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ORIGINAL: DanCurley

It's amazing because it's shot in a way that's almost documentary. Not handheld, more like that TV cops. It's also inventive in the fact you've no idea what's out there. It isn't one beast, or one type of beast, and you've no idea what's gonna attack next (be it the size of a pigeon or the size of a football stadium. And yeah, the lunatic bible basher and her crazed manipulation of the situation was perfecto mundo.

I tried watching it again last night but fell asleep halfway through (...eerrr, I'll buy the DVD when it comes out, I promise!) due to drunken knackeredness. The actual mist itself is wonderfully creepy and scary. The endins extremely dark... Event Horizon isn't even the same sport. But we're done with that film that even Fish himself said was a load of nonsense.

But if you want to know about proper horror, check out John Tucker Must Die on Sky Comedy (just realised it's on in the background). It'll haunt you for the rest of your life.

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ORIGINAL: kenada_woo

Its shot like that because Daranbont loved filming an episode of The Shield (one of his fav shows), loving how you can shoot quick and get what you want etc...but i found out of place.  Its shot in a TV movie static way, then there's crash zooms in action scenes and handheld work -- felt like it was trying to make something not interesting interesting. 

The creatures we're pooh.  Like I said, they look like creatures from Evolution.  The mist is creepy in Silent Hill, The Fog and Dead and Buried, mist is creepy -- doesnt make it special.

Lunitic bible basher is the only thing that was interesting for me.  And the ending is really dark.  Doesnt make it good though.

And its Event is one of Fish's fav films.  Anderson says on the commentary Larry's got an Event Horizon leather jacket he used to wear all the time, and called Anderson when he was doing The Matrix to say that the wire work for te zero G stuff in Event helped him out loads in doing the wirework for that film.

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ORIGINAL: kenada_woo

Its shot like that because Daranbont loved filming an episode of The Shield (one of his fav shows),

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Well I was only pointing out the two catagory's in comparrison "Inventivenss" and "Creatures" which The Mist is nowhere near to being as good as IMO not comparing films.

The Relic - Probably the most underrated creature feature of the last 10 years up until The Host came on the scene.  It has a great monster in it created by the late Stan Winston.

As for inventiveness -

Switchblade Romance - probably the most inventive slasher to come out in the past 5 years (slasher fans back this up) until Frontiers and Inisde came out. 

Silent Hill - Again underrated in my book.  Visually stunning and full of nightmarish scenes that uses its "fog" atmosphere to best effect and it religious cult theme to a better extent to pay off to its characters than the Mist with its ending.

Event Horizon - Same as above, visually striking, inventive haunting images and hasnt been topped for over 10 years because nobody's made a sci-fi horror in space for over a decade minus Pitch Black (another film I'd throw into the list).  Its also got a growing fanbase.

Land Of The Dead - What Romero is famous for is delivering inventive action and gore which this had in spades (and what Diary Of The Dead just never had).

Shaun Of The Dead - As above, just clever and inventive no matter if its a comedy.

Arachnophobia - Ditto.  Still has great tension more so than the spider-esque stuff in The Mist.

And I dont care about reviews honestly to prove a film is "good".  If I did I would've missed most if not all horror films that are released or came out (I'm looking at you John Carpenter).  And the fact Land, Switchblade Romance, Arachnophobia, Shaun Of the Dead all got equally if not better reviews than The Mist goes to show that dont mean much.

The Mist isnt a bad film, its just a non-starter with nothing new and just isnt fun to watch being that its all a bit pointless.

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ORIGINAL: DanCurley

I didn't come across anything about the bush admin, where was that reflected on? I don't remember the bit where he turns up, tries to bottle the mist and lob it into Iran.

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ORIGINAL: DanCurley

Someone's banging on about Batman being pro-Bush on the Batman topics. Makes people look smart dunnit, real hyper-intellectuals. No time for that sorta six-formian foamy-mouthed rabidity on an entertainment forum...

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ORIGINAL: Biggs Darklighter

**** MASSIVE SPOILERS ****

I knew nothing whatsoever about this movie when I picked it up and I recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to stay the hell away from spoilers/ reviews. (EDIT : which means you must stop reading this now!! ) All I can say is I agree with anyone who says this is one of the great horrors of recent times.

The monsters (including the humans) are nice and nasty, (the bit in the pharmacy is pure Aliens, people cocooned with creatures growing in their bodies), it's well acted and has a great collection of characters.

I can full well see why this flopped in America, the bible basher is psychotic which can't have gone down too well over there, the ending is arguably one of the darkest I've seen -ever! My only question is could they have not waited a few hours, at the very least until they were under attack before taking a bullet?

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ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD

am i seriously like the only person that hated the bleak ending? I really couldn't stand how dark it ended, urgh depressing. Overall i liked the movie and would love to see the black and white version but its just the ending that left a really sour taste in my mouth.