STEPHEN KING'S LEGENDARY TALE OF TERROR
THE MIST
FEAR CHANGES EVERYTHING
FEAR CHANGES EVERYTHING
WARNING!: This post contain spoilers and somewhat biased criticism. Readers discretion advised.
I wanted to watch One Missed Call (ah mo version) for the weekend after a tiring week but my buds dragged me to watch The Mist instead. I thought this was going to be some horror movie but it turned out to be another B-Movie, something similar to Cloverfield where the movie focuses on the survivors instead of the nature of the 'things' that is terrorizing them. It's a mixture of Half-Life and Silent Hill. Here is The Mist's review...
Spoiler begins mwuahahaha!:
So we began with David Drayton, a painter who lived in some small American town near a lake getting busy with his odd job. Then a nasty lightning storm spoiled his night and he took shelter with his wife and son until the storm subsides. The next morning David found his house and boat dock were wrecked by uprooted trees (one of them belong to his NY lawyer neighbor). The power was out, and David noticed a thick mist from across the lake. He wanted to 'discuss' about insurance issues with his neighbor (the lawyer dude's classic car got wrecked by a tree too), and both of them, along with David's son, went to town to get some supplies.
At town, David and the other townies were in a supermarket to get the stuff they needed when authorities and military dudes rushed towards the lake. Moments later the uber siren went off, signaling something wtfbbq was going on. Then the mist, ala CNY midnight firework smoke, slowly engulfed the whole area like a typical mosquito fogging session conducted in my hometown. The people who were outside the market screamed their heads off as the thick soupy white mist shrouded the scene. Everything outside was white.
People in the market were blurred and terrorized with the current situation. David went to the supermarket dock area (where the stocks, forklift, generators and stuff are located) to get a blanky for his son. There he got the scare of his life when something BIG was humping the dock automatic door from the outside. He fled back into the supermarket and returned with some shoppers and staff to see wtfbbq was going on. When they opened the automatic door one of the staff dude got mauled and dragged outside by huge tentacles (imagine tentacle hentai, but don't get all excited because the dude is a dude). They closed the auto door and told the other shoppers about what happened.
Some shoppers didn't believe or were blurred about what happened, and then came a beeyotch who kept on preaching about Judgment Day. A small band of shopper led by the NY lawyer decided to go outside, only to be silently pawned by those 'things' in the mist. After that the other survivors decided to stay put and think about what they should do next, with complimentary preachings from the slightly psycho but annoying beeyotch.
That night mutant bugs the size of my foot who were attracted by lights hogged the supermarket glass facade, followed by some winged creatures the size of Ham who feasted on the bugs. The glass wall eventually cracked from feeding frenzy, and gore, blood and violence ensued. Luckily the shoppers managed to pawn all the mutant creatures and got a hold of themselves, with the cost of several staff and shoppers.
The next morning David with a small band of survivors went to a pharmacy nearby to get some medical stuff for the injured. Too bad some of them got d***ed by some more 'things' and David and the survivors fled back to the supermarket. In the supermarket tit-bits of the info about the mist was revealed by a soldier who was amongst the survivors. Apparently the military was trying to make a 'window' to another world, only to have it turned into a door (sounds like Windows Vista).
The survivors in the supermarket were split into two: The people following the beeyotch and those still sane enough to try to run away (David's crew). So David and his crew decided to leave behind the supermarket and attempt to flee as far as his fuel can away from the mist.
SUPER SPOILER WARNING!!! RUN! NOW!!!
David's pickup stopped (no more fuel, minyak naik harga ma...) somewhere out of town with the remaining survivors. With no options left, and suicide is the next best thing to do apart from being eaten and mauled to pieces if they step outside the car, David and his crew turned emo and committed suicide with point blank head shots. Bad news is there were only 4 bullets and 5 heads, and David was the one popping his crew's heads (including his own son, bastardos...). David went out of his vehicle, cried like a student who forgot to save his 5,000 words assignment which is due tomorrow, and then kept quiet as he listened to an incoming noise.
Expecting the worse, a column of tanks and other military folks rolled past David. Shait. David was 1 minute away from being rescued when he blasted his son and 3 other people in his car moments ago. He was WTFBBQed. What a crappy ending. END.
HAM'S RANTS:
Shait! I've wasted 2 hours and RM8 for an ending where the characters turned emo and committed suicide when they were just a minute away from salvation? WTFBBQ... And why is it called The Mist? It's more like The Fog to me... though there is another movie with the mentioned title.
HAM'S RAVES:
Wee!!! I love all the gore, blood and violence in the movie, kudos! The idea is slightly fresh and the plot is nice too (minus the ending). A slight relieve after what happened to me after watching Cloverfield.
Spoiler begins mwuahahaha!:
So we began with David Drayton, a painter who lived in some small American town near a lake getting busy with his odd job. Then a nasty lightning storm spoiled his night and he took shelter with his wife and son until the storm subsides. The next morning David found his house and boat dock were wrecked by uprooted trees (one of them belong to his NY lawyer neighbor). The power was out, and David noticed a thick mist from across the lake. He wanted to 'discuss' about insurance issues with his neighbor (the lawyer dude's classic car got wrecked by a tree too), and both of them, along with David's son, went to town to get some supplies.
At town, David and the other townies were in a supermarket to get the stuff they needed when authorities and military dudes rushed towards the lake. Moments later the uber siren went off, signaling something wtfbbq was going on. Then the mist, ala CNY midnight firework smoke, slowly engulfed the whole area like a typical mosquito fogging session conducted in my hometown. The people who were outside the market screamed their heads off as the thick soupy white mist shrouded the scene. Everything outside was white.
People in the market were blurred and terrorized with the current situation. David went to the supermarket dock area (where the stocks, forklift, generators and stuff are located) to get a blanky for his son. There he got the scare of his life when something BIG was humping the dock automatic door from the outside. He fled back into the supermarket and returned with some shoppers and staff to see wtfbbq was going on. When they opened the automatic door one of the staff dude got mauled and dragged outside by huge tentacles (imagine tentacle hentai, but don't get all excited because the dude is a dude). They closed the auto door and told the other shoppers about what happened.
Some shoppers didn't believe or were blurred about what happened, and then came a beeyotch who kept on preaching about Judgment Day. A small band of shopper led by the NY lawyer decided to go outside, only to be silently pawned by those 'things' in the mist. After that the other survivors decided to stay put and think about what they should do next, with complimentary preachings from the slightly psycho but annoying beeyotch.That night mutant bugs the size of my foot who were attracted by lights hogged the supermarket glass facade, followed by some winged creatures the size of Ham who feasted on the bugs. The glass wall eventually cracked from feeding frenzy, and gore, blood and violence ensued. Luckily the shoppers managed to pawn all the mutant creatures and got a hold of themselves, with the cost of several staff and shoppers.
The next morning David with a small band of survivors went to a pharmacy nearby to get some medical stuff for the injured. Too bad some of them got d***ed by some more 'things' and David and the survivors fled back to the supermarket. In the supermarket tit-bits of the info about the mist was revealed by a soldier who was amongst the survivors. Apparently the military was trying to make a 'window' to another world, only to have it turned into a door (sounds like Windows Vista).
The survivors in the supermarket were split into two: The people following the beeyotch and those still sane enough to try to run away (David's crew). So David and his crew decided to leave behind the supermarket and attempt to flee as far as his fuel can away from the mist.
SUPER SPOILER WARNING!!! RUN! NOW!!!David's pickup stopped (no more fuel, minyak naik harga ma...) somewhere out of town with the remaining survivors. With no options left, and suicide is the next best thing to do apart from being eaten and mauled to pieces if they step outside the car, David and his crew turned emo and committed suicide with point blank head shots. Bad news is there were only 4 bullets and 5 heads, and David was the one popping his crew's heads (including his own son, bastardos...). David went out of his vehicle, cried like a student who forgot to save his 5,000 words assignment which is due tomorrow, and then kept quiet as he listened to an incoming noise.
Expecting the worse, a column of tanks and other military folks rolled past David. Shait. David was 1 minute away from being rescued when he blasted his son and 3 other people in his car moments ago. He was WTFBBQed. What a crappy ending. END.
HAM'S RANTS:
Shait! I've wasted 2 hours and RM8 for an ending where the characters turned emo and committed suicide when they were just a minute away from salvation? WTFBBQ... And why is it called The Mist? It's more like The Fog to me... though there is another movie with the mentioned title.
HAM'S RAVES:
Wee!!! I love all the gore, blood and violence in the movie, kudos! The idea is slightly fresh and the plot is nice too (minus the ending). A slight relieve after what happened to me after watching Cloverfield.
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