AAAAAAAHHHHHHI JUST SAW A GODZILLA SIZED SPIDER CRAB MONSTERIT DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE OUR TINY CARBUT NOW I HAVE TO KILL MYSELF AND MY ENTIRE FAMILYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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>>220551712His entire family consisting of one boy because the wife had already been killed by monsters. They were out of gas in the middle of nowhere, had the option of a quick death, and could hear something coming. People have killed themselves in far less dire circumstances
very funny ending to the movie
>>220551712MILLER! PACK YOUR SHIT AND GET OFF MY SHIP.
Metaphor for atheism.
Lol why did they make this the ending? What kind of evil superjew wanted this? I wonder how fresh off a baby sacrifice the director was
>>220552676Sounding a lot like a guy who doesn't check his corners....
>>220551712this is what lacking media literacy looks like
>>220552721It’s a horror film, anon.And the short story just ends like The Birds, so this was better than just copying that
>>220551712spiders could kill slowly via poison and wrap you into web to suffer in half death for days or who knows how long, while you slowly rot. It's not unreasonable to think that suicide is a better death
>>220552721What a crazy leap.What's wrong with the ending?
>dude this unimaginable existential horror has materialized out of the ether into our world and every second is terror beyond comprehension let's just roll the dice and hope we'll be ok guys hope my young son doesn't get ripped to shreds by something lol!reddit actually thinks this wasn't the most reasonable decision to make
>>220551712What would you have done?
>>220551712I ended a relationship because she said she thought this ending was amazing.
>>220552866Listen to the aliens.
>>220552902She was too good for you so it was the right call
>>220552950Well she was clearly retarded so it was unethical to continue.
>>220552998she was 4chan and you were reddit, it would never have worked
Frank Darabont is a hack who incinerated his whole career sperging out over a basic cable zombieslop show.
>>220553114>AMC ruined the showDarabont was in the right and you are a homosexual
the ending was forced misery porn. Fine, he kills everyone in the car, but then literally a minute later an army convoy rolls by extinguishing the mist with the woman who ran out on the first day in tow. Give me a fucking break.
>>220552375reddit the post
>>220553924What's so hard accepting that they thought it was the end of the world and the least painful way out was a bullet? They just saw and interacted with horrors beyond anything ordinary in the store. What should they have done?
>>220553924it's only misery porn if you empathise with thomas jane
>>220553924so you're fine with the logic of him killing everyone in the car but not if it happens momentarily before the mist being extinguished. i guess the suspension of disbelief only covers unexplainable lovecraftian horrors from other dimensions and not simple coincidences.
>>220552902Dodged a bullet, likely literally. She would've killed your children and herself the second tiktok went down for maintenance.
>>220551712he shoulda raped them first
>>220553924They think they hear more monsters coming. Which is understandable. But it’s the military
>>220554015My issue is what happens after his decision. Whoops you just killed your child for no reason, you should have waited a minute. It's dumb. If it just faded to credits while he's crying it would have been better.
>>220552684This.The woman villain had a lot of faith, but uses in a bad way.The main character didn't have any faith at all.
>>220554127Isn't about God saving the world after he sacrifices his son and all that people to him?Some kind of message similar to Abraham.
>>220554127Lmao how did the ending filter you this badly?Yeah dude that's the whole point. They just made the ultimate hard decision and then it turns out safety was mere moments away. It's supposed to be a shocking gut punch. That's the point.It's like the cartoon mining meme where a guy is inches away from a room of diamonds but gives up digging cause he sees no end in sight.
>>220554127Wouldn't he have heard the engines behind them?
>>220554200>It's supposed to be a shocking gut punch.It came off as forced. Darabont only kept the scene, which he filmed as a joke, because King thought it was hilarious and insisted he keep it.
>>220554127do you realize how stupid this makes you sound?>why film not end in way that make grug feel right???it's not dumb, there's no logical explanation for why the film ending the way it does is more dumb than how you think it should have ended. there's a subset of the population who are literally incapable of conceptualizing a narrative diverging from their own interpretation of it. my 70 year old mother teetering on dementia is the same way, arguing that something doesn't make sense because it doesn't satisfy her own arbitrary standard of resolution for a fictional story.
>>220552721Lazy shock value. It came out when M Night Shamadingdong was still popular with this twist endings.
>>220554072Not the anon but yes.I'll let you in on a secret, things don't just happen in a script, there's not a thing as "coincidence", if it's there a writer put it there for a reason, which in this case I assume was "a cruel and ironic twist of fate".Which is absolutely unnecessary for the vibe of the entire story up to that point and it is so over the top that it yanks you out of it right in the last seconds, all the horror, dread and desperation immediately dissipate off the movie and you have a kind of a laugh for the absurdity of it all.Which again, comes out of nothing because the randomness and absurdity of fate was never a point in the story.
All it needed was to extend the third act, so as to establish their state-of-mind and impress the notion that is was, in fact, the end of the Earth. The run-time, from escaping the supermarket cult and mobile Jonestown, was far too short -- perhaps <10 minutes -- which isn't enough time for the idea to baste with the audiences' suspension of disbelief.Beyond that (granted, "that" is no small issue), the film was pretty well done.
>>220554270if it's about faith then I'd say the randomness of fate is important, like Job. In any case, he jumps out of the car to die immediately after killing everyone. If other people didn't arrive immediately, he would've succeeded and that's not the point of the scene. He's an atheist who thinks he has the right to control life and death but actually God is in charge.
>>220554227That’s a lie. He was offered a much higher budget if he changed the scripted ending but refused to do so
>>220554214They hear ‘something’ coming including screeching monsters which they don’t realise are being incinerated by soldiers but they obviously don’t realise what’s happening
>>220554270I'll let you in on a secret: things do just happen in a script, because it's all fucking made up. The reason the writer put it there is because that is what they felt would throw the audience off and leave the most impactful ending. They were right of course, considering we're here right now talking about this mediocre film that came out ages ago.Again, you talk about movies like a redditor, like it has to fulfill A, B, and C and anything divergent is some sort of failure. They didn't "set up" the absurd ending so it's wrong. No one fucking cares about your basic bitch narrative theory. Stephen King is a fucking retard schlockmonger but even he saw that it worked better with the film ending.
>>220554127The first time I watched it, I definitely thought the same as you — the army showing up mere seconds after he killed his own child felt almost funny, like a very dark joke. I thought a better execution would have been him wandering through the mist for a while, desperately hoping to find a monster, only to eventually run into the military.But after a couple of rewatches, I think the army arriving so quickly was part of the point. The ending is fundamentally about losing hope. The fact that they appeared just moments later shows that if he had clung to hope for just a few more minutes, everything would have been okay. So the real message of the ending is: no matter how terrible a situation you’re in, never lose hope and give in to despair. Because the moment you do, that’s when you lose everything.
The ending to the short story is a lot more depressing. The world is completely fucked and the narrator is coping hard when he thinks he heard someone on the radio.
>>220551712Maybe he should have stayed in the supermarket filled with supplies that the monsters had made no attempt to attack instead of jumping into a car and drove out into the unknown.I mean hell, he was the only person with a gun. He didn't even need to worry about the apocalyptic bible thumper bitch. If she fucks with you, you put a .38 through her head.
>>220554528It’s just the end of The Birds though. They get out and start driving with no idea how far it’s spread or if it will end
>>220554535Yeah, they should have given them a reason to panic and leave like a bunch of crazed zealots trying to fucking murder them or something. Maybe they should have had them sacrifice someone else earlier to prove how dangerous they were
>>220551712*Price Is Right failure horn*
>>220554072
i had the pleasure of walking in on a roommate watching this right before this scene and got to watch her see it for the first time and it was great lol
>>220554377Then it was a lie to his benefit and Darabont's a retard, because the script doesn't justify the ending.
>>220554399Then the obvious move is to make a judgement call. You only shoot yourself or others if they're in immediate danger.This retard couldn't even count to five.
>>220554072If they're being presented as human characters then they must act like human beings, no matter what strange shit is going on around them.
>>220554535I mean yeah. Considering the ending they didn't really care about self preservation. They could've at least taken their chances killing the zealots.The worst that would happen is that they'd die, which they obviously were fine with.
>>220551712Why are you retards suddenly pretending this ending isn't great?
well that's why they call him the punisher
>>220555155>measku sumthin, watchu say, dat aint the punisher rigg....im the punisher not that guy
>>220553924The definition of dishonest storytelling, only there so plebs can go "fuck that was hardcore." Btw this ending is entirely oc by the production, it's not the original ending
>>220554200But what's the POINT? What does the ending SAY? It's just bullshit shock so you remember the otherwise mundane film.
>NOOOOOO I CAN`T GO PARTYING AND FUCKING NIGGERS FOR 2 WEEKS, I HAVE TO KILL MYSELFthat really happened 2020
>>220555074This is why the ending is bad,; because it makes the protagonist look like a retard.
>>220551712yep
>>220555498Another anon already summed it up >>220554465>So the real message of the ending is: no matter how terrible a situation you’re in, never lose hope and give in to despair. Because the moment you do, that’s when you lose everything.It's about holding onto hope. Other anon compare it to having faith vs being athiest.It's not complex bro it's obvious.
>>220551712>my entire familydidn't even watch the movie award
Even when surrounded by monsters, man is the most dangerous thing to man. This is reinforced several times throughout the movie. You fucking retards
>>220553114>hack who incinerated his wholehe got a $200 million settlement from AMC, which is a lot more than his career would have netted him if he had kept working
>>220554354That's literally just slave mentality. You're a slave to an imaginary being. We are the ones in charge. We control life and death. Not some evil cosmic jewish slavemaster
>>220552866Rape while I still can.
>>220551712This movie is so bad...
>>220554135It's not that he didn't have any, its that he gave up on it.
>>220556374Why?
this movie hits hard.
>>220554605https://youtu.be/WemG0jp1jRY?t=31
>>220552817spiders can kill pretty quick, in the book one gets decapitated by their web, but to be fair another one get trapped in a coccon and that must have been horrible
An hero'ing seems like the best idea after seeing what those fucking mist spiders will do to you
i wish graveyard shift got a proper adaptation, the story has potential
>>220552375kill yourself shitjeet
Stephen King said he likes this ending more than what he wrote. And he usually shits on every adaptation of his shit books.
>>220556651His faith was based on the limitations of physical reality. The woman's faith beyond that. Of course, the guy would give up.
I'd fucking want to die too if I saw some octopus monster horrifically kill a bag boy at a grocery store
>>220555498Bizarrely enough, it has the exact same message as The Shawshank Redemption, also by Darabont, though their respective tones could not be more diametrically opposed to one another. Never give up hope, no matter how bad things get.
>>220552576The comedic timing with which the military rocks up immediately after the grim dour miserable fakeout "ending" and Fixes Everything in 30 seconds and THEN the movie ends is honestly perfect
>>220554465>But after a couple of rewatches, I think the army arriving so quickly was part of the point.The craziest theory I've heard about this movie is that the crazy religious lady was actually right, since she wanted to sacrifice the boy, and the horrors stop as soon as the protagonist kills his son.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThAlY3Q2Kw
Ending is fine stop being contrarians
>>220558322im fine with bleak endings but this one was comically evil, it took out of the movie, it also downsizes the threat and mystery of the mist. I still love the movie but if it ended with just him shouting into the void it would have been perfect
>>220553924it’s hilarious
>>220552866I would have listened. Which is what no one ever did.
>>220558322It's fucking retarded.Parents only kill their own children because they have an extreme mental illness that is capable of overriding aeons of evolutionary wiring. Nothing in the movie suggests this. It's not believable in the slightest.
>>220551712there was a fog everywherehe didn't want to be in London
>>220555059That doesn’t even make sense
the writer of the damn book says the movie ending is better so time to shut the fuck up /tv/
>>220555074They did make a judgement call and did so together. It was a bad call.
whatever became of the attempt at a series they made of this?its not even a novel with fleshed out characters and subplots etc; just some short King wrote while off his head on booze and coke he admits he doesn't even recall writing I vaguely recall them padding it out with retarded woke shit but it nonetheless just seemed to vanish into the ether
>>220558536>there was a fog everywhere"There could be niggers out there", he thought
>>220555826Who's 'we' you dolt. Individuals don't control shit and the collective can't control itself.
>>220552721Because the original story didn't even have an ending.
>>220552721Why even watch horror movies if you can't stomach horrible things, retard?
>>220552676Gotta crack the case... need that ride kiddo...
>>220552375As are most King movies
>>220551712>"Bro did you just shoot your son?! We were 100 yards away."
foggin hell
I don't care about this fag. I wanted to see more of the military stomping the shit out of monsters.
>>220560563This is part of what makes the ending so good. You kinda get the sense that we, the audience, missed out on a really cool action movie, one were we didn't have to deal with being trapped with obnoxious religious ladies, so we share in the protagonist's despair, as we too feel gypped. It's brilliant, really.
>>220554127Nobody cares about your issues you dumb fucking nigger. You're stupid.
>unimaginable eldritch horror>it's actually just arthropods
>>220553924The entire premise of 99% of horror movies relies on the main characters being retarded. Things cannot progress in a horror movie if characters are sensible
>>220561857Tremors is the 1%.
>>220551712>So, Carter's reversed the polarity on the ancient device and the Pentagon and General Hammond are telling everyone the mist was a gas leak that caused hallucinations and...what's with him, Jack?
>>220558528You had big crabs splitting people in half, spiders eating you alive and tentacles with fangs but somehow not wanting your kid to experience any of those things is bad
>>220561965they have to grow up sometime
>>220552375fuckwit newfag
>>220553924this thread is proof that the site has been overrun by trannies, plebbitors, roasties and bots.there's only a few sane posters who belong here, like >>220553083>>220552576it is one of the few memorable horror endings in the last 25 years, despite the film just being above average and fairly low budget.
>>220554127people like you shouldnt be allowed to use the internet or have any say in any form in public.you sound like a 70 iq toddler
>>220562300You're brownIndian or south american?
>>220554871>she, mtf transfixed
>>220558446>>220558528kill yourselveslow iq fucking esl third world puke tranny freaks
>>220562331funny, it's always leftist trannies using those soft termskill yourself
is this movie in the Half-Life universe?
>>220562576G-Man appears after the credits.
Why didn't they ever make a The Mist vs. The Fog movie?
>>220552834Is it really such a leap?Jews are evilThe movie's ending was terribleThere's a very clear throughline here
>>220552375It's r/atheism's favorite flick
>crazy christian fundamentalist bitch said that they needed a human sacrifice to be saved>main guy kills his son and everyone else>immediately the fog and monsters go awayI'm sure that this wasn't the intention, but it's hilarious that the movie goes out of his way to prove the religious nutjob right.
>>220560203It had an ending just not the total closure ending that retards need. The original ending was so much better because of the uncertainty.
>>220562973my bet is on Darabont recognizing the irony early in the writing process, but forgetting to elaborate on it over the next few rewrites because he struggled to make the christian woman into anything other than a shallow antagonist.
>>220562973Hmmm never thought about it that way
>>220562973Fedora tippers aren't known for being particularly smart or insightful.
>>220561965That would only make a parent MORE defensive of their child, to a primal extent.It's a fair point that it takes an absurd amount of clueless nihilism to think that killing your own kids can be rationalised in any but the most specific circumstances.
>>220563164I mean that's how she was in the novel. It's a kind of character that King likes to use all the time.
>>220563371She's a cardboard caricature of a self righteous fundie in the movie who antagonizes the shit out of everyone from the start. The story version never even mentions God or the Bible until the very end when she's gone completely over the edge.
