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Business Stationary Mart - The Mist (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Manufacturer: Genius Products (TVN)
Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones
Directed By: Frank Darabont
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019810579
Format: Collector's Edition
Label: Genius Products (TVN)
Manufacturer: Genius Products (TVN)
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Genius Products (TVN)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-03-25
Running Time: 126
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-11-21
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Summary: Realistic People; Unrealistic Menace
Comment: The realism of the people and small-town settings portrayed here draws us in and bands us together with the party trapped in a grocery store, waiting out the coming of whatever ferocity is in the surrounding mist. The camera work and lighting puts us right in the faces of the frightened, beleaguered shoppers. I felt as if I were walking directly behind the store manager, peering over his shoulder as he circulates around the store, whispering counsel, quelling rising tempers, helping to plan escape. Toby Jones does a brilliant job in this part, a total departure from his role as Truman Capote in "Infamous."
All the actors turn in compelling, realistic performances as each in turn gets spotlighted in the beam of whatever improvised light the shoppers devise when night falls and their power is cut.
However, I can't be quite as enthusiastic about the creatures that strike out of the mist. Sometimes these artifacts, with their improbably akimbo limbs and their almost human, craning, questioning faces - even seem to be vaguely comical. With all the advances that have been made in fabrication and CG effects in recent years, these menacing arthropods still didn't seem to match the frightening realism of the attackers in decades-old movies such as "Them."
Still, the movie is worth watching. It will take you out of yourself into that store-under-siege.
Not all of the bonus material on the DVD is as worthwhile though. The Director's commentary is a little flat and uninformative and you can skip it unless you have a lot of extra time. It will be enough to listen to the Director's chat with Stephen King, from whose early short story/novella this picture was drawn. And you can also listen to just the commentary accompanying the movie's outtakes to get enough of an idea of the budget techniques used to create the effects in this film.
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Summary: DARABONT HAS KING SIZED ONIONS
Comment: very good horror show , with conviction . what an excellent ensemble . well above average script , acting , directing , etc . no shock considering king and darabont's two pevious collaborations "the shawshank redemption" and "the green mile" . flawless ? no , but better than 85 percent of what passes for horror .
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Summary: This was AWFUL!!!!! I want my two hours back!!
Comment: This was the WORST movie I have EVER seen. I kept watching it thinking it would get better if I was just patient. It did not. The ending was miserable and a perfect fit to a wasted movie experience. Save yourself the time and money and rent/buy a movie that is worth it.
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Summary: The Best king adaptation ever?.....maybe
Comment: The thing about the mist is it creeps up on you, kinda like the way the beasties do in this movie. One minute your thinking your watching an average modern day homage to 50s b movies and then bang! it hits you, what your actually watching is a masterful execution of storytelling with just the right amount of terror to keep the toes curled. Frank darabonts excellent adaptation of one of stephen kings lesser known novellas is full of great ideas and with a necessary first half of the movie given over more to character development rather than needless gore and empty shocks, this in turn leads to a far more satisfying second and third acts when you actually care about their plight, this is the key to a great movie, especially in this genre. Thomas jane heads a cast of great character actors as a simple trip to the supermarket turns into a siege when a huge mist descends upon the town full of other worldly creature's. Its a simple tale of 'who's the worst animal' the creature's outside or the ones trapped inside? but it's told with such glee and abandonment that you can't help but be absorbed into king's rather eerie world. The beasts themselves are a mix bag of lovecraftean giants and mutated insects and the mist itself adds to there mystery although this was probably more for budgetary reasons than for effect, but it's hard not to feel a bit let down that the bigger ones don't get more screen time, however the scene in the pharmacy with some terrifying arachnid types more than compensates. This is a rare horror movie, one that invests time and energy into it's inhabitants and is all the better for it, after all it's the ending that has had more criticism than anything else and that was for being so morbid and sad, but if this was a standard stalk and slash gorefest would anyone really care? i doubt it. see it.
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Summary: An explanation for some of the bad, 1-star reviews you see here.
Comment: Several fundamentalist churches have taken exception to the way Marcia Gay Harden's character was depicted, and have encouraged their faithful to give this wonderful movie bad ratings, in the hope of reducing the number of people who buy it. Just thought you'd like to know. The supermarket scene was some of the best drama ever in a horror movie. Judge for yourself!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Writer-director Frank Darabont, who showcased the softer side of Stephen King in his film adaptations of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, turns to darker material for The Mist, his latest King adaptation about a group of ordinary townspeople trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious fogbank. Thomas Jane is top-billed as a Maine illustrator who attempts to calm the frightened shoppers, but his job is cut out for him from the get-go, first by the discovery of malevolent creatures lurking in the mist, and then by the mad mutterings of Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a local eccentric who calls for Old Testament-style sacrifices to appease the supernatural forces. Darabont delivers monster movie thrills and understated social commentary with equal skill, and he's well supported by his cast (which includes Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler and Jeffrey DeMunn) and the vivid special effects by KNB EFX, which effectively mix CGI with models and stop-motion animation (the terrific monsters were designed by legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson). And for those curious about how the novella's downbeat ending has translated to film, suffice it to say that Darabont's conclusion is at once different and more unsettling than King's. --Paul Gaita
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