The Mist - Nostalgia Critic 

For the commercial special could you do the “IKEA start the car” commercial?

For the Commercial Special can you talk about the following?: Shaving Fun Ken Those Barbie and GI Joe Nissan ads, even a car company shipped those two The Match Made in Hell commercial from 2020 Hess Trucks Celebrity Snickers commercials, you know like that one where Willem Dafoe dressed up as Marilyn Monroe Michael Jackson's Pepsi commercials That credit card commercial with Kevin Hart and the mom from Home Alone

I'm still waiting for Doug to review Meteor Man, Postman, & Bicentennial Man. In my opinion, these are 3 underrated films that deserve to be talked about.

I KNEW you wouldn't fail bringing us Stephen King Time!!!! I love you Doug!!!

Doug, please! Review a spin-off show of those Titanic movies called “Fantasy Island”. You just have to witness it!

By Darth Maul, you mean the guy who was cut in half, right? Cause I'll admit, that's pretty funny

Don’t Forget Dr. Zola

The soldier is also Galen Marek

thats not darth maul. its darth vaders apprentice

And Doomsday

A military in movies being portrayed as competent is TIGHT!

@@chasehedges6775 yee

Idk, we only really saw a glimpse of them near the end, and although they might have enough firepower to take down one of the big creatures, they didn't have any way to contain the portal, or stop monsters coming out. It's basically safe to assume the world was still doomed, even with the military showing up, since the portal would keep growing until it became so big that our entire planet would be completely sucked into that other dimension. Especially since it was opened by accident, containment already failed, and most of the scientists involved in the experiment were probably already dead before the end of the movie, so there is practically no way to know how to close the portal, or even stop it's expansion.

@@Trojianmaru Uh... no. For starters, if the portal was "growing" as you suggest, the survivors wouldn't be in the grocery store alive whatsoever, same for alternate-Carol and her kids. They'd have been swallowed up by that point. Plus, if I remember correctly, the soldier theorized something "bled into our world", not that an ever-expanding wormhole is swallowing up the planet cause in that situation nothing in the town would be left. And if the situation was that this was an ever-expanding wormhole... then why are the military coming OUT of it? The protagonist was trying to find some way OUT of the town when their car ran out of fuel. Like, that was the tragedy of the movie's ending... the characters were riiiiiiiiiiiight at the edge of salvation. The only remaining monsters were literally right behind them, not ahead. Had they just gone a touch further, they would have seen as much. Heck, the Army convoy that shows up is escorting survivors (a LOT of them, by the way) out of the area, not pushing into it. We even see 2 soldiers stop to check on the wailing protagonist. If it was an expanding wormhole they wouldn't have stopped, they would've picked him up or left him there while they hoofed it out of there. Plus, given what we see of the creatures, even if it was a wormhole that transformed a good chunk of the planet, there's no reason to assume our modern weapons couldn't handle them. I think even Stephen King noted that he liked this ending, where the day *is* saved, but the protagonist has lost everything compared to his novella where the situation was much more ambiguous. So... no... there's no evidence to suggest your point is accurate.

Tbh I think the only weakenss of the ending is that no one did anything to signal to someone shooting a gun that a convoy was near, it would have been nice if they did something to make it clear that the mist distorted sound or something similar so no one could hear it or something along those lines

nope

…How? It retroactively reduces the rest of the film to a massive waste of time in a series of comical contrivances and forced drama at the last possible second.

I actually feel like it made me angry and that I wasted my time, but that's how I feel about those kinds of endings.

@@purpleemerald5299 Rouge one by that logic was a waste of time but some still like it, sometimes there doesn't need a happy ending it doesn't mean it was pointless it's the journey that matters.

@@kwayneboy1524 …Except all the main characters in *Rogue One successfully complete their missions, make peace with their fates, and it all ends on a hopeful note that ties directly into their faction’s victory in the very next film. I never expressed any issue with character deaths as a concept, my issue was entirely with the central driving force of the plot (in this case, survival) getting tossed aside at the last possible second for cheap shock value.

Thought everyone knew that already

I wonder if he’ll do a Nostalgia Critic on “Carrie”…

@@morgan_c Remake or original?

@@joshuakusuma5953 He should do The Rage: Carrie 2. And blame it on Stephen King for lulz and views, even though King was in now way involved with that shit.

@@morgan_c Yes! I really want him too!

In fairness, not even Doug could roast that badass design.

It helps that it's obscured in The Mist, so you can't make out any smaller details. Which would have been a fantastic idea to use for all the other monsters in the movie, but...

You say "also" as if you already said something... You do know even if you wrote a comment before no one has any fkn idea what it was and writing another comment with "also" is stupid and pointless.

the ending to his original short was even worse. they just drove into the mist and that was it. he added the hotel/motel bit to the extended version he released after/around the time the film came out.

@@RaptorNX01 Even then the movie flexed on his endings

Everyone knew that, dumbass. It's already in the video 😂

@@RaptorNX01 Yeah, the original is what I remember, and they're just driving and knowing they're low on gas, so it's more an "INTO THE UNKNOWN" ending (although the giant creature was in there too)

To be fair, improving on a Stephen King ending is a low bar to clear

Indeed. It's always great when the creator praises it

he also said that the dark tower adaptation was amazing.... sure the shinning and lawnmower man get the slap but these shits get the thumb up

It also tells you that he was likely on drugs when he watched it.

ikr.

Or it tells you that he's seen so many garbage adaptations of his books that when he sees one that isn't a complete dumpster fire, he praises it like it's a masterpiece.

That happens. When trees break, their branches are tangled together and pieces end up swinging instead of falling STRAIGHT down. That's why amateur tree cutters are so hilarious on youtube!

The Mist was published in 1980 and Silent Hill in 1999. I guess the mist in the game was due to hardware limitations of Playstation but it works in favor of the game.

Also a little Half-Life with an experiment gone wrong opens portals and random alien animals come through.

@@kommodore979 Half-Life was actually greatly inspired by the original short story, funnily enough.

@Pablo Maldonado Don't worry about that 200 foot tall colossus. That infantry man with a flame thrower will kill it; and if he fails, one of his buddies will shoot it with some 5.56 rounds. ;-)

The setting of Silent Hill is based on a real world disaster of Centralia.

And then the series just dragged on too long for me to give a damm anymore, and in agreement with Yahtzee (Zero Punctuation in another review) going "Enough with the fucking zombies already!" I don't remember what game it was for aside the subject matter.

Well the guy who played Dale quit after Darabont was fired so he was killed off. No idea about Andrea's actress.

Walking Dead lost its charm to me after... what, 2nd season? how many times will we get "we have to move to find safe place- we arrived at safe place- we met an Evil to be defeated- Evil is defeated after we lost some people dear to our hearts- we have to move to find safe place...". I like to watch Rick Grimes do badass things, but enough is enough

Whoop whoop

And about damn time

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Screams yay like Kermit the frog while waving his hands in the air

That reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons, with the very tall man.

No! He would be screaming…..A BAT CREDIT CARD……

Haven’t shook my head more since his views on Disney’s Hercules

Because screaming is funny

It's Last Action Hero all over again.

I've been at the only concert in Italy of Lisa Gerrald (& Brendan Perry) just to listen this song (Host of Seraphim) live. :)

can you tell me what was the original episode with "One woman wailing"?) I don't remember and can't find 😩

@@TheOneWhoBites It's at the end of the Avatar review :)

There was one in WWZ too I think

Wait Weinstein……….

It's always a Weinstein!

Are you sure that's accurate? Because I sincerely HATED that manipulative and dumb ending. To kill your kid for unknown reasons or when you're NOT ABSOLUTELY SURE that you're doing him/her a favor, is flat out RIDICULOUS. I knew after he did that, that the ending would be what it was. Just awful. As pretentious as his Green Mile movie and the Last of Us part 2 game.

You picked an awesome user name, I just wanted to acknowledge that.

@@mickael486 1. I completely agree. 2. Except with Green Mile. I don’t get what was pretentious about it that wasn’t taken from the book. 3. HE WORKED ON TLOU 2!?!?!?

Funny, was just listening to Slipknot's new stuff before watching this vid. I live in FL, and there is a 'weirdness' to some people here as well, as the news can attest to. It's interesting how certain places can produce a certain mindset or vibe in people.

Besides, thanks to King (and the 1960s version of Dark Shadows) Maine is now the new Transylvania! Lived in Maine my whole life too btw. Mostly along the Midcoast.

As a fellow mainer I agree with you!!

Lots of important things come from Maine, like...lobsters for example

@Democrats Lie I never said it was great. But, it does have a bit of interesting ideals that were never fleshed out due to it only having one season.

Like “without their heads they’re powerless”

@@GenericProtagonist118 but those are normal weaknesses

time to pull out the pantry doors

Agreed. It doesn't matter if they look like Cthulhu's house pests just beat them with a stick or burn em and that's enough.

Yeah. I also liked how the regular creatures in the mist were pretty realistic as well.

Don't worry Not Carol fought off the first monster with her bare hands and teeth and built a weapon out of its stinger. She went on to kill so many of the creatures that she was drenched in their blood and found that they no longer attacked her, as she now smelled rotten to them (the reason religious idiot was spared, she was just rotten). The rest of the way home was easy, but her kids tell her the creatures had taken the youngest. Her randomly psychic child claims the kid is still alive and calling for help and that she can make out images of the military base. Unwilling to accept his death, she smears the kids with blood and tells them to hunker down in the cellar, while she gets the youngest back. On the way to the military base she parties up with an alcoholic cop, her school bully, a religious guy and a straight up a-hole book critic for additional kill-fodder. On the way to the base the religious guy thinks that surely churches are safe and gets himself and the critic killed. It starts raining, washing off the blood. The cop sacrifices himself heroically, after talking about getting sober for his kid. The ex-bully panics and steals NCarol's weapon and runs off with it, but we hear some satisfying screams, heavily implying that person's death. Just when the creatures close in ex-cop and later bully all bloodied, shows back up and they manage to fight the creatures off together and escape. School bully apologizes. They finally make it to the badly-CGed portal in the military base and the group stares for a moment. A giant mass of fleshy substance has grown all over walls and im it are countless unconscious humans. Through plot-convenience NCarol immediately knows that the humans are powering the portal, since the base no longer has electricity. The cop says great and is about to start cutting up the flesh vines leading to the portal, when he is stabbed from behind by the bully, who claims to be one with the creatures now. He promptly gets eaten alive by a huge creature coming out of the portal. The boss fight ensues with NCarol using everything she learned to keep the creature at bay. Alco-cop regains consciousness makes a molotov out of the his last bottle of alcohol and incinerates the creature and the vines. The two and those battery-humans that survived, including her son, go out and see the mist evaporate. Cue NCarol coming home, passing dead monsters and saying something corny like "We are the new people." Or "Sorry had to pick something up."

I like to think she just didnt encounter any monsters until she got to the military

Yeah, that's the vibe I got; the context of these monsters is what terrifies people. Hell, the idea of mutated spiders laying eggs inside you while you're still alive and them bursting your insides as they hatch? That DOES sound scary. But this is Nostalgia Critic; the looks of the CGI effects is ALWAYS the determining factor for him.

Also I really enjoy the giant ones that appear near the end which kind of helps that whole hopeless feeling.

bruh i got chills the moment they stepped in the pharmacy.

Yeah, I think this is what Doug was missing. It seems to me that it's not necessarily the surface level designs/effects that left an impact on people, but rather the scenarios and ideas that come with the imagery. While I agree with Doug that the movie would probably have been more effective had they mostly kept the monsters obscured in the mist, that doesn't change the fact that the idea of us accidently opening a portal that lets in a mist full of Eldritch Horror monsters is pretty damn terrifying.

I see what you did there........ nice👍

Dumb as this movie's ending.

I love the ending, it takes balls to end a film so harshly

Exactly, people simply stupidly fell for it 😂

I’ve been meaning to watch that version

I might have to watch it for that alone.

Personally I hated it, because the movie was faithful to the source material up until that point.. but Movies Gotta Movie.

I personally loathe it. They turned the characters in a bunch of psycotic cowards at the very end of the movie.

@@mrblack5145 Stephen King love it, the moment he saw it he say that he wished that he wrote it.

My wife HATED the ending. I thought it was fine, but the child death got her in a furious rage.

Yea doug is kinda full of himself on this one, btw have u seen the black and white version? Its much better

In the novella the creatures feel even more Lovecraftian and weird

I love this movie I'm a sucker for lovecratian horror

It's hard to do Lovecraft justice but this is one occasion where it's done to perfection.

Yeah, stop talking smack about Lisa Gerrard, Doug! You heathen.

Wasted on the scene.

Also was used in Legend of The Guardians: Owls of Ga'hool

I've never understood Dougs hate for that type of music. If it's because of Zack Synders overuse of the music, that's really stupid. When I hear Host of Seraphim, I think of The Mist.

Most probably the best female voice in the world. I've seen here live in 2019 and sadly her health is not in a good shape. :(

Have to agree about the tentacles. Honestly I remember being frightened by the creatures not because of what they looked like but because of what they could do. The tentacle would shred whatever they touched, the spiders had acid webbing that would burn off limbs, the bugs had large venomous stingers. Yeah they might look a bit goofy (but honestly not that goofy) but I still wouldn't want that shit anywhere near me.

I guess the idea of those monsters scared people. Not everyone watches movies like Critic does and obsesses over wether or not the effects look convincing. Sometimes, giving people the idea of what these monsters can do to you is enough to make them terrifying, and yes, arachnophobia is THE biggest phobia on the planet, of course some would dread the mere thought of having spider eggs layed inside you while you're still alive

The neighbour would only be annoying if you are incredibly Gullible and blindly believe things without evidence. Otherwise he is a rational character with anti-social character traits

My family watched it and hated it the same. My brother had already seen in theaters and when we asked him why he let us watch it he said "I wanted you guys to suffer like I did." He also said the theater cheered when the religious nut was shot.

Didn’t know you were a Stephen King Fan 👍

if by classic you mean old and over used, but I do feel this is one of the rare instances of it actually being done well.

@@RaptorNX01 "Overused" When has this exact situation happened in a movie?

@@dislike_button33 around the time you last read a thread fully before replying to it.

@@dislike_button33 A main character making a mistake that results in things going horribly wrong at the end?

Not really, I can understand mercy killing them if they were stranded for a day or two, but damn the ending feels too fast, military also shows up way too fast after he kills them

Thats sweet, and also funny, poor guy was thinking "how the hell will I tell my kid that the dad killed his kid because sometimes thats the right thing to do?" Even if it wasnt

That's sadly hilarious.

Were u dropping a deuce the size of a building or something bro? XD!

@@somedudewhodraws9377 Movie theaters don't have toilets right next to every screen.

You have a good, loving father. Good for you. His love shines even through that little funny story

Hell yeah, Kathy Bates is terrifying in that movie. I love when she says, "I love you," after crippling the poor guy with a sledgehammer.

Overrated af bitch. The Green Mile is so much better

I mean king's best writing/adaptations are usually when it's just regular people with little to no supernatural stuff- case and point: Misery, Shawshank & green mile

Wait a fu-

It really splattered my expectations!

Carol was actually able to keep her kids alive this time

How the fuck did she make it when everybody else 5 seconds into the edge of the mist gets minced like wet paper.

@@magnusm4 Plot armor works well.

@@magnusm4 it might be that she got out before the big monsters arrived and then just lucked out for the smaller ones and hunkered out at home

Yeah, that was the character Nostalgia Critic says never shows up again, about 9:30 or so. It’s as if he did not actually watch the movie, the number of mistakes and wrong opinions he has on this one.

The military literally caused the mist. They open a portal at Project Arrowhead.

@@scottneil1187 the created a get way between world that went bad, but instead of doing the evil thing like killing survive or feeding the mist. there rescuing survivors. Yeah there the cause but there trying to fix it.

@@scottneil1187 But they weren't intentionally bad, just reckless.

@@jackcoleman1784 he means the military men we see aren't evil.,

I hated the ending at first, but when considering all the cliche deus ex machina endings in movies, it's honestly pretty fresh and nice!

Most people like it. Critic forces his s*** on us hard without making his homework. Its a The Wall situation minus the pregnant furries.

As somebody said- it's "Night of the Living Dead" ending it actually took me by surprise

@@MforMovesets he isn't forcing you to hate it

The ending is so good at manipulating weak minds, I admit that, otherwise there wouldn't be so many saying is good

@@dannyjorde2677 No, I think it was a fantastic piece of dark humor. It had me rolling the first time I saw it.

But this film isn’t cheesy it tried to be serious, and the monsters don’t look real or goofy enough for it to work, it’s more like a serious monster movie that accidentally is cheesy. Not in a way that was intended, just a run of the mill King adaptation.

@@jackhageman9983 Darabont intentionally directed the movie as a throwback to 1950's-1960's horror, celebrating screenwriters like Paddy Chayefsky, and releasing a version of The Mist in black and white, which is Darabont's preferred version. Darabont says the movie draws from The Twilight Zone, Lord of the Flies, and the 1944 film Lifeboat, among others. I.e., most things people criticize about The Mist are largely intentional, and hence viewers who don't like those eras of horror are not likely to enjoy The Mist either (e.g., because "cheesy"). I think Critic either doesn't get that due to poor research, or doesn't care, because the film's an easy target for material.

@@oskarraulin2908 If it’s a throwback then why does Darabont play it so serious? Then when the monsters come out it becomes a big awful mess. If he really cared the monsters would be practical (Kinda like how they are in the 50s/60s) instead of horribly outdated cgi. The presentation is bad in black and white and in color because the movie wants to be both a callback to campy films and a serious drama. A classic case of trying to have your cake and eating it too. I’m not against those films you mentioned and some of them I like. I just feel like this movie poorly implemented the homages it was trying to employ and ultimately ends up being a mess. The director should stick to what he does best, stuff like Shawshank or The Green Mile. Both better representations of Stephen King vastly superior to this clunky, tonally confused film.

​@@jackhageman9983 I would argue that the writers and directors of the earlier styles he was emulating were also playing it serious, and not all of their works turned out great. Mostly, though, I'm just passing on the director's own comments on what he intended, in order to hypothesize why people may not have enjoyed The Mist, and to comment on why I think this review is pretty shallow. Clearly Darabont's intentions in making this film may not have held up too well in the film's final form, for reasons you and others have said. Personally, I enjoyed The Mist and all its messy, terrible cheesiness, but hated the ending. Obviously an unpopular take.

There are so many things Critic doesn't seem to get...

He should have reviewed that one.

The film exceled in creating an atmosphere of total oppression. The idea of more unknowable monsters lurking in the mist will always be scarier than the actual monsters we do see.

A moose bite my sister

Lol you're manipulable af 😂

You've _gotta_ try Still Alice or Schindler's List one of these days.

i was laughing all the way from cinema when i saw it first time. So lame and stupid it was

The ending gets even worse when you know a bullet to the head doesn't always equal instant death. The round could curve off the skull and hit the brain wrong. The MC probably left that car full of people twitching as their bodies go into shock. The easy way out ain't as quick, peaceful, or painless as movies would have one think!

The lesson is dont shoot your kid when you can wait for the creatures to actually attack you

Holy crap, I didn't even know he was in this!

And who woulda thought that poor army guard would be become a Star Wars legend

kenobiiiii..... KANOBEAAAAARGH

Sam Witwer would be a good Batman.

As a kid i was so confused when i saw Starkiller appear in this movie all of a sudden

I thought you were gonna end Nostalgiaween with Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween

Shame he couldn't try and get one out on Halloween day

Couldn’t say it better 🎃❤️

He was really ignorant though. Right off the bat. He was dissing the painting of the Gunslinger. Saying it has nothing to do with the plot. OBVIOUSLY the main character is having visions of creatures from The Dark Tower, and outworld, etc.

@@macturner2196 Which plays no part in the story. The character never turns up again, no one mentions the dark tower, it’s completely irrelevant aside from just being an Easter egg.

It does a good job of hiding the creature effects as well. Darabont had intended this adaptation to be an homage to classic horror and I think just giving it that one little touch goes a long way towards actually selling it.

lol i didn't knew there is black and white version.

What?! It's a big news for me, I go to search and watch...

Yeah Doug clearly never been to a hıgh school dorm.

His Maul voice was so incredible

Also the character model and voice for Starkiller in Force Unleashed I think.

And From a game called Days gone Deacon Saint John

@@burakoshimazaki correct

The Dark Tower should've been done as a TV show. Think about it, with competent writers/show runners, a big budget and doing one book (maybe two to be safe) per season. It could work.

@@jbvader721 Before the movie came out I was so hoping it would get a TV adaptation because I knew there was no way it could work as a movie. Alas, it was not to be. Maybe someday it'll get another adaptation.

@@00ammy00 completely agreed there, the only thing the film somewhat got right was the casting- Idris Elba does a pretty good Roland

Makes me think of Simpsons where PTA disbands

Maybe to actresses like her, playing characters so in-your-face evil is just too easy

It's a stupid ending, forced af.

@@dannyjorde2677 yeah I'd have to agree with you.

@@dannyjorde2677 extremely forced. "Ih no we're facing danger and uncertainty, better all kill ourselves" like our ancestors literally didn't fight for survival? Like people in today's age aren't fighting for survival?

@@dannyjorde2677 It's a smart ending. It's logical af.

I hated it 😅 but I hate those kind of endings in any horror movie so it's a Me problem lol

No i remember the crazy Jesus lady because i’ve seen literal evangelicals like her who just lacked the power to get people to listen

@@mckenzie.latham91 Watch Midnight Mass if you want a far superior crazy Jesus lady.

@@mckenzie.latham91 but even then, all i remember is somebody throwing something at her.