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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3902250" data-attributes="member: 3649">I went to see it today. I am still divided about how I feel about the ending. On one hand, it kinda ruins the story. On the other hand, it makes it an even more effective horror movie. On the whole, as a big fan of the original story, I liked the movie. It's certainly quite a few cuts above most of the work derived from a King story.The movie is a very quiet one, as well. Almost no music at all, except for I think something at the beginning and a choral at the end. Very effective; the cinematagraphy you see with that doesn't follow the standard pattern, either; there are no exaggerated natural sounds, such as long periods of heavy breathing or such. It gives the film a very realistic quality without devolving into shakey-cam you-are-there antics.The movie follows the story very well from what I remember, and the things they added are good things. There is more interaction and more character development. People act very naturally and give explanations for their actions, or the explanation is very natural from what you've seen before. Even crazy Jesus-freak Mrs Carmody (and Lord help whoever poor Mr Carmody must have been) has a depth and a rational basis for her actions. She devolves into true madness as the film progresses but even so she never comes across as a black and white character. You can guess most of the action from the trailers but they don't give away a great deal of the details. The creature effects are top notch, and people's reactions to them very nicely done. From what I remember, most of the action in the story happens in the movie; the parts where the people in the grocery start to turn on each other are, if they not in the story, are presented in a strong and beleivable fashion.Now, as to the changes I know took place.1. [spoiler]I'm not sure in the story if they come right out and say that the research at the Army base is the cause, but here they do. They were trying to open a window to look at other dimensions, but that window must have turned into a doorway.[/spoiler]2. The ending.[spoiler]OK, in the story, David and at least his kid make it out of the grocery and they drive off into the Mist. A titanic creature passes above them without even noticing them, strongly hinting that the Mist is all over by now and the time of Mankind is at an end. In the movie, we see the titanic creature - very effective - and David keeps driving. They go by his house and see the body of his wife hoisted up against the trees, coccooned by the acid-spider-things.There is him, his son, Amanda, and two much older shoppers, Irene and I think Dan. They run out of gas and they can hear the things out in the Mist getting closer. David has a gun, but with only four bullets for the five of them. He says he'll figure something out.David shoots Amanda and his son, then the older people. He sits and screams for a time, then goes out into the Mist to let the things take him. He faces back down the road, screaming hysterically for the thing making the sound to come get him. A tank rolls out of the mist, and soldiers; a convoy begins to roll past, and behind them you can see the Mist thinning out and dissipating. David slumps to his knees, screaming incoherently. He's killed his son and the others for nothing - they've been driving away from help all this time; if he'd waited just five minutes, they all would have been rescued.The camera pans up to the long line of army vehicles and the convoy of survivors; to the sides of the road, they are taking flamethrowers and guns to the monsters, killing them quickly and efficiently. Gunships hover in the air. End credits. [/spoiler]One might think you should stay past the credits, but no, you don't. Again, one of the few credit sequences I've ever seen with no music.</blockquote>

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