary Stephen King was shocked himself and wished he had written it like that.

Exactly! I remember when the ending was coming up I kept thinking the movies almost over, they're in the car still driving when the story ends..then the twist came and I just stared at the screen

@@PACKERMAN2077 wow I didn't know that. Amazing

@@aliengranpa yeah it hits hard

@@PACKERMAN2077 The ending was Stephen King's idea, it's literally in the novella, when they escape the supermarket the main character thinks: "I checked the gun and then put it into the glove compartment. Ollie had reloaded it after the expedition to the drugstore. The rest of the shells had disappeared with him, but that was all right. He had fired at Mrs. Carmody, he had fired once at the clawed thing, and the gun had discharged once when it hit the ground. There were four of us in the Scout, but if push came right down to shove, I'd find some other way out for myself."

Stephen king himself acknowledge that the ending to the movie was better then any of the multiple endings he made when he was writing the book. He was like damn that’s messed up… I love it 😂

King actually agrees with you. He stated he wished he had thought of it....

100%

Yeah I thought so too, it was so twisted

It was Devastation & elegant in a warped way .

the look on the soldiers face as they passed the car.......lmao

Without that ending. The movie would have been meh

THat is the reason why many people didn't like the ending. Because it is that one most horrific thing to live through and it just doesn't fit into their life agenda. Even if being in a situation like that. I can understand why many hate it. That is the reason why I love it. Because Horror is not the monsters it's the people and the fear we have... Nothing beats some good old school 101 psychology.

At first I didn't like it not because it's sad, but because it was kind of staged and rather predictable, because it always felt like the Mist would only subside once he killed everyone. Also, you get this situation that is very well defined along with a punchline, but there's no creativity from the characters when the Mist itself, as an environment, is sort of like a new frontier outside of the events of the mall which worked sort of like Plato's Cave situation where you were cut off from the real world, but also given a limited view from it. To sum it up, you don't actually know the odds of surviving in it, if this film was to be seen that way. That said, today I appreciate the cosmic horror aspect of it and the idea that, in the same way the Mist exaggerated the fanaticism on the people in the mall, it drove Dave to believe that, that was his best option and that it was a burden he had to carry, which makes me believe that if they waited for a week on that car, the Mist would only subside once he was the only one left.

Me 2 creepy

I like your style

@@horridCAM You mean his wife's :P!

@@patrykk11 yeah lol. I was tired

LMAOOOO

If I remember correctly Sam Witwer was also the zombie soldier inside the tank in the first episode of TWD, there was originally going to be a spinoff miniseries about him.

He didn't get to do all of season two. That being said, I still love that season.

My favorite ending I’ve ever seen is from the film Come and See

The book ain't even that dark lmfao

And it’s one of the best endings ever.

@@LILCHEESE99 i think king said that he woulda like to create that ending in his book, he was kinda jelous.

Yeah this ending competes with Night of the Living Dead and the alternate ending of Get Out lmao. Anyone else have any other fucked up profound endings for films they like they could share?

How does that help ?

@@yaugustin7370 probably puts whatever shit they've got going on into some kind of perspective? "At least I ain't THAT guy." People are strange like that.

honestly...its the main reason i immediately clicked the video when i saw it uploaded lol

Same here. Even more now I have kids.

The fact that he kept trying to shoot himself... bro

Truth and Facts!!!!

ok i wouldn't go that far. That title belongs to "the thing" ending. when both the dudes are sitting out in the snow waiting to die.

@@bdasaw he said one of the greatest. not thee greatest

@@danahousley-preaster2865 oh you're right :P

lol, no

My face twisted in shock like “Jeremy ur a bit late there buddy” lmao but I missed his content

I think he watched it way back when, that's why in his skit he's still working at the movie theater.

I thought there was a new one out.

Must have watched it years ago, reviewing it now just for the channel.

how did the original ending go?