HisNameIsFrank said:
King loves writing about true horror:mob mentality when choas sets in. There is no greater evil than human.
I understand this. But the film was utterly ridiculous. Even for science-fiction and horror, the film (or whatever artistic medium) needs to allow the reader to suspend their disbelief. This allows fiction, no matter how "out there" it is to still be entertaining and enjoyable.
Suspension of disbelief: "It refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible. It also refers to the willingness of the audience to overlook the limitations of a medium, so that these do not interfere with the acceptance of those premises. According to the theory, suspension of disbelief is a quid pro quo: the audience tacitly agrees to provisionally suspend their judgment in exchange for the promise of entertainment.
I could not suspend my disbelief while watching
The Mist. The story was full of holes, the acting was pitiful (the "star" in particular was god awful) - nothing made any kind of logical sense, even with science fiction/horror logic in mind.
****possible "spoilers" ahead****
My take, or why I hated this bullshit film: So there's this mist that envelops the town...ok, I'm still following...this mist mummifies people in certain situations (like those people in the pharmacy)...ok, still with you...but, this mist ALSO IS THE HOME TO MONSTERS! And these monsters really suck, some are bug-like creatures, and some are strange dinosaur looking things, pretty low-rent creatures...either way, they are dangerous, and they look like they were created with CGI from 1996....and how did these monsters/mist arrive? Why, they came through a RIFT FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION of course! And how was this rift created? From some sort of military "testing," because typically, the military does a lot of testing with "other dimensions" and whatnot...
I swear, they tied up the loose ends as if a nine-year old wrote the story.
"So Johnny...what's in this "mist?"
Monsters!
"What kind of monsters, Johnny?"
Bugs! Flesh eating bugs...and Dinosaurs!
"Oooookay...So where did this mist come from?"
Another dimension!
"Ok, let's go with that..."
And I am far from a movie snob. I'll watch a lot of shit that other people think is too low-brow, or doesn't have a great plot. If it's entertaining, it's entertaining. This film, aside from sucking majorly, did not entertain me. It actually made me ANNOYED bordering on insulted as I watched it. I was wondering how the filmmakers could have seen the final cut of this shit heap and said, "Yes, this is it. This is my vision; a great final product."